Czechia and Slovakia aren’t a big region in LoL esports. They have no partner league of their own and no team in the LEC. And yet this small pond has repeatedly produced players who made it among Europe’s elite, and one of them even became the first from the whole region to break through to Worlds. Global sites don’t write about any of them systematically, and why would they, when they focus on teams competing for titles. This article does what you won’t find elsewhere: it maps out which Czech and Slovak players went furthest in competitive LoL, where they came from and what the domestic scene they grew out of actually looks like.
Where Czech and Slovak players come from
Czechia and Slovakia share one game server (EUNE) and one top domestic competition: Hitpoint Masters, a league within the European Regional League (ERL) system. It sits right below partner leagues like the LEC. Teams that do well in it can advance to EU Masters, a tournament held twice a year where the best teams from all European ERL leagues across the continent face off. An entire team moving from Hitpoint Masters to the LEC practically never happens. The way up almost always goes through an individual player who shows enough in the domestic league to catch the eye of a partner team’s scout.
That path is the common thread for most of the names in this article: first a small domestic league where a player gains experience, then a jump straight into Europe’s elite. Some of them went through Hitpoint Masters directly, others joined foreign organizations by a different route, and the domestic league was only the start of their story.
Freeze: the first Czech player in the North American league
Ales Knezinek, known as Freeze, opened the path that others later followed. As an AD carry, he played professionally from 2012 to 2020, went through Ninjas in Pyjamas, Copenhagen Wolves, Renegades, H2k-Gaming and Tempo Storm, and became the first Czech player to compete in the North American LCS. With Ninjas in Pyjamas he won DreamHack Summer in 2014, one of the major tournaments of the European scene at the time.
Health problems forced him to end his playing career in 2020, but he stayed with the scene as a coach: first as an assistant, then as head coach of 100 Thieves, and later he also worked with Evil Geniuses. Freeze is exactly the kind of story that doesn’t get old: he was the first, he opened the door and today he passes on his experience as a coach. He’s also the one usually associated with coaching the Czech national team at international events.
Humanoid: the first Czech player to make it to Worlds
Marek Brazda, who plays as Humanoid, holds a distinction nobody can take from him: he was the first player from Czechia to play at Worlds. He worked his way to the top of Europe through Splyce and MAD Lions, winning two LEC titles with MAD Lions in 2021, before moving to Fnatic, where he spent several more seasons as one of the team’s key mid laners.
His unusual record: he qualified for Worlds six seasons in a row, from 2019 to 2024, something very few manage in an environment as volatile as professional LoL. The high point was a 5th–6th place finish at Worlds 2021. At his peak, casters often mentioned Humanoid as one of the strongest European mid laners ever, with an aggressive playstyle built on champions like LeBlanc, Sylas and Akali.
Carzzy: a long-time top European ADC
Matyas Orsag, who competes as Carzzy, made his professional debut in 2019 with Berlin International Gaming. His real breakthrough came with MAD Lions, with whom he reached a top-five finish at Worlds, one of the best results a Czech player has ever achieved on the international stage. From there he moved to Team Vitality, later returned to MAD Lions for a season and then went back to Vitality again.
His long-term presence at the top level of the European league is also backed by a statistical milestone: in September 2023, he became only the twelfth player in LEC history to reach a thousand kills in the competition. A number like that can only come from years of consistent play at the highest level.
Jackies: straight from the domestic league to the LEC
Adam Jerabek, who plays as Jackies, is the most recent and at the same time the clearest example of the path described at the start of this article. He played Hitpoint Masters for three years, the same tier 2 league that dozens of other Czech and Slovak players compete in today without much international attention. Then GIANTX, a Spanish team playing in the LEC, noticed him and signed him straight into its roster for the 2024 season as a mid laner.
Jackies himself has publicly described the jump as unexpectedly fast; he had originally counted on a slower climb. This is exactly the kind of story that makes the domestic league interesting even for viewers who otherwise wouldn’t think of watching it: you never know which Hitpoint Masters player will be in the LEC a year from now.
Kamilius: a Slovak support with an extensive European career
Kamil Kostal, known as Kamilius, is a Slovak support whose career began in 2018 exactly where many names in this article started: at the Czech club eSuba, at the EU Masters tournament. Since then he has been through nearly ten organizations across Europe, including MOUZ NXT, Giants, GameWard and Movistar KOI Fénix, and he also has a third place at EMEA Masters to his name. His career shows a different side of the region than Humanoid or Carzzy represent. Not everyone ends up in a partner league, but it’s still a long and meaningful professional career across Europe’s tier 2 and tier 3 scene.
eSuba: the club with the longest hold on the domestic league
The name eSuba appears repeatedly in this article, and that’s no coincidence. The Prague-based organization was founded back in 2004, entered League of Legends in 2011 and has since been the most successful club in Hitpoint Masters history, with ten titles, more than any other organization in the region. Many players passed through it before moving on, whether to foreign organizations or just higher within the domestic scene.
Entropiq and SINNERS: the domestic competition
eSuba doesn’t have the field to itself. Clubs like Entropiq (a Czech club whose LoL team was formed at the end of 2021) and SINNERS Esports are among the other organizations that have long been near the top of the Hitpoint Masters table and compete for a spot at EU Masters. Having more than one strong domestic organization is a good sign for the whole region. It means players have more than one way to make it in competitive LoL instead of going only through a single dominant club.
The national team: Czech and Slovak players outside the club scene
Besides club competition, there’s also a national team level. The Czech (or rather Czech-Slovak) squad occasionally competes at events like the Esports Nations Cup, where national teams play each other much like in football or hockey. The lineup changes from tournament to tournament and there’s no point in fixing it here as a permanent fact. But it’s worth mentioning that players like Humanoid, Carzzy and Jackies are typically nominated alongside players from the domestic league, and that the coaching role has historically been held by Freeze. It’s a nice full circle: the first Czech professional now coaches the generation that followed in his footsteps.
How you actually get into competitive play
The path most of the names in this article took has a common foundation. It starts on the ranked ladder, where a player builds a reputation and skill level, which is covered in detail in the article on ranks in LoL. From there the path leads through amateur community tournaments and qualifiers (in Czechia and Slovakia, the gaming site Hitpoint.cz runs them regularly), which act as an open gateway into the organized system. Those who do well can reach the Hitpoint Masters qualifiers, and from there, with good results and some luck with the right scouts, a direct path leads out of the region, either to another European ERL league or straight to a partner team, as Jackies managed.
It’s neither a fast nor a certain path. But it’s the only way to get from a small region without its own partner league all the way to Europe’s elite, and as Humanoid, Carzzy and Jackies show, it works.
FAQ
Marek Brazda, who plays as Humanoid, first made it to Worlds in 2019 and has since qualified six seasons in a row, up to 2024.
Matyas Orsag, a Czech ADC who made his name with MAD Lions (a top-five finish at Worlds) and went on to Team Vitality. He has more than a thousand kills in the LEC.
Straight from the domestic Hitpoint Masters league, which he played for three years. In 2024, GIANTX picked him directly for its LEC roster.
Ales Knezinek, known as Freeze. Between 2012 and 2020 he played for several European and North American organizations and became a coach after ending his playing career.
Hitpoint Masters, part of the European Regional League (ERL) system. Its best teams advance to the EU Masters tournament, where they face the top teams from the other European regional leagues.
eSuba, a Prague-based organization founded in 2004 that has competed in League of Legends since 2011 and has ten Hitpoint Masters titles.
No, the region has no partner team of its own. Czech and Slovak players reach the LEC individually, usually after a foreign organization picks them based on their performances in the domestic league or elsewhere in Europe.
Through ranked play, amateur community tournaments and qualifiers (run, for example, by Hitpoint.cz) and possibly the Hitpoint Masters qualifiers, which are the entry point into the organized ERL system.
Player career information verified as of 25 August 2026. Team lineups and players’ current contracts change from season to season, so this text focuses on what remains true in their careers regardless of who they’re playing for right now. Context on the whole esports scene is in the article on LoL esports, the European league where many of the names mentioned made their mark is described in the piece on the LEC, and what the road to the world championship looks like is covered in the article on Worlds. The complete hub overview is in the League of Legends section.