I mean, all the episodes are literally free on KZfaq from Riot themselves.

I just watched episode 1-9 on youtube, but ep 10 I had to head over to amazon prime to see. I dunno?

I agree saying its better than Arcane is blasphemous lol I love both but Arcane just has too much going for it art wise and characters. Love the video man you kill it everytime!

It was just not as much as it should have been. I was at the LCS Summer Finals in Chicago and they interviewed Ely Henry (Coach Kyle Braxton) and I thought that was really cool and Da'Jour Jones (Organizm) made an appearance as well

a lots of the personnel like casters coaches analysts did promote it on twitter and they talked about it on the dive. I thought they also promoted it during the LCS as well.

It was, they promoted it leading up to the release and there were short promotions in between games

they did promote it but, only about 2 people watched lcs last year and rest were bots. whats the point of promoting it when nobody is watching lcs? this year would have been better.

GSA!!!

I also didn't watch it because I wasn't going to get Paramount+ just for that. Did get to watch it on KZfaq though

What the fuck is Paramount+? It's literally the first time I'm hearing about this. It would be nice if it was bought by another streaming platform.

It's still free on KZfaq on Funny or Die's channel, just unlisted in a playlist for some reason

It felt so real like I remembered about 10 times how you said its a fictional team but I still couldnt believe

@@Ak1ra0_o I did the EXACT same

​@@Ak1ra0_o yeah my brother watched like an episode with me and he believed it was real. He didn't even believe me when I told him it was a mockumentary. It's such a good show

@Calkimchi Well, the ones that I mentioned are up there. You should know that in the early days, League was an extremely personality-driven scene. Streaming just took off at the same time LoL came out. So some of the best players were on one hand building "competetive teams" that would try to win as many small, regional and online tournaments as possible to have a steady income, but also develop the streaming scene and their personal brands and later companies in the e-sports scene that would become juggernauts. Reginald - founder of TSM, HotshotGG - founder of CLG, xPeke - later founder of Team Origen and Ocelote - later founder of G2 were all pro players back then, basically discovering the unchartered territory of streaming and creating e-sports companies at the same time. Meanwhile, as LoL grew in size and popularity, more and bigger tournaments tried to get a foothold, leading to the first national and international tournaments, which would pit these personalities and their teams against each other. It's really difficult to describe, but since the community was so much smaller and the competetive scene less professionalized, viewers and fans had much stronger parasocial relationships with streamers and pros, who in turned were much more involved in the scene's gossip. Pros would get into internet beefs with each other, fans would constantly debate who was the best player between larger tournaments but also which player was the coolest and correct in petty arguments, VODs of training sessions were a highly sought after commodity, HotshotGG once fell asleep on stream while building an Ikea cupboard which lead to him having the most watched stream at that time and teams would try to be more authentic to garner a larger share of the fandom. In the series that part is demonstrated by Creamcheese and how he grew up with Team Fugitive. This nerdy, somewhat unprofessional and impulsive frat-boy attitude that he has is... pretty accurate to how the guys were back then, to say the least. The way Creamcheese talks, argues and thinks is scarily spot on. Imagine a whole League, like two dozen dudes, just like Creamcheese. That was NA LoL E-sports in the first three years of LoL. TSM's catchphrase used to be "Baylife", because their first (?) team house was in the San Francisco Bay area. The catch phrase was synonymous with "yolo", but paired with the professional success of the team it made them look like they were the best in NA without even trying, which appealed to many fans. That doesn't change the fact that behind the scenes Reginald would grind out his business to make a powerful brand and company. So powerful and recognizable that despite any major international success, LoL fans all over the world cheer "TSM" in random games where TSM isn't even present, as a joke. That started back in the early days too. Creamcheese in the series has a lot of parallels with the North American pro-player Doublelift. Like Creamcheese, Doublelift was kicked out of his parents house and taken in by another personality in the scene. In the series it was a fellow player and later the manager, while in Doublelifts case it was the E-Sports journalist Travis Gafford. Like Creamcheese in the series, Doublelift was often considered as one of the, if not the best player in NA, but for the longest time didn't win a single domestic or international title. There even was subreddit called "doubleliftstrophycase" which back then had zero posts and because of that would say "there seems to be nothing here". When DL won his first domestic title, the post in that subreddit became one of the most upvoted threads on reddit back then iirc. Like Creamcheese, Doublelfit was often considered a bit of a loose cannon, trash talker and at times unprofessional and immature. Doublelift also had great success when he played together with the support player Aphromoo and the duo were often referred to as "Rush Hour" in reference to the movie with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. This is emulated in the series by Creamcheese and that one guy on another team being called "Axe Bros". In the series it is shown that his first "choke" probably put him into a state of mental block, mainly because he messed up an Alistar combo. That is probably a nod at Doublelifts throw at Season 6 worlds, where after a won teamfight he dashed right into the enemy's fed Viktor played by SSGs Crown (one of the best players back then) and died. In the show, Creamcheese had to change his previous name due to pressure by the League. That was true for multiple players back in the days. There was a player called BigFatJiji that was forced to change his name, half of the first iteration of the Cloud 9 team had inappropriate names. "Balls" was "Long Balls" initially iirc and Sneaky and Meteos used to have different, less professional account names too. The whole import vs. homegrown talent theme in the show was also really important in the growth of the scene. While NA never had such an extreme homegrown talent like Organism in the show, EU often had these and those were exported to NA (Korea also exported a lot of players to CHina, NA and EU). Players like Bjergsen, Caps, Rekkless, Niels/Zven and a whole load of KR players like Huni, Impact, Bang, Crown, CoreJJ, Ssumday, Ryu, Reignover etc. shook up the established systems in EU and NA as players that quickly overtook their competition despite being much younger or less experienced. There is probably a ton more, but I forgot a lot of the details in the show. So if you want to ask something in particular, I might be able to explain it. I enjoy reminiscing about Leagues history lol.

having now been on the other side of watching it, that show is **the** shit

Arcane is great but Players is better

Arcane was made for 13-18 year olds, lets be real. It's a weeb series.

​@@ubetydelig3065Ignorance is not something to be proud of

Finished the first season. Holy shit, it's amazing. I actually teared up a little.

Just finished binge watching the Player series!!! Amazing series! Felt like really watching the LCS finals and shit... Great acting Gbay99! Great acting :D