For our fourth mini-Snack Scuffle Invitational, we’re going to have a full eight teams—four in each division! With Season 13 just starting and comp leagues around the corner, we have quite a few brand-new faces and a few brand-new teams. Let’s take a look our IBS teams! [ Scuffle 4 Gold-ish Preview ]
1. Sunset Ravens
Our steady BOL holdovers are almost unrecognizable from their end-of-the-season iteration, with only ADC Xandradraeda returning from last split’s roster. Moving over from Dreaded Dawn, we have SNC WildStar—SNC’s versatile super sub from last split—now manning top lane for Ravens.
Two former BOL opponents, SNC LostHavok and OnlyMagicalGirls, have joined up with SNC from their former teams, Wooper Academy and Goon Squad Gaming, respectively. (LostHavok was the mid for Wooper but now re-roled to jungle.) Both have been welcome additions to a Ravens team that is looking to contend for the BOL IBS title.
And in the support role, we have SNC Nebulous starting in SNC Grimmjow’s stead—where art thou Grimmy?—after having spent some time with the Tempest Flame team. The new-look Ravens are going to work on all the things SNC overlord Otom has taught them and look to prove that they are the best of IBS!
Player to Watch: It’s always exciting to get a good new jungler on a SNC team, especially one with a fun champ pool like LostHavok. We’ll be watching to see what they can do to bring Ravens together!
2. Noctis
After a sustained tryout period, this new IBS roster has already undergone quite a few changes. The top went to ADC, the mid went to support, and the everything went everywhere all at once. In the end, there’s still an open starting spot in mid—which will be manned by coach CT Seulgi (formerly Moonbyul) for the Scuffle--as the team is still looking to get their feet underneath them for the start of BOL IBS season.
The most interesting feature of Noctis is their three-phantom lineup consisting of support Phantom8Bît (the original “phantom”), ADC PhantomHunt3r, and jungler Phantom Catgirl. This is the type of synergy SNC is looking for, and there are rumors that new top laner TheSTRisPURE could be encouraged to become a phantom as well. Wouldn’t that be something! [Edit: pekh and swagnemite12 will be subbing jungle and mid, respectively.]
Player to Watch: Aside from the three phantoms, we have our eye on the mysterious mid lane tryout and the jungle sub. (Seulgi is likely playing ADC instead of mid as PhantomHunt3r will have to miss the Scuffle.)
3. Ethereal Midnight
Our newest IBS team, constructed just a week or two ago—and still possibly undergoing a name change—has had very little time to play together but has aspirations to show up and show out this weekend.
SNC Terror Bear and SNC Share Bear—previously SNC Wombat and Kamiiisha—were looking to play together and turned to Coach Falcön to lead them into the comp scene—most likely playing in LBL Economy. Share Bear brought her support SNC Saltiee along to join in and new faces Magenticore and gsjan were recruited shortly thereafter. (Shout out to subs Imítheos and Iampancakes57.)
With most everyone on this team new to comp play, it’ll be an exciting time for Ethereal Midnight to see what their first set of organized games can bring. [Edit: The esteemed eelfish will be subbing mid lane.]
Player to Watch: This one is a cheat but we’re keeping an eye on Falcön and assistant coach Pheönix’s work behind the scene and maybe some spicy comps!
4. Lunar Academia
Our academy team—following in the footsteps of the new defunct Sun Bears/Guardians—are also known as Ammo and friends. Four of the five members of this team are IRL friends and that makes for good energy and fun.
With the will to improve and a so far sterling attendance record—maybe the best in SNC?!—these new-to-comp play rookies will be working on synergzing in a five-man before they take to any leagues. Note, this team already has four SNC-ed members: Angel, CHUH, AmmoCr8, and Dark. We love it! (Sun Bears was also the first team to go all SNC if I recall correctly.)
Top laner Mr Oryx is swinging between Noctis and Lunar Academia, and rumors are that SNC Silent Bear could make a sub appearance at the Scuffle.
With their first practice scrim under their belt from this past Wednesday, our academy team is ready to line up in proper LCS order and take to the Rift!
Player to Watch: With SNC Angel unable to play, we’ll have SNC Silent Bear stepping in to zoom zoom in the jungle. Having played on our Elemental Development League IBS team a few splits ago, Silent will be looking to lead the academy team to a victory!