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As a fan who has consumed more and more non-competition content, EULCS has blown me away. Sjokz’s interview skills (like with Deficio and Quickshot) have just become so f**king good. She’s like LOL’s own Oprah in a way. She can connect and talk to people and also share so much of her own growth to speak to people on their level. Sjokz’s behind the scenes videos gave me an eye into the fun that people are having and the camaraderie between everyone.
tbh tho, the rap battle last year really started it for me though. Then i saw the process, i was just so impressed. It seems like having less resources honestly made the EU team into a much better squad because they had to be to survive. The NALCS squad has improved a lot too, but it seems like they never found their own identity. In the last couple years i’ve seen so much maturity and human recognition of ego and humility come out of EU casters, while Markz is still too cool for everything, Crumbz is still casting as a paid analyst without even defending his reasons with nontroll answers, Kobe sounds like he’s a stoner explaining how cool the color red is to an art class. Jatt actually brings new thoughts and ideas to the table, but he still feels like he’s the oldest, most mature teenager in a group of high school dropouts. Captain Flowers is great, but he seems like he is coasting on his talent. Dash is a workhorse but it seems like his vision if how to be a good caster is to constantly think of what somebody else would do and try to do that. He went from improving a lot to being really tense and inflexible all the time. And Where’s the new talent? Where’s the risk? Who the f**k green lit motherf**king STOCKS as a way to bring in a bunch of gamers. And you know what? The gamers ON THE SCREEN are half assing it!! They dont even really f**king care about the content they put out.
Being an NA Riot employee seems like it’s so comfortable compared towhat EU was like, it’s easy not to grow. f**k man. Like, i know without a doubt i could do anybody’s job who isnt an in game/draft analyst better than they do. And i’ll get accused of being a Reddit armchair challenjour if anybody reads this, but f**k. It’s not about me being so good. It’s really about NA Riot just not having any spark of life for the future growth of their casters. Keep jatt, jeep dash, keep anyone else who works hard and isnt afraid to care about their job or take risks to improve, and drop everyone else. So many people could train a better next generation in 6 months.
This may not bethe thread for this, but if it werent for C9 i’d be 100% an EU fan because y’all never gave up and you never stopped f**king TRYING, and CARING, and showing. Up. Every. Day.