Josh Barzal 
4/14 EUM League of Legends breakdown
Welcome to my 4/14 EUM League of Legends breakdown where I am looking to deliver on the best picks possible for these upcoming tourneys. EUM is a tournament of the lower tier teams in League, some of the new players in the LEC such as Jeskla, Promisq, and Tynx are remnants of EUM rosters from Mouseports and LDLC. We have had some roster changes and I am excited to dig into these new teams for everyone!! We have a 6 match day 1 slate and it is going to be full of upsets I believe. Let’s dig into it!!
BTXL (-180) vs FC04E (+140)
Our first match and one that I believe was price too closely, Schalke has been a middling team in their league while BTXL and dominated one of the premier league teams in the European scene. They finished out their season by 3-0ing Fnatic rising which is Fnatic’s academy team in the playoffs. I believe these odds are closer than they should be and the overall talent on BTXL should carry over to a win. I don’t know how else to say this but this schalke team fights until the very last second. In one of their regular season matches in a loss they had 32 kills along with an overall 51 kill match. I believe BTXL wins and is one of the highest upside plays on the slate.
Karmine Corps (-450) vs CRB (+290)
Another regional matchup here with Spain vs the main European league and I am once again expecting the Euro league to take the win here as like BTXL, Karmine Corps is one of the best in the lower level League of Legends scene. They have a recent addition from FNC.R in xMatty and I expect him to contribute to them in a win here over CRB. This should be a easy win though I am not too confident in the bloodiness of this match. I will say that all these matches have the ability to be extremely bloody as these teams fight more than the LPL. Karmine corps would be useable for cash games.
Mouz (-750) vs MCK (+425)
There is not much to say here and I am going to keep it short and sweet. DO NOT PLAY MCK TOMORROW. They are a brand new LOL team and were established with this roster on January 18th. They will not beat Mouz and this makes Mouz the best play on the slate in terms of cash games. They cancelled the odds on Bovada for a reason. This should be -2000 today. I am taking a quick bloody safe win here.
Ucam Esports (-135) vs IHG (+105)
Looking into this matchup in terms of not being able to find too much on either of these teams gives off that this should be a fade spot. Looking at the region strength for anyone who would like to play, Poland had a strong showing last year at the EUM and I would give them the edge in this matchup. Spain isn’t a bad region by any means and Ucam is the best team coming out of Spain. Both of these teams would be on the lower end of the kill spectrum and I would expect IHG to come out with the win here but FADE.
RGO (-350) vs SSU (+250)
Rogue was one of the best teams last year at EUM making it to the end while the Energy pot wizards were one of the teams that played upset and put up some high kill matches in their games on the rift. I would expect Rogue to win here but I do think the betting odds tell a tale and that they should not be priced up as high as they are on DK. I like the upside that you have in taking SSU here and I expect them to be a very low owned upset pick if you want a gpp lineup with them in it. This is probably going to be a dog or pass spot for me and I am looking forward to watch this matchup. Take SSU but only for gpp shots here.
MSFP (-185) vs G2AR (+145)
I expect a lot of ownership to fall on G2 Artic here for the sole fact that they are associated with the G2 brand. Misfits Premier has a lot of talent that has already played professionally on the scene of the LEC main stage and some stars of the EUM 2020 with the likes of Woolite who I believe had a 21.0 KDA through his first 4 matches last year. I really like MSFP to take this matchup here and I would be Surprised if they were to lose this matchup against G2AR.
Summary
This slate is going to be highly variant since its day 1 and I cannot urge enough to play light tonight. I am looking forward to seeing the green tomorrow though. All of these are bo1 but you can still expect some high scoring matches and a high scoring slate. Join our discord where I will be to answer questions here, check out our other articles here. You can also find me on twitter over @DfsGet. Good luck everyone and let’s look for some green tonight.
