Los Ratones currently competes in the Northern League of Legends Championship (NLC).
History
During a livestream on his Twitch channel on 1 June 2024, Caedrel first brought up the idea of competing in the Northern League of Legends Championship (NLC) alongside Tim "Nemesis" Lipovšek and Simon "Thebausffs" Hofverberg, commonly known as Baus. Nemesis was a former LEC player who appeared on two editions of the League of Legends World Championship, while Baus was guest caster and analyst during the 2021 LEC season. Months after the said stream, Caedrel announced on 15 November 2024 that he would be starting a professional team called "Los Ratones", with Nemesis and Baus 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 Caedrel serving as head coach.[1] Prior to joining the team, Rekkles was part of T1 Esports Academy in the League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) Challengers League for the 2024 competitive season.
Name origin
The name, "Los Ratones" first emerged in the "CaedrelPlays" YouTube channel, one of Caedrel's three channels in which he plays games outside of League of Legends, on 17 September 2023 in a first of a series of videos of him playing "Teamfight Manager," an esports manager game available on digital distribution platform Steam, when he typed "Los Ratones" as the name for his team on the game.
Scrim streams
Los Ratones is known for being the first professional League of Legends team to live-stream the majority of their scrims.[2] Scrims, or practice matches between professional teams, are typically private in League of Legends to protect strategies for official games. On scrim days, Los Ratones can be expected to receive tens of thousands of concurrent viewers across Caedrel and the players' streams. The fan reception of LR's scrim streams inspired FlyQuest and Cloud9 of the League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA) North Conference to also stream their own scrims.[3]
On 9 March 2025, Los Ratones was originally scheduled to have practice matches against GiantX, a team currently competing in the LEC. However, this was cancelled due to a rule by game developer Riot Games that prevents the scrims to be livestreamed.[4]
Impact in Tier 1 leagues
In response to the popularity of streaming scrims popularized by Los Ratones, LEC Commissioner Artem Bykov announced on 13 March 2025 that a trial phase until 23 March would be in place to allow LEC team to publicly stream their practice matches under particular conditions.[5] LTA Commissioner Mark Zimmerman also made a similar announcement on 21 March 2025 that teams in the league may scrim teams from Tier 2 leagues, so long as the team schedules are not in conflict.[6]
Events and Competitions
NNO Cup
Los Ratones entered its first tournament as an organization in November 2024 when they joined the second season of the NNO Cup, a tournament organized by German team No Need Orga. In the tournament, the team went undefeated in the winning bracket with a 12-2 win-loss game record, winning all their best-of-five series en route to its first title. Notably, Caedrel was the team's support player as Rekkles was unable to join the team.[7]
Red Bull League of Its Own
On 29 November 2024, the team announced via its X (formerly Twitter) account that the second edition of Red Bull League of Its Own would be the live debut of Los Ratones, where they would face 2024 World ChampionsT1 in a showmatch at the Accor Arena in Paris, France.[8][9] In the event, Los Ratones emerged victorious against T1, which featured Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok and Park "Untara" Ui-jin, who was Ryu "Keria" Min-seok's replacement in the event.
NLC
On 2 January 2025, Los Ratones announced that it would be competing in the Northern League of Legends Championship (NLC) for the 2025 competitive season.[10][11] In the Winter Split, the team went on an undefeated 4–0 series record in the group stage, qualifying for the playoffs. Los Ratones went on another undefeated run in the upper bracket with a 10–1 game record, losing only once to NORD Esports in Game 3 of the upper bracket finals. The squad would score a 3–0 sweep against the same team in the finals in Nottingham to win their first domestic championship.[12]
Los Ratones qualified for its first EMEA Masters appeqarance as the NLC's lone representative during the Winter Split in 2025. The team was seeded in a four-team double elimination bracket group alongside Karmine Corp Blue, Nightbirds, and E wie einfach Esports, where they would qualify alongside KCB to the quarterfinals. In the playoffs, Los Ratones would secure a 3–2 victory over Papara SuperMassive of Turkey in the quarterfinals, before winning against Team Phantasma of Greece in the semifinals, 3–0, to qualify for its first EMEA Masters Finals. Winning in another 3–0 sweep against Ici Japon Corp of France in the final, Los Ratones secured its first EMEA Masters title, becoming the first organization based in the United Kingdom to do so.[13]
On 30 March 2025, in an update video published to the team's YouTube channel days after their maiden EMEA Masters victory, team founder and head coach Marc "Caedrel" Lamont disclosed that one of Los Ratones' goals is to be part of a Tier 1 region in the future.[15] Prior to the video's release, fans have expressed their interest to see Los Ratones compete in the League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC), the top tier professional League of Legends competition in the EMEA region, which provides a pathway to international competitions, including the League of Legends World Championship. Due to the current franchising rules that began in 2019, it would be deemed impossible for the team to do so and would need to purchase a slot from an existing club or formulate a partnership with an existing team without losing the team's essence and appeal.[16] Alternatively, Caedrel also brought up the idea of Los Ratones competing in the North American Challengers League (NACL) to contest for a guest spot in the League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA) North Conference.[17]
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