Cyanide

So we had a death from one of the...

So his name was Cyanide.

His gamer tag was Cyanide.

He was part of the Fnatic team that won the first ever World Championships.

He's still currently the youngest person to ever win the World Championships.

Because then you get, like, that real temperature check, don't you? You don't get the whole thing of the hype before and then afterwards when you already know the result you can tell.

so normally i would make this episode only about what's going on now except for you know fan questions but we're actually going to take the tone down a little second so what i wanted to do at the beginning of the episode so we don't forget is there was sadly actually a real tragedy that happened in esports specifically league of legends quite recently which is even though this individual did pass away a few months ago we were only just informed in the last couple of days via a finnish newspaper that the legendary European jungler and champion Cyanide, who most famously played for Fnatic basically his whole career, actually passed away earlier this year, apparently based on the dates it's being reported, or not that long actually after he did that League of Legends classic show match, which was kind of like the moment when If you remember, we got to have like a bunch of old pros come back and have like a moment where everyone got to see them on camera and see what they're up to, et cetera.

No one knows the circumstances of what's happened.

We just know, sadly, that he's passed away.

I think the vibe of that fanatic roster was really, it was so cohesive because everyone was just on the same wavelength in terms of how they approach things.

uh through that also just um showed um you know an immense amount of skill in the game too i think cyanide was insanely talented really really good at the game and uh i think that you know everyone around them everyone that spent time with him always knew this is a just a person that says it spreads just joy uh that that was my impression obviously this was a long time ago i was very young young but this is like my memory uh of the guy and It really, really makes you think like this is, you know, at the age of 31, it's crazy young and definitely had an immense impact on League of Legends.

I think, you know, was it four years in Fnatic? This was a very, very strong period of Fnatic, of course, and He had an immense impact on the game and just European League of Legends in the early years because that's like the early years of League of Legends was pretty much EU League of Legends and NA League of Legends just clashing, right? And I think Cyanide was a very, very core part of EU history for sure.

Yeah, what I'll do is I'll give like the historian side of it for people who don't know, because understandably, there'll be a lot of modern fans that have heard the name or know it was a FNAC player or a teammate of Xpec and so on, but maybe they don't know who this player was.