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Oh, one last little thing that we can leave a little teaser on because I'm sure that we'll have more to talk about in coming weeks because we've just got little snippets here, but...

We're starting to get cast, and this is something I'm not personally super familiar with, but everyone online has been going crazy about little snippets around Riot of the Riot music genre coming up.

The, what is it, Heartsteel? There's

Heartsteel, there's KDA, there's True Damage, there's Pentakill.

Um, and he did allude at some, um, connections with the, the riot music verse or, or whatever it makes sense in that, uh, in that interview.

I mean, Again, we're not really jumping too far to make that connection there.

But yeah, let us know what's your favorite Riot music group, and are you excited about any of them potentially coming to Riftbound in... uh radiance but uh cast nice little uh quick and clean just like the riff bound we're gonna be playing here nice and quick nice and clean here because we're we're just good at the game don't need don't need any extra okay i'm not but uh we don't need anything extra here um for this uh podcast and we don't need anything extra for our riff bound games but that is gonna be it for this one and a cast for Casanova for the entire Turnip Sideways crew.

I've been Blevins.

Yeah.

Every single time Riftbound gets mentioned during another Riot property, the game grows.

If I had to guess, I'd say less than 10% of League fans have actually heard of and engaged with Riftbound already.

Like, maybe.

Whereas Riftbound has, I think, a lot more going for it from the more abstracted from the actual gameplay things.

But if you're someone who doesn't have any resonance with League of Legends, it is just another flesh and blood situation.

But the difference is, flesh and blood money is not Riot money.

And the amount they can support their organized play is vastly different.

Or maybe I made money on the event.

There's just a lot of things that, of course, that should not be the primary goal on Riot's end, but I would like for them to create some sort of item that has a collectible value for TFT.

We don't really have anything like that.

Not really.

But, like, we've got to have something else, right? Like, I don't know what else to do because 4N should be able to go live his life and not, you know, have the whole story go away.

Well, I mean, the problem is, like, it's...

One, it's extremely expensive for Riot to produce their own product, right? Like if they were to cover every TPC, you are talking about a six-figure investment on the year.

Even with a skeleton crew, smallest crew they could possibly do is probably still a six-figure investment for just Americas.

He is suspended for his next match.

That is what Riot Games has ruled.

And that next match is a playoffs match.

That is tough that he will not be able to play in the next playoffs match.

Biggest caveat here is we have got an official word that it will be carried out by co-streamers only.

There will be a Chinese broadcast, I guess, but Riot has resigned to doing all these tournaments non-officially with co-streamers.

And it kind of highlights a little bit of the fact that it's in combination with Riot Games, but this is kind of what, if you remember that update to the terms of how people can use League of Legends a while back, this is one of those effects where there's a lot more organizers that are getting opened up to be able to put on tournaments.

And so these are one of them.

Go try it out.

It's Riot Games, so very cool.

Nice.

Very fun

You know what I mean? Like, I feel like...

blizzard made their like heartstone auto chess in hopes that you wouldn't go try out the real auto chess you know what i mean they they wanted you to you know you get like these are already familiar characters you don't have to learn a whole new board but like they don't have to do it that well they just had to do it enough that it looks like auto chess but not well enough that it keeps you from playing the game that they wanted you to play you know what i mean and like i think It was an unlikely fit for Riot Games because most of their games that they had at the time, the ones that stick out to me are League of Legends and Summoner Rift and, like, ARAM and Valorant were mechanically intensive.

While this one is less so.

I do think it's twitchy in its own way, but, like, I don't think it's as, like, mechanically, like... dense on a physical side, but still had a strategic element that you could really dive into.

Like it's this idea that like we're looking for these growth opportunities.

A lot of people maybe conceptually think, oh, I need to get into an Activision Blizzard or I need to get into a Riot.

But kind of the industry is kind of changing the sense that there's less jobs there and there are new opportunities coming around where even though the market may seem doom and gloom, there's a reset happening that may present more opportunity.

Or how do you see it like in terms of this reset?

What I'm always, and I mean fighting with in a kind of funny way, I'm always fighting with the community to get people off of the top 50.

Everybody wants to apply to Blizzard.

Everybody wants to apply to Riot.

Everyone who reaches out to me, I'm like, I get it.