3 YEARS. 2 TEAMS. 1 MISSION.
LEC
XL TEAM
What is the LEC?
EXCEL is one of the ten founding partners of the LEC, Europe’s most-watched esports league.
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Daniel "Dan" Hockley
Dan joined EXCEL ESPORTS for the 2021 season from Fnatic Rising where alongside his teammates, he took home several trophies including the NLC Summer Split and UKLC Summer Split. He is the Jungler for EXCEL ESPORTS. He has been the substitute for FNC in 2019 and played on International Stage at Rift Rivals vs Top NA Teams in 2019 in LA.
Paweł "Czekolad" Szczepanik
Before joining EXCEL ESPORTS as it’s Mid Laner, Czekolad made waves on the academy scene after an impressive performance on AGO ROGUE, where he was one of the most coveted players in the 2020 offseason. Czekolad was part of the AGO ROGUE’s dominant victory for Ulteraliga Spring, a second-place finish in Ulteraliga Summer and won the EU Masters.
Patrik "Patrik" Jírů
Patrik is the ADC for EXCEL ESPORTS. Joining for the 2020 season, Patrik starts his 2nd year with Excel and has been voted as the best ADC in Summer 2020 by the league. He proved the ultimate carry as EXCEL had its most successful split to date. He made his debut in LCS in 2018 and previously played for H2K and Origen.
Fabian Broich
Fabian Broich works as the Head of Performance at Excel Esports and is the Founder of Achieveminds. Previously, the former professional football goalkeeper, worked for pro football club Schalke 04 and for Astralis, which is one of the most successful esports organization in the world. He has a (B.A.) in Psychology (Winthrop University, US) and finishing his thesis (M.Sc.) in Psychology of Sports and Exercise (German Sports University of Cologne, GER) The 30 year old German focus on a holistic performance approach integrating sleep, physical activity, nutrition and sports psychology into the new field of esports.
Simon Bayer
Simon first joined Excel Esports in Feburary 2020. He is a former Basketball coach and player with a B.A. degree in sports science (German Sports University of Cologne, GER). He is an expert in strength and conditioning practice, and wants to bring science to the new field of esports.
Logan Mansfield
Logan Mansfield is the Scouting Analyst for Excel’s LEC team. He is responsible for informing the coaches and players of important changes to the game, in addition to strategies they can use in tournament matches. Before his career in esports, Logan spent his free time working with exotic animals, including everything from poison dart frogs to Atlantic Puffins.
NLC
BTXL TEAM
WHAT IS THE NLC?
The NLC is the official League of Legends esports organisation for the Nordic Region, UK, and Ireland.
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Mark "Markoon" van Woensel
Markoon is the Jungler for BTXL. Known as a rookie to watch, he has dominated the soloq ladder throughout the last couple of seasons. With some impressive performances in the SuperLiga (SLO) he now makes his move to go one step further in the EU Masters with EXCEL.
Matthew "Deadly" Smith
Deadly is the ADC for BTXL. During the 2020 season, Deadly helped the team to a 14-0 undefeated regular Summer UKLC Season and a vice-champions title in the Spring. Before joining BTXL, Deadly was part of Vodafone Giants who had a dominant 2019 season with top place finishes in the SuperLiga, Ibertain Cup and EU Masters.
Henk "Advienne" Reijenga
Advienne joins BTXL as its Support. He made his competitive debut on BIG in the Prime League where he showed promising talent. After securing a degree in Law, Advienne chose to go all-in on his passion for competitive gaming by grinding the soloq ladder and gaining the attention of EXCEL.
Simon Papamarkos
Simon 'Swiffer' works as BTXL's head coach. He joined at the beginning of 2020 after playing professionally for 6 years in the OPL, winning 4 of those splits and taking part in multiple international tournaments. He hopes that these experiences will help him guide the player's of BTXL into the best that they can be. Simon is an avid Leblanc main but has since became a control mage enthusiast because his hands aren't what they used to be.
Alejandro Fernandez Flores
Alejandro became BT EXCEL ESPORTS’ Assistant coach & Analyst in spring 2021. Alejandro has been an assistant coach and analyst for at 3 years, bringing experience from times spent in the Spanish and German league. He has top quality experience surrounding in-game knowledge which will help develop our academy in order to achieve big success in 2021. In addition, Alejandro has a deep knowledge on programming languages that will be useful.
Ewen Bufton
Ewen Bufton joined Excel ahead of the 2021 NLC spring Split as the UK Performance Manager. He is helping BTXL and Wolfiez reach maximum potential through both in and out game performance factors.
He has a MSc in Sport Science (University of Northampton), with a keen interest in athlete management and performance development. This interest allows his methods to incorporate a long-term focus in development of players out of game, in cohesion with the usual shorter-term in-game performance increases.
