League Rundown - Episode 609: SCRAPING SILVER!!

[00:00:12] Speaker A: Gets hit. Kimmy kids 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 Passes through and manages to the table 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. [00:01:03] Speaker B: Foreign. [00:01:10] Speaker A: Hello and welcome to episode 609 of the League Rundown. This is your 2026 spring split LEC and LCS playoffs week one review and week two preview. This episode is lovingly entitled Scraping Silver. I'm your host Kangas and I'm joined by two esteemed co hosts up first, fresh out of the can and this time ready for me to say his name and say something witty. It's Badger. [00:01:35] Speaker B: We have a second team, sir. A second team is qualified to msi. [00:01:40] Speaker A: Oh, that's a banger. That's a good one. We didn't even. We forgot to put that in the news as well. So thank you for saying that because otherwise we would have brushed right over that. And 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10. Badger. Really proud of you. Also joining us on this week's episode, we got Bickle. [00:01:56] Speaker C: You know, at this point we really need to stop being surprised when vitality pulls a vitality in playoffs. [00:02:02] Speaker A: Exactly. Yeah. I tried to warn them last week. I really tried to warn them. Also we're going to have to redo that because I totally forgot. And this week also joining us, we have. [00:02:09] Speaker C: And the big Bickle pickle. [00:02:12] Speaker A: There we go. And now pretend that you had said the thing afterwards. And then. [00:02:15] Speaker C: Yep. Ian, Cut and paste. Cut and paste. [00:02:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, do some audio editing. We're not going to fix it on our end for you. Of course. You're going to have to figure it out on your end because he definitely listens to every intro that we do from start to finish. This is the cast for this week. We got a lot of fun series to talk about from this past weekend. Scraping Silver is of course referencing how many five game bangers we had in the best of fives between both regions. There were three in total out of the five potential. Also two series that we probably don't have to talk very much at all about over in the LEC as well. But before all that, let's talk about the news around the horn. Up first, Bickle. We had one little roster piece happen. It's not a change. It's more of a confirmation. So how do we feel about it? [00:03:02] Speaker C: To the surprise of absolutely no one, mcoi has come to an agreement with El Yoya to extend him to the shock of no people, as this was a very obvious move that everybody's just been waiting on. This says Eloya's team, this is going to be Elio's team as long as he wants to be here. And it seems like he wants to be here. [00:03:25] Speaker A: And the crowd goes wild. Whoa, Whoa. [00:03:28] Speaker B: Was it 20? Did he sign until. [00:03:30] Speaker C: I think it's 2028. Yes. [00:03:32] Speaker B: 2028. [00:03:33] Speaker A: Okay, 2028. What a concept, guys. That's going to be two years away from the 2000 and 30s. I don't want to think about that. I just had a little exercise tangent. [00:03:44] Speaker B: They said when Overwatch on Monday turned 10 years old and I saw the tweets about it, I could just feel like my knees start to crack a [00:03:53] Speaker A: little bit that day I felt the exact same. There's no way I remember this game coming out and being a big deal. Like there's no way I gave him [00:04:02] Speaker B: for like seven years is fucking insane. [00:04:05] Speaker C: So, yep, Elio and Alvaro are Both extended through 2028 as well as their head coach is extended to 2028. We know that Merwin and Supo were kind of on prove it deals for this year from a coach and they've been working to extend Jojo. We haven't heard anything related to that as of late though. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Interesting. Well, I do know that Eliolia, I agree. As long as he wants to stay there, he's got a spot. This does maybe hurt the G2 fans that really wanted G2 Eliol, but Schuman's also been popping off. So like, yeah, I don't even know if that's correct at this point, but I know back in the day that was like a big thing. It's like, oh, we didn't get all Uiya or inspired but happy for all Yoya. Happy for mcoi. Other variety topics going around. Speaking of LEC just sticking in Europe right now. All pro is out. Badger, lay it to me. What are the LEC spring split all [00:05:07] Speaker B: pro players to the surprise of I'd say no one. Honestly. The team is Knack Naco in the top lane, Skumon in the jungle, Jojo Mid and then Kalist and Busio Bot lane. With your LEC MVP being Naknaco Yarp [00:05:29] Speaker A: Knack Naco MVP has caused quite a stir already on the old interwebs so I want to hear our thoughts on it. Badger, let's just stick with you. What do you think Naknaco? Is this a good pick for MVP or is it troll that you know, he got the nod and not something like Jojo or Caps or like nobody on G2 got first pro. I feel like G2 specifically getting snubbed in all team first or first team all pro is. Is fresh in everyone's mind. Outside of SKU mod. [00:05:54] Speaker B: Of course you have one person technically. But I, you know, I don't hate Knack Neko as MVP because he plays a style that leads it to be this carry top lane style. So it honestly feels deserved for him. Do I think that maybe Jojo would have been a better pick? Absolutely. But I mean cars, he's had like a decent split. It's hard to tell with. With vitality sometimes because that team either is, you know, insane or running it [00:06:36] Speaker A: and yep, very little in between. Although the regular season they were winning more series than not. Obviously they were the top dogs in the LEC seating wise going into playoffs and it is a regular season award. So I, I think if obviously, you know, we know what happened this past weekend now. We'll talk about it in a little bit here. But from the regular season I tend to agree. I think that this is pretty deserved for Naknacko, especially when you look at it from the frame of like individual ability to be valuable on the team. Not like the best player in the league, but for their team, the most valuable player. I think that there's an argument on both, but the argument's even stronger, if not just unanimous that for his team and his style, vitality would not be vitality if it were not for Naknacko. Even though Carzi has had good games, Linsis has had really good games. You know, Bickle. Let's get your thoughts though. [00:07:28] Speaker C: I think it's the right call in terms of MVP for Knock Knocko. As you mentioned, vitality, first seed, he was the driving force on that team and he was the definitive best top laner. I think of all the players on all pro, he was the most undisputed. Yes, this is the right choice. So yeah, Knock Knocko is just the right call there. [00:07:51] Speaker A: I like it. I think that we, we are all in agreement that it's deserved. There's other names that I wouldn't be upset if were if they got it instead. But I'm not on the side of get your pitchforks. I think it's just G2 fans that are basically doing that And Casey fans, you know what? It might be Everybody. It might. [00:08:07] Speaker C: G2 is likely never really going to find up with an MVP because everybody does too much. I think the place G2 got screwed was in all probably. [00:08:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Only Skewmond is kind of crazy. [00:08:19] Speaker C: Hansama was robbed. [00:08:21] Speaker A: I think so. I think Holist got kind of fanboyed in there. [00:08:25] Speaker B: It's. It's hard to tell. I. I mean, the problem is now we're looking at it with the. The games from last weekend in mind too. But beforehand I can see the argument. I could see the argument about having Callist be in that number one spot. [00:08:44] Speaker C: So I think it's an argument coming into this past weekend and then after this weekend, it's just. You can't argue. [00:08:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:54] Speaker A: Yeah. I think that everybody else, though, like Busio, JoJo, skew my knack, Naco, I think are who I would put again, Maybe caps over JoJo just for like, legacy reasons. But Jojo, like, oh, my God, the numbers. He was putting up this split. He had what, 20 solo kills? [00:09:16] Speaker C: He had 20 solo kills this weekend? Yes. [00:09:20] Speaker A: That's crazy. At the end of the weekend. Not 20 individually this weekend, right? [00:09:24] Speaker C: Oh, dear God. That'd be. [00:09:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I was like, that would be insane. Oh, no. It was 20 by 20 when you [00:09:29] Speaker C: include regular season plus this past weekend in playoffs. So I think it was. It was 20 coming into the G2 series. I don't know if he got any solo kills the G2 series. I don't think he did, though. [00:09:40] Speaker A: I don't remember him getting any either. But still, 20 solo kills. Insane. Insane. And it was still a great number going into playoffs when you know what's would have been set. So. [00:09:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:54] Speaker A: Shout out JoJo. Shout out everybody on LEC. I'll run through the second team and third team real quick. It's Kana Yike, Caps, Hansama, Fleshy from Vitality for second team. Third team is Broken Blade, Linsis, Yahoo, Carzi and Labrov. So it's just kind of sprinkled in the top four teams. So G2, Vitality, MCO, Casey, kind of rotating between snubs would be like Humanoid from vitality. Everybody from G2 is on there. Everybody from Case C is on there. MCO had a lot of snubs, actually. [00:10:29] Speaker C: Wow. Only person, only JoJo was on there. [00:10:33] Speaker A: Holy schnikes. [00:10:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:35] Speaker C: Honestly, even though they weren't a good team, I think you could argue upset was snubbed. [00:10:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess. I mean, when you look at individual theory performers. [00:10:47] Speaker C: Exactly. That's the. The Team was terrible and he was kind of the only guiding light. Also, I just checked this. JoJo did have solo kills this weekend. He now has 23 solo kills in the spring. [00:11:01] Speaker B: Five this weekend. So did Caps. [00:11:05] Speaker A: He's got 23 solo kills in a split. [00:11:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:08] Speaker A: He still has at least one more series to play and that's if they lose. [00:11:13] Speaker C: Though it helps when people are just Talia walling into you when you're playing Lies with Actualizer. [00:11:21] Speaker A: True. All right, cool. Well, there we go. Shout out LEC MVP and LEC All Pro lcs. We have a few. Two still to be really. Actually most still to be released. We only released one so far, I believe and it was coaching split or coaching staff of the split. Sorry. So C9 was able to take that one. Badger, do you feel like this one was deserved? Coaching split is always a tough one to call it. Yeah. [00:11:50] Speaker B: I mean C9's the C1 was the best regular season team that we had in the league. So like it makes sense that they win. Coaching staff of the split. Like it feels like by proxy. It's either the the team that's in first place or the team that had the lowest expectations that surprised and made like top two in regular season. And since like lion and Liquid like I mean there's still two series behind C9. It just. It makes sense that they made it. Here are the. [00:12:20] Speaker A: I feel like it's almost always just the coaches that are the top at the end of the split that win. Coach of the split. [00:12:27] Speaker C: Yeah, [00:12:30] Speaker A: I don't remember offhand who I put. I think. I think I put Fly Quest as my coaching staff of the split because there was mark market improvement over on Flyquest from this split from over last split. Sorry, words are evading my brain right now. Just trying to communicate this. I just thought that they did a good job of making a team of very young rookies come together and look better now than they did before. I think C9's job is a little slightly easier on the coaching staff side. That being said, I had them second. If I remember correctly. I think they're public votes so somebody sees that I was not that. Please don't hate me. That's just what I think I put. I don't remember offhand. I just remember wanting to give a lot of credit to FlyQuest. [00:13:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I. It's the one that makes sense. So. [00:13:20] Speaker A: And then I think I did lie in third because of how much mental you have to have to coach inspired. I just wanted to give them a vote, you know. Okay. [00:13:31] Speaker B: Are the rest of the awards getting announced both this weekend or is it the weekend after? I mean. [00:13:36] Speaker A: Sorry, what was that? [00:13:37] Speaker B: Are like the rest of the awards and like the all pro team getting announced this weekend or is it just [00:13:42] Speaker A: I believe we're doing all Pro next or this coming weekend and then MVP the weekend after that? I think that's how our schedule is. We just talked about it in the meeting earlier today. I have the memory of a goldfish. [00:13:56] Speaker C: So they might do it the same way they've previously done where like these top 10 players. These are the top five players. Here are your final three and then later on announce it. [00:14:05] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:14:07] Speaker A: I think it's going to be something along those lines. But speaking of lcs, one other thing came up this past week actually just came up today. A bit of bummer news. Bickle, I'm going to make you talk about bummer news first here. LCS viewership numbers came out. Yeah. [00:14:26] Speaker C: This is a.k.a. [00:14:28] Speaker A: spring Split. Talk to me about it. [00:14:29] Speaker C: This is. [00:14:30] Speaker A: Oof. [00:14:31] Speaker C: Unfortunately we heard the news that this is the lowest viewership the LCS has ever received for a split. [00:14:40] Speaker A: Yeah, down like a lot from. Not. Not a lot from the second lowest which was last year split two. But when you look at like the drop off year over year were downs significantly from before the rebrand. 24 was basically the last year that it seemed like there was still an argument because like the viewership total hours was down but the total hours streamed was also proportionally down. So the decrease in viewership there really wasn't any. It was just a proportional decrease but or proportionally there was not a decrease. It was only a decrease superficially because there were less hours. But then LTA rebrand like basically put cut everything in half and changing it back to LCS did not bring back viewers. [00:15:35] Speaker C: Oh my. This is tough. The LCS is closer in viewership to the LCP than it is to the CB. LOL. [00:15:46] Speaker B: Oh wow. [00:15:47] Speaker C: CB Law sits at 6.44 mil. LCP sits at 3.16 mil. LCS at 3.33 millimeter. [00:15:57] Speaker A: We're gonna drop below the LCP. [00:15:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:00] Speaker C: Honestly at that pace. Well, Jinxy save us. [00:16:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I can say that they're really making a push to bring in CO streamers and help that out. I think one of the toughest things. There's a whole red thread. You can go check it out. I don't want to get too doomer about it because I always think that there is the potential to turn the ship around and that's what I'm trying to focus on, but a lot of the sentiment in the Reddit thread really was like if you get burned, you don't want to come back. And like the rebrand to LTA was one of the most commonly cited things in the comments. I didn't read all 400 comments, but I read through at least like 50 of them. And the one that I kept seeing come back up and back up was like TSM and CLG are gone and the rebrand sucked. So they're like the legacy orgs aren't there to carry fan bases and people once it changed lta, they didn't want to come back even if it changed back to lcs. Yeah, heavy blows, heavy blows across the board, but hopefully we can write the ship. And there was at least one more, you know, positive piece of of news, so I want to end with that one before we hop into the the series this past weekend. Badger, have you checked out any episodes of Summoner Sofa or Summoning Sofa? Summoner Sofa? I think it's Summoner Sofa. [00:17:19] Speaker B: I have not Kangas what is summoning sofa? [00:17:22] Speaker A: Summoning/ Summoner sofa. I you know I'm gonna look this up before I keep you in this Summoner's Sofa possessive summoner sofa Mrs. Chim Chim aka Reagan, a friend of mine and a streamer for League of Legends. Also she co streams LLCs and some VCT as well. She has her own League of Legends talk show. I was on the first episode a couple weeks back. I think I talked about it then but she's kept it going and week over week it's been growing. The audience is really excited about these episod and what I'm most interested in is the talking points. It actually a lot massive credit to Reagan. She's getting some real conversations with people. She had Perry, a tier 2 player who had been playing in you know, developmental league for a very long time as a jungler to talk about like player salaries and how drastically different they are now for Tier two than they were a couple years back when Academy System was around. Just an honest open conversation with a player about that. Then this week's episode had Basil on and they talked about the importance of branding for players and Basil basically saying like yeah, helping out Flyquest because she's a content creator for them. Like just tweet more and just like talk more and like the importance of you know, being willing to be cringe on broad on content and stuff. So I just like the types of conversations that they're having over there I just want to give a huge shout out to that show. Check it out. They stream on, I believe, Tuesdays and then they also upload to YouTube and are on Reagan's Twitch channel too. The VODs. So go check it out. Summoners Sofa. I believe that's it for. For the news. We're not going to do an LPL or LCK update because we have a hard out tonight as a crew, so we're gonna have to get into our regularly scheduled content a little faster. But a reminder, if we miss anything that you wish we had talked about, let us know in the community. Discord. You can find a link in the description wherever you are listening. Also, shout out to anybody who helps support the podcast. We have a merch shop and a Patreon. Massive, Massive shout out to everybod. Either purchase anything or helps us out through the Patreon. It helps us keep this podcast going. And with that being said, let's hop into the regional leagues. Let's start LCS this time around because we have the first week of playoffs and I just want to talk about lcs. We had a couple of really, really fun, really, really close matches that took place. Badger, talk to me. What matches happened this past weekend and what were the series scores? [00:19:54] Speaker B: Yeah, so we had a very exciting weekend in terms of the fact that both series went the distance. We had C9 taking down Fly Quest in five games and then we had Dokla. I mean, lion taking down team Liquid in five games as well. So we'll start with C9. Anybody else think after game one that that was going to be a short, short day of watching? [00:20:24] Speaker A: I thought after game two as well. That is true. Yeah. [00:20:28] Speaker B: Well, I mean, after game two, like when they won the second game, I mean, it was a little bit shakier on the end of C9, but like just being like, oh yeah, up 2 0, you know, seems like they have really good ideas going into it. And then is that I'm trying to think, when's the last time? How much Shyvana have we seen? Like, it's hard for me to gauge how much Shyvana we've seen as a champion and like, pro play at this point. [00:20:55] Speaker C: As a jungler or as a top laner? [00:21:00] Speaker B: A jungle? Because I feel like we've been seeing it top lane more in the past couple of weeks. [00:21:07] Speaker C: Let me think. And by let me think, I mean let me look it up. [00:21:11] Speaker B: I was gonna say, are you just. Are you hitting games of legends up for me real fast? [00:21:14] Speaker C: You know me so well, Badger. [00:21:16] Speaker B: Yeah, but They've been back against the wall plays Cassante Shyvana. They play a siver comp. You know what? I'm just gonna label it what it is. They play a fucking sivir comp. And they just run down this backline of twisted fate, toppling hui mid set up bot lane that has not very strong of a front line with a behind. And Bessa, who is playing cyclist sword, you know, Ibisa and then Vulcan on Nautilus, trying to hold the door as best as he can, but they. They kind of smack him around. They have really good engagements. Their fights are going really well for Fly Quest. Bickle, is this enough time? [00:22:01] Speaker A: Did you. [00:22:01] Speaker C: Yeah, we're good. So for major regions, it has been played five times in the jungle. [00:22:09] Speaker B: Okay. [00:22:10] Speaker C: Once in the lcp, three times in the lpl, and this is the first time in the lcs. No lec, no lck. And then there's Merwin, who just spams this thing top. [00:22:22] Speaker B: Yeah, because, like, Merwin is the player that I think of when I think of Shyvana at this point, because it just goes in with his. [00:22:29] Speaker C: I mean, he has four of the 10 games on Shyvana this season. [00:22:32] Speaker B: His. His wacky pool, which, you know, the stats back it up at this point. And then Fly quest is like, oh, interesting picks. I got you. And Geckos pulls out Quinn. What? [00:22:44] Speaker A: Hell yeah, dude. [00:22:45] Speaker B: What? [00:22:46] Speaker A: Hell? Well, I mean, Anivia was banned, so. [00:22:50] Speaker B: Yeah, you're right. Gosh. Oh, my gosh. What am I thinking? And it was banned, so you know what? Let's just go with the other bird. We're gonna go with Quinn. But they play the nocturne Nico combo. God, I love this combination so much. You turn the lights out, you get the Nico all t through the entire [00:23:07] Speaker C: team, and then you just Cryojin was nasty on that Nico fights. [00:23:11] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, it was so good. The. The angles. That cryogen responding was really good. The team is playing really well. And then Cloud 9 is like, wait, guys, what are we doing? We're the better team. And then comes out in Game 5 with, you know, a swain that swing, swing they'll be seeing in their nightmares. [00:23:33] Speaker A: Almost all melee. It was so swain made into a zero. It's a fine matchup. Like, you can. You can survive. But the bigger thing is you're against Mundo Akali Callista. Three champions that are going to have to enter your circle to do anything to you and just not nearly enough damage to ever, like, kill a swain. Like, this is gonna have to put 10 autos into you. You're really relying on the Azir at that point. But Azir's got to deal with a Sejuani Alistair Gnar getting on top of him. Damage wise. C9's comp was fairly low damage, but Swain basically was Thanos in this game in terms of just, like, controlling every access point. [00:24:13] Speaker C: And it's really unfortunate for Fly Quest after four games of Masu just getting the better of Sven in the laning phase. [00:24:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:22] Speaker C: They go for the Callister Renata for pure lane dominance, and Sven just pulls out the gin as the. I'm gonna lane safely and not let you get ahead. And he just stomps them. It was rough. [00:24:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:35] Speaker A: You know what? The. The. It was the meme of, like, Wolverine laying in bed looking at the photo. That's Masu looking at the gin. Like, please, why can't I win with gin? Why. Why am I cursed? [00:24:48] Speaker C: Also, after seeing that Apa Swain, I'm even more convinced I never want to see Apa on Aurora again. [00:24:57] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:24:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:01] Speaker B: He's got his fun picks, and he has the serious picks. It's. It's just unfortunate that his fun picks are kind of better than his serious picks at times, so. [00:25:09] Speaker A: Well, I mean, we can call it a fun pick. I also just think it's a good pick. [00:25:12] Speaker B: Like, it's really good melee heavy mat, too. Yeah, I guess. I guess wacky is the term that I should use instead of fun because, yeah, realistically speaking, you're not seeing too much Swain at this point. I. I do like how much zone control that they had for his ven once he got fed, so. [00:25:28] Speaker A: And in your defense, I'm sure Apa was having a lot of fun on Swain. [00:25:32] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely. [00:25:33] Speaker A: I would be. Absolutely. [00:25:34] Speaker C: Time of his life. [00:25:36] Speaker A: Also, blabber, blabber. In game five, put on a master class of just your face, Sejuani. That's what I'm gonna call it. I don't think there's any other way to call it. [00:25:44] Speaker B: No, there's. There's not. [00:25:46] Speaker A: It was just like, he was everywhere. Akali top was an exciting pick for geckos. Giga Punish. Like, holy crap, he died a lot. Bot Lane also, like, blabber just said. All right, camps and then gank and then camps and the gank and the camps and the gank, and it was just like, constantly in lanes on Sejuani. Like, what are you gonna do, man? [00:26:04] Speaker B: Just playing to the wind condition of Sejuani. Go to solo lane. That has a melee champion in it. And. And. And play off the passive. I mean, yeah, go down to an [00:26:14] Speaker A: Alistair who's setting you up in lane. Anyway. [00:26:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:16] Speaker C: I'm gonna be honest. After. After FlyQuest came back, game two nearly took the win and then just decided to throw it and then kind of convincingly stomped Games 3 and 4. I was thinking, oh, no, Cloud 9 is doing the Cloud 9 playoff thing. Is gonna pull a vitality. But at least they didn't do that yet. But this very much strengthens my thought of Cloud nine is very much on track to pull a Cloud nine. [00:26:42] Speaker A: I do like that you say not yet. [00:26:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:44] Speaker A: Because that. That's like pretty much just the expectation. [00:26:48] Speaker C: My timeline is they played it. They play Lions blabber gets boomed by inspired again, and then they lose a five game series to Fly Quest in the bottom series. [00:26:57] Speaker A: Oh. Oh. So, I mean, were you the one that predicted the Fly Quest for making msi? [00:27:03] Speaker C: Yeah, I called the Fly Quest MSI last week. Nice. [00:27:06] Speaker A: That's cool. So, yeah, you're. You're consistent, doubling down. I respect it. Either way, fun series. Very, very exciting series. I had a blast watching this one. And we got silver scrapes for our first series of LCS playoffs. And then the next day delivered again. Bickle Team Liquid versus Lion also going the full five games. [00:27:31] Speaker C: Full five game series. And lion decided to be consistent. Went with Dokla all five games, which was the correct decision. I got worried after game one was kind of a stomp. Like, oh, no, they lost with Dokla. Are they gonna come in? Decided to change things up and go with Castle, but nope, they ride it out with them and it pays dividends. [00:27:52] Speaker A: Well, Jose Deodor can only play Lisa in one game, so they gave me the lease in game one. Said, all right, we'll. We'll bend over for a moment and then games two, three, we'll bring it back. [00:28:02] Speaker C: What the hell was this team? Was this game three team Liquid Draft? [00:28:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh. Oh, you're saying the game. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, he was the super bloody one, right? [00:28:13] Speaker C: That was very bloody. Yes. But that was Morgan top on Jace. Okay. Not too surprising. Jose Dioto on Jarvan. Okay, I'll take it. Quit on Twisted Fate. Not my favorite pick of his, but fine. Yawn on Mel and core. JJ on Pantheon into bra. [00:28:33] Speaker A: Hell. [00:28:33] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:28:35] Speaker A: Did not work. [00:28:35] Speaker B: But it did not work. [00:28:37] Speaker A: But hey, they won. They got four kills to start the game. [00:28:42] Speaker B: They did. [00:28:42] Speaker A: That level one skirmish in the dragon pit was absolutely hilarious. [00:28:46] Speaker B: Which is the one that they were interviewing the coach. [00:28:49] Speaker C: It was that one where Lion. Yeah. Line went one for four and lost it. He's like, that is not good for Ranover. [00:28:56] Speaker A: Just kept being like, no, this is probably good. We have braum. No, I think we can probably win this as they're all just dying prom. Oh, no. [00:29:04] Speaker B: I would say. Was this the game? Yeah. No. Yeah, it was. Yeah. [00:29:10] Speaker A: What are you gonna do? Dokla's mal fight too good. He found a couple of really good engages inspired on the Xin zhao also just was unkillable, man. This. These. These Xinjiao builds got to be studied. He went divine sunderer into dusk and dawn. Not the Titanic into dusk and dawn. He went. So which wait. [00:29:30] Speaker B: So dusk and dawn Proc. Sundered sky healing twice. [00:29:34] Speaker A: But are you even allowed to do that? Because they're both sheen items, right? [00:29:38] Speaker C: Sunder sky isn't a sheen item. [00:29:39] Speaker B: Sundered sky. Isn't she an item? [00:29:41] Speaker A: Oh, my God, you're right. It's not. [00:29:43] Speaker B: It's a tunneler item. [00:29:45] Speaker A: So I remember thinking in the moment, like, how the hell did he do this? And then I was second guessing myself was like, did he do it? But yes, he did do it. Yeah. [00:29:53] Speaker B: Plus the. The. The proc works on counting xinjiao auto attacks too. So he gets to heal back up that much quicker as well. Yep. [00:30:02] Speaker C: All he needs is static shiv and then he's really never gonna die. [00:30:06] Speaker A: Proc it on everybody just aoe and that. [00:30:10] Speaker C: All procs. Xin Zhao passive. [00:30:12] Speaker A: Oh, crazy, crazy game. It is not the bloodiest at 15 minutes, but it is up there in one of the bloodiest in the history. [00:30:21] Speaker C: I think it was second. [00:30:24] Speaker A: Yeah. And the first one was like TSM versus Dignitas from a couple years back. [00:30:28] Speaker C: Just like toss. [00:30:31] Speaker B: It's always dignitas. [00:30:33] Speaker A: It's always dig. But this one a hundred percent delivered. Saint on Silas was clutch and inspired. Was just able to get them back in the game despite being like super far down in the early game. Just again, really, really solid jungling. Efficient jungling and then just winning team fights. And Dokla on the mal fight, kind of finding two big picks or two big engages back to back in the late game to close that one out. [00:31:00] Speaker C: You want to talk about Clutch Dokla, you got to go. Game five. The poppy. [00:31:04] Speaker A: Yep. Yep. The. The. The. The flash engage to find the. The pig. Who did he even flash on? [00:31:12] Speaker C: He flashed on, I think. Was it quittery? [00:31:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it was quid. It was mid lane, right? Yeah, it was quit. [00:31:19] Speaker C: Yeah, he caught quid mid lane on the wall by Dragon, which Started the beginning of the end, though. It really ended when team Liquid decided to try and do Baron without their jungler there. [00:31:30] Speaker A: That was insane. This game was slow, dude. Not a lot happened in the first, like, 35 minutes. And then, man, did it, like, pick up in intensity in the, you know, last quarter? One of those moments. [00:31:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:45] Speaker A: Jose Adioto is coming in from base, and team Liquid think that they can go for Baron. He'll get there in time because lion are going for the dragon soul. But they get dragon soul, and inspired makes it there in time to just smite away the Baron. Like, it gets hit by Bardold, inspired walks up, smites it, and then they take the fight and win the fight, and the game's just over. It's like, okay, that was weird. [00:32:09] Speaker C: And at the Baron, they get the flick on to quid to kill him, get jinx excited, and they just snowball the fight from there. And that's the game. [00:32:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it was the flick onto yaw on. Actually the. [00:32:26] Speaker C: I think. I think that was a different fight. You're thinking of the first time. You're thinking the first time they went for Baron, he got caught with the flick. [00:32:35] Speaker A: 100. Yeah. Also core JJ on the Sona. Interesting pick there. Yeah. Not that exciting, but just kind of, like, notable that, you know, Corey's pulling out different stuff in game fives. There was a question that was asked to me recently, which was last year, with fearless being in its first year, we saw a lot of game fives be stomps because by the time you get to Game 5, one team that has a deeper champ pool will probably just be able to crush the team with the weaker champ pool. What do we think about the game fives in NA with Team Liquid, lion and then C9Fly Quest? Anybody want to start Badger? Let's throw it to you first. What do you think of the game five? So you feel like this was better or worse than the consistent, stompy game fives we saw last year? [00:33:27] Speaker B: I mean, it feels like both of them kind of were just. I mean, I guess Lion, Liquid was kind of close for the most part, but it just. Yeah, no, I think they were better than the games last season, now that I remember it, because some of those were just. It felt like I was watching a perfect game happen in real time. So I. [00:33:52] Speaker A: It's tough to remember back on how many bad game fives we had, but there were a lot of bad game fives last year. [00:33:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. [00:34:00] Speaker A: Bickle, what about you? What do you think? [00:34:03] Speaker C: I'm Right there with you. I think it's definitely an improvement from last year. Last year was just so one sided all the time this time. Still one sided at times, but there's still some competitiveness growing and we're seeing a few more interesting picks here and there. The Rek's eye from Jose Deoda. We got to see the jinx pulled out. It's always good to see those pocket picks come out. So I think the game 5 has definitely improved. [00:34:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I would say. I agree. I think that we still like the bigger one. Neither of you mentioned But Fly Quest C9 was pretty one sided in game five, but I think it was more so a performance thing than like a champ pool thing. Like conceptually I understand why FlyQuest would do what they did with the draft. Things just fell apart very quickly and once that comp falls behind, they can't really do much against what C9 drafted. And also Swain is a typical like game 5 counter pick that can put in a lot of work. So I think that it was a bit of C9 having like a better counter pick in game five, but also just outperforming on the day as opposed to like Zillion mid lane. You know we don't like talking about that one. Yeah. All right, cool. Well, that was this past weekend in lcs. I highly recommend watching everything. Usually I like to give like oh, one of the series that you should watch. You should watch both these series. They were both fantastic. I know it's a lot of time commitment so maybe just catch the highlights. But some really, really fun moments. Specifically if I had to just go one game, I would go TL versus Lion game three. That game was insane right from the get go level one craziness. So that goes into next week, playoffs. We have two more series. Now we're going into the lower bracket in the LCS because we're committing to two series a weekend as opposed to three. So LEC will very quickly, you know, wrap up their playoffs. A week full week before LCS. But for now we got FlyQuest vs Sentinels and Team Liquid vs Shopify. We are not all in agreement. Let's start with Team Liquid Shopify because we are in agreement on that. We all think TL3.0 at this point, especially after last weekend. I'm basing a lot of this on how competitive TL were with Lion. I don't think Shopify have a shot at this. I will say that fully admitting that we do have more Shopify bits planned with me this coming weekend. So if Anyone I knew. Oh yeah. If anyone's confused as to why, like I'm saying, they're not gonna win. But then live, you know, we're hamming it up. We're making content. Guys, come on. We're a content region. We know this. [00:36:41] Speaker C: Yeah. The second you predicted them first place in the winner split, you became the Ship Shopify guy. For better, worse. [00:36:49] Speaker A: I have to know. [00:36:49] Speaker C: In all honesty, I think this is the best timeline it could work out content wise. [00:36:55] Speaker A: Right. [00:36:55] Speaker C: It works so much better that they're a terrible team. [00:36:58] Speaker A: Yeah. I did not think that they were gonna win two weeks ago. I and we still did the whole stolen's gold thing. Still don't think they're gonna win. And also Bickle, I 100 disagree. I think for myself I would much rather than be really good because then I look super smart. [00:37:13] Speaker C: Absolutely. For you would be much better if they were winning everything content wise. This is the best storyline. [00:37:21] Speaker A: Okay. You know, fair, fair. But Fly Sentinels is where things get interesting. I have Sentinels 3 too. But both of you disagree with a FlyQuest win. Badger has 3. One, Bickle is 3. Two. Bickle, I'm gonna give you the microphone first because you can basically just reiterate your same point. It feels like you're just predicting Fly Quest run the lower bracket. [00:37:41] Speaker C: I think they will. And in all honesty, this is the point I'm most worried about because Sentinels has kind of had Fly Quests number but if they can make it through here, I think they're set to go on a good run. But they just looked so positive against Cloud9 and had so many good shining moments. Griffin's champion pool provides them so much variability and Masu has been playing phenomenally. I can just see this team on their best day going extremely far. [00:38:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I. That's why I have a 3. 2. I think this would be very close for a lot of the reasons that you've said and. And I've also talked about with FlyQuest of like the. The upper end of what they're capable of. But Badger, why do you think more confidently Flywise? Because you got a three one. [00:38:27] Speaker B: I. I don't know if I believe in Sentinels yet. I. And especially after the showing that we just saw from Fly vs C9 when you're playing against the best team in the region and you're able to take them to five games, have really strong performances and realistically speaking, analytically, when you win four of the five games or to whatever quote, quote to my miserable basketball coach in Cleveland, Ohio, Said, oh [00:38:56] Speaker C: Badger, you poor soul. I know analytically they're up to one. [00:39:00] Speaker B: Analytically, that's what it is. Analytically they were up to one, but unfortunately they fell in five. And I just think that FlyQuest can make it through any team at this point. They just need to get that lower bracket momentum. So I'm liking the the narrative Bickle is throwing out there. [00:39:17] Speaker C: At least they made it one more game than the Cavs. [00:39:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got Sentinels for the fact that Bickle had already alluded to they've had FlyQuest number all year. They are. I don't think they've dropped a series of FlyQuest yet. They kind of are the FlyQuest Kryptonite. You look at the differences. Sentinels is the oldest average age in the LCS. FlyQuest is the youngest in the LCS and in fact in all of Tier one league right now. The amount of experience that Sentinels has is so much higher. And come playoffs time, I'm going to value that a little bit more than raw firepower, which I think Fly Quest has more of. So. But I. I do think Fly Quest by summer will be able to finally topple them. I just don't think it's yet. All right, there we go. That's lcs. Our reactions and predictions from this past weekend and looking into next. Which means it's time to hop across the pond. We had LEC playoffs kicking off. So for one week and one week alone. Actually, no, not one week alone. We will have technically three weeks where we're synced up in terms of playoff week one. LEC is just going to have a little bit more games happening each weekend because they're doing three series a weekend leading into finals. They had three this past weekend. So Bickle, talk to me about them. Who played who and who beat who. [00:40:39] Speaker C: Yeah, we had Casey versus G2 to start out the weekend in a great three one that was basically a four zero where G2 took the win. We had Vitality versus MKOI Vitality. The one seed coming in and MCO showing. Hey, your playoff Vitality is MCOI 13 nothing. And then we had the series of the weekend question mark as G2 and M Koi went five games and it came down to probably the best game of the weekend in the final game as G2 barely comes out on top three two against MCO Giga. [00:41:27] Speaker A: A banger. That's what that one was. [00:41:30] Speaker C: It was so close to the point that I was already typing up in discord. Wow. I can't believe MCO is the first team to make it to msi, and I had to pause when I'm like, wait a second, they're not ending yet? [00:41:42] Speaker A: Nope. And that was heartbreaking for them. They were up, what, almost 10k gold, like, a pretty big lead, and just not able to close it out. I mean, G2, they just got that magic, baby. Insane team. And again, after this weekend, it's like, how the hell did. Like, actually, I guess it's not. How the hell did JoJo get first team all pro over caps like, they still both had incredible series. Multiple solo kills each, but. But, yeah, G2, they're just able to. To bring it in when they need that clutch factor. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I don't even care to talk too much about the other series. I was gonna say let's start with the other ones, but we're already here, so let's just keep talking about it. Badger, walk me through game by game. Let's just start with game one. Any notable things about the comps or anything about the. What happened when mkway kind of start off the series with the win? [00:42:40] Speaker B: Yeah. So there's. It's hard to tell at this point what. Who's gonna be the next viable top laner. I'm gonna be so. For real. [00:42:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:57] Speaker B: Do you guys enjoy watching Anivia Top lane and stuff like that and these games? [00:43:10] Speaker C: It's neat to see flexed once in a while, but not when it's like, okay, this is an expected pick. I like niche picks, Top lane that randomly get flexed there. I don't like seeing stable top laners. Anivia, Varys, Twisted Fate. [00:43:31] Speaker B: It feels weird because, like, part of me is like, oh, this is cool. Like, we're at a point where we've reached that, like, range. Top laners are as good as Melee top lanes. But at the same time, you could only see Anivia and top lane so much before you wonder where we went wrong in the last. Yeah, in the last couple of weeks. I mean, the big thing is Movie Star MKOI had enough crowd control to, you know, God, CC something that could, you know, the unstoppable force versus the unmovable object. Well, they stopped the unstoppable force pretty much between Cyclone. Let's see, we got all the Seraphine, cc, Rumble, Slows, Ash, Slows Ash, Arrow, Miasma, Wukong. All t Just everything in place that once one person stepped out of position, most of the time it was Lynsis. As just a. Just a spoiler for how this game went, they were able to See target, delete target. [00:44:40] Speaker A: Wait, which. Which series are we talking about right now? [00:44:42] Speaker B: I thought we were talking MCOID versus Vitality. You said MCOID. [00:44:45] Speaker C: Oh, we're on MCG2. [00:44:46] Speaker A: MCOID G2. Oh, MKOI. [00:44:49] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. That's why I was like, okay, like, yeah, yeah. [00:44:53] Speaker A: I want to talk about the bangers. [00:44:54] Speaker C: We're deciding to say that KCG2 and Vitality McCoy were so one sided, they're not even worth our time. [00:45:00] Speaker A: All right, cool. [00:45:01] Speaker B: Because I like. [00:45:02] Speaker A: I mean, we can touch on them, but. But the. The big ones. I'm coy versus versus G2. But it's funny because Merwin is playing Anivia. [00:45:08] Speaker B: Yeah, that's why. It was just like I said, Olivia and y' all didn't stop me because, you know, Olivia is a must. It's one a must. [00:45:15] Speaker A: First. [00:45:15] Speaker C: First. [00:45:17] Speaker A: And there was a lot of cc. I thought you were gonna mention Jojo at Galio Alvaro. [00:45:22] Speaker B: Yeah, There is a lot of crap control in this game too. You know, you turn the lights out and you get a. [00:45:27] Speaker A: If you didn't mention the champion. [00:45:31] Speaker B: Yeah, let's just see. You're like, hold on. So I'm really glad you mentioned Seraphine. [00:45:36] Speaker C: I'm like, I don't think that's this game. [00:45:37] Speaker B: It's like, hold on, wait a second. [00:45:39] Speaker A: I was gonna make a joke about how the un. Unstoppable force was unstoppable. Onslaught and Malphite, but we didn't see him until game five. [00:45:46] Speaker B: Yeah, that was game five with the. With the. One of the most big brain plays of all time. But we'll get to it when we get to it. No, I just. Yeah, no, I. Honestly, anything that's a nocturne. Lights out. Like guerrilla radio. Like comp like this where you just flood into backline. I. I really like it. Like, Like I've always. I've always been a huge proponent of dive just as a concept because if you can play dive, you can play any comp, really, or you should be able to play any comp. But this is just. This is scrap. This is. This is just big men slapping meat and all that. [00:46:24] Speaker A: Big meaty men slapping meat. Yep. [00:46:27] Speaker B: Yep, Exactly. [00:46:28] Speaker A: Anybody who understands that reference, also, I can tell you Supa loved the dive comp as well. He got to play the Kaiso game and popped the off. G2 did make him work for it a little bit in terms of like focusing up on dragons. But while they're getting dragons, MCOs getting turrets, MCOs getting kills and was just able to kind of snowball from there. [00:46:50] Speaker B: So trading map pressure for dragons, which is a common thing to happen at this point, so they. They're able to get value on the map and then once they get scaled up to fight for neutral objectives, they're able to kind of slow down the dragon takes and. And they just win the game off of it. It's kind of, you know, being in the right place at the right time for mkoy the entire series. And my God, I. I just. This is a fun one. This is just a great series in general especially. [00:47:25] Speaker A: I think we can say for sure, Broken Blade on yone that's not the counter into the Anivia. I don't know, Pickle, if you have other thoughts. Are you sure? [00:47:35] Speaker C: Yeah, Next time, just give him another shot. I think we can. Yeah. He looked better on the Yasuo game too. It just also didn't yield results. [00:47:46] Speaker A: Yeah. So game two, Merwin also pulls out the Varys, so it's another range. Top laner spoilers. G2 have to reverse sweep this series, and they only start winning when Merwin's not on his bullshit. So I think that's always gonna be a concern for MCOI fans is like, once Merlin kind of runs, G2 had [00:48:04] Speaker C: game two like in the palm of their hand multiple times. And then Cap said, wait a second. Why am I occasionally called craps? All right, that's why [00:48:15] Speaker B: I can. I can Talia wall this off and definitely not get caught in this situation. Oh, no. I got caught in the situation against [00:48:22] Speaker A: a chain of corruption, a trundle pillar, a rise, Caitlyn traps, Nami bubble, and Ultimate. Lot of CC tools to punish a relatively low mobility mid laner. Yeah, yeah, G2, they should have ended this one a little faster. They should have been able to at least like, pick up this. This series here or sorry, this game and not go to backs against the wall. And I think that this one, this is what started making me also feel from the MCOH side though, that, like, okay, if they can win that one, they're probably 3. 0 in the series. And I was so shook about that. I was like, that's crazy that they're going to three. Oh, G2. If G2 can't win from that position, like, they just. They're going to not win. JoJo's just on one right now. But then again, Merwin goes back on more traditional champions, and I think G2 in games 3, 4 and 5 of a fearless draft is when they are the scariest team to possibly go up against like their champ pool. And like compositional understanding just gets so oppressive for anyone to deal with. [00:49:30] Speaker C: Yeah. And after a vintage. After a vintage craps performance in game two, Game three and four are. Knock knock. It's claps. [00:49:40] Speaker B: Yep. [00:49:41] Speaker A: Knock Knocko. Not. Not to be confused with him. [00:49:44] Speaker B: Caps arrived to the party. He and. And Hans had a really game. Good game too. Like, he. He. He. He felt snubbed by the All Pro. [00:49:57] Speaker A: I mean, 13 1. This guy. [00:49:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:50:00] Speaker A: In game three, cumulatively, they got 21 kills and died from five times. [00:50:09] Speaker B: Yep. [00:50:09] Speaker C: In 25 minutes. [00:50:11] Speaker A: Pretty good showing from G2. They got everything. They had every objective, every. They have First Turret, First Blood. [00:50:17] Speaker C: They lost no towers. [00:50:19] Speaker B: Yeah. The only things that they gave up, objective wise, were the three grubs. That's. That's the only objective they lost throughout the entire game. [00:50:28] Speaker A: And shame on them for that. Honestly, they could have gotten that and [00:50:32] Speaker B: nothing of value was lost. I'm gonna be honest. [00:50:34] Speaker A: Grubs are. [00:50:35] Speaker B: Grubs are kind of rough in a rough position right now. [00:50:38] Speaker A: So Grubs haters. Can't believe it. [00:50:41] Speaker B: I. That's fair. [00:50:44] Speaker A: But then game four comes around and G2 are picking up the momentum, so. So they're showing that they are able to actually close out with the lead. They had the lead in game two through it. Game three and four are them, I think, getting kind of mad and being like, all right, we got to show that we're G2. Broken blade on TF top into Merwin's Rumble. Love this. Not much Rumble can do to kill the tf. And then TF just has kind of free reign to get around the map and always out rotate the Rumble. And again, it's Capsa with a really solid performance on the Aurora and Skewmond on the Nafiri this time around. And Jojo just was not able to get enough done on the Akali pick. So Biggle with Tide Series two. Two, we're going to Silver Scrapes. And that means game five. We've already talked about it a little bit, but I want to hear it again how crazy this game was. [00:51:39] Speaker C: They had it. They kill most of them up in top lane. Soup is so confident, he flashes over the wall by the base to get in to start hitting things faster. They're up 10k gold 27 minutes into this game. [00:51:54] Speaker A: And. [00:51:54] Speaker C: And 10 minutes later, their Netflix, their Nexus will be exploding. Thanks. In a very large part. And I hate that I have to say this because I flamed him so much last year, but he's on a heater. This year. And it tilts me because labrov had the best goddamn E on Soraka that I've ever seen. [00:52:15] Speaker A: Yeah. So MCO is pushing in onto the base. They take the middle inhibitor, then they go top side and Jojo looks for like a big engage on the top turrets too. But then I think his broken blade finds the engage afterwards because he's playing Malphite. And when does the E come up? I'm trying to remember the one you're thinking of. [00:52:37] Speaker C: I'm trying to think. Yeah. Labrov flash E catches Jojo to stop him from eating away or flashing away. [00:52:46] Speaker A: Oh, that's what it was. Yeah. Okay. [00:52:48] Speaker B: A right, right, right by the Baron pit. And it leads into the follow up from. They drop the Pantheon alti on it right away to open it. And JoJo just doesn't get his combo off in time. And Lebrov flash silences Malfi Adult hits. Chain of corruption or not chain of corruption. The Silas chains hit and they just jump on Jojo. Blow them up immediately. [00:53:14] Speaker C: And then JoJo was their lead at this point. I think jojo started like 50 or to know or something. [00:53:21] Speaker A: Yeah, so. So yeah, this was well after the push from. From mco. Yeah. Because Empire were like knocking on the Nexus turrets. [00:53:27] Speaker C: Oh yeah. [00:53:28] Speaker A: One Nexus to her left. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Because. Yeah, now I'm remembering it was or skewmon like Pantheon alts over the top caps had the stolen gnar ultimate. Yeah. Okay. Okay. [00:53:39] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:53:42] Speaker A: Crazy, crazy Good plays from G2 to come back. The game wasn't back from that position. Like they still had a cracked middle inhibitor. They still had to like take a third Ocean Drake or a third Drake, which was ocean and not even like dragon soul. So that wasn't like the last moment here. They still had to find the next game winning play. [00:54:00] Speaker C: No, they kept fighting. [00:54:02] Speaker A: Yeah. This time it was a pick on to the the Alistair of all things. Like you start onto Alvaro, take out the Alistair and then are able to win the fight from there. [00:54:14] Speaker C: Soraka Jinx scare scale. So, well, late game. [00:54:20] Speaker A: Typically you think of like moments where oh, why are they full sending onto the Alistar or the Braum, like these tankier supports that have either like the shield or like a. Like an Alistair Ulta keep alive. But when you have a three item jinx and the black Cleaver Pantheon shredding the armor of the Alistair, you actually are able to kill him them relatively quickly. And yeah, then they get Baron and we're able to close out from there. So G2 first team from the LEC to qualify into MSI. Really, really well done from them. And yeah, had to fight two to nail to get there. But I think it's surprising how they did it. It's not surprising that they did it, though. I still think that this is the team I expected to run the upper bracket and do well in the lec. [00:55:09] Speaker C: They gave some insane stat. I think this is like the 10th split in a row where G2's made the upper. Made finals through the upper bracket or something like that. [00:55:22] Speaker A: That's crazy. [00:55:23] Speaker C: I know that this combination of players has never gone through the lower bracket. [00:55:30] Speaker A: Interesting. Yeah. I mean, this is kind of becoming a new core of G2. It's crazy to think that like Lebrov and Skewmont have been on the team for long enough now. It feels like just yesterday that they just joined the roster. But yeah, they are like the guys now. This is the core, huh? Can't. A G2 is inevitable, man. What can they say? What can you say? So they really are congratulations to G2 and everybody trying to catch up to them. You know, best of luck. Insane. The consistency of this team. Again, the other two series they happened. I don't think that there's that much to catch or to gleam from them other than vitality. Oh, boy. Yeah, they were really cursed by that witch. Still yet to pick up a game in the upper bracket. They got three zeroed by McOil and then Casey dropping the ball against G2 earlier on. All right, let's talk about next week predictions and then we can wrap up here because again, we do have a hard out approaching Casey versus Navi is the first one. [00:56:33] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:56:33] Speaker A: We all have Casey three zero. No Navi love. No relet love at all. No one's gonna give him even a game. What if he gets like. Like Ambesa Jungle? Do we think can get one with the best of jungle? Okay, well, fair enough. Vitality GX. Let's talk about that one. We have Vitality 3. Zero for me and Badger Bickles got Vitality 3. Zero. You just changed it. [00:57:01] Speaker C: You know, I was thinking at three. One, I'm like, GX just isn't good right now. [00:57:06] Speaker B: Unfortunately, actually win a game in this series. [00:57:10] Speaker C: My only thought was vitality continues to pull a vitality. But I think even while pulling a vitality, they're just better than gx. So it doesn't matter. [00:57:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:21] Speaker C: Can win the series blindfolded. [00:57:24] Speaker A: I think vitality are good for a lower bracket series win. I don't think they're good for two. As our next prediction here is just the winners of the previous matches. So we all agree it's Casey Vitality. And we all agree it's Casey taking it. I think vitality will work for it. I think that Casey's gonna be 3 2. Badger agrees. Pickles got Casey 3 1. But no matter how you slice it, the Vitality Curse and playoffs, we all expect to continue. The only question I have for the group badge, let's start with you. What has to happen for Vitality to break the curse? Like, like what has to happen for them to actually beat Casey here? [00:57:58] Speaker B: Oh, [00:58:04] Speaker A: That's. [00:58:04] Speaker B: You know that they should probably start by like burning some sage at least. Yeah, maybe it's a good step, actually. Maybe contact an Etsy witch and try and uncurse them. I don't know if they do Etsy over in France. [00:58:20] Speaker C: I hear the New York Knicks have someone that's really good at uncursing people. [00:58:23] Speaker B: I don't remember. [00:58:24] Speaker A: Oh, Danhausen. [00:58:25] Speaker C: Yes. [00:58:26] Speaker A: Yes. [00:58:27] Speaker B: I. I learned who Danhausen was by the fact that my fucking basketball team got swept. [00:58:33] Speaker A: Yep. Congratulations, dude. [00:58:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:35] Speaker A: I'm like, you now know. [00:58:36] Speaker B: I'm like Danhausen. And then I learned. [00:58:40] Speaker A: That's for anybody unaware, he is a WWE wrestler who is notable for cursing people if they don't give him real human monies. [00:58:49] Speaker B: Yep. [00:58:49] Speaker A: And he's a canonical. [00:58:51] Speaker C: He had cursed the New York Knicks. They. They were doing not too well. He uncursed them and they contin. And they went on, I want to say, a 10 game win streak right now after sweeping the Sixers and the CAVS, making their first finals since 1999. [00:59:10] Speaker A: Look, man, curses are real. I don't know what to tell you. But speaking of curses, we all still think that it's Vitality living up to their curse. Although if we could get a Danhausen curse, like reversal on them or something at some point. You know what, Lec, you should look into that. [00:59:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:59:27] Speaker A: I think there's a lot of European WWE fans. I'm sure that they'd be a big fan of that. But that is it for this week's episode of the League rundown. That's all of our reviews and previews of both LCS and LEC. Weeks 1 and 2 of playoffs. Crazy to think that we're kind of into the thick of it now with playoffs. Else LEC will have only two weeks left, LCS will have three weeks left, and then it's MSI season already. So we're gonna start to figure out who will be Representing each region. We'll be giving updates on that. The only two that we know currently are G2. And then I believe it was an LCP team, right? [01:00:03] Speaker C: Team Secret Whales. [01:00:04] Speaker A: Yep. Team Secret Whales qualified already through the points. They're guaranteed to make it in. Crazy system over there. But that list will only get bigger and bigger as the weeks go on. Very exciting time. Yeah. Badger, let's throw it over to you. If people enjoyed this episode, they liked hearing as a yap about the LEC and LCS playoffs. What. What kind of review would you recommend that they leave us if they have time to drop one? [01:00:29] Speaker B: I would recommend giving the amount of games that I thought my basketball team was going to go to. And that was five, but. [01:00:37] Speaker A: And how many did they go to? [01:00:38] Speaker B: They went to four. [01:00:39] Speaker A: Okay, so above four, preferably five if you can. Everybody, thank you so much and apologies. Badger. [01:00:46] Speaker B: Yeah, it's okay. It's. It's. It was unwatchable. It's. It's fine. [01:00:52] Speaker C: I mean, you had playoff Harden. What do you expect? [01:00:55] Speaker B: I. I listen in February, when they traded for James Harden is about when my joy was no longer sparking to watch basketball this season. So on that note, thank you, everybody for listening. [01:01:10] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, thank you. Thanks, everybody, for tuning in. It's another week of the podcast. We got more coming up next week. We love you and we'll see you next time. [01:01:19] Speaker B: Goodbye, everyone. [01:01:20] Speaker A: Bye. [01:01:20] Speaker B: Bye. Peace. [01:01:22] Speaker A: Sorry. Basketball team sucks. Oh, yes, Daddy.