A healthy roasting of Summoning Insight’s nemeses kicks off this week’s episode, with more hilarious social media hijinks from Evil Geniuses’ staff drawing continued attention on Danny’s disappearance. LPL crowned JDG as back-to-back champions in 2023 and the rest of the Chinese Worlds contenders have been decided, so Monte and Thorin break down the teams who will compete in Korea in October. TSM has allegedly played their last game in LCS and somehow Summoning Insight managed to outlast the once-popular American team. Surely, NRG can’t pull off a third upset in a row to lock in a place in the LCS finals, right?
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0:00:00 – Intro
0:04:44 – Evil Geniuses check-in
0:25:10 – Sentinels and Leena
0:40:07 – WBG
0:49:31 – LNG and JDG
1:06:28 – LCK All-Pro and MVP
1:25:09 – LCK Playoffs
1:35:46 – LCS
1:48:03 – TSM
1:58:51 – NRG + closing thoughts
2:02:15 – Discord subscriber questions
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Lpl teams always get hyped up, but lose most of the time. Why? Can se they dont care much about macro and they are feast and famine teams. I'd not be surprised if jdg lost to lcs,lck, and lec team like fpx in 2020.
To be fair, every Korean LPL player except TheShy have gone to great lengths to learn Chinese. Kanavi, Scout, Gimgoon, Doinb and Rookie etc. are all completely fluent in spoken Chinese. Doinb in particular is also good at written Chinese, which is probably the most impressive feat for me personally. It's such a difficult language to learn if you weren't born in that environment.
23:20 "Wait! Guys! It's not as bad as it looks! It was meant to be a Charlie Chaplin moustache!"
omg thorin is a fun of sunny
zeus giga gapped kiin lol
About what Thorin said that teams with strong carry toplaners can beat JDG, I will just say someting – BLG and Bin. 🙂
I used HelloFresh just for meal ideas too 🙂 ran out of ideas and meals were geting stale.
"BeryL is Ruining Esports History" episode incoming if the Genshin Man actually makes it 🤣
1:51:21 BayLife
Seems like the only way to fix LCK All Pro is to have an LFN All Pro list. At least that way the correct information would be stored somewhere.
1:54:30 'Did you hear the news, guys? Leena made the list! She's on the Forbes 30 Under 30…'
Am I the only one who ignores the all pro thing altogether due to the lack of integrity? I always see hype about it and don't understand why
Jayce damage is insane. I think the only champ that does more must be GP
The 30 under 30 joke hilarious 🤣
Who was that dnb producer?
Crazy thought: Clutch player should be Bang in 2016. Just rewatch, how Gorilla and PraY destroy him on Miss Fortune and Ashe for 2 games in the greatest best of 5 of all times…. and then both completely disappear, while Bang goes 9-1-5 and 4-1-7 in back to back elimination games.
That is exactly the kind of clutch performances T1 is missing right now.
Come TSM, we at CBLOL welcome you. 🎉
Considering I don’t give a shit about league of legends but continue to listen to this show, man y’all could talk about frozen dinners for 3 hours and I would listen.
I would put a pc with all the esports game installed. (Some probably wont even work eith no internet but still) include some pdf covering the major info about each game etc which will basically be the info panel for each
Tian needs to retire or go to LEC/LCS and Wayword needs to find a new profession entirely or try boosting😅
@montecristo There are actually 2 million words of dialogue in baldurs gate 3. It isnt necessarily leagues beyond whats come to pass, but for a modern game to have this much is insane. Compared to a 3 hour COD campaign.
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Looking forward to a Manscape sponsorship. Thorins intro's and pun's could be hilarious to listen to concerning Manscape.
Jesus Christ monte got excited 🙁
The play where TheShy gets a kill AND escapes in a scenario that looked like certain death just encompasses what many love about him. Dude is willing to make plays. I'd rather watch people play like TheShy than play like Bjergsen or something. Give me aggression and attempted outplays over passive play outside of objectives
Edit: Don't forget our dollar general TheShy in NA aka Rich from DIG. And I do mean dollar general TheShy. All the int plays of TheShy but with none of the upside 😂
When we look at worlds rosters from LCK and LPL I´m pretty sure there will be no EU or LCS team getting through, I´m calling it here! Sure LCK isn´t done but I´m not counting DK, HLE will be the 4th seed.
Toplane: Doran, Zeus, Kiin, Kingen, 369, Bin, Zika & TheShy.
Jungle: Peanut, Oner, Cuzz, Grizzly, Kanavi, XUN, Tarzan & Weiwei
Midlane: Chovy, Faker, Bdd, Zeka, knight, Yagao, Scout & Xiaohu
ADC: Peyz, Gumayusi, Aiming, Viper, Ruler, Elk, GALA & Light
Support: Delight, Keira, Lehends, Life, MISSING, ON, Hang & Crisp
Please tell me if there´s even ONE EU or LCS player that could be arguably better than these eight in each role.
A solid reason, not the usual fan crap.