Ranking all 24 teams at the League of Legends World Championship
By Josh Tyler
20. Flamengo eSports
Qualified via
CBLOL 2019 Split 2 Champion
Roster
Top – Leonardo “Robo” Souza
Jungle – Lee “Shrimp” Byeong-hoon
Mid – Bruno “Goku” Miyaguchi
ADC – Felipe “BrTT” Gonçalves
Support – Han “Luci” Chang-hoon
Path to the League of Legends World Championship
Flamengo has been the best League of Legends team in Brazil all year, but if you’re wondering why you don’t remember seeing them at MSI, well, that’s because they weren’t there. After dominating the Split 1 regular season with a 20-1 record, Flamengo was stunned in the finals by INTZ e-Sports, losing the series 3-2. While they only lost four games between the regular split and playoffs combined, Flamengo was forced to sit at home and watch INTZ get annihilated at the MSI play-in stage.
Although Flamengo finished with a worse record in Split 2 (16-5, tied with KaBum! e-Sports) they still looked like the clear favorites to represent Brazil at the League of Legends World Championship. They got redemption by sweeping Uppercut eSports in the first round and then facing down INTZ once again in the finals. It was another 3-2 series, but this time it was Flamengo who prevailed in the deciding game.
Player to watch
ADC BrTT, one of the loudest and most popular players not just in Brazil but perhaps in the world. This marks his first appearance at the League of Legends World Championship since 2015 as a member of PaiN Gaming, where he was knocked out in the group stage. PaiN went 2-4 that year but is remembered for taking a game off their group’s eventual winner, Flash Wolves, and also embarrassing LCS representative CLG with NA’s only loss to a non-major region’s team at the tournament.
Best case scenario
They get an easy group (Clutch and either Lowkey or Royal Youth would be ideal), get out of their play-in group as a one-seed, get a favorable draw in the knock-out round, and make it to the group stage of the main event. That’s about their ceiling, maybe they can pull an upset or two in the main event’s group stage and go 1-5 or 2-4 there.
Worst case scenario
They get a hard draw (Damwon and Isurus) and can’t even make it out of the play-in stage.
Prediction
They’ll end up in a medium tough group, finish as the second seed, and lose in the knock-out stage of play-ins.