CBLOL

Well, here's a stat for you that I'll show you how crazy T1's draw is, right? All of their teams they've drawn are pool three or four, except loss.

And that's because it's from CBLOL.

So they've even, by definition of the tournament, gotten the weaker ranked teams.

Like the highest ranked team is fucking lost.

Well, that show's only about LEC.

Sorry, Pete, we can only talk about LEC.

So if you now want to talk about CBLOL or LPL, he has to come on another show, doesn't he? And what do you know? Yada, yada, yada, here we are now.

So here's the question for you, Peter.

It's like, you look from Furious perspective, They had the toughest task of all.

We lost against them, where CBLOL completely griefed their schedule.

We had the most comfortable situation because we got to scrim in our gaming house.

We had to walk to the same studio.

The excitement is muted maybe for another NA hope later on in the matchup.

All right, let's move on to the second to last match of the day.

It's the debut of the not one time, not two time, Three-time back-to-back-to-back, six overall world champion T1 versus the team that shouldn't be here by CBLOL standards.

You know, we spent time getting to know Red Canids.

Ooh...

Yeah, because obviously losing a best of five to a perceived weaker region team, right? CBLOL being a bit strange, right? In the sense that they are now a major region, there are no minor regions, but they kind of inherit the legacy of being a minor region from the previous system.

losing a best of five without any other context to a Brazilian team as a North American team is one of the most disastrous results they've ever had.

However, it does come in the context of Cloud9 losing to Furia at America's Cup earlier this year and also having a real shoddy reputation when it comes to them in the clutch than when it comes to important matches, whether that is late in playoffs, games which qualify for internationals.

And he basically does this kind of thing for jungle pathing or like support warding and things like this, right? And that's something I feel like is kind of missed on other broadcasts, right? So yeah, definitely not.

So the regions, I'll just be clear, right? The regions that I watch the most are CBLOL and LEC, right? And the amount of detail, the amount of work they go into educating their fan base in CBLOL is much, higher than what they do in lec right and i'm not saying it's the responsibility of the main broadcast to educate the fan base about the game right obviously that's that's not something you you're obliged to do but it just it's one

tool amongst many put it that way it's not the primary thing but you should do a bit of it yeah exactly exactly

I also think as well, this ties into one of the reasons why I think core streamers have completely eaten the LEC's launch, for example, as a main example of a broadcast, which is because the LEC thinks of itself as incredibly bottomed up and especially let's never upset a fan base, by the way.

What are your thoughts on it?

I think, you know, Furia in particular, like, something that, um, has always been clear to me about CBLOL is, um, just I think that they create so much pressure internally, like, in their own region that whatever pressure that comes with international competition is, like, it's, it's almost, like, nonexistent.

I, I feel like CBLOL teams do a very, very good job of, uh, um, like, raising and playing to their floor in the sense that, um, you know, like, the context here is CBLOL, like, just played their finals, like, a couple of days ago.

Like, the, the, they had played on a whole different patch, and then they have to, uh, fly in to play Plains.

It's like schedule-wise, that is extremely, extremely harsh.

I think if, if there was any other region, like major region, playing under those conditions, it would instantly, like, be, oh, uh, alarm, red flag, you know? This team is not gonna perform as good.

Uh, but, but with, uh, Furia, I just have, like, trust that they will be able to fight back.

Uh, I, I think that in that, um, uh, there is, there is a resiliency that I've always appreciated about CBLOL teams, um, uh, as a reference to how they raise the pressures.

... also stating that I think you're, you're correct.

Um, but, uh, the, the news doesn't stop there for the LPL and the Chinese teams, 'cause as we have all of our worlds representatives locked in, the last one that we were waiting on was CBLOL, and we got Los Infueria with their finals happening this coming weekend.

Um, already some news is happening around the LPL teams.

Mizell, the visa issues-

I think that, uh, if they had just had better decision-making around the objectives in that game four, even with all the mechanical errors that were happening, um, they- ... could have brought it to a game five and then who knows? But regardless, C9 in this form, maybe slightly better if they can tweak some things, will be the team in play-ins, so I want to bring our attention there next.

KC is the big team that we're gonna be up against there, along with the Vikings, MVK, from the LCP.

We're still waiting for the CBLOL, uh, representatives, which is actually kind of scary because if it's Furia, um, they did beat them in the Americas Cup, so [laughs] that's funny.

Um, let's, let's get just like a, a hopium meter right now for C9.

Um, this is formerly, uh, the Vikings, but then they changed their name, and now they are like Mind Vision Kinetics, which is very weird.

Uh, KC's also gonna be there, and then we are still waiting to find out, uh, who from the CBLOL is gonna be coming, but it'll be either Furia or LOS.

Um, so one of those teams will be also there.

Only one team does make it out of play-ins.

[laughs]

So, uh, I think that's gonna be cool, but, no, I mean, I, I'm feeling, I'm feeling relatively confident.

Obviously, we don't know who's coming from CBLOL yet.

It is gonna be their number two seed.