It's another mini-Snack Scuffle Invitational! After two successful mini-Scuffles that preceded our summer competitive splits, SNC is using the off-season to retool and get some fun games in. This time out, we'll have two guest teams, the esteemed Facts and Logic and Wooper Academy to stand in for Radiant Twilight and Grumpy Bears (who may be no more, RIP). Let's take a look at the teams!
SNC Dreaded Dawn
The only current SNC team still in competition, Dreaded is currently 2-1 in Low Budget League’s Economy division. This motley crew is led by SNC Cerionna—aka Arctic —who may be watching from the sidelines due to homework obligations. School takes the best of us!
Captain SNC Titan will likely off-role to ADC and it’ll be his job to keep this team in line. The first order of business: off-roles for everyone! Former Sunset Raven’s coach SNC NumNums might get the chance to show off his famed Azir top while SNC WildStar is making his debut as a mid-laner. Darius mid anyone?!
And it’s the return of Squirrels to SNC as the duo of Squirrels and WildStar look to revive their chemistry from their Radiant Twilight days. Overall we’re excited to see what Dreaded can do in the Scuffle as the lead up to their game on Sunday in LBL.
SNC Sunset Ravens
Surprising the analysts, Sunset Ravens was the talk of Blue Otter League IBS this past split as they emerged as the top seed in Piltover with a 4-2 record, taking down some heavy hitters along the way.
However, roster shuffles took their toll heading into the playoffs and without the leadership provided by Coach Ryddle, Ravens was eliminated from the postseason this past Thursday by GSG Psi—Squirrel’s BOL team!
Captain SNC Grim is back in midlane after a one week absence and visionary support SNC Zaidi is taking a weekend break from his studies to also resume his role. Freed from the constraints of serious competition, we’re interested to see what top laner Clukurduk can pull out for this series. Also there might be a change at ADC, as Itzraider10 is making a return to the Rift as Xandradraeda’s replacement. Ravens may have sunsetted in BOL but they’ll look for redemption in the Scuffle!
Facts and Logic
A late entrant to Zero Gravity Gaming, Facts and Logic were new on the IBS scene this past split. They quickly proved that big brains rise to the top as they dominated the regular season, losing only in their first outing. However, despite sitting 5-1 and having their ticket stamped for the playoffs, ZGG admins moved to give forfeits to Facts and Logic due to a disputed burner account by King Vivi.
After being relegated to ZGG’s knockout rounds, Facts and Logic were upset by Glacial Knights—the eventual gauntlet winners who also took down Sun Guardians—and are looking to return to their winning ways.
The good news: The Scuffle doesn’t care about admin rulings! (We’ve had some, ahem, bought accounts of our own that have disqualified players. One player….) The king is back and Vivi will be on-hand for today’s festivities.
It looks like Facts and Logic has had their players shuffling across all five roles—match history reveals that most of their roster has played at least two positions in comp—so it’s hard to say who will play where. Captain Aphrelia may just roll the dice and randomize roles? We love to see this type of flexible chaos and we’re excited for Facts and Logic to join the party!
Wooper Academy
Featuring one of the best logos in the business, Wooper Academy was also new to the IBS scene this past split. This newly established team stumbled coming out of the gates, losing some tight games that saw them sitting at 1-3 by midseason. However, Woopers never say die—actually Woopers only say “woop”—as they pulled together for two solid wins at the end of the BOL season—one against Sunset Ravens in WK6—but still landed ultimately just short of the playoffs.
With their competitive fire still burning, Wooper is coming into the Scuffle looking to win it all. The fearsome bot lane of AznSoulSlayer and BOL MVP candidate HailieVictoria are a force to be reckoned with while new-ish jungler TD Pandorum is out to create some highlights of his own.
Solo laners thelaviathan and LostHavok have been steady presences in their respective lanes all season long but there’s a chance we’ll see some subs as coach IshaN looks to shake things up for the Scuffle. And with AznSoulSlayer recently ranked out of IBS, this could serve as this current iteration of Wooper’s roster last hurrah!
Update: On-the-field reporters say that they’re seeing Pandorum in mid, LostHavok in jungle, and either HailieVictoria or Sunnyyyy as support. It's another mystery box lineup for tonight!