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- German amateur tournament operator MateCrate has raised $1.57M USD in new funding for its City Masters series.
- Marketing and IT services provider Sportplatz Media, German soccer magazine Kicker, and the Innovation Starter Fund Hamburg contributed to the round.
- The City Masters League of Legends tournament series will expand to two additional cities this fall, with a national German rollout to come thereafter.
MateCrate, a Hamburg-based startup that runs a German amateur League of Legends 
league called City Masters, has secured a €1.4M ($1.57M) investment round.
Investing in MateCrate are marketing agency and IT services provider Sportplatz Media, in collaboration with German soccer magazine Kicker and the publicly funded Innovation Starter Fund Hamburg.
Founded in 2017 by Sebastian Kuch, MateCrate is the company behind City Masters, an amateur esports league that is similar in approach to Super League Gaming
