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Battle and Brawl: Black Market Brawlers Showmatch

Riot·7/29/2015, 4:43:41 PM·0 votes·53,573 views

Cutthroat casters, plundering former pros, and rambunctious Rioters will face-off on the LCS stage at noon PDT on July 31 in a Black Market Brawlers showmatch.

What’s Black Market Brawlers?

Black Market Brawlers (BMB) is a new game mode where Runeterra’s biggest black market takes over Summoner’s Rift. You can purchase new illegal items and recruit new brawler minions straight from Bilgewater to fight on your behalf. For tips on how to play BMB, check out some tips from the veterans of the criminal haven. Before the showmatch, our EU LCS on-air team will provide plundering pre- and post-match analysis, host highlights, breakdown the team matchups, and review some scourging strategies.

What are the teams?

International Kraken Society

James “Skippy” Patterson
Joshua “KittyStomper” Leesman
Abe “MeyeBabe” Nguyen
David “PhLeak” Turley
Aidan “SaltyDoge” Moon

Gangsters Against Nice Kids

Nicholas “2CrayCray” Wu Smith
Sam “KingKobe” Hartman-Kenzler
Clark “CrayCray” Smith
JD “NotoriousGG” Wu
Rivington “Roughington” Bisland III

What’s on the line?

The winners will live another day as clandestine leaders of the foulest districts of Bilgewater. Fallen foes will become deader than sea scum stuck to the bottom of the Slaughter Docks.

How do I catch all the action?

Watch the battle for dominance of Bilgewater and Summoner’s Rift on Friday, July 31 at noon PDT.

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111 Comments

Fresh Timbs7/29/2015, 5:44:55 PM58 votes

G.A.N.K. VS I.K.S. gj riot, you've done it again.

HanceyPants7/29/2015, 8:01:40 PM9 votes

Someone on I.K.S. better play Vel Koz. Team pride.

lightdragoon887/29/2015, 4:44:44 PM8 votes

interesting....

darkman2597/30/2015, 4:02:17 AM4 votes

anyone else think that the pros will cast the game instead of the casters, and the pros will interview the casters during the game like the casters interviewed the pros on URF.

Shamus Del Rio7/29/2015, 8:54:19 PM4 votes

omg, shout out to Jatt's old GW warrior name.

Psyconaught7/30/2015, 5:01:47 AM3 votes

Phreak... why do you make me hate you so much

Jusrpak7/30/2015, 12:59:30 AM2 votes

I kinda wish that you could buy the icons G.A.N.K and I.K.S use lol

RaiyanAhmed7/30/2015, 4:03:45 AM2 votes

I.K.S = I kill Steal

Shroom Goes B00M7/29/2015, 10:30:58 PM2 votes

Time to clone everyone just like Teemo and make their team afk!

º LB º7/29/2015, 5:27:53 PM2 votes

Go International Kraken Society!! i <3 James Patterson :3

Dark Wristband7/29/2015, 5:40:37 PM2 votes

GANK vs IKS. I always enjoy that the acronyms turn out to have another meaning.

boltbox017/29/2015, 5:44:44 PM2 votes

Can you make it so we can play it now? not watch people play it when we cant.

XxFuMeZxX7/29/2015, 9:04:19 PM2 votes

We need T-Shirts of these teams amirite?

TrollFan017/29/2015, 11:55:19 PM2 votes

I miss S.W.A.G. vs Y.O.L.O.

IN D GOLD7/30/2015, 6:14:18 AM2 votes

“PhLeak”

...that is all.

Igor Is Bae8/2/2015, 1:16:50 AM1 votes

Royal Waffle7/30/2015, 7:11:56 AM1 votes

TL:DR Rito, I expected more from you. game mode is garbage. Icon only reason to play but might be to much hassle to get.

This is probably the worst game mode that Riot has put out. the minion kracken coin thing is pointless. other than the support, tp boots, and ap items the black market is trash and most people build from the og set anyway. since it's normal blind pick games aren't close and normal 1 sided and the other teams usually S@20 and u cant fullfill ur icon requirements without playing a high number of games. only have 2/15 level 3 purchases cause 4 of my games the other then surrendered. pointless game mode.

Chuck Charles7/31/2015, 8:20:39 PM1 votes

its 1pm PST and and no game. QQ

TurquoiseYoshi7/29/2015, 6:09:05 PM1 votes

I can't figure out who some of these people are XD