Caedrel

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Caedrel
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Born
Marc Robert Lamont

(1996-03-19) March 19, 1996 (age 28)
United Kingdom
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  • Twitch Streamer
  • YouTuber
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Years active2015–present
GenreGaming
Game League of Legends
Followers1 million
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Subscribers452 thousand (Caedrel)
116 thousand (Caedrel Clips)
39.9 thousand (Caedrel Plays) [1]

Marc Robert Lamont, better known as Caedrel, is a British professional League of Legends coach, currently head coach for Los Ratones. He is also a content creator, streamer, retired professional League of Legends player and sports commentator for Riot Games. Known for holding co-streams of major professional League of Legends regions and international competitions, Lamont is considered as one of the biggest streamers within the game's community, mostly known for his in-depth gameplay analysis and familiarity.

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On the livestreaming platform Twitch, Caedrel operates the biggest channel on the League of Legends category and constantly ranks among the top streamers in the English language according to Streams Charts. [2]

Caedrel is also known for his time as a caster in the League of Legends EMEA Championship and has cast several major international tournaments, including the final of the 2022 League of Legends World Championship.

Professional career

Lamont began his professional career in May 2015, joining xPerience eSports Club as their midlaner until July of the same year. Following a brief stint with now-defunct Team ALTERNATE (then known as ALTERNATE aTTaX), he joined Giants Gaming as their substitute midlaner until the end of the year. In January 2016, Lamont signed with Renegades Banditos in the European Challenger Series. [3] After the disbandment of Renegades' League of Legends roster in May 2016 due to several issues, Lamont then joined multiple teams for the rest of the year.

Joining H2k and promotion to EU LCS (2017–2018)

In 2017, Lamont joined H2k-Gaming as a substitute. He would then return to the team as part of their main roster after a four-month stint with Schalke 04 Esports where they would place second in the EUCS Summer Split. This period was where Lamont would also earn his first promotion to the European League Championship Series (now League of Legends EMEA Championship with a 3–0 win over Ninjas in Pyjamas on 25 August 2017. The following year, Lamont returned to H2k, now as a jungler, and participated in his first EU LCS split, [4] where they would finish with an 8–10 win-loss record, make the quarterfinals where they were defeated by Team Vitality in five games. However, he would spend most of this period as a substitute. In the Summer Split, H2k would finish with a 2–16 record.

Excel Esports and retirement from professional play (2019–2020)

On 2 December 2018, Lamont joined Excel Esports as their main jungler, [5] where they would finish 9th and 10th in the Spring and Summer Splits, respectively, during the 2019 LEC season. Following another disappointing season in 2020, Lamont announced his retirement from professional play through a video posted to Twitter (now X). [6]

Post-professional play

Casting and analyst desk (2020–2023)

Whilst still being a player, Lamont had his first game as a caster in a game between his former team Schalke 04 Esports and Fnatic on 31 January 2020. He also served as a caster and analyst in that year's European Masters, LEC Summer Split Playoffs, and the play-in stage of the 2020 League of Legends World Championship. These casting stints were met with widespread praise, leading to his selection as an on-air talent for the 2021 LEC season. [7]

Lamont was part of the casting and analyst lineup for three LEC seasons (2021, 2022, and 2023). He also cast the 2021 and 2022 editions of the League of Legends World Championship and the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational. [8] [9] Lamont cast his final international game during the 2022 edition of Worlds, when he was selected as one of the casters for the tournament's final at the Chase Center in San Francisco, United States alongside Clayton "CaptainFlowers" Raines and Sam "Kobe" Hartman-Kenzler. [10] In the fifth and deciding game of the said matchup between T1 and DRX, Lamont gained the attention of viewers for his reaction to T1's Lee "Gumayusi" Min-hyeong's steal of the Baron Nashor using the Varus, through an utterance of an expletive and with the phrase, "Guma can he steal it". The phrase has since become synonymous with Lamont and the said game.

Following the 2023 LEC season, Lamont announced his retirement from casting to focus on streaming full-time, with the season finals between G2 Esports and Fnatic at the Sud de France Arena in Montpellier, France being his last as a caster and analyst. [11]

Full-time streaming and other ventures (2023–present)

During his time as a pro-player and caster, Lamont was already starting to stream on his Twitch channel. However, the 2023 League of Legends World Championship in South Korea marked his first tournament as a full-time streamer. It was during this tournament where three videos on his YouTube channel would reach at least 1 million views as of October 2024. Moreover, his highest viewed video as of the said time was 2 million for a video of his co-stream highlights of the tournament's semifinal matchup between T1 and JD Gaming. He was also selected as an onsite co-streamer for the tournament's finals between T1 and Weibo Gaming at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, serving as one of two co-streamers from the EMEA region alongside Ibai Llanos. [12]

In January 2024, Lamont joined Fnatic to be one of their content creators and streamers. [13]

Since going full-time, Lamont has co-streamed the Spring and Summer Splits of the 2024 seasons of the all the major professional regions (LCK, LPL, LEC, formerly LCS now called the LTA), [a] as well as the 2024 Mid-Season Invitational. During the 2024 League of Legends World Championship in the EMEA region, Lamont co-streamed the tournament's swiss stage from the Riot Games Arena in Berlin on two occasions and the Final between Bilibili Gaming and T1 at The O2 Arena in London as one of thirteen in-person co-streamers selected by Riot Games. [14] [15] The tournament was also when Caedrel officially reached one million followers on his Twitch channel on 31 October 2024, [16] , and was both the most-watched co-streamer during the tournament with a peak viewership of 372 thousand, which is Lamont's highest in his channel's history, and the most-watched English language stream in the entire World Championship. He also achieved the highest number of hours watched for a co-streamer in the event at 17.02 million, with a 5.43 million hour gap over second-placer Ibai Llanos, who garnered 11.59 million. [17] Lamont's 17.02 million hours watched during Worlds 2024 makes up 19.4% of the total hours watched of the entire tournament at 87.5 million, taking into account the official Riot Games stream and other co-streams.

League Awards

On 12 June 2024, Lamont and his former on-air broadcast colleague Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere announced the creation of the "League Awards," a League of Legends-oriented awards show aimed at celebrating the game's esports scene and recognizing outstanding players during each competitive season. Both Lamont and Depoortere announced during the 2024 World Championship that the first edition of the event will take place in Berlin, Germany, on 5 December 2024. [18]

Los Ratones

During a livestream on his Twitch channel on 1 June 2024, Lamont first brought up the idea of competing in the Northern League of Legends Championship (NLC) alongside Tim "Nemesis" Lipovšek and Simon "Thebausffs" Hofverberg. Five months later, Lamont announced on 15 November 2024 that he would be starting a professional team called "Los Ratones", with Nemesis and Thebausffs joining the organization as its midlaner and toplaner, respectively. They would be joined by jungler Veljko "Velja" Čamdžić, ADC Juš "Crownie" Marušič, and support Carl Martin Erik "Rekkles" Larsson, with Lamont serving as head coach of the team. [19] As of the team's announcement, it remains unclear which professional league the team would participate in.

Awards and nominations

YearCeremonyCategoryResultRef.
2021Esports AwardsAnalyst of the YearWon [20]
2022Desk Analyst of the YearNominated [21]
The Streamer Awards Best League of Legends StreamerNominated [22]
2023Esports AwardsColour Caster of the YearNominated [23]
2024Esports Awards Part 1Community Leader of the YearWon [24]
Personality of the YearNominated [24]
Streamer of the YearNominated [24]
Esports Awards Part 2Content Creator of the YearNominated [25]
Dec 2024 The Streamer Awards Best MOBA StreamerNominated [26]
Streamer of the YearNominated

Notes

  1. ↑ Lamont only co-streamed the 2024 LCS Summer Split Playoffs.

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