The Brit Marc Robert Caedrel
Lamont is currently the largest streamer on Twitch worldwide, having accumulated 10.8 million viewer hours in the last 30 days, surpassing Asmongold and KaiCenat. He owes his success to the MOBA League of Legends. He primarily garners viewer hours in LoL with his team Los Ratones. But that could soon come to an end.
This is his project: Caedrel is the leading streamer on Twitch worldwide. The former professional League of Legends player, initially a mid-laner, later a jungler, streams important LoL matches as a co-streamer and comments on them.
In addition, he is the founder and coach of the streamer team “Los Ratones” and collaborates with members of LoL prominence such as TheBausffs, Nemesis, or the former star of Fnatic, Rekkles.
With Los Ratones, he dominated the Nordic Regional League NLC and will now compete for the European Championship starting March 17.
Caedrel has defeated the German streamer NoWay and his team, Nord, 3 times this year:
Los Ratones could end after one year or run for 10 years
What does the future hold for the project? The future of Los Ratones is, according to Caedrel, completely uncertain (via dotesports):
I don’t know what Los Ratones will look like in the future. The whole model of a streamer team is still very, very new, right? Will it work? Will it not work?
As Caedrel says, Los Ratones could turn out to be a project that ends after one year. Similarly, it could also run for 10 years. He simply doesn’t know.
What does he see as the problem? For Caedrel, it is primarily a challenge to reconcile the two different goals. On one hand, you want to achieve sporting success with the team, while on the other hand, everything should be transparent and public, and you want to entertain the fans:
Playing in such an open and competitive manner is very difficult. It requires a lot of commitment from each individual.
According to Caedrel, the project ultimately hangs by a thread: A lot of things need to work for it to run properly. And if just one thing doesn’t work, the project could be over.
So why does he do it? Because he achieves enormous success with it. Caedrel’s apparent goal is still to lead Los Ratones into one of the major franchise leagues that require a buy-in, such as the LEC:
“So far, things are going really well. It looks good. The support is just incredible. So I will do everything in my power to keep it going.”
What’s behind it: It appears that the We show everything openly
maxim works at the level of the regional league. However, LEC teams likely won’t participate. And the LEC is where Caedrel actually wants to go. Professional teams do not want their practice matches to be shown openly. This could prove to be a drawback for the project.
Another problem could be financial in nature: Caedrel has at least 3 players on the team who are used to high professional salaries from their active time. To what extent Los Ratones is financially sustainable, what salaries the players receive, and whether the reach and popularity gained by individual players compensates for potentially lower salaries is something only Caedrel would know.
A third problem could be that in such streamer teams, each player has a certain ego, and personalities may clash. This problem already occurs in regular LoL teams – it could become even more problematic in a streamer team.
A rule change by Riot Games in 2025 proves to be a game changer, not only for League of Legends but for the entire gaming landscape on Twitch: An insignificant regional league makes LoL the biggest game on Twitch.
