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Hello and welcome to episode 550 of the League Rundown. This is the 2025 LTA Finals and LEC Playoffs Round 2 review. And the episode is lovingly entitled Fearless Best of fives are Cool. You'll just have to trust us. I'm Kangas, your host. I'm joined by two esteemed co hosts. Up first we have Mr. Mizelpiel.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: Hello. I'm excited to be back. Excited to talk about all the. The craziness that's been going on.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: Yeah. And notably one of the people on this call that has seen much more entertaining best of fives than we have had in the lta. But we'll, you know, talk a little bit more about that later. First we have to introduce our second co host. It is Random Minion Caster. What's up rmc?
[00:01:55] Speaker C: Well, random mixed feelings classrooms right now with how the LTA playoffs ended up going, but.
[00:02:00] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, that's fun actually now that you just did that, now I know what your bit for your name's going to be whenever I introduce you on the podcast. Something different with rmc. Although I did try this with MDK when they were mad Lion Koi and I did not make it very far until it got off.
[00:02:18] Speaker B: To be fair, you did okay.
[00:02:21] Speaker A: I got pretty far. You know, fair enough. But I. I think that the quality went down pretty fast.
[00:02:27] Speaker B: Absolutely off a cliff.
[00:02:30] Speaker A: It plummeted. I was like cheering when they wouldn't make playoffs because I didn't have to keep the big anymore.
But that's a different thing. That was last year's issue. This year we have more issues. Speaking of. Actually that's a terrible way to segue. Let's talk about what the fun stuff first. Mazel. What's going on at lpl?
[00:02:47] Speaker B: So we're in playoffs, but by the time you hear this, we'll probably be looking at finals. Just last night, Al booked their first grand finals ever as an organization. Even back when they were rogue war warriors by beating JDG in a banger series. It did go three one, not all the way. Or at least it went all the way rather with 3:2.
So we did get to hear Silver Scrapes. It was only the second time that we got to hear Silver Scrapes in the playoffs so far. But jdg, they have a tough go of it now because BLG and Top Esports are in the lower bracket right now. And BLG is looking like a monster. Like they could absolutely just run a five straight best of five run all the way to grand finals and be the representative. So it's going to be tough. I. I hope that either Top Esports is able to show something or if JDG is able to fix a lot of their mistakes. They had a lot of really bad moments last night. Nobody on that team is really stepping up and there's a lot of people stepping down. I think Al, I would be so proud and happy to send AL as the representative for LPL going into firsthand because the way they draft, the way they play it just so perfect and it incorporates a lot of the styles that the LPL is known for. So it's. It was a banger series. If you didn't get to watch it, go watch it. It was some omega drafts from AL and all the way through all. All games in the. In the full five game series. But we'll see if they can make it all the way because blg, like I said, was feeling really good.
[00:04:31] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I've heard the boogeyman BLG and I'm just sad that we didn't get nip versus tt. I've just.
Man, imagine the world. But Miselle, you say it's only thoughts on lpl.
[00:04:42] Speaker C: Yeah, I was gonna say. You say that's the only second best of five or full best of five, game five that we've had in the LPL playoffs.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: Crazy.
[00:04:48] Speaker C: But the other one was also anyone's legend.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: It was.
[00:04:52] Speaker C: I'm seeing a trend here.
[00:04:55] Speaker A: They're just delivering the bangers, man. And reminder that full, fearless best of fives is where you have. Was it 50 total champions banned going into that fifth game? Because you'll have the 40 champions that were played in the previous four games. First rotation of bands is 46. You get to pick a couple champions. But then you band the next rotation of champions. So by that last pick phase, there's a lot of champions off the table. Surprisingly still a lot of champions on the table. I believe it's 120 are still available for draft at that point, but comps do get Wacky. What was the wackiest comps you've seen so far in in Fearless draft is do any come to mind where you're wacky?
[00:05:33] Speaker B: I don't know. Bad I think has been the case a lot of times. I mean when we're getting like good comps are things that I love to see like last night from AL where like JDG drafted an entire comp of like divers with like mobility skills and then literally Kyle for Al picks Poppy B5 and just is literally exodia in the entire game and destroys everybody as a support.
Like that kind of stuff is awesome. We've. We've gotten a little bit of flexibility like in mid lane and stuff. We've been getting the rise a little bit more stuff like that.
[00:06:11] Speaker A: Well I will say the craziest one that I've seen so far not watching LPL or LCK is. We'll talk about it later but LEC's only four game series that happened in their best of five but that game four already had a pretty wacky draft so we'll get into that.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: We did have that A Shen jungle for the first time in like 4200 and something days since like 2013.
Damn it. Got absolutely bodied. Which is we did have it and then we had a Wukong jungle or Wukong top that was like the first time in a long time.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: You know I that's one of the things I love about fearless is it will allow for fun stats like that. Bummer it didn't work out but it is still cool.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: In the interview they're like yeah we know it was good but AD gave a kill over over early so it was kind of gg. It's like yeah pretty much.
[00:07:04] Speaker A: All right, well that is LPL and winter finals again.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: I forgot on the 1st of March 1st there be square. I'll be casting. I got the. I got the call up so I'll be excited.
[00:07:16] Speaker C: Let's go.
[00:07:17] Speaker A: Nice. Let's go. Dude. Congratulations. I know you've been putting in a lot of work there so well deserved. Well deserved. Over in LCK land we don't have Bickle or Badger or the Usuals to run us through that. I can do it because I had the leak PD page in front of me. But RMC Ms. El, do either of you. Were you paying attention to anything in LCK land?
[00:07:38] Speaker C: No.
No, not really.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: No. It's all right. It's all right. So here I'll just run you through the leaguepedia because we did have our finals for the LCK Cup. That happened I think right before LTA that night. Like lcp.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: I have a point.
[00:07:55] Speaker A: Qualified before us. Yeah. What's your point?
[00:07:57] Speaker B: Zayas is really damn good and that last game in the series he like hard carried it was great.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: He's pretty good. He also had a pop off mode on socials. I saw where he was like best team in Korea. He was awesome in English too. But yeah, Zayos on HLE won the entire thing and they. Every single one of HLB series went five games. That was crazy.
[00:08:22] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:08:23] Speaker A: Yeah, they. They had their series against T1 where they knocked T1 out right away. Has knocked out his old teammates 5 game series. Then they beat Gen G3 2. Then they beat DK 3 to 2 and then they beat Gen G again 3 to 2.
[00:08:39] Speaker C: Like holy man, anyone's legend doesn't look quite as impressive.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: Yeah, they got some work cut out for them but they will be the LCK representative at first stand 2025.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: I hate to be the kind of like Negative Nancy, but any team that goes to represent either LPL or LCK at first stand is going to have so much more practice and experience and just time spent in the game than any other region. I am just.
I. I hope the energy for the broadcast is going to be special because I think it's important that.
That we see what happens. I guess.
[00:09:23] Speaker A: Okay, let's run this through real quick. So in their group HLE had 11 games. Then they had a best of three qualification match to the playoffs. That's they won two zero. So 13 games and then 20 games across their four BO5s. So that's 20 plus. What did I just say? 13. So 33 games played for just in the.
[00:09:44] Speaker B: In the last like what month?
[00:09:48] Speaker A: 33 games in a month and a half.
[00:09:51] Speaker C: Damn.
[00:09:53] Speaker A: Not even. I think it's like yeah, about a month and a half. A little under a month and a half. As opposed to spoilers, in case you weren't aware. We'll talk about LTA to start things off here. Team Liquid, they had I think maybe.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: Like was it 23.
[00:10:08] Speaker C: They had something.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: I'll have to look again. I'm not remembering immediately offhand because they did get knocked into the lower bracket and then have to play there. So they, they got a couple more. So they might actually be close to.
[00:10:18] Speaker C: But no, they're at 14 games played. No regular season they played seven games and then in the playoffs they played.
Oh wait, no.
[00:10:30] Speaker B: Like if you look at the LG's run, if they're going to make the run 15 games like that's five best of fives that they have to win.
[00:10:39] Speaker A: So BLG could get there too then.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: Yeah, and they part of that is. But that's just in the playoffs. That doesn't count all the three best of fives they played before in the regular season.
[00:10:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And all playoffs alone is already more drafting. They're going to be much more comfortable with.
What was that? Rmc.
[00:10:56] Speaker C: So that their playoffs alone is more than the LTA teams play the entire split. Is that right?
[00:11:03] Speaker A: Oh God. What a fun format. What a fun format. Speaking of thoughts on the format, next news bets are going to be a little bit of a bummer. Viewership news came out for the LTA finals and it did not look good. We reached a peak for the grand finals of TL versus A Hundred Thieves. 73,848 concurrent viewers. That's according to I think Lolitics. I want to say is the stats. I'm getting it from a tweet from Monte Cristo. So if you can go want to check out his Twitter account. Love him or hate him, he likes to give this type of information.
And yeah, that was a 61 decrease split over split compared to last year. Team Liquid fly Quest at 233,000 Peak concurrent viewers.
[00:11:57] Speaker C: The other side.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: That's rough, man.
[00:11:59] Speaker C: The grand finals had lower viewership than week one.
[00:12:03] Speaker A: Yeah, week one literally the highest viewed game was Team Liquid versus Isrus Estrall. Actually I don't know if that was the highest.
[00:12:10] Speaker C: I think C9 versus loud ended up beating it.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: I thought so. Yeah. I'm just looking at whatever this tweet is. It's ordering them in a weird way. I think it's just maybe cropped in a weird way. But for example, Team Liquid versus Easter Astral got 90,000 concurrent. Team Liquid onto Thieves got 73 close to 74. But still that's. That's a significant drop off. And a big part of that was because we did expect with the south teams knocked out early, the Brazilian and just South American audience would not be watching along as much, which I know will affect probably their native language streams more than ours. But I think a bigger factor was that the timing sucked. We knew that there was gonna be a drop off because the schedule was initially supposed to start at 1:00pm Pacific Time and then they changed it to 11:00am Pacific Time, 1:00pm Local and Brazilian time because they didn't want the Brazilian home crowd to be out crazy late. It could have been like a midnight end for them for all the games. But because of that, the trade off then is LEC started like an hour and a half or something before LTA Finals did, so that viewerships can be watching the LEC and not spill over to the LTA until later. And we ended weirdly like around the same time because of how our finals went. It was a very quick day.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: It sucks because it feels like it disrupts.
Like as a league fan. I'm speaking purely as a league fan. It is the best part of the season, especially as like a die hard league fan, when you can watch LCK into lpl, wake up to LEC into lta. Like that is the day as a League of Legends fan. And it was completely disrupted. Like playoffs is that time. That's the time. Like because LCL starts later, LCK starts a little earlier. Like it literally lines up so perfectly. It's been that way for so many years. It feels so weird to have it disrupted.
[00:14:13] Speaker A: Yep, it was awkward to say the least. It's tough to know what the fix could have been because again, we just talked about it. LEC started later than they typically would for their days this entire year. If anybody noticed, it was basically a year late for what their normal start times would have been.
And LTA is trying to appeal to the Brazilian home crowd. So there's significant overlap there. And it was a rebrand. It's no longer lcs, it's now lta. And a lot of people were just having difficulty finding the stream and like that information about the league anyway, that's just been an ambiguous thing this entire split so far. So there's a lot of factors to it. Overall, it is a bummer. And I would say general community sentiment around Riot games is pretty low right now. Between the hextech chests and removing like honor rewards and stuff like that. Leads into our next story that There are over 13,000 signatures as of earlier today for a petition to oust the Riot CEO, which I think is kind of hilarious, actually.
[00:15:21] Speaker B: Insane.
[00:15:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: That many people took time out of their day to do that, I guess shout out. If any of our listeners found out about that, it did themselves. I know a lot of people are just really upset with the direction Riot is taking a lot of their decisions this year.
And it's. It's tough because I don't know how much of that is residually felt by esports and in our viewership, but I can imagine that if community sentiment for the game goes down, community sentiment for the pro play will also then, yeah.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: I mean, this is all just a marketing scheme for the game, basically.
[00:15:55] Speaker A: Yeah, this is. Esports is not the proper marketing arm of the game.
[00:15:59] Speaker C: Yeah.
Well, I guess it's time to rework Tryndamere and Rise and get them back into meta.
[00:16:06] Speaker A: True, true, true, true.
All right, well, that's all the bummer news. Now let's get into at least one fun thing. I saw a report, I believe it said that the top four LTA north teams, which would be the four representatives at the Americas portion of the tournament, are all just going to boot camp in Korea regardless of the fact that only one of them is going to represent us at first stand. I think that's pretty cool. I like seeing stuff like that because it shows that the teams are still committed to improving.
[00:16:34] Speaker C: Yeah. And with the amount of this Korean's in every single team. So everybody, every team gets somebody who gets to go home and get for a bit, I guess.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: You know, I hadn't thought of it that way, but that is also a nice little positive right there.
But speaking of LTA north, let's get into how the weekend went for them. A reminder that if we missed any of the big news stories, I feel like there's a big one that I couldn't remember and put in the doc. Let us know what we missed in the community. Discord. You can find a link in the description wherever you are listening along to the podcast and also give us your thoughts on did you sign the petition? Did you see the tweet about the viewership being down? What are your thoughts on all that? We would love to hear it. Also, shout out to anybody that supports us either through the Patreon or through the merch store. That's league rundown shop fourthwall.com. you should find links in the description for those down below as well. But shout out to anybody that does support us. All right, let's get into the past weekend because we had a couple of series between LTA and LEC kicking it off with LTA to start. We had our semifinals down in Brazil kicking off on Saturday and that led into our first ever LTA finals on Sunday. A historic moment for this merger between two past regions that were not really rivals, but now one region with two conferences. Things started off with hundred Thieves versus Fly Quest. Mizelle, I'm gonna throw this one over to you to kick things off because everybody and their mama had Fly Quest. But what happened in this series?
[00:18:06] Speaker B: Well, hey, I mean, I'm just gonna say there was a little bit of spice. All right. I. I think the fact that we got to see that. I know I've talked about it so much right over talking about 100 Thieves, Mojo, whatever they have going for them.
It was so evident in this. And yes, I'll give it that it went all three games, but we got to see some. I mean probably one of the best series from Sniper of the, of the tournament. And I think FlyQuest just didn't have answers when things broke down. And we've talked about on the podcast before, like when the leaders of FlyQuest aren't in a prime position, it can look rough and I think we saw a little bit of explanation of that there.
[00:18:54] Speaker A: I 100 agree. I actually did predict on the broadcast that 100 Thieves would win this different than my predictions on the podcast from last week. I did have a 0% prediction rate because I got my semi finals wrong. So of course the finals would be wrong. But I actually changed my mind going into the day and a big part of it was I thought, I just thought to myself, like, even if Bwipo gets a lead on Sniper, I actually think Quid and FBI are playing well enough that they can still carry regardless. And yes, I know it's versus Masu and Quad also very, very good players, but there just was a feeling I had like FBI, Quid, it was their weekend, it was their time to shine. But Sniper actually stepped up and he performed very, very well.
Game one aside, that one was a little more, you know, Fly Quest favored. They, they kind of smashed. But then game two, Sniper's able to just like solo kill Bwipo. At one point it was Cyan versus or Snipers and R versus Bwipo Scion and I was just like holy, he's actually like able to do it. I thought he was gonna tilt and be a kind of a liability for the team going forward. Uh, but he was able to clutch it out and then he also have a pretty good Jax game. So rmc, what are your thoughts overall on Hundred Thieves and how are they able to dismantle FlyQuest in their three game series?
[00:20:16] Speaker C: Yeah, I thought even in the first game where they lost where Sniper struggled against Bipolar, I thought Sniper actually did fine in the 1v1. I felt it was more Inspired's presence around the top side, which I think really messed him up and kind of made the match feel very unfavorable for him. So I think yeah, Sniper definitely popped up. I think 100 thieves as a whole really exceeded expectations in the semifinals and for most of the playoffs as well. I think they did really, really well. FBI was the One who I was kind of really impressed with, with how he played because I knew he was going to be brought in as like more veteran presence, as somebody more stable for the team. But I think during the series he kind of really stepped up for me, like going toe to toe with Masu like that. When Masu is like just incredibly talented and mechanically amazing. And FBI was just hanging there and still having. I would argue that, yeah, I'd say probably the most impact for me on his team when they were winning. Yeah, I think FBI has been huge for Under Thieves and I find it very funny that 100 Thieves was just about to be 100 leaves and then now they actually like make it all the way to the finals. And I. I loved who was it on their. On their management side, you know, was calling out AEL for saying that, you know, Fly Quest were the favorites when 100 Thieves were the higher seed coming in. But it's like, you know, it's still a surprise that y'all did as well as y'all did considering everything was coming for that.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: That was the president of Hundred Thieves that was tweeting that. Very funny.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: I think Masu, just a shout out to him. The guy was literally going Super Saiyan in this series and it sucks to see him lose that, but I think it's still some really good looks from him. And Quid Quad. Sorry.
They'll want back for sure.
But I think as a whole I still like to see them working and I know this team is like a long term project. Right. So it's good to see them still performing a loss like that.
[00:22:05] Speaker A: Yeah. And then game three I think we started to see.
I guess it wasn't a five game series for full fearless, but even in a three game series the champion pools get pinched and like their draft, I. I was not in love with it. I really did like 100 Thieves draft more. Likewise, they went back to the Garen for Bwipo and he just wasn't as like gigantic Giga fed tanky Garen as he was. Last time we saw him play it versus Dignitas where he got the better of 30.
This time around Sniper was able to kind of stem the bleeding much more and just kind of keep the gear and even. And then oh, gear and even is not nearly as big of a threat on these big flanking plays. So yeah, that was 100 Thieves versus FlyQuest. How big of an upset would you say this was, Mizell? Because this is. Most people are saying FlyQuest2.0, maybe a 2:1 in there, but Almost unanimously was Fly Quest favored, man.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: I don't know. I. So it is absolutely an upset. I think in terms of expectations and like, like I said, you can't count like momentum and mojo. Like I'm saying for 100. These as like hard facts that this team is going to win. If they don't show up on a certain day, then it's going to look bad. Yeah, but they. I mean, you take upsets. I know there's all the drama and stuff online, but I mean, it was. It was an upset.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: Yeah, agreed.
[00:23:25] Speaker C: Like, I wouldn't call this like a heist of the century, but it was like at least a roll on the floor kind of upset.
[00:23:31] Speaker A: Yeah, Yeah. I think the heist could have been if they had won the whole thing. Spoilers for where the discussion is about to go because they win this series and then face off against the winner of the next series. Cloud 9 versus Team Liquid. Armcy, let's have you start off with this one because this one also went the full three game distance.
[00:23:48] Speaker C: Yeah. And okay, I know Umpty gets a lot of hate for the way he plays. I felt like this was the start of his redemption arc and it took him like almost the entire split to get here, but I thought like this series, you know, he was pretty solid. It still was kind of shaky from Team Liquid though. I don't feel like they are completely fixed yet. And Yawn's back needs. That man needs to go see a chiropractor. After this entire playoff, this was another series I felt like he really had to carry and it felt like a lot of the match was yawn versus Loki because Loki was stunning for C9 and he tried so damn hard to make C9 win, but it just felt like C9 wasn't quite clicking together as a whole.
[00:24:28] Speaker A: Yeah, something felt different about C9 on this day. Yeah, I don't know. It really confused me. Specifically Game three, their draft with Aatrox, Ari, Wukong, Ziggs and Poppy. Like what's the identity of this comp? What are they're like a little bit of engage, a little bit of peel, a little bit of range turret taking, but like not a lot of rotational power. Maybe the Ari you could argue can rotate to the Zigs. Like if it's trying to take turrets, but like I just don't know what its win condition is.
[00:24:59] Speaker C: Well, I think the idea was to try and generate picks and poke with the Ziggs and keep range and then just be able to rotate faster and take turrets and then Catch people in rotation with the Ahri, Ziggs, Wukong, because Ziggs can chip in even he's not physically there. But it's such a hard win condition compared to the team liquid like Sion, Lillia, Rell, where we're just going to run at you and we catch you, you die.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: Well, also, they can still kind of answer you for Poke with the Ezreal and with the way. So, yeah, and again, Thanatos and the Aatrox. I don't know how much practice he put into it. I haven't seen this pick in quite a while. Mizel, has this been played in LPL at all? Has Aatrox gotten pulled out? It was fearless.
[00:25:43] Speaker B: I think we had one game, maybe two. I think Flounder pulled it out in one of their series.
[00:25:49] Speaker A: I was not impressed with Thanatos's Aatrox, to say the least. Like, when it was locked in, I remember the other analysts being like, oh, yeah, classic Scion counter. Like this. This kind of hard counters it. If. If Thanatos can get a lead, this could be scary, but if he doesn't get a lead, he's kind of useless against this comp.
[00:26:05] Speaker C: Yeah, it was the R5 pick. It was the last pick. And I remember seeing it and thinking like, this Aatrox doesn't fit everything else, though. Like, sure, it works against Scion, but like, I can justify the Wukong and the Ahri and the Sigs. I. I can't really see how the Aatrox necessarily fits in, though.
[00:26:19] Speaker A: It. It was confusing and I think that was one of the biggest, like, contributing factors to the loss alongside Umpty, really stepping up in this series. He had two moments in the entire three games that I was like, what the hell are you doing? Umpty1 was in game two when he like, Vi vault breakers over the wall by Otacon and then like, just completely throws the lead that they had. Like, they had a good setup and then he just goes crazy.
We need to get the other.
Yeah, yeah. Then the other time in game three, empty on the Lilia just kids, like, picked off at one random moment. Like, to your point, they did have Ari. They did have, like, Poppy and Ziggs and stuff that can, like, punish you for being out of position. And there was one moment that that happened. Otherwise, MD actually played this pretty clean. Despite having the most deaths on the team, all still. Still playing front line in game one on Skarner. And you know, Lilia is a Melee's kind of squishy champion. So, yeah, but was this also an upset? How much of an upset do we think this one was? Miss, I'm gonna ask you the same question because I think more people actually had a Cloud 9 winning this than even like Fly Quest taking 100 Thieves.
[00:27:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I could see that. But I still think people hold Team Liquid to a high regard for what the team offers and what they've done in the recent history. So I don't know if I would say it's as much of especially comparatively to the other series. I would not say.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: Yeah, fair enough.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: But I still think there was. There were some interesting points as well to see, especially like Loki still have a pretty good series.
I think was really promising for C9, even though the R game I think didn't work out necessarily in his favor. But yawn, man. Yawn. Yeah, yawn, yawn, yawn. My goat. The dude, he saw Masu's like awards and performances there. He just lit it all on fire, man.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: Yep. Also, I think. I think Jan is clearly the breakout performer on Team Liquid from this entire tournament.
We'll talk more about him as we into the next series. But I also want to give shout out to Apa, who I think has had a quietly solid split. He had a couple of rough games. That one is your game really sticks in a lot of people's minds of him just having like a Trolls deer game. He's done that in the past. But like his Talia his way, like he's actually playing pretty well. He's. Whenever he gets Ziggs, that's a nightmare for the opponent. Still, I think like Apa on his right picks is still really, really solid right now. So.
[00:28:52] Speaker C: Yeah, and speaking of the Ziggs as well, he got it denied by Sven in game three and Sven didn't look that practiced on it. So I actually wonder if that was straight up trying to deny it away from APA rather than as a potential counter to the Ezreal that you and picked up.
[00:29:07] Speaker A: Well, I'm happy you bring that up because that Zigs pick becomes a topic of conversation directly in the next series. If you leave it up for game three, that means your opponent can pick it. You got to pick it away from them if you get to ban it. Well, what if you just give it to them? Game one of a best of five fearless draft. That was Hundred Thieves strategy going into this best of five. Not the two teams that a lot of people expected, but it was Hundred Thieves versus Team Liquid. And in a fearless system, you can give over broken champions and then not have to worry about them for the rest of the draft or not even broken champions, just champions that you know your opponent's really good with and oh my God. 100 Thieves gave Team Liquid Exodia for game one. Umpty's Maokai, Apa, Ziggs, Yan's Ezreal. That's like three of their best chance and impacts Casante as well. Like, holy shit, man. That game looked exactly how you would expect seeing Team liquid getting like four of their most comfort picks. They smashed 100 thieves.
[00:30:09] Speaker C: I mean I almost feel like if you, okay, if nameplates off and you look at the jobs that came through, right? Like 100 thieves got gnar, skarner, Azir, Corki, Leona. Like that's a really good blind draft.
[00:30:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:20] Speaker C: And then you look at the websites like Ksante, Maokai, Ziggs, Ezreal, Poppy. It's like that's like an A tier draft. It's good, but it's not necessarily like the most meta, strongest meta draft. And I almost feel like 100 Thieves draft is more meta than team Liquid. Then you turn the name plates on and you're just like, oh, yep, that, that's exodia for Liquid at that point.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: I think it's funny how Jan's Ezreal is becoming. I think it's his Ezreal and his Kaisa. Those are the ones that everyone's realizing, oh my God, if you give Yan these champions, he will just carry games and AP on his Ziggs. It's just like his most comfortable champ that he's got in the game. So that one was clearly a comfort win, a draft win, an execution win for Team Liquid. They outside of like one kind of hiccup that they had, I think I forget who got picked. I think it might have been core JJ who got picked randomly at one point kind of mid game. They had a very clean game on their path to victory there and I was like, okay, shake it off 100 thieves. I honestly think that might have been strategic to give them all their best champions for game one. Now they can't pick them for the rest of the series and you don't have to ban them. This opens up options for draft and it didn't look that much better in game two. They got a little bit of a lead very early on, getting first blood, but they're.
They were not able to get over the hump that was team Liquids, Team Fight, which surprisingly really stepped up in this finals and in this tournament overall.
[00:31:41] Speaker B: So I think the Biggest problem with that logic though is that like, that you. You shouldn't have that logic in this state of the. Of the game because you're realistically not going to be able to get rid of everything that's available because there's just a lot of options, especially when you're performing at a high level.
So, like, I don't know, I think it's difficult, but I think, I think giving over picks, I. I don't think like, maybe they were looking for that or whatever, but it would be tough if they were because then, I mean, that just means they're gonna get mauled when they go to first stand True.
[00:32:17] Speaker C: And Liquid as well is not the team you want to do it to because they have such eclectic pools, right? Like Impact pulled out the GP against Cloud 9. Oh yeah, it was on Saturday. He pulled it out and they had to ban it on Sunday. And then you've got APA Champool, where he's been criticized in the past before for not being able to play meta champions, but now he can, right? He plays things like the Aurora, like the Hwei. And then you still got to ban out like his. His Zigs. And then he played both his other Pocket champions, Nico and Asol in the final series as well. So. Yeah, and then Yon has a pretty flexible pool Umti. If you're going to ban him, you got to ban out the utility Junglers. But then you can't do that because you need to ban apa. Like, Liquid's the worst team to try and play games in terms of like draft and banning in full fearless mode. Like, even though FlyQuest is like inspired Nunu and stuff like that, not all their players are that are known to have that many weird Pocket picks. It's mostly just Bipo inspired. Whereas, like, Liquid has almost everybody with massive champion oceans.
[00:33:15] Speaker A: And 200 thieves credit. Even though they were, I think it was arguably strategic, you can argue that it was not a good strategy, but it did feel intentional.
[00:33:26] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:33:26] Speaker A: Their drafts for the rest of the series were still serviceable. I was happy with what they were trying to do, and they were performing well enough against Team Liquid. But man, Team Liquid, they're just. They got that clutch factor. You know, they reach a certain point in the game, a certain fight, and they are a team that still seems like they're able to end games quickly. A lot of teams in the lta, if they get a big gold lead or they find that big team fight moment, they don't necessarily transition that into a win within five minutes. It can still take another 10, 15 to actually get the game win. It feels like this version of Team Liquid's back to the version where as soon as they get that one big win, they will end the game in the next five minutes because they'll know how to set up their lanes and set up their waves and then, well, the right resets off.
[00:34:09] Speaker C: And guess what? I think a lot of it's an umpty. Umpty's not trolling. And look at what champions he decided to play during playoffs. Maokai Sejuani, you know, Xin Zhao Skarner. Champions that are nice, beefy, tanky utility style champions that he excels at. He's not playing well. He did play the FAI and look how that ended. But he's not like whipping out like the random Volibear or he's not trying to play like the AP Zyras. You know, he has to be the carry for the team. I think Umti has a certain place that one if you want to win, play to. That's all. He gets so much better on it.
[00:34:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I think so. And I. Umpty is still the question mark going into first stand. Regardless of how well he was going to look in this finals. I think he looked good. He looked much better than he had in the past. I still didn't think he was like the reason they were winning. The reason they were winning is Jan just popping the fuck.
[00:34:56] Speaker C: That's fair. But he was the reason why they weren't losing anymore. Because in the regular season.
[00:35:00] Speaker A: Yes, but I think that still warrants question marks going into first stand. I think a lot of eyes will still be on OMD approaching that tournament saying okay, is he is his, I think limited champ pool is a valid criticism to say that, you know, he only really does find success on certain things right now. And if those get banned away from him in a series or picked away from him in a fearless series, will he be able to still have a deep enough champ pool? I liked the Lily. I think that was a really good addition to. To what he's been finding success on. I'm happy that he pulled that out. So yeah, there we have it. Team Liquid. They won the first ever LTA split. APA has won or he's made finals three in a row and this is now his second title that he's picked up. So that's pretty cool.
[00:35:53] Speaker B: That's actually cool.
[00:35:55] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, this, this team, man, they're. They're like establishing a bit of a dynasty here. Missell like this roster stuck Together for a while, and they're finding a lot of success.
[00:36:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, it comes back to the conversation of, like, good structure from the team. I mean, Spawn has created a really awesome structure at Team Liquid. But the fact that they stuck with these players and they're getting benefits from it and they're finding successes is so cool. I mean, even saw, like, on Twitter, Steve was talking about Spawn and saying, you know, you promised me things, and you're delivering on them. And that's. That's just kind of a cool realization that Spawn just, like, believed in this. This team. And I know he said it was a special one for him, so that's awesome.
[00:36:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Also, shout out Spawn. We didn't mention that earlier, but he did fly to Brazil from Australia. He'd been remote coaching the whole year. Swiffer, the assistant coach, had been doing everything on stage and in person with the players so that Spawn could spend more time with his. His wife and his kids. But then he did fly out to Brazil for the finals weekend, and, yeah, they looked much better with sponsors. There's a really funny interview that we got on Saturday with him where he was like, yeah, typically the.
I'm like, in a. In a kind of a good way, I'm the negative person in the room. I think that's, like, part of what I bring is that I'm the one that, like, gets people to talk critically about what's going on. And so when I'm not there, everybody turns into the negative person in the room. And there's not really this unified bad guy for people to, like, unite against. So I thought that was. Or it might not have been him that said, it might have been one of the players. But it was. It was a funny bit, regardless of, like, yeah, like, when the players don't have a mean coach to unify against, you know, what anger out on.
[00:37:35] Speaker C: That's on theme. Like, the theme for this year is Noxus. And Spawn is the Noxus of Team Liquid. He drives the story by being the villain.
[00:37:46] Speaker A: A unified bad guy, Somebody for us to. To fight against, but also fight with the team because, of course, he wants them to win. So shout out to Spawn. Shout out to Team Liquid. And that's it. First split of LTA in the books. We will be shipping Team Liquid off to Korea to go represent us for first stand.
Shout out to all the south teams for participating as well. We will see a South team represented for MSI because both of our conferences only get one team to go. And then for Worlds, we Will have more cross regional play with them for that third spot to Worlds because each of us gets one team to go. And then we fight for that third spot.
[00:38:26] Speaker C: Too positive, Kangas. Too positive. Brazil doesn't care about a participation trophy. We suck. South America. Buckle up. Too good.
[00:38:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Why are you so bad at league? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:38:42] Speaker C: And you guys owe Kangas a mustache. The man put his mustache on the line for you.
[00:38:47] Speaker A: You killed Braum Jose de Oto. Well, what the hell was that, man?
Okay, but that's a real question. How good was ISRAS Estrall? They. They took a game off of the team that won. Were they the second best team? We never know.
[00:39:04] Speaker C: I actually posted that in the LTA south community discord. I was like, oh, guys, we had the second best team. They just had a right dude.
[00:39:12] Speaker A: How funny is that? Because that was Team Liquid was the team. I was like, oh, this is what I have the least confidence in going into this tournament. And.
[00:39:20] Speaker B: And so here they are.
[00:39:22] Speaker A: Here they are.
[00:39:23] Speaker B: The champions.
[00:39:24] Speaker A: They are. And here we are. As the three of us will now move away from North America.
Bye.
[00:39:32] Speaker B: North by North America in South America. Let's go.
[00:39:36] Speaker C: And hi, North America and Europe.
[00:39:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
Because we do have LEC happening over there. We were in our second round of playoffs and had a couple of best of threes and one best of five match that happened. We found ourselves in the lower bracket. And this will lead into next weekend where we have our finals. So LTA is all wrapped. We have no more predictions or anything to look at there. But we do have predictions to look at for lec. I'm gonna give more spark notes for the first two rounds. Mazel rmc. I already set the two of you up with a little bit of information for them. What was the one thing I said in general about the first two series? Mazel. You start. What happened with team Heretics GX cluster.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: Words that we should say.
[00:40:27] Speaker A: Fuck rmc. What was BDS Vitality Plus?
[00:40:37] Speaker C: It was crop. I'm not gonna say it.
[00:40:40] Speaker B: Perfect. Yeah, you got it. Good job.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: The first two, I mean, they're. They're. There's some entertaining League of Legends moments that happen in those series, don't get me wrong. So if you. If you like to like. I do watch league for the sake of crazy happening, check out BDS Vitality Game 3. But in general, the quality of those series were basically what you'd expect from lec. What we've known from them is that it is all about the top four teams. And now it's Looking even more like just the top one team. It's kind of turning back into that where G2's got clean games, everybody else is struggling. Which gets us into the next series that I want to talk about Fnatic. Bds, man, this was the team. Fnatic. I'm just gonna take a moment, guys. I. I'm gonna talk a lot during this segment because I got a soapbox. I gotta air out some grievances with Fanatic.
So let's just run through this. Here's game one. BDS113 has a really good timer. Early lane or early bot lane for a first blood. Sweet. Then they kind of throw back to back fights at grub. Not sweet. I'm like, okay, BDS, what you doing? But 113 in general still has a really good starter game and a couple really sick ults. He has this really cool play with a Herald where he like jumps in with the herald on the tier 2 bot turret. And as he's bouncing out, he channels his ult and catches Fnatic by surprise. And then like catches them and then ultimate away. I had never seen anybody do that with Skarner, like bouncing out of the Herald. I thought it was really cool, but it just doesn't work because the Nuke tries to TP flank and then they fight 4v5 and Nuke doesn't get there in time and then they all just die. And then Fnatic wins the game. And I was like, okay, bds, they're. They're actually were kind of in the driver's seat for a lot of that game. They should have won. That was weird. I was expecting Fnatic to just smash them, but BDS actually showed up even though Fnatic clutched it at the end. Game two, BDS just out execute pretty much every team fight and then punish Humanoid and Mickey this time for being out of position. And 113again has a really good time this time on Nidalee. Fun to see Nidalee pulling out here in lec, but then I was like, oh, shit, it's one one of the series. Fnatic are struggling, man. Like, why aren't they winning team fights? Why are they getting caught out of positions? Why are they, you know, not realizing that you can scarner old out of Harold? Then game three happens, and it starts off good for Fnatic resort because on Pantheon, it's got an early gank to get first blood in mid lane. But bds, they have scaling composition. They pull out the jinx and I haven't seen Jinx in quite a while. Maybe this kind of shows why.
They try to fight a lot early, but then get picked insides because the Pantheon Leona are just kind of goon squatting together. But then Fnatic, in the classic Fnatic fashion, throw another otacon and then bds, they get the otacon, they rush in to try and end the game and they dive a Pantheon.
[00:43:33] Speaker C: They weren't trying to end the game. They, they were trolling like wanted the kill, dude.
[00:43:38] Speaker A: It really did look like it. But like BDS should have won that game in that instance. If they just walk the wave up and just hit the turrets, it's a two champ defense and they instead throw everything at Pantheon. Who just presses E doesn't take any damage and then they die. Two of them died in the Nexus turrets and they have to walk away. Regardless of that botch dive, they still on the reset, get the Baron and then they just can't end with it. They start to try to push bot side and the Pantheon like holds on to them kind of behind, gets on the back line. I don't know where the hell Peruse is going. He's just like in Narnia. And then they lose the fight and the Fnatic wins. It's like, dude, Fnatic, what the hell, guys? Like you barely scratched that one out. Really felt like they were gonna lose that series in all three games. This could have been a BDS 20 if they had clutched up that first game a little more. And then also game three. But that, that, Okay, I just had.
[00:44:36] Speaker B: To get that out there because I've.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: Been rooting for Fanatical.
[00:44:40] Speaker C: I, I agree, I think she is. But I mean just look at the series scores, right. And I, or the, the game scores. I think that tells you a story, right? Fnatic, the two games they won, they're both post 40 minutes. The game one was 44, 48 and the kill score is 23 to 22. They have one more kill. Game three, they win the game. The times the time is 4504 and the kill score is 25. 25. And you look at the one game BDS won 30 minutes at 30 seconds, 15 to 4.
[00:45:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a shutout. Yeah, it was, it was crazy.
[00:45:10] Speaker C: Like it's, it's obvious that Fnatic is, they're not doing well. Fundamentally they are just clutching it out.
[00:45:17] Speaker A: Yeah. And yeah, it's great that they can clutch up, but that's not gonna win you an LEC split. That's not going to get you to go to first stand because we saw them just get dismantled by G2 a week prior. So I just had to get all that out because I've been a big believer in Fanatic. I. I thought that they were gonna do really well this split and it's just, man, it's. It's tough to see them still struggle. So I guess old habits die hard for old fanatic fans.
Koi vs. GX also happened. Giant X did not put up much of a fight. Koi basically ran over them.
Yeah. Rmc, do you have the stats for that one up? I. I know. I remember offhand that they were relatively fast games. I think they were both around 30, if not under 30 minutes and just kind of smashes both of them. Yeah.
[00:46:05] Speaker C: So the game one was 35:41 and game two was under 30. It was 332. Yeah.
[00:46:12] Speaker A: But yeah, those were also like almost blowouts. Like I remember GX getting like one dragon in game one and I don't think they get like a neutral objective the rest of the series.
[00:46:24] Speaker C: Well, the second game was brutal. The second game I think they got one turret and that was it. Like they didn't get any Dragons Herald or I. I don't even think they got grubs that game.
[00:46:33] Speaker A: Ugh, that's rough. And it was a lot off the back of super and Alvaro. I'll really step it up in the bot lane. I've been impressed with them. They're sneakily jumping into like the top three, if not, you know, pushing for second or first. Best bot lane in Europe right now. Not what I expected to see, but Super Alvaro, shout outs to you. I think it's mostly Supa, but it's tough to know. Then El Yoya also having a really, really good series here.
His VI as well as his Nidalee 906 on Nidalee was a stat line there. He was just all up in lot's business, Jackie's business, everyone's business. So that leads us into the one best of five that we had over the weekend in the lec. And this one was actually pretty entertaining for the first two games. Then it gets boring for the second half because G2 really just come online and show us the two different versions of G2. One they can you out, the other one they can play a excruciatingly slow game of League of Legends and then just wait for you to make the mistake and I mean pounce on you.
[00:47:41] Speaker C: One might call it glacial with the updates in game four.
[00:47:45] Speaker A: Game Four, I don't think we had. We had like two kills and before the otacon spawned and then otacon spawns and then all hell breaks.
In classic G2 fashion, they do G2 games literally. You could just like take any garage G2 game on average and just go to 20 minutes and just look at what's happening at otacon. They need to make a montage of like every otacon fight that G2 has. Like, win or lose, they're always chaotic. But yeah, Hansam and Lebrov really stepped up in this series. Specifically game one. Blitzcrank for Rob was crazy. Kalist got smashed. He had a really bad game, which was surprising because Kalist is, I think, one of the best performers on KC and one of the people that we have had our eyes on for a while. And we're very happy to see him stepping up in his first split, but not in his first game of the best of 5 versus G2. Ansama just daddied him all over the Rift. But then game two, he did bounce back. Game two, he bounced back. Clist has a really good Zeri game wins team fight after team fight after team fight, and they win relatively fast off of clean Dragon team fights. And then one Baron. That's. That's all took for the old KC to get across the finish line. And then that's where the wheels start to fall off a little bit. Game three, this one Callist is on Yasuo. If you check out the rest of the comp, it's in a vacuum. It's kind of fun. It's like Orn Diana Jace, Yasuo Senna. So you have two things to set up the asuo and then like long range to follow it up as well.
But Command doesn't play a lot of Yasmine. I don't think this did not look it. And again, Hansama Labrov just kind of crushed him. And this one was a slow bleed. Ish, but it was like a consistent bleed. Still took 35 minutes for G2 to win. But around there. And then game four is where it got fun. This is where I actually think even though it was a is a really slow game, nothing happened. This is the fun of Fearless Draft and that's what I will say. Best of five drafts. I'm very excited to see a first stand. I want to go back and check out some LCK LPL ones because I. I missed all of those. But seeing Broken Blade on Cho'gath, seeing caps on Anivia and like Kalis Targamas playing Draven Seraphine. I was like, what the hell is going on? Yeah, I know Draven. I haven't seen like the Seraphine much, but yeah, this one, like I said, really slow game until G2 gets Otacon, gets Baron. Actually, I don't even think they get the Baron. I think they just win off of. Off of like a team fight around the dragon and then close it out. But yeah, this one was.
[00:50:22] Speaker C: But I think the Anivia was like the first anivia that has been played in the lec. Like they haven't seen it since the old EU LCS days.
[00:50:30] Speaker A: Really?
[00:50:31] Speaker C: I remember like, yeah, seeing that on Twitter. I don't know how accurate that is and you know, somebody who knows the LEC better can confirm it, but apparently, yeah, like, OEC just doesn't play. No, nobody plays Anivia. Right. And Froggin was already gone by then, so.
[00:50:45] Speaker A: Wow. Well, that would be 2019, I think was when LEC became a thing officially. I think that's right.
So that would be five years. Four years. Just over four.
[00:50:58] Speaker C: Yeah. Makes sense. I mean, she's not been meta like ever, pretty much so.
[00:51:03] Speaker A: And like you said, Froggin was the big guy that played her.
Interesting. I guess. Jensen also played a little Anivia in na, but that won't apply over there. So. Yeah, interesting to see, but I think it was cool regardless. Caps did look pretty good on it, but Broken blade shout out gets a quadra kill randomly and then they win the game on Cho Gath. Quadrigill on Chogath. Who would have guessed? Who would have guessed? Not me.
But it shows that G2 is still top dogs over in Europe. The LECA really does have one king. And now it's going to be a battle of the remaining teams to see who can challenge G2. Four other teams remain in the lower bracket. And let's get into predictions here because I. I think that which team gets the challenge G2 does slightly change how like their chances look. I actually, this might be a hot take, but I'll give my predictions first and then I'll explain how predictions could change if. If one other series is different. But to start off, it's Fnatic versus Koi and it's me and Mazel with Koi taking the series. Mazel's three two. I'm three one, of course. Always ruined for our boy Jojo. I see you.
[00:52:17] Speaker B: I'm right.
[00:52:18] Speaker A: I see you. And then RMC has Fanatic three one rmc. I. I just want to ask what your thought process. Yeah, yeah. Fanatic win there.
[00:52:27] Speaker C: Okay, so. So, Candace, you got in your soapbox. Except for me again, my. On my Pokemon porcelain bull. Because here's the problem. I actually don't think Fnatic's performing well. I think they did horrifically this week. They looked way worse than they did in the regular season, and I think Koi is looking really, really good. So my prediction actually has nothing to do with Fnatic or Coy. This is based on G2 and the freaking LEC. Because in the LEC, it's always about kings and dynasties. And the fact that G2 is now sitting at the top once again, despite everything we saw in the regular season, fills me with dread that we're just going to see Fnatic G2 again. Is Fnatic good? No, but Fnatic's going to get the legacy buff that always seems to come through in Europe, and somehow or other they're going to. Nonsense. Clutch this. I'm not even. And I predicted a 3 1. I'm not even predicting a 32 because 32 would be too neat. 32 would make it look like Koi had a chance. But no, no, no. This is Europe, so Fnatic has to get there in a fashion that looks good, only to crap the bid against G2 again.
[00:53:22] Speaker A: You know, I. I hate how much that makes sense, but it does happen a surprising amount of times over in eu. So going for the narrative buff, I respect it.
After watching Fnatic, though, I still just think that Koi is playing a much cleaner game right now. But you never know. I mean, we did just see Team Liquid dash expectations as well in their finals weekend and win back to back series that they were not necessarily expected to win. So it could still happen. Happen for Fnatic.
Either way, the winner of that series, whether you're taking Fnatic or whether you're taking Koi, is gonna face off against kc. Now, this is where things get interesting. I have Casey taking this. 3 2. Mazzella's Koi taking it 3 1. RM rooting against the French. Might I add RMC. 3 2. RMC. You already explained your flush and repeat. Yeah. Rinse and repeat. Mazel.
You're voting JoJo over the French?
[00:54:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I am. Honestly, No, I. I think in actuality, I mean, this team is really starting to come into their own. I. I think they do have a serious chance. I think it's a slim chance, but I think they have a serious chance.
[00:54:31] Speaker A: Okay. All right. Well, I saw Casey. I Think it's gonna be a close series. This one could go either way. It's close to coin flip for me, but I. And I kind of want Callist to make finals, so that's what made me big. KC and just hoping that he does have a chance to go for a title in his first split. I think that'd be really, really cool for a rookie. Either way, we get to the finals and we 2, 3, 0 across the board, we all have a different team challenging them. By the way, all three of us could be somebody different, but all of us agree 3.
[00:55:06] Speaker B: 02.
[00:55:07] Speaker C: It's G2's league and the others just play in it.
[00:55:11] Speaker A: Dude, they're gonna have a happy game. They. I'm gonna. I'm changing the 3. 1. It's still G2, but they're gonna have a happy game. We saw a happy game against Casey in the upper bracket. I don't think there's. There's a G2 struggle to have clean series. Okay, I'll give it to GD. G2.3.0.5.
[00:55:31] Speaker C: Yeah. So I don't think they'll actually lose the game, but I think they'll come pretty close because I agree with you, Kangas. I think that they'll have like a fun, happy game where they're gonna kind of mess up a little bit, but I don't.
I think Fnatic is going to have an even more fun and happy game, shall we say, in that particular game.
[00:55:47] Speaker A: I agree with your prediction. If it's Fnatic, if it's fanatic or. Sorry. 3.0.5.
Mazel. This is what the interesting thing. I have KC winning in the lower bracket finals and then getting 3.1 by G2 in the finals. I think if. If Koi wins that series, they actually have a better shot against G2 than KC does.
[00:56:11] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:56:12] Speaker A: I think they're a little more, you know, on the same page of how they want to play the game and their team fighting while chaotic. If JoJo isn't in Teen in the side lane and he actually grouped up with the team, they actually look pretty good. So I think that Koi is a better shot at taking on G2 than Casey, even though I have Casey winning that series again, close to coifl club.
But yeah, just wanted to give a nod to Koi there, but that's it. That's our thoughts, everybody. Rmc, the more you add to your prediction, the more confusing it gets. You added like, apostrophes.
[00:56:43] Speaker C: Yeah, I added quotation marks to just make it clearer that the 0.5 thing. Okay, I'll get rid of them.
[00:56:49] Speaker A: I just thought I liked it. No, you can put them back because I think it's funny. But I just wanted to point out crazier for clarity.
[00:56:56] Speaker C: Ironically, it backfired.
[00:56:58] Speaker A: He put it back. All right, but that's it for lec. And that's also going to be it it for another week of the league rundown. Thanks so much for tuning in, everybody. Let us know again what your thoughts are on the LTA finals as well as what's happening with LEC this coming weekend through the link in the description. Wherever you are watching, you can find our discord, you can find our patreon, you can find our merch shop. However you want to support and engage with the community, we're happy to have you. But something that really does help us out. Mizel, help me out with my county and LTA on broadcast. They like to point out that I stress struggle counting past three. What are the numbers past three again?
[00:57:34] Speaker B: Well, so there's.
There's five major regions you see, and I think you go. You go 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
[00:57:49] Speaker A: See, you lost me. You lost me right there.
[00:57:51] Speaker B: Well, you just stick with that number five. You know it very well.
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[00:58:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
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