I've been working on this video for a while to bridge the gap between other documentaries going on. I did not realize Fnatic drama would break the day this vid was ready lmao. NOT TRYING TO KICK THEM WHILE THEYRE DOWN

The fact that Gbay had to change the title 3 times just so the KZfaq algorithm actually recommends people to watch his videos is truly depressing, the guy makes incredible content on topics no one really covers well, and the fact he only gets around 5-10k viewers per day, i can only imagine the heartbreak for him everytime he checks his analytics and him thinking that we don't care to watch his content anymore, hopefully his content can skyrocket again, thanks again Gbay, great video as always, and just keep up the great content.

oh boy have I been missing these documentaries

Let's close this argument with the big picture: No one would question, that Uruguay won the World Cup in Soccer in 1930, even though England didn't even compete, because they knew, they are the best. Other European Countries were like "Traveling to South America on a Boat is just too much..." When you read a World Cup Preview, it always mentions 2 World Cup Titles, they have 2 Stars on the jersey etc. Or Italy, who won the 1934 World Cup, because the referees were scared of Mussolini... Still, everyone acknowledges the importance of those early World Cups and credits Uruguay and Italy for winning it.

Another certified banger to get stuck into. I'm truly a fanatic of our boy Gbay 👌

I don't even play much league anymore but I still love watching your videos You seem to make any topic interesting

The way I’ve always thought about it is that season 1 & 2, when the game was in its infancy and there were other tournaments, etc., as the “old era.” Yes, they did fantastic for that era, and it’s absolutely fundamental in the story for LoL. League as we know it today only really began to me in season 3, with the invention of the lcs system. Therefore, in the same way we revere old sports players but recognize that the game they played was different but they helped revolutionize/pioneer their game to become our modern game, i think the same goes to the teams that pioneered LoL in seasons 1-2. If let’s say, G2 were to win 2022 worlds, I might say it’s the first European title of the modern era of league of legends. The game today has much more in common with season 3+ than what we saw in seasons 1&2. That’s how I generally think of this question. Great video Gbay I love when you upload

08:16 and from the promotional video at the time. "and the title of league of legends worlds champions"

When I first discovered your channel 7 or 8 years ago, I was watching your guides on League of Legends, trying to get better at the game. Then you pulled me into watching your video essays on League Esports history. You were my first real exposure to League of Legends Esports, and I'm so grateful. You are so talented at storytelling to take these gripping tales not enough people are aware of, spin them with your special sauce, and provide them to an audience with the quality that freaking brings tears to my eyes. And your documentaries have taken on an even greater height since I last saw them. Just watched the Khan one, what a freaking incredible, ambitious video that was. Relating to the video on this page, Khan reminded me of the reasons why I was so invested to care about these individuals' histories in the first place. Because of how much they wanted to win, and the trials they had to go through. Where there are success stories, and also things that just don't end well. Seeing these players burn their heart for this game, motivates me to do more of the same with what I want to do in my life. You bring a lot of nuance to things that would normally get lost in the wind, and your passion to share these things really shows. You are one of my favorite content creators ever and I hope more and more people get to see the stuff you make.

Thanks to Gbay so many more people know the stories of great teams of old, their impact. I really appreciate your work Gbay, I don’t know of any other content creator that reminds the LoL community so consistently where this great Esports scene came from. I bet M5 would be blown away by the macro teams like DK and EDG showed at finals.

stunning, astounding and astonishing this one. really brought out your love for League and also its history. the way you spoke had fire in it and the words you used were all facts. i have your notifications on but sadly, university studies and i had to wait 4 days to finally sit and watch it freely. and i may have been late but at least watched it properly with focus, as it deserves. thanks for such great quality content. i know it's more of a passion work but still, thanks. keep up the good work. wish you well. P.S : update more

I just watched this today and man I got chills specially at the end of the vid. You're the best content creator for League history. I can see the love/passion in your eyes while doing the commentary. Hopefully you can make a company of your own with a team of people that can do other esports like CS:GO, Dota 2, Valorant, etc. (yeah the score esports is there but I bet you can do better) More power and love!

This might be my favorite video you've ever done, great job!

I just started watching your stuff. Amazing work. Love it.

I've watched every video of yours within the past year, can't thank you enough for the quality content and making me love league again. Can't wait for next upload!

Fantastic video once again, you can really feel your passion for competitive League of Legends. I've missed your videos!

This video is such a nice throwback, love the content man.

Always nice seeing you posted

Yo Bjerg, saw that interview with Travis. Nice to see you back, man.

Fantastic video Gbay… very well done sir. Your speech at the end gave me a new perspective for not only LoL but many other sports and for that you have my greatest appreciation! Please keep these videos coming, I will watch every single one. Your passion for this sport is infectious and it needs to be shared with the whole community.

I think your channel is incredible and I am really looking forward to the eventual documentary that will come out on LCK DRX at Worlds 2022. Great videos GBAY.

Fantastic history lesson of the scene for League. Man, it's awesome seeing you and your channel grow. Keep it up, my friend!!

Another great documentary GBay!

Hey gbay tysm for the hardwork u deserve more recognition :) I was hoping if u could bring light about whats happening in FPX with nuguri, tian, and doinb because there r still ppl out there who r calling one of the team bad not knowing whats happening behind the scenes

Well done as always my man

Liked, commenting, already subscribed. Gbay deserves more recognition

great video gbay

m5 y WE deserve a skin serie, and SERIOUSLY these Two Teams invented the league of today . Pd ¨Please, update the Scout Video, give the worlds story

I really like the talking into the camera format.!

Sad that the algorithm doesnt show these two me despite me being subscribed, and watching every video 100% of the way through.

man, I hate how I can never see these releases unless I actually check for them. Keep on producing these productions. They look amazing.

Muhammad Ali's abilities weren't just in the ring. He was a giant among men and he never lost that with age. Sport has the ability to transcend entertainment.

Great video!! I don't know why I didn't get the notification despite having the bell on. Luckily I didn't end up missing it!

Nice new setup dude! Much nicer with the white backdrop

In the topic of sports history. I have never really understood how/why people were always cared so much about their teams and sports. Around season 4 or 5, I found myself finally realizing that i had been doing the same except for Esports. I was one of those Bay life watchers that started watching a lot more when Dyrus joined TSM, and I guess before I knew, I was rooting for the team every chance I could catch games. I started looking back at what the whole scene was like to the point i was not even playing the game because i would watch the content that most NA players had. Basically what i want to say is, every time i watch these videos that you put out they make my eyes tear from the memories of the emotions of back then. When i make connections to what you are talking about and what i remember happening at the time and i see a new side of what the general thought/intent of said team, tourney, player. That makes me feel like "this is my sport" and always makes me happy to have been there (for the most part) when most of this was happening. I don't really care to push a "my team is better than yours" to others because the whole sport is just great to follow. I never leave comments at all, let alone long ones like this one. Love the videos like many others and i re-watch some of them whenever i see a new one. I hope to show these to newer generations.

CLG BABY LETS GO

FNC Drama and a Gbay vid in the same day. Amazing start to a 4 day weekend

Can you make a video on UOL, the OG TEAM. Thev were a team that got me into watching the lcs, they would often pick weird things like Udyr and Sion and etc. and they found fairly good success! They qualified for the lcs by beating TSM with a Twisted Fate Jungle..

"if you want me to stop beating around the bush and give my answer, well, its yes and no" LOL proceeds to beat around the bush. Only meming bro, this was obvious an amazing amount of work that you put into this, and i loved every minute of it. Thanks for doing what you do and documenting the history of the game.

Great video I wanted to discuss this for a long time, keep it up I love this video (sorry if broken english)

Return of the king

It’s docs like this that make me want an Aphromoo doc so bad. Still putting in work from Season 1 to today!

man what is up with youtube? I've always had my bell on for you but only now did a recent video of yours pop up in my subscriptions. I will be watching all the others I've missed. sorry, gbay and this goes without saying but love these documentaries. thank you =)

I hear that Triage at Dawn background music, nice!

Very nice video! Im still sad we dont have a manager game to build own legacy. A manager game will fit your channels content imho :D

season 1 was such a weird time.. god I miss it

This is the first video that actually popped up for me out of the last 4 or 5 you put up, even though i watch all your stuff and am subscribed. Makes me sad the algorithm doesn't like you for some reason :/

I have got to say that I really enjoyed this video. Aside from the content, I enjoyed the way it was presented. A youtuber that isn’t annoying with childish puns or what bothers me more even -- UPTALK! Good job bro!

Wow I learned so much, I didn’t know season 1 was 3 years long.

video never even showed in my feed until today, weird it took 5 days for your content to show up

I miss season 1. I miss Sword of the occult, surge and revive spell. I miss going mid ashe and not getting reported.

To be honest, as an EU fan, we don't really need that championship to dunk on NA. That "rivalry" isn't even fun anymore, NA is not worthy competition to find pride in beating

Man i love the halflife music at the end!

God I love Gbay videos

Very underated channel

Great Video!!!!!! Keep it up gbay. Quick question, why do you not often mention Team Liquid/Curse?? You should do a video called Forever Forth and talk about their “curse” of 4th place finishes and then 4 LCS wins in a row. 😅

Best documentary’s on KZfaq

THANK YOU GBAY YOU ARE THE BEST

I was just browing your channel and you post this. Best league content creator 🗿

Great video, I wish all league players would watch!

Hey Gbay, do you think the pro-scene would be better if the pro players were given more time to build communities? (as in lowering the industry standard) I feel like the players themselves are all very void of personality, not because they are uninteresting people, but because they are forced to practice as a literal job. I enjoy watching Trick2g and seeing him in the T1 series a while back where he was just having fun was awesome because he has such a vibrant personality. I felt like I had something to root for that wasn't just a person I only see 1/100th of. I also think this is part of the reason doublelift and to an extent aphromoo were so fun to watch, because they had personalities.

Finally I can finish my half-eaten chicken wrap with a new Gbay doc!

Love you Gbay

Commenting for algorithm because banger video and channel

First of all, thanks a lot for the quality of your work. Really great and interesting videos. This might be the first time I don't share your pov at all. To explain that quickly (I hope), let's say that you've lost the core of the question along the way. It was not "did Fnatic was the better S1 team?" Maybe they werent. Maybe M5 or Azubu F were overall better than TPA during S2? That didn't make them S2 champions. Same goes for "Did S1 WCS was the greater S1 event"? I don't think so. But the real thing here, and I agree it's kinda heartbreakin for a NA or G2 fan, is: what Fnatic won was the closest thing to a modern WCS. Not adding that Riot may be seen as the final arbiter here. See you, and again, good job, nice to see those videos.

Funny story. I was never meant to be a League Player. I was a FFXIV player.... the first version that was completely broken and terrible... and had to be taken off line for a year to be scraped and relaunched as A Realm Reborn. I needed something to occupy my time and some guild mates invited me to try League. Naturally I wanted to see the best players after trying a few matches, I wanted to see the best players in the world. Season 2 Worlds had just come to an end, and I couldn't get enough. So I searched back to season 1 worlds. While searching through these piles of Vods, I discovered a little youtube channel named Gbay99. You were doing your series of integrating Sun Tzu's Art of War into game theory. I found it very interesting. And I found it searching for the Season 1 League of Legends World Championship. ...and here we are today.

Not sure why but this vid not shown up in my subscription feed. Seen it randomly in recommended today!

gotta be in my top 3 channels I LOVE to see when I open my subs tab

Hi! Do you plan to make documentary of Deft?

Outstanding

Heres my personal answer to some of the questions posed in this video: No, I don't think fnc winning the season 1 championship is nearly as impressive as their 2018 final nor is it more impressive than either of G2's impressive feats. However, if G2 won this upcoming worlds, I would not say that they are the first Western team to have won worlds. I think just because things were different and it was much less competition does not mean it was any less of a world championship. This happens in every sport, I play hockey so I will use a Hockey example. The NHL started as 6 teams, but that doesn't mean the team who won the league back then is any less of a Stanley cup champion. Lastly, to rebutt the argument that other teams were winning other tournaments at the time, there are many teams who have won worlds without winning their individual league or MSI. Granted that's only two tournaments that are quite different to worlds it was just a different time back then as there were many more tournaments to lose.

Most fun I've had with this game was watching the IPL live in San Francisco, 2012.

Damn I completely forgot to sub to you. Which is odd considering I still have a 'boosted animal' hoody I bought from your shop from a few years ago. Better late than never I suppose. In any case, time for another banger of a video.

26:25 "There were teams that performed better than Fnatic on Season 1" 2018: LPL Spring Champions? RNG; MSI Champions? RNG; LPL Summer Champions? RNG; World Champion? IG......... Riiiiight, yeah.. Fnatic, and specially the players that won Season 1 Worlds, should get the short end of the stick on this one guys...

Gbay is underrated yet he's rated.

I miss those times

Hello Gbay, Can you tell me where is this sweatshirt from?

I don't understand why your videos don't get more views, so I'm commenting hoping it will help with the algorithm

14:50 XD

The real homies saw the original title

I dont play league of legends at all but these docs are top tier

Need a video of the untapped potential of Salce

What's the music at the end?

Hey guys random question, Does anyone know if teams practice scrim scenarios vs each other where they simulate one team getting a early double kill or like a 2k gold lead and then playing their best to win(practicing closing out games) and then the other team does their best to do a comeback (to practice coming back from a bad start)

Fnatic won the first world championship. That is a fact. China and Korea not participating doesn't change that. You can only ever beat the competition that is put before you by the turnament. If we look at other sports it has always been like that. Look at tennis for example. The winner of the 2020 US Open was Dominic Thiem. How did he win? Well Rafael Nadal didn't participate because of the pandemic, Roger Federer was injured and Novak Djokovic got himself disqualified. Is Thiem still a Grand Slam winner? Yes he absolutely is!

Did the title change 3 times?

What's the outro music?

banger

The way I see it is this. There were, before S3, alot of chmpionships, even international ones, so many that at this rough point in time, about as many tournaments have been played officially since, as tournaments were played before. Worlds, is what ties these 2 eras together, and I place equal value on worlds as on the other big tournaments of the legacy era. For example, IEM when M5 won, they desserve as much credit for that as Fnatic does for worlds 1, and as much as SKT does for worlds 3. Because even though SKT in S3 would stomp anyone in S1&2, these tounraments were still as important for their time.

Up the algorithm

epik gamer need to come back

TPA, and boy am I glad AF messed that one up. That year hasn’t been topped for me.

Commenting for algorithm purposes Great video

Okay but does this video explain why Upset left Worlds? ;) Jk keep the content coming

Your videos don't show up in my recommended and I just have to hope I remember once a month to look your name up in youtube and watch your newest vids. They're always super captivating and youtube doesn't like recommending them for some reason. :/

Its a world championship albeit not a highly valued one (Like all the Green Bay Packers Championships before the superbowl era). We shouldnt discredit players for taking a part of it since you could say they are victims of their era (see traditional sports and race rules), at the end of the day these 8 teams took part of a Riot hosted event that they called the World Championship and played the players and teams infront of them in a competition to see who is the best, that is really all that matters,. Of course its gonna be a bit janky and not well thought out in the beginning, the fact it took Riot a few years to knock out the kinks in the format is understandable, they couldnt remove these Majors earlier since it would cripple the existining orgs and stop new orgs from establishing (generalisation). In my opinion there should be a pre-MSI or post-Major era to define championships before the format changes to LoL Majors but debates will be had for a long time lol.

the real one should be when all big regions participated. which was, season 2

In other sports, you don't disregard early title wins just because competition was weaker. Bill Russel isn't any less important in basketball history just because his opponents sucked. Wilhelm Steinitz is the first chess world champion and acknowledged as such despite modern Master players (so 700 ELO below the current world champion) probably being able to beat him. Same with every single other sport in existence - they tend to start small. "Yeah but they had another similar tournament months later and X team/player won" doesn't matter. It happens every time. Hell, it happens nowadays - the Club World Cup for Soccer isn't considered as important as the UCL, despite the Club World Cup in theory being even more stacked.

couldn't findt he story of shushei anywhere

Keep it up eventually youtube algorithm will boost you up and you'll get millions of views