More and more YouTubers and streamers are founding E-sports teams in various fields with their reach. The Karmine Corp team finally makes it to the most important European League of Legends league next year. There is a team like that in Germany too. But how is the success of Eintracht Spandau?
What is Karmine Corp?
- E-sport team founded by the two French streamers Kamel Kebir and Zouhair Darji
- The team achieved great success in the French league: Karmine Corp won the LFL twice
- Had ADC icon Rekkles under contract, who is currently without a team
Now it has been announced on Twitter that Karmine Corp will be allowed to participate in the LEC in 2024. For them, the team Astralis is leaving the league. This makes Karmine Corp the second European team founded by a YouTuber to make it to the LEC later. The first team was the Spanish team Heretics.
Germany also has a team from a YouTuber
In Germany, there is also a team founded by a YouTuber. Eintracht Spandau by HandofBlood. In 2021, the successful YouTuber founded the team. In 2022, they played their first matches in the German Prime League.
They aimed high, but real sporting successes were absent in 2022. They couldn’t achieve the goal of the European Cup in 2023 either. These defeats also left their mark on HandofBlood, who then expressed his frustration:
It is frustrating to see that we, when it matters, simply cannot deliver in sports, let alone live up to our own expectations.
Twitter
Whether a transition to the LEC is worthwhile given the current status is questionable. Although the team could buy themselves into a spot if one became available and they had the money, whether the current team could compete against the other LEC teams is very unlikely.
However, they have celebrated great successes in other areas and even helped the German E-sports scene, as Eintracht Spandau and the streamer team NNO have significantly increased the viewer numbers of the German scene:
2 experiments in LoL and Valorant prove: E-sport works better when you leave out E-sports players
The social media presence of Eintracht Spandau and HandofBlood, who presents himself as a bad president
, is always fun to watch and entertains, even if the team may not yet achieve the successes it wants.
And even today, they do not lose energy for social media posts or videos like this:
