Hi guys, a few days ago I read a thread about just how bad the language barrier is in the EU, with everyone saying "this is our server because it has our city's name."

I get that it has your city's name, but it caters to other countries aswell. I noticed this to be a big issue in the Madrid server where me and my friends reguarly play because we live in Portugal. It's a rare sight when people from that server speak english as most just plain refuse to comunicate in any other languague than their own making it really hard to comunicate in a game where comunication is key.

My friend had the amazing idea of just switching the servers names from cities to just something else, we've also sent numerous reports and submitted tickets. We also came to the conclusion of just eliminating the best server for us, only to find that this happens in every other server.

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This is the ticket we sent to RIOT trying to get our voices heard:

• Hi, I'm sending this ticket because of a very serious issue in the european servers. The same way the United States deals with racism, Europe has a severe issue with xenophobia. Because the servers in game have the name of the cities where they are located, many people assume that it's the given server for their country and they expect people to speak the language of that country. Europe is very diverse, with multiple countries and languages, it's common courtesy to speak in english, but because of the server names, many many people expect people to speak in their native language. I see this problem very frequently in the Madrid server, the majority of spanish people force comms in spanish and say that it's their server, disreguarding everyone else from other countries around them that use the Madrid server. This makes for a very toxic gameplay on a game where communication is essential. I see this as an easy fix of just changing the name servers to something more generalized so people don't have the argument of "server is from this city from this country, it's our server, speak our language". This is a very huge deal of toxicity and xenophobia. Please do something about it.