Murcia Showdown Series: Irelia leads at 7.1% in a 756-player field

Start hereWhat we are actually looking at

Two words before the numbers, because this is about choices, not wins. Your Legend is the card that heads the deck: you run exactly one, it sets the colours you are allowed to play, and in practice it tells everyone which deck you brought. Share (or meta share) is the percentage of entrants who registered that Legend — it does not say who won, it says what people decided to sleeve up. The Showdown Series is the open-entry tournament circuit of organised play, the one you sign up for without qualifying: Bristol and Malmö last week, Murcia this weekend.

A quick sanity check before trusting any of it: 54 players out of 756 is 7.14%, 52 is 6.88%, 40 is 5.29%, 38 is 5.03%. Every share in the screenshot lines up with a field of roughly 756 entrants, so the stated total and the individual counts agree with each other.

The readSeven Legends inside three and a half points

The interesting part is not who leads, it is how little leading there is. Barely three percentage points separate first from seventh, and less than half a point separates third from sixth: Jayce and Kennen tied on forty entries, Akali on thirty-eight, Rengar on thirty-seven. Put another way, with 756 players in the room the single most popular deck of the tournament was brought by a little more than one entrant in fourteen. There is no deck to beat here, only a long list of decks that are fine.

Compared with seven days ago, though, something is moving. At Bristol, in a field of around five hundred, Rengar led at 5.0% and Irelia sat at 4.2%; in Murcia Irelia climbs to 7.1% and Rengar slides to sixth. It is the same drift seen at the Los Angeles Regional Qualifier, where Irelia was among the best-converting Legends and the Top 8 ended up with no Kennen at all. In Murcia, Kennen is still comfortably placed at 5.2%: Europe’s open fields keep trusting a card that failed to hold up at the decisive cut in the United States.

The same report also name-checks two familiar faces: according to u/nic_bolas, Mice’s Squirtle registered Akali and Mice’s Themanland registered Rengar. These come from the same post rather than an official entry list, so until full standings are published, treat them as a pointer, not a result.

CaveatWhat we still do not know

The numbers that actually measure deck strength are missing: win rates, Day 2 conversion and the Top 8 breakdown. So far all that has surfaced is the registration snapshot, and a high share can mean a Legend is strong just as easily as it can mean the deck is cheap or simple to pilot. We will update the picture once standings and the decklists from the final cut are out.

Source: r/riftboundtcg — u/nic_bolas. Images: Riot Games, screenshot via u/nic_bolas.