teaching again

riot is going way too hard with these preseason terrain changes, like the new baron pit is fine but reducing the size of north america by 20% is unreal

Yes because Crownie being 400LP gives a complete picture of his skill level. He definitely hasn't been good enough to play in LEC at any point since he left

casual reminder that this is being organised by a government that executes gay people! very not based

you're justifying getting the saudi bag. i'm employee of the month at a bowling alley. we are not the same.

>over an hour long >deleted in 26 minutes

almost like they're different abilities

british healthcare

Don't like this depiction of Los Ratones as a content team, and the implication they aren't serious. I'm not sure I've seen an NLC team work harder on improving or dedicating as many hours as they have. You can be popular AND a serious ERL team

I get that loads of people are excited for the coronation, but Charles is just the next in a line of dozens of English monarchs. Faker was only the fourth person in history to receive an OGN throne intro (2017 Spring LCK Finals). I know who my king is.

The whole purpose of sports washing is the sanitisation of the external view of Saudi Arabias government. Gestures like this further their aims by demonstrating that Saudi is a "safe" place for western members of the LGBT community to go and work. Emphasising that the Saudi government is willing to make minor concessions to foreigners in the interests of doing business. But the whole opposition to the Saudi government is based on the treatment of their own people. This applies no pressure on the Saudi government to change in a meaningful way, in how boycotts deny them the cultural capital that comes with hosting an event like this. Instead it demonstrates how the Saudi government is willing to accept our cultural norms, with the tacit implication that we accept theirs. Make no mistake, they absolutely had the capacity to ban team liquid from wearing pride jerseys. The reason they have allowed it is because it benefits them.

Because I don't believe it is a win. It reinforces the whole purpose of events like this which is to make Saudi Arabias government more palatable to the west, and that oppressive domestic policies aren't relevant or applicable to foreigners so they shouldn't care. In an oppressive system change has only ever come about through pressure on those that have power, see the civil rights movement or the ending of apartheid in south Africa. You're applying democratic principles of awareness and incremental change to a system which fundamentally doesn't grant those concepts power.

Donjake everytime he speaks to IWD:

this is so beautiful. i'm constantly on the verge of tears. i never thought we'd have this.

NA has half the ranked server population of EU and significantly higher ping for the majority of the player base. Teams/players don't exist in a vacuum; there are systems that affect performance that they have no control over

WAIT NLC WAS ON BBC NEWS???

lost my event pass and was worried I wouldn't have a souvenir from the finals. met a proper nice bloke outside the venue that gave me his

i have been thwarted. shameful display really

the *current discourse* is being conducted in a state of collective amnesia regarding lgbt people. like alright engage in your intellectually flaccid tirades against "virtue signalling", but have you got anything that addresses the fact that if i was born in ksa they'd kill me?

crazy timeline that we're living in that i can't immediately disregard this as a joke

if you're playing in a way that eve can "just enter the pit" then you deserve to have it stolen

[LF Broadcast roles - English LoL PBP] Need a caster? Get in touch. This year I've worked on 🇫🇷 LFL (incl. Finals) 🇪🇺 EU Masters Play-ins 🇬🇧 NLC (incl. Pro-Am Semi-final) 🇪🇸 Iberia Cup (incl. Semi-final for EUniverse) 🇯🇵 LJL fan-broadcast Contact ✉️MiddlecottCasts@gmail.com

i'm not a marketing strategy i'm a human being

can we stop hosting esports events in countries that would k*ll me thanks

like for a nice couple of sentences

and by properly setting up around an objective you can make sure that doesn't happen

Tier 2 has always featured players that have dropped down from Tier 1. LR took a new talent and turned him into one of the best junglers in Tier 2. LR are putting more time and resources into practice and improvement than the majority of teams at this level. If this is what streamer teams look like then can we have some more please

i find it incredible how jake's managed to cultivate a group of people that have developed a parasocial hatred of him

Singed is confirmed, his name pops up on the subtitles!

Hey there LoL casters, I'd like to make you better at your job. I'm offering in-depth casting VoD reviews that will help you build on the skills you already have, whilst also introducing new concepts that you can incorporate into your casts! DM if interested!

the future

gambling is illegal in saudi arabia

i regret pressing translate

Wish I was full clearing on Udyr rn

crying. screaming. throwing up. (still training, little bit less imposter syndrome though)

IT'S HERE, THE @RUDDYCORP/@NOTDONJAKE WAITROSE DISSTRACK THE MOST HOTLY ANTICIPATED UK LEAGUE OF LEGENDS RAP RELEASING THIS WEEKEND JOLLY ESPORTS REPRESENTING THE HOME COUNTIES #RUDDYDOWN #JOLLYUP #YOUNGTORIES #ETONMESSYOUUP

throughout my life as a queer person, and my career in esports, my parents have been endlessly supportive. so when my mum sent me this vest she made i knew it had to make an appearance on broadcast. i know it looks a bit goofy, but if that isn't me to a tee i don't know what is.

Just clocked out of work for the last time. This esports thing better work out

hb me

Hey I'm LFT for LoL content creation roles for 2022! (❤️+🔁+vouchs plz) I've created shows for @LDN_Esports, @SQ1Esports and @TheUKEL . I also started my own content creation project in September called @LeagueworksLoL, which has already worked with several NLC organisations.

this is quite cool

LoL vanguard champs ranked on their ability to guard a van

the push to define women based on their assigned sex at birth reduces women to a set of biological functions, rather than the amorphous collection of behaviours/social roles that we collectively subconsciously recognise as representing "a woman". congratulations to the "feminists" who are celebrating this news. after centuries of fighting for women to be seen as autonomous and independent agents within society, you cheer for a ruling that places the value in womanhood as the ability to fulfil a biological role. not even the social role of parenthood, the anatomical ability to carry a child. you have the same view of women as a heirless 16th century nobleman.

if you wanna reach gold in LoL my best tip for you is to hit diamond and then become a caster

tried to interview a player for some content but he just sat on call in a suit smoking a cigar and replied to every question with a gentleman chogath quotes i can't man get me out of this industry

Thank you @NLClol! A weekend I'll never forget!

"Roster Investigators" are the dirty secret of esports leaks. I went undercover to speak with a man who claims to have worked for "every esports journalist you've heard of"; using manipulation, threats and violence to obtain roster information, without a care for who gets hurt.

They will confiscate the flag from you. They will cut off your mic if you try to speak out. By attending you erase yourself, becoming part of the machine and accepting the money inherently reduces your ability to speak against the abhorrent things the Saudi government stands for. What a headline it would be for one of the greatest and most influential and most openly queer fighting game players to not attend the bloodmoney event.

find it very strange that the comments on this are assuming this is over something trivial especially considering how well documented that actions of some "fans" has been in the past. massively underestimating the harm that people can/do cause without leaving their pc.

esports orgs consistently overspend on candles and no-one is talking about it

Bruh if some guy stayed at my house for 3 weeks he's not a guest anymore he lives here

2 years + 1 day Read: twitlonger.com/show/n_1ss613…

what do you think of their chances @Quickshot? #DFMWIN #worlds2022

DAY IN THE LIFE OF A TRUE UKEL GEEZER

i've been working on a website over the past ~6 months to help people climb in league. it's the last day of our closed beta before we go fully online tomorrow. here's our launch trailer, hope you like it!

ok mb

nice

if your response to seeing a women's League of legends tournament announced on reddit is to go into the comments and ask to see their opgs you are a very normal person and definitely not incredibly insecure

"It doesn't matter how strong you are, if you punch a bowling ball you will break your hand" - Confucius

A Brief Collection of Thoughts on Leagues: Disrupt Something I've often regretted in the past, is how I never pushed to study the arts more whilst I was in school. I'd always achieved well in the sciences and mathematics, but I also had this deep desire to do things that entertain. I remember one parents evening, after numerous reports of missing homework from my other teachers, begging my parents to just go and speak to Mr Philips, my drama teacher. I recall how emphatic his praise of me was; my work ethic, engagement with the subject and the clear and obvious love I had acting. This from a child who, not 2 years previous, had forgot to audition for the year 6 end of year play and ending up being a "lighting technician". Offstage having to push a fader once every 10 minutes to turn the lights on and off. There were three of us. I pushed the fader once. As my schooling moved on, I earned a BTEC (ew) in Drama with the highest grade, and was asked (once again forgetting to audition) to take a small role in the school production of Grease; The "Main-Brain" Vince Fontaine. As cheesy and over the top as the role was (and despite being very minor) I through myself into it. I recall spending night after night reading the script, practicing my corniest radio DJ voice, before the week where we'd perform 4 nights to our peers and their parents. And those nights were a dream, despite spending only about 2 minutes on stage per night, a bit part as the role is, I still hold it as one of my most treasured memories. Once I arrived at college I found the opportunities to engage my creative side were severely limited; I had continued with my more academic pursuits, and saw no need to pursue it formerly, if I could engage with it on an extra curricular basis. So when my application to the college's Shakespearean drama society was rejected (the only drama activity offered), I resigned myself to the sciences and maths. Subjects I still enjoyed, but rather becuase I was good at them, as opposed to an inherent attraction towards that area without consideration of aptitude. And this defined my studies for the next portion of my life, heading to university to undertake a degree in chemical engineering which didn't massively spark my interest, but I knew I could achieve. That lack of interest hampered my studies, causing me to repeat second year twice before I earned my bachelors. Post university I was completely lost regarding my future, all i knew is I never wanted to use my degree ever again. So I sat around doing very little, this was when COVID was pretty bad so I mostly stayed inside and played league with my friends. One day whilst I was dead on an ARAM game, I started casting over my friends as a bit of a joke. This provoked a surprising response, that actually thought I was alright and that I should apply for the LPL's open casting call. I never did make that application, because I was well aware of the gulf in quality between my casting and what the pros could do, but nonetheless it motivated me to start my own stream. Through a series of incredible coincidences that ended up landing me a role casting telia masters, which turned in shows for the UKEL, the LJL:OU, EUNIVERSE. Then landing paid casts with LFL:English and other small tournaments before getting asked to join the NLC in 2023. Over the past couple of years the NLC became a home for me, it felt so incredible to be the one bringing to life the story inherent in competition. To represent the players and teams, to be the voice associated with a moment, that in some way would stay with people. But alas the harsh reality of economics came to call, and after several years living in my father's spare room, I had to move out and take control of my life. I felt like casting wasn't ever going to be enough of an income stream to live independently, and do what I wanted to do. So I resolved to become a teacher, of maths, not of drama. And whilst I enjoyed the process of teaching, the maths was always secondary in my mind. Never something I was truly engaged with outside of the imparting of knowledge. So when an offer came from LeaguesGG to work for them on video content, approximately 4 months from the end of my teacher training course, I accepted the opportunity. This gave me the chance to make some genuinely creative stuff. But the scale of video always felt a bit lacking, I'm a big believer that constraints help you focus in on the core element of whatever you are trying to convey. However, sometimes filming yourself without lights and proper microphones does just limit you. Working at KB Hallen was an amazing opportunity to widen the scope of what I could do. Some of it worked, a lot of it didn't, but overall the event was a positive for me. If nothing else it helped me understand what worked and what didn't in terms of a live show. Then 4 weeks ago LeaguesGG asked me to be the executive producer for Leagues: Disrupt Stockholm. To be honest at the time I thought they'd made a mistake. That it would keep me going for another month or so and then I would restart the teacher training and esports would have been a cool thing I did for a bit when I was young and didn't have responsibilities. That ultimately I would fall back on maths, again. But I had no idea how much those 4 weeks would change me. I was enthused and excited by the prospect from the word go, but completely confident in my ineptitude. Running in blind to the role, but then finding so much help and advice to make it work and to keep me sane. My own ideas accepted and nudges offered to course correct where needed. After 3 and a half weeks we had something resembling a show, and all we had to do now was make it happen. Flying out to Stockholm I was keenly aware of the work we all had ahead of us, and the challenges we would need to overcome. And once we arrived we were presented with more. But everyone rose to the task, everyone it seemed except me. I was shaking, constantly huffing on the contents of a rapidly depleting vape, freezing in sheer terror at the magnitude of the beast I had to slay. I saw at this time all of the things I could have, should have done, as schedules slipped and delays mounted my fear only grew. This was all going to go wrong, and it was all my fault. But once again the friends I had spent the last month working with were there, to support me and push me on whilst I was losing my head. By the show start I was happy, the preshow content that we had got together was excellent, the vision and execution exceptional in every department. The stress melted away, only to immediately return. 10 minute delay on game start, 20 minute delay, 30 , 40, an hour, plus another half. As the time built up, so did the fear. Now it's all going wrong and it's not my fault, not anyone here's fault? What cruelty that we should come together push through only to be denied by fate. It was sickening. But then it got worse. That show which had been so beautifully envisioned by myself, was no longer possible. We had to come up with a new plan. A few minutes of discussion took place between people with decades of experience, I kept silent. I felt myself drowning. I could see it all going away. I'd been advised to keep my own emotions separate from the show as much as I could. And I tried so damn hard to do that, but I just couldn't. This was my big shot, after decades of pushing my passion for creativity to the side, this was my shot to show I could create and execute on something like this. That my desire to entertain wasn't just a weird quirk of my character, but something I could dedicate my life to. All those auditions I never attended, the fear of prioritising my happiness over practicality, it was coming back. I was failing myself again. In that moment when we had to make a call and I could see it all blowing up, something possessed me. The nervousness and anxiety and fear gone, replaced by clarity and resolve and focus. In thirty seconds I laid out the plan for going forward, and how we would make it work. There was no hesitation in my voice, or any rashness or fear, measured and assertive, with an authority I had never felt before. The rest of the show was incredible. I walked different, talked different, thought different; the person that so many had insisted was inside me was there. I think the hardest person to believe in is often yourself, because no-one is more aware or your failings. But so often that can trap you, and you start defining yourself in terms of what you can and can't do, rather than what you want to do. By the show end I was crying tears of joy. We'd done it. I'd done it. Something that everyone except me thought I could. Then to the after party, seeing friends and colleagues from all parts of my journey in esports, some even from before. A culmination of everything I've worked so fucking hard for over the last half decade, being shared and appreciated by the people that have been with me along the way. It felt so disgustingly fake. There was no way in hell that everything could align so beautifully, but as the hours pass sat at my desk writing this, I am forced more and more to contend with the fact that that all happened. I see the privilege of this place I'm in, but also the responsibility I have to you all to make something worth your time. I will continue to do that. Thank you, all of you, so much.

so the punishment for se*ual ab*se in esports is 5 minutes on the naughty step, a spot on your old team, and returning to legions of fans who have either forgotten what you did or never cared in the first place?

racist uncle at the family dinner has started being racist

Seeing a lot of people that are fans of this. Personally I feel the Swiss format has a lot of holes

this is what @LeaguesDisrupt is all about. esports is not just the game, but the whole culture around it, and that's what we want to celebrate

Seems like a decent pick up 💚

Happy to announce that I'll be working on content creation for the @NLClol this split. Expect silly little videos to pop up here and there, but also content showcasing our region and players. Learned a lot in the past 6 months and can't wait to put it into practice!

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wanna organise a lol event where we go all out on production. analyst desk, stats graphics, in game graphics, replays (with fancy camera control), custom champ select, post match replay breakdowns, live player cams in game, fancy scoreboard overlay etc. a proper tier 1 style show

love casting uni leagues

following the news from @Leagues_GG I'm looking for casting work (LoL PBP) this spring. can work in all timezones. VoDs available on request. updated showreel coming soon, but wanted to get this out ASAP

Women being able to work is liberating

i'd hardly say commentating is the most dangerous profession, but it's difficult to feel safe with midlaners constantly talking about needing to "one-shot casters"

LFL: We've got the most EMEA Masters titles Superliga: We've got historic orgs NLC: We've got social media managers releasing diss tracks for our tournament admins

1 hour until go time. i miss my girlfriend. i am very tired

i made a showreel UK based able to travel/relocate any business enquires: DMs or MiddlecottCasts@gmail.com

Last weekend was a vindication of the passion so many have dedicated to this region for years. It does not stop. We keep going.

i just cast on @NLClol wtf

🙃

it's not that it's being held in saudi arabia, it's that it's being funded directly by the saudi government with the expressed purpose of making their neo-feudal, dictatorial, oppressive regime an afterthought in the minds of the world. they imprison and kill journalists, they kill LGBTQ people, they oppress women; and they fund events like the EWC to mask and hide that. so the headlines aren't about how homosexuality carries the death penalty, rather how "modern" and "forward thinking" this absolute monarchy is. if you're working EWC, in any shape or form, you are complicit in this. your circumstances are irrelevant. it doesn't matter if this lets you live your esports dream for a little bit longer. some things are more important than that. you are the lapdog to an evil master. and the worst part is you already knew that

today has got me feeling kinda emotional. 18 months ago you'd have been forgiven for thinking our scene was dead. but in just under an hour I'm going to a live finals watch party. the patient hasn't recovered, but I can hear a heartbeat.

got an interview for an irl job on monday so was trying on some smart stuff and i refuse to believe the person in this picture is me

just had a quick call with the @LeaguesDisrupt team as a sort of mini-debrief of the event. you can feel the passion and love for this work from everyone. despite how amazing stockholm was, we're all so aware of the mistakes we made and how we can do better. but that prospect fills everyone with optimism and drive, not dread and fear. beyond everything though, there is an immense sense of duty. we owe it to everyone that watches the streams, attends the events or has never even heard of us to make the next thing even better. nordic and uk/ire esports has been so desperately under-served by organisers that don't care and don't have the desire to forge something exceptional here. we refuse to let you down. if you'd told me when @Leagues_GG took over the NLC a few years ago that this is where we'd be i would have laughed in your face. but now all i can do is smile.

If you're player, coach, analyst, streamer, personality or organisation who's UK based, or has recently worked in the UK scene, and is interested in making some LoL content please DM me, either here or on Discord (Middlecott#8276) RT's, Likes and Tags appreciated!

nice to see a player who understands his limitations

Calling all UK based LoL Casters + Hosts Got some broadcasts coming up that I need talent for. Will need to be either London based or able to commute. Paid (incl. travel) Reply with a reel/vod or DM me Tags +RTs appreciated

Exclusive footage of how people come up with tierlist rankings

great tribute from @Nymaera

If you're a LoL caster (PBP or Colour) at any level and want to improve, I can help with that. I offer in-depth (and free) casting VoD reviews that can help you identify your strengths as well as what you need to work on to hit the next level!

The fact that we have players/orgs from the UK, Denmark, Sweden etc. matters to people. It means something when 2 UK orgs face off, or when a Swede plays against a Norwegian. Every team in our league has engaged with their local scene. The national leagues are the NLC

"this caster is so cringe" "stop shouting" "talk about the game"

I'm organising a charity LoL tournament for the 19th,20th,21st of this month and I'm looking for brands to partner up with to provide prizes for the winners. If you're interested please send me a DM. ❤️+🔁+ Tags massively appreciated!

happy birthday me

the future: part 2

"actually average NACL salary is $350k"