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[00:00:13] Speaker A: Gets a little too far here. He's gonna have to try and get himself out. Let me go. Tillery and the rest of the shots of fire. Zion is just killing the next Zion can eat it single handedly win the game by game by game by game by should be. Oh my God. Stupid.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: Passes through and manages to the table.
[00:00:32] Speaker A: With Messiah tanking it up. I do not believe he just believe.
I cannot understand this game.
Unicorns of love. It wasn't a mutant. The Nexus.
Hello and welcome to episode 544 of the League Rundown. This is 2025 LTA Winter Preview and LEC Week 1 Preview. This episode is lovingly entitled Learning Latan. I am your host Kangas and I'm joined by a slim crew today, but a crew nonetheless. We have up first, Mr. Mazelpl.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: Hello. I'm excited to spread the the very short gospel of the LPL and being here to talk about the prep for lta. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: Can't wait. It has started. So we actually do have some LPL games that we can talk about. And you heard him chuckling there. We also have. It was a member on the broadcast. Happy to have you, rmc.
[00:01:48] Speaker C: Happy to be here, Kangas. But I've got a bone to pick with this LTA abbreviations.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:01:54] Speaker C: LTA has got a good mouthfeel. You know, we were just talking about this a little bit. The LTA South Toys. But LTA sounds good. I don't like the abbreviations for the LTA north and south though.
[00:02:03] Speaker A: Like I've been hearing latan.
[00:02:05] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm not a fan of Latan. Sounds like it belongs in the oec. You know, like I enjoyed le summer and I got Latan.
[00:02:13] Speaker A: Exactly. I think, you know, they just took Jojo Fuel.
[00:02:17] Speaker C: They didn't take our entire league. We don't have to be.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: But see, the thing is rmc, they did.
The league did not exist anymore.
[00:02:27] Speaker A: That was Brazil. That took our entire league, I'm pretty sure. But yeah, pretty much. But I'm telling you, El Tan, I still want to do this as a bit on broadcast sometime where I just show up with a giant l tanned onto my head and I'm like, wait a minute. I thought it was like El Tan. Like that's what it was. Right?
Again, it's. It's a working. It's a working bit.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: We.
[00:02:46] Speaker A: I've brought it up a few times.
[00:02:47] Speaker C: Better. Eltan. At least that sounds more Spanish than Latan, which sounds more French.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: True. Eltan, the Tan.
[00:02:55] Speaker C: Introducing.
[00:02:59] Speaker A: Eltan well, let's get into the podcast proper here. We already had a pretty decent bullshittery episode before this, but we have some news to cover. Not a ton of news, but a few news things to get through. Up first, the new season has officially began.
It had, I believe, began by the time you heard the last episode, but we didn't talk about it there. So cool new teaser that came out rmc. Did it inspire you to hop on and play any ranked games? Seeing the arcane kind of animation style of a season trailer, who I'm gonna.
[00:03:33] Speaker C: Be honest, I have not touched ranked for like a year. It didn't feel like playing league again though. But if anything, it made me want to watch arcade even more. Yeah, it felt like Arcane season three.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: The. The Elise scary bits were terrifying if you're an arachnophobe, but it was really cool. I like the theming. I think we talked a little bit about it. Like because you hadn't watched it yet, I was hounding you to watch it about like it's kind of. It's like literally just a trailer for Arcane, which is fine. Yeah, it does take away from some like the past where they've done like more game focused and kind of setting up narratives, but it's still set up a narrative in its own way and I hope that it kind of plays out throughout the seasons and stuff.
[00:04:15] Speaker A: Yeah, it felt like it was a teaser because Arcane is only. It was confirmed for the two seasons and now the next show is going to be mostly Noxus focused is what I've been hearing. So this feels. Yeah like a setup for that where oh, here's some Knox's characters in the Knox's like story lines that are going on. And I agree with exactly what you said. It kind of takes away from some of the hype of like, oh, this is a cinematic for the ranked season. But I still appreciated what it was and I think it was still really high quality and really cool. So I liked it a lot.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: Does incredible stuff.
[00:04:49] Speaker C: They do. And I think that the theme for even for Summer's Rift this year is supposed to be Noxus anyways. Right?
[00:04:54] Speaker A: It is. Exactly. And that's the other thing that we didn't talk about a lot last week on the podcast was the new map and the new changes and everything. And this kind of leads into the LPL section because we have some LPL games. I've been curious, how are things like the new map, specifically the Nexus turrets respawning and the introduction this is the bigger one the introduction of Atacon, the new 20 minute buff that spawns. How has this affected pro play? Mazel. We've seen some LPL games. So what's the diagnosis so far? Super early. Like what are the big changes we can expect going into competitive at a con is.
[00:05:31] Speaker B: Is broken.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:33] Speaker B: It messes. It messes with teams timings on objectives and there's just a lot of things on the map. So you have to be very efficient of where you are on the map and what you're pathing towards for from out of base. Because there's literally a major objective at like every four minutes in the game now, right? So the tower thing we have in S3 scene because at that level, right, if you're winning, you're. You're just blowing them.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: Probably win on that push.
[00:06:02] Speaker B: But one once, like we've only had three days, right. I think if there is going to be kind of like the base of interest classic lpl, I think that will affect it and it'll be interesting like what the new era of getting defted will be like.
Except it's a turret, I don't know.
But besides that, I think it's just about the pace of play and that's why like it's even been hard for LPL teams to get used to it. And we haven't seen like the best LPL teams play like most of them play yet because it's one best of five every day. So it's a long time to get through a lot of the the teams. But it's still been hard for teams to grasp like the tempo of action. And we've either had like stalling games of like everybody just trades objectives until an important one comes up, or we've had chaotic games where there's fights all the time and then it ends up being decided very early. So I think there still needs to be a sample size but like at a con and that being on the map presents such a problem for the teams and I really wonder how the rest of the world is going to try to play that one out. I think LCK and LPL are going to be having a much easier time.
[00:07:11] Speaker A: With it and thankfully they're the two that we get to see early. So hopefully our teams are also studying what they're doing and learning from that. Any big storylines from lpl? First couple of days of play there's been what, like two bestified TT's good ThunderTalk gaming.
[00:07:29] Speaker B: They're actually looking pretty good. Besides that, Weibo still looking very good. Light is actually still just cracked as hell on Weibo.
We're gonna be seeing some of the major teams this weekend. Should be a lot of fun. I get to cast three days in a row, and they're all bangers. Let's go. So make sure we. Hell yeah. Gonna be a good time.
[00:07:50] Speaker A: All right, cool. Well, we'll be watching along and enjoying your updates on the pod as well. That's really it for the news. Like I said, it was a pretty short news week, thankfully, because that means that we can talk more about the teams themselves as we are previewing LATAN and then also talking about LEC week one and giving our predictions there. I'm gonna keep calling it latan. Rmc. I'm sorry. Unless you can come up with a better name for me.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: Yes. Bring back lcs. Bring back lcs. We went to the Riot campus today and I had to put a sticker on my. My jacket because it said lcs and I felt wrong.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: Oh, it did. Yeah. I forgot about that. They should give you a new jacket.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:08:31] Speaker A: I think that that's what. That. That's the only ethical thing to do.
[00:08:35] Speaker C: Do they have LT Merch out yet?
[00:08:36] Speaker A: Even I don't believe so. But there was a video. I guess that is other news that we didn't cover here. There was a video that went out. Mark Z officially announced that. Yes, there is merch. Yes. There's the draw show. I mean, that was already Fantasy.
Fantasy. Yes. That's a big one that came out. Is that there's gonna be an official, like, riot fantasy tool. They're hoping that it will be ready by split two. That was basically the verbiage that was given.
Thank God. Because I gotta say, what's the one that they've been using? I forget the name of it. It's so bad.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: No, Sleeper. Sleeper.
[00:09:13] Speaker A: I have it on my phone.
[00:09:14] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:09:14] Speaker A: And I never open it.
[00:09:15] Speaker C: They didn't update like half the time.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it's Sleeper sucks. And the old one that they had before Sleeper, maybe it was like two before Sleeper. I remember this back when I was in college. It was like 2017, 2018. I loved that tool. That was like on the league website.
That one was awesome. Would love to see something like that come back.
And then hopefully maybe even our. In the past, we have done fantasy drafts on the pod. But then Sleeper just sucks so much, we stopped doing it.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: Real, Real question, Cynical question.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: Okay, how.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: How much of this LTA North Fantasy app is going to be gearing up to do a betting app in the future.
[00:09:57] Speaker A: Oh, 100%. I would actually. I would bet a lot of money.
[00:10:05] Speaker C: No, you know what? We shouldn't be encouraging betting. So I'd fantasy. Fantasy dropped a lot of money with Kangas.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: There we go. There we go. That's it. That's it. RMC can win his points. I'll win my cash from whoever's taking.
[00:10:16] Speaker C: That bet against me. Can't sell out to betting.
We need to sponsor.
[00:10:22] Speaker A: Sponsors want to pick up the league rundown. You know, RMC does not speak for us.
That is a good thing to bring up, though, Mizzella.
[00:10:32] Speaker B: Is that.
[00:10:32] Speaker A: Yes, that. That was mentioned. I think that's really cool. And other than that, I don't try to think that through any other, like, big news bits that dropped on that.
I don't think so.
Either way, you can go check it out. It's on the LTA, YouTube and the Twitter and they have. I started posting stuff. We were talking about that last week. They haven't really posted or put things out yet. Well, look at that. They have now. Surprise, surprise. The week after they get back from the mandatory winter break that all rioters go on is when they can actually start doing their jobs again. Which is fantastic because I know a lot of people that work for LTA behind the scenes. They're like, it's so annoying that we have to take a break or try to gear up for the season, but that's a whole different issue. If you want to give your thoughts on the new changes, any of the stuff that's been announced from Riot side or any of the LPL games that have happened already, you can find a link to the Community Discord below. Wherever you are listening in the description.
[00:11:33] Speaker B: Yell at me about your LPL takes.
[00:11:35] Speaker A: Yeah, Mazel loves to read those because he is a resident expert here. And I don't know if you feel this way. Mazel. I love hearing the craziest crackhead opinions of people that are fans.
[00:11:48] Speaker B: Oh, I love it. I love hearing different, different, like, opinions and, like, perspectives on players and stuff. It's so interesting, right?
[00:11:55] Speaker A: Because, like, you have your opinions and you, you're like, it's your job to kind of watch them and have opinions. And then when you hear somebody else say something you think is completely wrong, I love that. It's one of my favorite things. So, yes, please hop in the Community Discord and do just that. Also, if you want to support us, you can check out our Patreon shout out to everybody who does support us on Patreon already. And also, we have A merch store. Now league-rundown-shop. Fourth wall.com. you can check that out as well. With all that said, let's hop into the episode proper. We have.
[00:12:24] Speaker B: Wait, wait, wait. Oh yeah, I, I, I'm, I'm sorry. I might be my memory or something. I. There was five of something. There was like five.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: Five something.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: Five of something. We always needed. No, it starts. You're close. So it starts with an S5 keyboards. Oh crap. They're like in the sky. I, but I don't remember.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: Stars.
Okay. Five stars.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Five stars.
[00:12:53] Speaker A: Yes, if you could leave a review. Actually, thank you for reminding me because yes, if everybody could leave a five star review wherever you were listening along really does help us out. Thank you for that.
All right, now let's hop into lta. We're gonna start off with that and then end the episode with LEC week one predictions. But. But first we're gonna give our kind of power rankings. That's basically what this is, but more so end of split one standings predictions. This is kind of where we think everybody is coming into the but not factored in playoffs or who's actually going to win and represent us at first stand. But more so where we kind of think the teams are right now. Now there's only three of us on here, but we do have Badger, Bickle and Hawk that listed theirs as well. So we can also provide them. And I'm not gonna lie folks, there's not a lot of disagreement for the lta. Our top four are the exact same across the board. At least the same four teams is slight variation in order. And then the bottom four are obviously the exact same as well.
[00:13:53] Speaker C: Hawk and I had a slightly different fourth place team.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: Oh, wait a minute, you do. Never mind. I cannot read. I'll get my vision checked after this pod, but that'll be a little teaser that RMC just dropped there. Let's start off with number one though. The expected best team in the league. We have RMC and myself. The cop out along with Bickle having Fly Quest. They won last.
[00:14:18] Speaker C: Oh, is that a cop out because.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: You put one or two in parentheses.
[00:14:23] Speaker A: Oh, he did put one behind the scene.
I put fly one. I put fly one.
The immediate dealing for anybody who can't read the sheet, which is all of you. RMC had Fly Quest in number one, but then in parentheses afterwards put one or two and then team Liquid number two putting one or two in practice.
But okay, I'll give it to rmc. You put Fly Quest in the first.
[00:14:51] Speaker C: Fly First I did as well.
[00:14:52] Speaker A: So did Bickle, Badger, Mizell and Hawk have Team Liquid. So Mizell, you actually think tl, despite losing the finals to Fly Quest and I would argue doing much worse than them at Worlds, are still going to be the top dogs at the end of the regular split.
[00:15:08] Speaker B: Why? What.
[00:15:09] Speaker A: What's making me think that?
[00:15:10] Speaker B: So I think there was some issues. I think the biggest thing is Team Liquid faltered the longer time went on and I think if they kind of get back on track together, I think this team still is when they're all functioning, probably the most dominant team we've seen. I think Fly Quest obviously have their really good strength, but it feels like a spur of the moment strength, like a capitalization strength where it's Team Liquid when they're good feel always dominant. And I know from reading and watching some of the interviews and stuff that like there were some health problems at the end of last year, especially around Worlds and out Worlds and I think, I don't, I don't think that we got the Team Liquid that we needed to get there. And I think they're going to use this next year, especially with the holding of the roster to really find some incredible chemistry and I think that's going to be super powerful.
[00:16:04] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I, I think that there's a high chance that Team Liquid still can take first place. The reason I have Fly above them is that I think Quad is shown in his first year just such an incredible ability to carry Masu as well. I think they have the best mid and bot lane in the league. So in. And if you give them another year to develop, another year to get better, I only see FlyQuest getting better. I do hope that Bwipo is able to keep up. That's always the question mark is like BWIPO has bad games occasionally. So like it's a very short split. If you have a couple of bad games that cost your team the series, that could just put you behind anyway. So that I think could be what holds them back. But RFC, why are you thinking FlyQuest number one?
[00:16:49] Speaker C: Yeah, I actually, funnily enough I actually thought FlyQuest is more consistent compared to Team Liquid when it comes to like when they are in pressure, when they are in pressure positions, I think they take pressure better than Team Liquid does. Okay, so I had Fly slightly ahead and also with the whole full fearlessness but one as well. I'm looking forward to seeing what Inspired has in his pocket. His Nunu still resonates with me. So you know what? I think he's Got other pocket picks that could definitely come out surprise people. When we did the trivia thing last at the end of last year, Masu was absolutely cracked and I think he's one of the best ad carries. So I just have flags ever so slightly ahead. But I think by and large most LCS or LTA north fans are gonna put FlyQuest and Team Liquid 1 and 2. And exactly who's 1 and who's 2 is up for debate.
[00:17:38] Speaker B: I really expect for this to be like a long term back and forth. Like it's gonna be like the JD Top esports of 2020, right? It's gonna be them trading titles back and forth. It's gonna be one getting the better of the other here or there. Like I think it's gonna be really fun in.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: In my mind, there's only one other team that could threaten them and it might not be the one that you viewers are expecting. But we can talk about that next because surprise. Second place for everybody is the opposite of what they put for first. So is either Fly or Team Liquid in first?
[00:18:14] Speaker B: Shocking.
[00:18:15] Speaker A: Yeah. So I don't think we really need to talk too much about second place. But third place where it gets interesting again because this is where RFZ and Hawk have throw out a wild card for fourth. Everybody almost exact same thing for first and second where it's like there's two names in the conversation. Myself and Melle put 100 Thieves and C9 in third. Fourth. But we have them flopped. I have 100 Thieves third, C9 fourth. Mezelle has C9, third, 100 Thieves fourth. RMC agrees with C9, third place. So I'm going to let the two of you start it off. RMC, let's have you start this one off. C9, third place. Why do you think that they are the third best team?
[00:18:50] Speaker C: Actually Kangas, I don't pull an uno reverse card. Why don't you tell us why you picked 100 Thieves for third? Because at third it's you and Badger who put 100 Thieves at third and the rest of us all put C9.
[00:19:00] Speaker A: That's a good point. And that's because me and Badger are the most. Based on the podcast, you're on more episodes.
[00:19:07] Speaker C: Does 100 Thieves have some connection with Immortals here that I need to know about?
[00:19:11] Speaker A: Wait a minute. Okay, okay.
So the reason I think 100 thieves had a higher chance is that River Quid is still the best jungle mid in the league. I think that Quid is the only mid laner that is competing with Quad for number One apa. His name. You can throw it in the hat, but I don't think it's getting drawn. I think it's quid or quad that are the top two. And then River, I think just synergizes with quid much better than inspired. It does with quad. Also, champool. River does play a lot of stuff as well. I think FBI is the best ad carry they possibly could have picked up in the off season. I'm still a little sad it's not gonna be tomo, but if you're gonna get an ad carry that isn't tomo, I think FBI is the clear choice.
And we saw the damage that they were able to do last summer also was that.
[00:19:58] Speaker B: Sorry, no, go ahead.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: I mean, that's pretty much. I was wrapping up the point. Sniper's also gonna have another year to develop and theoretically should be doing it better. Also, I think Fearless First Sniper is gonna be. There's a. There's potential. It's good. He did play a lot of K'sante last year, so that could be rough. But as long as he's. The team trusts him to pull out the carries, I think that there's a chance that it works out for him.
[00:20:22] Speaker B: Is there. Sorry to ask this on the podcast, but is this is. I think. I think this is wrong. The thing I have highlighted in the roster for roster.
[00:20:34] Speaker A: Let me go take a look at that real quick just to confirm. While I'm doing that, let's hear the reasons why y'all think that C9 is gonna be the third best as opposed to 100 thieves. RMC, let's have you start.
[00:20:45] Speaker C: Okay, so I looked at C9. Yes, they lost Jojo. Yes, they lost Berserker. I think that is undoubtedly a hit to their competitiveness and their strength. But I still think Sven is very capable still, and he doesn't have to be the big carrier on this team when you've got, you know, Thanatos in that top lane, who had all that hype and carry potential. And I think there was still some strength there. And Loki coming in, I think is going to be an interesting one as well. I think he has a lot of carry potential as well. So I'm kind of hyped on that. And I think C9 as a whole is just real. Is. I feel like. I say stable a lot. I think they're more stable than 100 thieves. Like 100 thieves. Yes, they've got a really high ceiling. But when I look at Sniper and I look at, you know, they bought Lane FBI. It's kind of like I don't know man. Like I've seen them do really well. I've also seen them bomb out a lot more.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: So I'm going with my gut baby. I'm sorry. I love Ayla but my God, he has not had a good time since he went. Since he's been in the lcs and it makes me really, really sad because he's a really good player.
So I don't like. I think that there is some possibilities of mess ups there. But you also just have the big brain for the team, brain trust in the bot Lane for Cloud 9 that I think is really going to matter. And that's Venom and Vulcan. I think Blabber is obviously still like literally one of the goats of LCS since he hasn't played me lta yet.
But I think that combination of Blabber and their bot Lane is going to be so damn powerful in a. In a season that has so much going on and so many things that need to be called out on the map and timers that need to be, you know, kept to. I really expects Ven and Vulcan to have a massive influence there and if they can kind of direct Blabber around that'll be big.
[00:22:34] Speaker A: But that's where I'm concerned with Loki and Thanatos is that communication had from what I'd heard been not like a problem but just Thanatos didn't really provide much to the team and Loki and Import coming in. Historically that has been difficult. So I. There's a chance that I'm wrong and Loki does slot in perfectly well, is able to communicate well with the team and you know, just leave the Soul.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: Laners to talk to themselves.
True islands anyways.
[00:23:03] Speaker A: But that's why I put Hundred Thieves above them specifically was that I just think synergy wise Hundred Thieves are going to be stronger out the gate and since this isn't like a who's going to make a push for playoffs, it's more so who's just going to end this regular season better. That's why I have 100 thieves above C9.
We don't know what the schedule looks like because we haven't done the draw show yet. But especially if they match up against each other like week one or week two. Yeah, then I think 100 Thieves takes that now getting into the next. Also I, I looked up your point Mazelle. We'll cover that a little bit later once we talk about those teams.
Fourth place. Like I said, me and Mazel just had C900 thieves swapped Badger. Bickle was the same thing. Everyone basically had C900 thieves except for Hawk and RMC which have 100 thieves dropped into fifth, sixth place and they instead have Shopify Rebellion in fourth. And I got to tell you, RMC, I really wanted to do the same. I wanted to find a way to not have identical top four with what I thought everyone else would have. And I just couldn't reason it through. But I would love to hear your reasoning.
[00:24:08] Speaker C: So again, I can't presume to speak for Hawk, but I suspect we're on similar veins because there's one thing in common between me and Hawk and that is that we're colors who covered CB law in the past. And it's the bot lane for Shopify Rebellion that makes me put them that high. I mean, bvoy, we've seen him now with Super Shopify Rebellion. We know he's good. He's one all stars. He's incredibly good. What I think people don't know is SEOs the support who's being paired with him. That guy was being talked about as like one of the best Brazilian players in the history of CB law in terms of like how brilliant he was, his understanding of the game and whatnot. And you know, him coming to North America is absolutely massive. And him and bvoy have played against each other before. Seyos actually beat bvoy with a different Korean ad carry. So getting them paired together, I actually think they're going to be one of the best bot lanes in the league.
They're going to take on the likes of Masu and Busio and potentially even come out ahead. So I think that bot lane makes them incredibly strong. And then the rest of that roster, they're decent, like fudge contracts. Palo Fox. I know they're not necessarily the biggest names in their roles, but I think they're really solid and they will know how to play around a really strong bot lane. The other thing which also kind of applies to C9 a little bit and I put C9 above them is I think with the Atakan changes, the fact they can spawn on either side of the rift, your bot lane needs to know how to move and needs to know how to move regularly. A lot of ad cars just kind of sit there and just like Power Farm and they don't always move that fast. Like C9 has the advantage with Sven being that giga brain bot lane that we're talking about. He's going to know when to move. Sales knows when to move as well, he's got really good macro and I think paired with bvoy like that's going to help propel Shopify Rebellion higher than I think what a lot of LCS viewers might think not knowing SEOs. That said, it is worth noting. News dropped today. Salis will not be starting because.
[00:26:00] Speaker A: Oh, that just dropped today. Wait, I didn't see that news.
[00:26:03] Speaker C: Yeah, Shopify Rebellion posted. It's Zazel gonna be starting for them. So with them okay with that might be fifth with 100 thieves over them. It depends on who's. On how much time sales I think actually gets to play.
[00:26:18] Speaker A: I think at that point, if you're Shopify Rebellion, if you think that you can get SEO Sin by week two or three, you hope that you play like Team Liquid Fly in the first weekend, you probably weren't gonna win those anyway.
[00:26:31] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:26:31] Speaker A: And then you could have your actual support for when the matches matter.
That is interesting. Hopefully they are able to get that in time. That would be a bummer if not because it's such a short season. If you lose, I think it was more than two games, you're out. Yep.
[00:26:48] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:26:49] Speaker A: That's wild. You cannot win. You cannot lose three games basically in this format, which I'll have to again double check and confirm why that is. I don't remember why exactly. That was because just looking at like eight teams round robin, basically it's.
[00:27:04] Speaker C: It's kind of double elimination. But realistically, you just need to win two of your matches to qualify for playoffs because four teams from LTA north will face four teams from LTA South. So because of that, they don't actually need to play with the full full bracket. They just need to get the top four.
[00:27:19] Speaker A: Okay, fair enough. Yeah, good point. Okay, well, either way, that's going to be tough for Shopify Rebellion then. They can't lose that many. They don't have the luxury of losing that many.
All right, well, so you and Hawk have Shop for Rebellion cracking into your top four and making playoffs. You have 100 Thieves as your fifth. Pretty much everybody else has Shopify Rebellion as their fifth six. Although I guess it is fifth. Sixth. That's gonna be kind of like getting knocked out at the same time. Everybody else has Dignitas kind of as that other team in the conversation, save for yet again RMC and Bickle agrees with you. You have lion gaming actually in 5th, 6th as opposed to 7th.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: Definitely no bias there.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: No bias at all. RMC, would you like to now explain why this is.
[00:28:07] Speaker C: What's the big old bias?
[00:28:09] Speaker A: I Don't know.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: No, you. You. I'm just.
[00:28:11] Speaker C: Oh, me, my bias. Well, it just like I technically have no bias with Lion Gaming. I mean, they are lla. I was not a particular LLA enjoyer, but the players on that team, I mean, like audience that they've been to international events before. And I think while we do often think of LA as the weakest sort of region in. In the past before all this consolidation, I do think they have some good players. And because they ended up consolidating like this, I think they've. They've had their pick of who they wanted. So I'd like to believe that right out the gate this team is going to have hands. Whether or not if this was split too, or we had a longer split, maybe I put Line a little bit lower, but I think right out the gate, Line's got the advantage of everybody trying to figure things out as well. I say the advantage. I still have them pretty low, but I think they can take Dig and DSG on the early weeks.
[00:29:02] Speaker A: Okay, well, I think part of it could be luck of the draw and that's where a lot of that kind of like 5th, 6th versus 7th, 8th is going to be. We. We're almost in agreement as to what teams are going to be down there. I think whether they're sixth, seventh or. Sorry, seventh, eighth or fifth, sixth is going to be who's their round two opponent.
Because some of these teams, like I could see Lions beating Disguised, I think it's gonna be harder for them to beat Shopify or even Dignitas at that point.
[00:29:33] Speaker C: And there's always a chance that Fly and Liquid get drawn in the. Into the same match in first bracket and one of them is playing the lower bracket and then.
[00:29:40] Speaker A: True.
[00:29:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:29:42] Speaker A: And that's gonna be much harder for every team down there in the lower bracket. Then there's really nothing else crazy here other than Disguised and Lion are kind bottom barrel. Like everybody just has them down in the bottom two.
Me and Mazel agree it's Lions as seventh, eighth. RMC thinks it's disguised, but again, luck of the draw is going to be a big part of that. But Mazzella, talk about disguise a little bit because they are the newest members coming into the league. What do you think about them? You have them in the bottom two, but do you think that there's any potential that they do damage or do you really think it's just gonna be struggle for them?
[00:30:19] Speaker B: I think it's just going to be a lot of learning experiences and it's going to be a lot of continuation for xu, but trying to figure out what the scary Jerry who he bot Lane can do if Abadage is actually still good and things like that. I think it's going to be a big tester and a short split is probably not the best place to do that. But I mean they have potential to do some damage, right? And especially in this kind of format, if you show up on the right day, it can be. Can be pretty devastating. So we'll see. But I was waiting because I thought you were going to give me the dig point.
[00:30:51] Speaker A: I can't cover that now. Yeah. So Dignitas currently right now on our sheet we have it listed roster Serdi Shaden, Kaina Tomo Isles with coach Rigby. Mazel was questioning because Leaguepedia says speak up. As the juggler currently listed on the roster. His contract is up and Shaden from my understanding was the intended starter. That was news that broke the news by Lec Wooloo. And then there was question. Community raised concern about is Shade and actually going to be on the team due to very toxic and you know, just inappropriate language used in solo queue.
Now do. Do you have confirmed news or is this more rumor news? Mizzell?
[00:31:37] Speaker B: Oh, no. I just think it's so funny because like we literally in our like, potential episode that we did when we were talking about like, and we literally talked about Shade Anders, like if he can stay on the good side and like, yep, be good, he'll be great. And then literally like first day on the job, bro.
It just, it feels really bad but I mean, hey, we'll see what they can do. I and I. My joke not tied to Shaden in whatsoever is that, you know, it's Little Dig winter because it's cold outside.
[00:32:13] Speaker A: That was good. That was good.
All right. I'm gonna have to try my best not to say that on point. Oh, that's. That's good.
They have been announcing over the last couple of days their roster on Twitter they dropped a Serdi post and they dropped a Tomo Isles post. And on their Twitter right now they have question marks. So they have like the roster as Serde. Question mark, question mark. Tomo Isles. So they haven't made an announcement officially yet. I still expect it to be Shaden. I think that the community kind of bounced back of like, oh, like he used bigoted language in.
In solo queue fairly recently too. Like it was last year that it happened. It didn't pick up that much traction. So I'm just gonna assume that the org's like, oh, it didn't blow up, so we're just gonna run.
[00:33:02] Speaker B: I mean, they already talked about it a little bit, especially internally, so I think it might actually have implications. But.
[00:33:08] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:33:09] Speaker C: Is it a hot take for me to say that? I. I don't think teams should care about the community sentiment. When you're building your teams, I think.
[00:33:16] Speaker B: You don't need to care about the community sentiment, but I think you need to care if your player is a piece of shit human being.
[00:33:20] Speaker C: Agreed. Agreed. Which is why I phrased it very, very carefully. If they're doing it because of community sentiment, I think that's just wrong. Like, then. Then what sort of team are you building? That said they should have done their research on the player's reputation and stuff like that and then make a decision based on that information. I'm being very careful because I also don't know the full details of the whole shading situation.
[00:33:38] Speaker A: So he basically typed out. Yeah. Called a player on the enemy team the N word without saying the N word.
[00:33:46] Speaker C: Yeah. Was that recent though or was that.
[00:33:49] Speaker A: That was last year. I'm pretty sure that was like in. In winter of last year that that happened.
[00:33:53] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I'm kind of saying because I don't know if he's reformed. Like, I don't know enough about the situation as it currently stands. So. Yeah, that. But I. I do think Dig should have done your research on that. I mean, it's not hard to find out.
[00:34:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, we'll keep our eyes posted on what that roster update would look like. And if he is still playing otherw could be the player still coming back in for the Org. He was playing with them before and even though is the contract up, they could just extend him another one.
Does that change your opinion, Mizel? If it's speaker because you have dig as fit 6 team, I actually think.
[00:34:28] Speaker B: It would make it better if it's.
[00:34:29] Speaker A: If it's speaking, would they crack into top 400 spot? Okay. All right, well, good luck to them then. That's our thoughts for end of LTA stage 1 prediction. So now let's talk about the way too early 2025 hot takes for LTA. It's some fun that we like to have. We did it with LEC last week, we're going to do it again and then we're going to hop over the pond to LEC to cover our predictions for week one. Up first for the way too early LTA hot takes though is myself. I listed one that I think has been included pretty much every single time for the last two years. Mr. Beast purchases. But I specifically said Dignitas spot by the end of 2025. That's right. I think Dignitas is trying to get out. I know Hundred Thieves is the obvious choice because we know they're trying to get out, but that wouldn't be as hot of a take. So I'm going to go a little hotter and say it's Dignitas the spot the Mr. Beast takes. Thoughts, concerns.
[00:35:22] Speaker B: Please do it, Mr. Beast. I'm on my hands and knees. Moist. Anybody? Just streamers. Get in here. Otp. Where you at? Like, come. Come join League of Legends.
[00:35:36] Speaker A: Yeah, we're thriving. We are thriving over here. Okay, we're gonna go down the list and as we get to people that are on the pod, they can talk about their own. But I'll just list the other ones. Badger says Loki wins Rookie of the year.
C9 misses Worlds again.
I could actually see that. I mean, who's really in competition with Loki? I'd be surdy.
I don't. I don't know if he's. No. Because he's played a couple of times. Yeah.
Loki kinda would kind of count. I don't know if that would count because he's played in South America.
Yeah. I don't know. Not a scary Jerry. That's the other one. Yeah, Scary Jerry would be a big one.
Well, either way, I don't think there's a lot of competition. So Loki easily could win that. Maybe not easily, but realistically could win that. But C9 missing worlds, you just need to be. You have to be a top two team from lta north to make worlds now it's hard. We get one guaranteed and a lot of fight with a team from lta south for that last spot.
[00:36:46] Speaker B: So there's a lot of teams.
[00:36:48] Speaker A: There's a lot of teams. Exactly. So I don't even know if that's that hot of a take, but I think it's. I'll give it points for Duncan on C9. Bickle says DSG fails to defend their guest spot but purchases 100 thief spot to become a permanent team.
[00:37:05] Speaker C: I like. I like that. I'll take that. Spicy.
[00:37:08] Speaker A: That's pretty funny. They're out and they're back in, baby.
[00:37:12] Speaker B: It's.
[00:37:12] Speaker A: It's like.
[00:37:13] Speaker B: That would be the most. That would be the most LTA thing ever.
[00:37:17] Speaker A: That would be. It's like the Simpsons meme of like the bartender throwing out the drunk guy and then he likes in behind.
All right. That's a good one. Mizel, you have a hot take as well. Let's see.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: I do. Serdi earns mvp. MVP for one of the splits.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: Oh, not best rookie, but mvp.
Oh, that is a pretty hot take, sir. I do like it.
[00:37:43] Speaker C: He's up against.
[00:37:44] Speaker B: My original one was that he had the most solo kills, but I felt it was too. It was too. It was. It was too cold. All right, it was too cold.
[00:37:51] Speaker A: I like that one too, but I think this one is definitely hot.
[00:37:54] Speaker C: Yeah, I like it.
[00:37:56] Speaker B: It's not gonna happen. I don't know.
But I. You know, if it does, I wrote it down and it happened.
[00:38:03] Speaker C: Imagine it does. That means he bodies impact.
[00:38:06] Speaker A: No, if it does, that means that we don't. We can't give credit to Mazel for the prediction because he just said he doesn't think it's gonna happen, so he already backpedaled.
[00:38:13] Speaker B: It's like a 1 in 99% chance.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: 1 in 99%.
[00:38:19] Speaker C: But what I'm hearing is there is a chance.
[00:38:21] Speaker B: There is a chance. I mean, the thing is, the guy is like usually always backed up his talk. And I think he does get a bit overconfident. But I'm not gonna lie, guys. The top lane talent in LTA is not good. So, like, if this guy's been bodying them behind the scenes for the last two years, I hope that he's able to hit the ground running that the team. Like the biggest thing is you have to know how to play around Serde. And if the team at least plays to his strengths, I really do actually think he can.
[00:38:52] Speaker C: That's sounding awfully like scrim bucks to me.
[00:38:54] Speaker B: M.
Hey, sometimes scrim bucks pay off, baby. True.
[00:38:58] Speaker A: They do. Let's get on to the next one though. Hawk says 100 Thieves disbands after a playoff loss to Shopify. Rebellion specifically losing to Shopify. Why Shopify? Hawk has Shopify in first place. What? That's crazy.
He does have 100 these six. So he's built. He's painting whole picture. He has Shopify in 4th hundred thieves and 5th six. He's saying that they're not gonna make playoffs because of Shopify and then they're gonna disband. So basically the hundred thieves is only sticking around for one split.
Although I guess technically this could be a future predict.
[00:39:39] Speaker C: It could sell up and it's more for split too. Yeah.
[00:39:44] Speaker A: Interesting. Very interesting. Okay, cool. Well, that is a hot take. Hawk hundred these expanding specifically because they lose the old Rebels.
All right. RMCL tier yours okay, you know this.
[00:39:57] Speaker C: This take could be hotter. I said in split one playoffs, which is cross region at least like the LTA north teams, one of them is going to lose to an LTA Cell team. It's not going to be an LTA north sweep.
[00:40:08] Speaker A: I actually agree. I. I think that that is fairly likely to happen.
[00:40:13] Speaker B: Yeah, I actually feel like that's fair.
[00:40:14] Speaker C: You know what? Not spicy enough.
Let's up it to two. We go 50, 50 in the playoffs.
[00:40:20] Speaker A: Okay, so in split one playoffs, two of the LTA north teams lose to a LTA south team.
[00:40:29] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:40:30] Speaker A: I like that. Okay, cool. So we only have 50 win rate because that would make the conversation going into then Worlds way more spicy. Be like, oh, last time we only won half of them, so that means it's a coin toss for who gets outlast. He'd go to Worlds, right?
[00:40:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Imagine how much worth. It's already felt really bad to have like so many teams from LCS go and then like usually like one of them does well or none of them do well. Imagine now where we only literally send two teams and what if they both do bad? That like feels even worse.
[00:41:00] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:41:01] Speaker C: Well, but then usually the team that doesn't do well is like the, the third seed. Right. It's our lowest seed. So if our dog, they kind of.
[00:41:09] Speaker A: Deserve, they deserve to get flushed if.
[00:41:13] Speaker C: You kind of crop. Yeah. And by the way guys, the reminder playoffs for split one is single elimination.
[00:41:19] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:41:19] Speaker C: So like in the chaos, it actually could happen where like a team follows up, you know, their best of three and gets knocked out.
[00:41:27] Speaker A: That would be so sad.
But I will say Cloud nine. Cloud nine, historically third seed did the best at Worlds, so I don't know, I don't know. Maybe a little recency bias with how well flyquested as first seed. I agree. Usually first he's kind of cursed.
All right, cool. Well, that's our way too early hot takes for LTA north for the year. Let us know your thoughts on them if they're too warm, too cool, too cold and not hot enough. We didn't include any murder this year on either LEC or LTA north, so I don't know if that's a, a step in the right direction or the wrong direction, but either way, thought it was worth pointing out. Now it is time to hop across the pond over to Europe and the LEC because we actually have some games that we're gonna be watching this weekend. LEC kicks off early on. Is it. I believe it's actually Friday that we have games Friday. Friday.
If you're here in California with me and Mazzelle, that'll be early morning. If you're RMC and you're on the east coast, you're. You're east coast, right? Rmc?
[00:42:33] Speaker C: Nope, I'm West Coast.
[00:42:36] Speaker A: If you're on the west coast, like all of us here on the pod, why did I think you were East Coast? All right, anyway, it's gonna be early morning. Otherwise, it'll be later in the. The kind of early or late. Late morning for you if you're East Coast. If you're Europe, it'll be normal time for you. But either way, things kick off with Team Heretics vs Rogue, and I will say the first couple of games for LEC are kind of snoozers, but it's gonna end with a bang with the last two. Really cool for day number one. Up first, we have Team Heretics versus Rogue. And across the board, we all think Rogue is going to take it. I don't think that's a lot of surprise. Team Heretics was pretty much unanimously considered last place by the the group power rankings. Only Mazel had them making playoffs, squeaking in, so not much to cover there. BDS versus Vitality. We have BDS across the board except for Mizell having vitality.
[00:43:36] Speaker B: That's my go.
[00:43:37] Speaker C: You had Vitality ninth at the end of the split, and you have BDS fifth.
[00:43:40] Speaker B: Damn right. This is the one win that they get.
[00:43:45] Speaker A: This is it.
[00:43:46] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:43:46] Speaker A: This is the only way the Vitality will get.
[00:43:48] Speaker B: Also literally the only one that they get.
You know, Carsy Hill is saying Cars, he's gonna drop the fanfic, and, you know, it's gonna. It's gonna go great.
[00:43:58] Speaker A: This Garziel is saying has such high potential to be fun to watch. I. You know, no matter what, I think it's gonna be fun. Whether they do well or do poorly is a different question, but. All right, we'll see if they're able to take it up. Next we have GX versus sk GX across the board. That one, I think, is a big snoozer for me and don't have a lot of, like, investment into that one. But the next one, I think, is a little more exciting. Fnatic versus the now for, like, the fourth time, renamed Koi. They're just Koi. They're no longer mad or angry. They're nothing to do with Lions. They are just Koi and Mazel. Why do you think Koi's the only one? Because it's Fnatic. Baby. They're like always the number two best team in the. In the lec.
[00:44:44] Speaker B: Oh, you want to know why? Because it's got the best piece of absolute dominance in the mid lane. Jojo Pune from N A, baby.
[00:44:55] Speaker A: You know what? I forgot that you're probably just gonna put Coy winning every match, aren't you?
[00:44:59] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:44:59] Speaker A: Just.
Okay, well, strap in everybody. That's gonna be a fun season. Coy. Take it on, Fanatic. That one will be fun because it'll be the debut of Jojo. First ever N A import over to lec. Make sure that you're watching that one and also make sure you're watching this next one because it is the battle of Titans, the winningest team in the history of Europe. Europe versus I think at this point, Undisputed. Most supported from the fans team or at least loudest fans. Biggest community support in kc. They showed up and they were shit. But it didn't matter because the fans followed and have continued to follow kc. And for that reason, the arena is going to be fun for this match in particular, I imagine Police could be called yet again. And I gotta say, I got Casey taking it, baby. I think for a week one matchup, this is ideal. G2, like I said, off often starts slow. I mentioned this last week on the podcast. I think that if Casey's ever going to take him down, it would be week one in the big match where you have the crowd on your side. Because I have to imagine the majority of people are going to be cheering Casey. Now is the time for Mazella RMC to talk me off from the ledge because this is clearly a crazy take and she too should win this, right?
[00:46:18] Speaker C: Oh, no, no, no. I respect your commitment to Twitter engagement.
[00:46:22] Speaker A: Okay, thank you. And also for calling me out on the real reason I put Casey. Again. It has not had any.
[00:46:27] Speaker B: If you need Kangas's address, it is.
[00:46:32] Speaker A: Wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait. Okay, okay, no.
[00:46:35] Speaker C: If you need Kangas address, you should think about subscribing to our Patreon.
[00:46:39] Speaker A: That's gonna. That's a new Patreon tier. Kangas doxes himself if you subscribe for $5.
[00:46:48] Speaker C: Oh, wow.
[00:46:50] Speaker B: Like right before you dox yourself or after you just post something really mean about Casey.
[00:46:55] Speaker A: Ah, let's not do that. Instead, let's talk about day two, because day one would be in the books after KCG2. That's probably the highlight of the weekend for me. But here we also have Team Heretics versus SK to kick things off. And we have SK across the Board except for Mazel who has as team Heretics. You really are the contrarian.
[00:47:14] Speaker B: They're only win. This is team Heretics only win as well. The entire winter split. This is.
[00:47:20] Speaker C: To be fair, Miselle did think that team Heretics was going to be better than sk.
[00:47:25] Speaker A: Yes. This is what I often do and usually this just kind of happens for like week one predictions. I just. Whatever team I have ranked power ranked higher, I just put as a winner. And that's I think across the board. Exactly.
[00:47:38] Speaker B: That much logic. Oh, I know, right?
Don't check my credentials. Sorry.
[00:47:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I was gonna say Mazel seems to be doing the opposite. Except for this one where team Heretics is ranked higher.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: So I like the season opening with the splash. It might be their only wins of the splits, but vitality and team Heretics are going to start off with a bang and it's going to be. It's going to make everybody go like, whoa, what is happening in the leca? And then next week it's going to go back to like this. Them losing every single game. It's fine.
[00:48:08] Speaker A: Shayo is going to get like carry picks twice and then be able to win the game and then those are going to be banned for the rest of the split.
All right, up next we have Rogue versus gx. It's a GX sweep from our opinion on the cast. But next up we have actually a split here. Casey versus Koi. Yet again, me and Bickle, the most based. We both have Casey. What the hell is this, guys? Koi from both Mazel and rmc. Mazel. You realize that's a fish, right?
[00:48:36] Speaker B: I had originally because they're both K. I tried to put Koi, but I guess I put KC in there. So, you know, I had to change it just now because it's supposed to be Koi, but there's no other reason except for the American import. I don't know if you have more reasoning than that RMC, but that's my reason.
[00:48:52] Speaker C: No, JoJo's Canadian.
[00:48:54] Speaker B: Yeah. North American import.
[00:48:57] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm Canadian. I back Jojo.
[00:49:00] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:49:00] Speaker C: So like, I mean, I. I think I had. Yeah, I had quite higher than Casey. I already said I think Casey is good, but I just think Koi as a whole is better. And I think the. The Spanish supremacy will come through with the Canadian topping.
[00:49:16] Speaker A: You're Canadian.
[00:49:18] Speaker B: Canadian topping.
[00:49:19] Speaker C: Wait, did you just realize that maple syrup. I'm not actually Brazilian. I just cover Brazil.
[00:49:24] Speaker A: Dude, I don't know where I thought you lived. I don't know why I was so off. But you know what? We're learning about RMC today. This is great.
[00:49:33] Speaker B: Hold on, hold on, hold on. We can't walk past. Past that. We can't walk past that conversation because you just called Jojo a topping. So what is he?
[00:49:41] Speaker A: He's.
[00:49:42] Speaker C: He's. Cheese curds.
[00:49:43] Speaker B: You can't walk past that.
[00:49:44] Speaker C: Station cheese curds and gravy. It's poutine.
[00:49:47] Speaker A: But toppings.
[00:49:49] Speaker B: Wait, but you. But it was a sweet dish that we were making.
[00:49:53] Speaker C: Oh, it was a Spanish dish. Spanish dishes don't have to be sweet. They've got great savory dishes, too.
[00:49:59] Speaker A: Cheese curds and gravy. Yeah.
[00:50:02] Speaker C: That's how you get a poutine.
[00:50:03] Speaker B: That's poutine.
[00:50:04] Speaker A: Yeah. I've actually never had poutine before.
[00:50:07] Speaker C: No kangas.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: I mean, we're learning about me. We can't go much further than that. Come on.
[00:50:14] Speaker A: All right, you. Should we just stop the pod here and I just go get poutine?
[00:50:17] Speaker C: This. This would work a lot.
[00:50:18] Speaker B: Know what a computer is?
[00:50:21] Speaker A: No. Can you explain it to me? Like, I'm five? All right, well, that's our split podium for Casey versus Coy. Should be a fun match regardless, because Jojo is going to get a lot of NA viewers watching. Kalist will, of course, get everybody in Europe watching, and that will be a good old time.
[00:50:38] Speaker C: Actually, the poutine match.
French on one side, and we've got cheese curds and gravy on the other. French fries also.
[00:50:44] Speaker A: I got to say, mazel. I think this is the first time I've ever seen you vote against a French team.
[00:50:48] Speaker B: True. I'm just going to say Casey's schedule in week one is nuts. Like, holy crap. You're going to have so many viewers on every single one of those games. That's insane.
[00:51:01] Speaker A: And then they end with kind of a dud. But at least the first two are popping. First two are popping. Speaking of pop, in the next one, G2 versus BDS. I think it will be a fun match. We all have G2 taking it, but there. There's potential that that could be a very entertaining one in its own right. So I like that. And then we round things out with Fnatic versus Vitality. We all think vitality is gonna suck, so we all have a fanatic taking this way. And also most of us think fanatics is going to do pretty well. So for that reason as well. Day three, though. The final day of LEC. It's BDS versus Rogue. We got BDS across the board. Fnatic versus Team Heretics Fanatic across boring. Koi versus Vitality. Koi across the board. GT versus SK G2 across the board. And KC versus GX Casey across the board. Wow.
[00:51:45] Speaker B: Let's go.
[00:51:46] Speaker C: I mean not. Not every day can be a. Like they're not giving us.
[00:51:51] Speaker B: I will say is an absolute. It's like when you. You're like queue it up for like a wonderful event with fireworks and stuff. You go to light the artillery shell and then it's a dud.
[00:52:00] Speaker A: There's not a single banger. These all.
[00:52:04] Speaker C: I actually really wish that day three was day two schedule. Then we could watch a draw show, not feel a thing. Just forget about LEC for a day and then get back to the fun.
[00:52:12] Speaker B: I'm just gonna say as is rules of League of Legends broadcast. Day three is gonna be the craziest day. It's gonna be like probably the back doors.
[00:52:20] Speaker A: Probably. Yeah.
[00:52:22] Speaker B: Bear in a 20 minutes put. It's gonna be. It's gonna be wild.
[00:52:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Knowing us well, make sure that you tune in regardless everybody, because League of Legends is back. LPL already started. LCK is starting up as of recording. I think tonight at midnight. I want to say then we have LCP January 17th. LEC is of course that January 18th. Make sure everybody that you stick around. I just said January 18th. That's the Saturday. Does that mean that there's Monday games? I know there's three days of games.
Or does it start. I think it starts Friday.
[00:52:54] Speaker B: I think it's Friday. Pretty sure it's Friday.
[00:52:56] Speaker A: Well, you know what?
[00:52:57] Speaker C: It is Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
[00:52:59] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. It is.
[00:53:01] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:53:02] Speaker A: Okay, well, that's important to mention. Everybody. Do not just ignore everything that I said earlier about Friday.
[00:53:09] Speaker C: Yeah. Wait, this makes way more sense though. They put the boring games on a weekday.
[00:53:15] Speaker A: That does make sense. All right, well, either way, that will be Saturday, Sunday, Monday, then LAC starting up January 18th. And then we have to wait another week for LTA. We'll have a fun draw show and the show match happening on the 18th for LTA. So you can at least watch that on that channel. But make sure that you're supporting professional League of Legends wherever you can watch it. And most importantly, thank you for supporting us and listening along. It's been a fun episode. Pretty short one, but we didn't have any games to cover. So next week we'll actually be able to talk about some of the games that happened in the lec. But before then. Mazel.
[00:53:52] Speaker B: What?
[00:53:52] Speaker A: You. You said something earlier and I think I might have interrupted you there was a number involved and.
And, like, celestial bodies involved. Two.
[00:54:05] Speaker B: Three, four.
[00:54:07] Speaker A: Counting along. Yep.
[00:54:09] Speaker B: Five. There's five. Five stars.
[00:54:11] Speaker A: There we go. If everyone can leave five stars for a review, that would really help us get noticed more. We are the longest running League of Legends podcast in the world, and we'd like to keep it that way. And your help goes a long way. Thank you, everybody, for listening along. Thank you, Mazel and RMC for coming on. Everybody, remember, we love you and we'll see you next time.
[00:54:34] Speaker B: Caillou, do the thing.
[00:54:36] Speaker A: Oh, yes, Daddy.
