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Team Vitality and adidas are launching the Open Tour France 2022!

The new semi-pro team called “Yellow Stripes” will participate in the League of Legends Open Tour France 2022. The adidas-sponsored team will benefit from Team Vitality’s unique performance infrastructure and will have the opportunity to train alongside athletes such as Alphari or Perkz .

Paris: January 12, 2022: Team Vitality embarks on the Open Tour France 2022 adventure in partnership with adidas and presents its semi-pro team “Yellow Stripes”. The roster is composed of some of the most promising young French players on the amateur League of Legends circuit. The new team will benefit from the same personnel and performance infrastructure as Team Vitality’s professional athletes who compete at the highest European and global levels. As the main sponsor of the Yellow Stripes for 2022, adidas will provide full support to the team. adidas has designed a custom jersey and will provide the team with a professional athlete who will act as a mentor to accompany them throughout the year, provide advice and provide all the experience a young team needs to get started.

It's time to introduce you to the 5 talents we recruited for the project 💛

🇫🇷 @Sotsy_ 🇫🇷 @eaRyyz 🇫🇷 @Artoria_UwU 🇫🇷 @matiaslaclasse1 🇫🇷 @linkkeylol

Still 0 defeats this year and it's not about to change. pic.twitter.com/jb2dokc1ZD

— Yellowstripes (@YellowStripes_) January 10, 2022

The “Yellow Stripes” team

  • Matias “matias” Manchin Opheltes, France, 21 years old, AD Carry
    • A long-time competitor, Matias has been playing League of Legends since Season 5 and played in the Portuguese League during the 2021 splits.
  • Alexis “Artoria” Diebold, France, 19, Mid Laner
    • Artoria competed in the 2020 Open Tour France before doing a split at MCES Italy this summer. Her goal is to one day reach the Worlds.
  • Lorenzo “Linkkey” Giorgiutti, France, 22 years old, Support,
    • Linkkey started competing at 16 and has already participated in one edition of the Open Tour France.
  • Julian “eaRyz” Wehinger, France, 21 years old, Jungler
    • eaRyz launched into League of Legends full-time last year after strong performances at OTF 2019 and 2020.
  • John “Sotsy” Sicre, France, 23 years old, Top Laner
    • Sotsy started competing in 2019 and has had excellent performances on the British circuit and at the Open Tour Benelux.

The team will be coached by Benjamin “Fara” Stoffel, with veteran caster and content creator Martin “Krok” Berthelot as manager. The Yellow Stripes will have full access to Vitality’s performance infrastructure, including V.Hive , their state-of-the-art public esports complex, V.Performance at the Stade de France, and the Berlin Training Center. The Yellow Stripes are Team Vitality’s third League of Legends team, joining the recently unveiled LEC and LFL teams. The Yellow Stripes will make their debut on January 29th at the launch of the League of Legends Open Tour France, the annual semi-professional competition that allows amateur players to benefit from the environment of professional LAN competitions. The Open Tour France gives the next generation of players the opportunity to access Division 2 directly and have a small chance of being scouted and recruited in LFL .

“We are proud to invest resources in the amateur scene. This project is a unique opportunity for these young players to learn and grow in what we hope will be a great esports career in the future. A big challenge awaits them, but we have the ambition to get them to the Open Tour finals.” said Fabien “Neo” Devide, Co-Founder and Esports Director, Team Vitality. “We are delighted to have a partner like adidas who is not only interested in representing their brand on the biggest stages of esports, but who is committed to helping develop and support the pros of tomorrow.”

“True to our belief that sport gives us the power to change lives, we are very proud to be part of this adventure. adidas supports all athletes who want to make a difference in the way they play, whatever their sport. Launching the ‘Yellow Stripes’ initiative with Team Vitality is rooted in our brand DNA and how we want to challenge the codes of the sports industry,” said Sylvain Bouches, VP Brand Director for adidas France.

Yellow Stripes is the latest collaboration between Team Vitality and adidas, in one of the longest-running partnerships in esports. adidas was the first sportswear supplier to enter the French esports market with Team Vitality in 2017. Together, they created the first-ever esports sneaker, the VIT.01 , which sold out worldwide within a week, and designed and developed an esports jersey for the first time. To capture and reveal the progress of the Yellow Stripes, Team Vitality and adidas will produce an eight-part documentary series following the team’s progression through the Open Tour France.

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