also dont forget, faker has a ton of chinese fans, meaning blg losing to t1 doesnt mean as big a drop of chinese viewers as one may think, they would just stay to watch faker instead

T1 carries the viewership so hard it's crazy. Even when faker retires in 3 years and 8 months, i think Guma,keria,oner or/and zeus will still be at T1 and they all have well establish brand so T1 will still carries imo

Riot approving ewc is already sign they are going to work with them. I want to see the so called "boycott" when riot works on tournaments with them.

Didn't expect to see Pedro take shots at Weghorst xdd

I Love it when people who have zero knowledge of football talk about euros

The main issue, imo, with the Bardinette strat is the amount of resources that’s being allocated on both sides due to their perma roam playstyle. Low elos tend to not capitalize on something as big as this or even straight up unaware that the top can free farm or the top lane can simply choke in crucial moments. Masters+ seems way harder to do in considering the minute details that Master players have to where they just shut their brain off because it’s to be expected of them and they can use their brain power to focus on something else. I do think it can be changed in a way to make it better (like actually CSing but maybe have longer roams.)

So in short: - EWC and MSI are gonna be merged - Riot only hosts Worlds That means the new third international tournament are gonna be hosted by third party, the question is who? Is it gonna stay the same or gonna rotate? I mean there are MLG (NA), IEM/Dreamhack (EU/NA, but most likely EU in March), and OGN (Korea)

Everyone is comparing Bardinette to Baus and why it doesn't work for Bardinette while Baus is defending Bardinette

the bot is first 😢😢

is saw the jungledinger + bardinette game live it was peak content hahahah

Where is the impact part of video

Dude if in the next 2 to 3 years we will just have an open circuit imma be so mad and happy at the same time. Its all leading to it, third international hosted by a different TO, Riot scaling back the investment into the leagues. Imma be mad because then what was the point of the leagues and happy because if it happens RITO was wrong.

First and foremost it was Riot that decided the format. They forced EWC to use the old MSI format. Second the cash prize pool is 1M; 400K to the champion while MSI merely has 65K for the champion and Worlds has 445k for the Champion. You see how much money that is? Wrap your head around it. Third EWC is a congregation of different E-sports that had high Prize pools. Main E-Sports themed games were invited to play it. Think of it as something like FIBA or Olympics solely for Esports. Just because Riot forced EWC to turn the format into that. That doesn't weaken EWC as other games running alongside LoL had world level prizepools Fouth there is a E-sports Club competition where the Clubs that becomes champions in their game gets a load of points and the winner for that gets 3M. Anyone who wins the LoL eSports Tourney would give their club a load of points (1000). Currently Team Falcons is leading followed by T1, FNC, TES and TL... See that over there? 4 of the top 5 teams in Club standing all have LoL teams. Fifth does anyone really think for a second that the players or the clubs consider it as a Mickey Mouse event? Think of how much money, prestige and untapped sponsors they can get in winning that tournament.

With the same prize pool as Worlds, EWC is already the 2nd most important tournament for the teams. 😄

Ah nice, we had the first MSI that actually had a extremely good bracket system, and now we got back or what

Could it be that my beloved International Wild Card Qualifier is coming back? 🙏

Garen mid is actually good, just nobody plays it.

He got out of the gulag setup?

love how pz zzang calls Faker "Ikker hyungnim" throughout haha (from the Korean spelling for Faker which is three syllables of pe-i-keoh, so they act like pe is his surname)

4:09 tbf they were used to be teammate

Vamos Espana!!

Why is it okay for one person to waste 9 peoples time just because they like a strategy.

Yipppeee! Can’t wait to never get to see MSI :) at least worlds could still be accessible More smaller tournaments sounds fun tho ^^

wait can someone explain to me why people are boycotting ewc it seemed like a really good and fun tournament

Nuguri's peak has to be the best top laner ever

MSI to EWC. I'm kind of like the merge especially about name. I'm always thought using name of a single brand (MSI) to promote your 2nd biggest tournament is a short sight. With new name, Riot can have more room working with other brand

Baus is the embodiment of EUW, he litteraly is the innovator.

I mean it's kind of obvious that Riot are no longer putting any priority behind MSI. There was no song and the production value was abysmal. They didn't even bother promoting the winner afterwards, as they likely suspected it wouldn't gain that much public traction if it wasn't T1. They also almost immediately shifted into the Hall of Legend event, which leads me to believe that MSI did not bring in any meaningful kind of revenue for them. When both G2 and T1 were eliminated before the finals, that probably became the final nail in the coffin. I think it's pretty obvious at this point that riot will outsource any tournament that isn't world's in order to reduce their yearly expenditure, and honestly from a business perspective, you can't exactly blame them for that outlook.

''one lucky goal and got cocky'' lets not talk about the penalty england got, the 4 fouls that werent fouls, ake getting grabbed in the box, sake hands ball 1 min before the penalty

hot take i think the matchmaking can identify off meta otps and match jungledinger with bardinette etc to reduce hostage taking instead of 2 games its now in 1 game only smart actualy

What about a German Team? :D BB, Agurin, PoE, Fun k3y, Kaiser... that would be way better than NA and Canadian xDDD

Am I having fun: yes Is the enemy team having fun: no Is my team having fun: no hence the name "Solo"queue

Now, I may be completely crazy here, but I have to say. YES, if T1 got eliminated, vierwership would have been horrible ! Luckily, T1 got their "anime power up" once again and both made history and litteraly SAVED the event. At what point do we maybe call into question the fact that the team that lost to KT the week prior now goes super saiyan and wins a tournament flooded with talent when it's litteraly both good for them and MEGA good for the filthy rich sportswashing organizers ? I hope/think I'm wrong, but having Faker MVP / Faker's name as the first name to appear on the thingy in the city seems like such a publicity stunt for the only time the tournament is not supervised by Riot. Idk

two teams that i hate met in the finals... nice. i hate england taking it home and i hate spain having 4 euros but germany not being in the lead is a good thing

So with England losing does that mean GenG is winning worlds?

MSI being replaced by EWC is just a straight up lie, Chris Greeley (head of straegy for lolesports) said next msi will not take place anywhere in the middle east and most likely won't in the years after that aswell

ive been out of the loop for awhile and idk if this is too dumb to ask but why is everyone negative or boycotting EWC?

Anyone think it's strange that thebaus lived with a professional booster and got his account banned for boosting or does everyone just think he's really good and it's a coincidence that one of the opponents runs it down nonstop when he plays?

England is going to get so analized by spain and i'm all for it.

I think its fine to have MSI at EWC as long as you can keep the MSI format. If Riot uses their production resources to run the even and just have Saudi provide the money then I dont see a downside in terms of viewer experience.

It will be stupid if right didn't work with saudi with better format and higher prize pool because riot didn't let them make the prize higher then worlds this will be fantastic for the orgs

If I have to play with someone bringing a fucking PowerPoint presentation.... ff15 already.

EWC is gonna replace MSI? So Riot can focus on Worlds and have bigger prize pool 🤔

Even without the fact that saudi arabia is trying to sportswash league, it would suck if the only international tournament aside from worlds was only in saudi arabia because some people wont be able to come and watch because of things that are out of their control.( Nationality, sexual orientation etc.

England is about to get rolled

so in other words GenG failed to get the Golden road

SLOVENIA!?

You drew against Slovenia 🤣🐀

my 2 cents about the whole EWC/saudi topic as a gay person. I already accepted the fact that in capitalist society everything, including morals can be bought and its no use flaming the players/orgs that participate in saudi tournaments because they exist in an ecosystem controlled by riot and they cant do shit against riots decisions. Direct your anger at Riot or the state of saudi arabia(not that this is gonna do anything but whatever) I mean riot is already 100% owned by tencent and had its fair share of controversy so if you are placing so much importance on morals, start boycotting Riot then. But what pisses me off is the blatant hypocrisy that Riot and the other actors involved show. They keep acting like they actually care about LGBTQ+ people, especially during pride month. Like go get that (blood)money but then please stop acting like you actually care about queer people or women(or human rights in general lol). You cant have both.

England has litterally choked every single time?

team from a full-blown dystopia wins a tournament in a full-blown dystopia lmao

EWC’s format was hot garbage. Single elimination best of 3s is lame. Maybe they felt they didn’t have must choice due to time constraints.

14:52 caedrel simp

England cheated their way to the final :)

Idk how people think that Agurin "apology" is good.

Im so glad i dont play league anymore. I hated those troll lobbies with ppl playing stupid shit

xddFaker

lil bro saw 1 football match and thinks England is good, England shouldnt even have gotten out of group stage with how trash they are and then they got the easiest run to the finals its crazy. Spain will 5-0 them

The boycott pretty much went unheard because the whole event went unheard. Calling EWC a success is beyond a far cry. The peak viewership in finals was barely over a million. There were plenty of empty seats for T1 games, which has never happened since SKT/T1 debuted and the whole venue was practically dead with more employees on the ground that visitors. Not sure how success is measured, but it's not the word I'd use to describe the whole thing. Also, EWC is a culmination of many games, not just League, so unless they plan to change the date of the whole event, otherwise, it's happening in the middle of the Summer split, and that's simply not going to work. T1 showed insane signs of fatigue in their first LCK match after they returned. I'm glad IEM Katowice is brought up, because ALL the major teams refused to participate in it, resulting in the League segment getting cancelled, because it happened in the middle of Spring split and affected domestic performance, which teams were not willing to sacrifice. So unless the Summer split of every region is changing, or the entire EWC event is changing, it's simply not replacing MSI. The prize pool was very generous for the number of days/games played, but compared to the lucrative player contracts and ad contracts that spawn from winning Worlds, it was minuscule and no one will prioritise this event that no one was paying attention to over domestic performance that affects their qualification for Worlds, and their shot at winning Worlds to actually make the big bucks. Basically, I don't see it working out, and the most likely outcome is that it will end up being IEM Katowice II.

Rip gg golden road. They had better not participate the tourament instead

I have rooted against France throughout the whole tournament. Same goes for England. The type of football they are playing is disgusting. I sincerely hope they loose for the good of the sport.

Why all the fuss over Saudi - fact is Riot is owned by China (Tencent) and they have their own human rights violations etc… how about people stop all this self serving virtue signalling and just play games?

Lol thinking y'all can boycott the Saudi's is actually funny tho no matter how hard people "boycott" it money always wins

Cucurella bout to mop their asses on sunday I'm afraid, Pedro "Spain is like GenG while England is on a T1 run" so when's the last time T1 beat GenG again?

Arguin "apology" is weak, he's still trying to justify it with the "Whether I afk at tower or at base it made no difference" and "Technically, its wrong" he clearly believes that it's not morally wrong and the only reason it's wrong is because riot punishes it. Your teammates deserve your honest effort regardless of how dogwater you think they are. He is only saying he shouldn't have done it is to stop getting piled on not because he actually thinks he shouldn't. Manchild behavior.

can someone explain to me why caedrel and others are defending this guy so hard when the power point caedrel is watching through again literally has him intentionally losing games if he doesnt get his bard? Like yeah dude im sure he played 138 illaoi games and didn't win a single one because he can only play bard. Hes clearly a griefer that forces all 9 other people into his version of league, and if you ban his bard instead of him adapting like you are told to do with him, you get a guaranteed loss. I dont get why that is viewed as ok when all 9 people do not want to play that way. It makes the game unfun and you just want to go next to go to a more standard game

EWC LoL started strong!! people have no idea that EWC is way bigger than msi (60$ million prize pool overall : 21 game titles) and T1 winning the LoL tournament boosts the EWC morale to move forward up to a bigger tournament next year!