Swede Martin “Rekkles” Larsson is considered one of the best ADC players in League of Legends that Europe has ever produced. In November 2021 he switched to the French LoL team “Karmine Corp”, which had won the EU Masters 3 times. But in 2022 the team fails in the 1st round of the French league LFL. The head coach speaks of a catastrophic season.
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How did the team fail now? Karmine Corp had just barely made the LFL playoffs with a streaky 9-9 regular-season run, coming up against GameWard, No. 4 in France, in the first series.
That series was lost 1-3.
Karmine Corp has thus been eliminated from the French playoffs and has no chance of qualifying for the EU Masters which it had won for the last 3 seasons.
The team’s head coach, Striker, said on Twitter:
Disastrous split, I have many regrets, I take full responsibility for the failure of summer splits.
After fat years, the slump came in 2022
What was it? Karmine Corp is criticized on reddit for being extremely unbalanced:
The second leagues in League of Legends are much more exciting in 2022 than they used to be. This is also due to teams like Eintracht Spandau:
Ultimately, one on reddit is of the opinion that the LFL has now become too strong to only dominate with the side lanes. Without a strong, central duo on Mid and Jungle, teams could no longer win the LFL. LFL levels have risen in recent months and Karmine Corp appears to have had a drop in performance.
The fans of Karmine Corp, who already saw their team in the professional league LEC, are now devastated: After the last few years that were so successful, the summer of 2022 is a low point.
Rekkles must mark the next year of his LoL career as a failure.
The LFL and the German LoL league “Prime” benefit from changes in the League of Legends system:
LoL popularity explodes in 2022 after change in Europe