For Schalke 04, the spring season 2021 in LoL is over: The only German team in the LEC fails in the playoffs against Rogue after a good season. One thing overshadows the season: Because the soccer players of Schalke are so bad, the club might be forced to sell the spot in the European professional league of the League of Legends .
This is how Schalke was eliminated from the playoffs: Schalke can have no blame. They progressed further than expected. But just before the semifinals, it was over.
The team Rogue proved to be a size too large for the Königsblauen. The player of the series was the support player from Rogue: Trymb left his mark on the series with Rell and Gragas. He achieved a total of 32 assists in the 4 matches against Schalke and consistently shined in team fights.
Rogue proceeded methodically, securing the important objectives in each match and dominating the dragon spawn.
In the end, Rogue won all 3 matches clearly in games around 30 minutes. The one match that Schalke won lasted 43 minutes.
This was perhaps the decisive team fight of the series. The mid laner of Rogue, Larssen on Syndra, catches Schalke’s ADC and that’s essentially it:
This is how the year 2021 went for Schalke: They met expectations in LoL, even exceeded them slightly. For Schalke, the year and the playoffs went better than expected. In the regular season, they finished in 4th place, in the first round of the playoffs, they had a duel on par with the top stars of G2. No one expected this.
Then they even knocked Fnatic out of the playoffs, the biggest esports team in Europe, before they themselves lost against Rogue. Thus, Schalke is the fourth-best team in Europe: Only G2 and the two shooting stars Rogue and Mad Lions are better.
Schalke has a good team with some potential for the future and with Broken Blade and Gilius two players as figureheads under contract. But this could all end quickly now.
Schalke has a lot of potential in LoL, but the soccer players are messing it up
Why might this have been Schalke’s last game in the LEC? Schalke 04 is in great financial trouble, as reported in the news. The soccer club is burdened with enormous debt, and in the football Bundesliga, things are not going well at all in 2021. The team is almost certainly relegated and with an expensive squad. The Corona pandemic exacerbates the financial situation.
Schalke needs money.
Therefore, it was stated in a statement in February 2021: They are considering various options regarding what measures Schalke can take. This also includes selling the LEC slot in LoL to an interested buyer.
The millions of euros earned there could be well used to cushion a relegation to the second football Bundesliga at least a little. In February, it was said, however, that no decision had yet been made. They did not want and did not have to sell the slot, but it was a possible future scenario they were preparing for.
When such a sale might happen is completely unclear.
This is what a LoL player says about it: The support from Schalke, Limit, said: When the news came that Schalke might sell their spot in the league, there was a brief team meeting where the situation was explained.
Impact says: The LoL players are happy at Schalke and would be very sad if it ended there. They like the people at Schalke, they like playing for the team, and they like what the name Schalke stands for.
Schalke 04 could lose LoL team because the soccer players play so poorly
