LEC Podcast

What does it take to develop a roster into a talented and cohesive team? Following MAD Lion’s incredible runs in the LEC, their coach, Mac, joins the show to discuss.

Look out for us on your lunch break, Thursdays at 12pm CET; we’re available on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Youtube, and more.

Do you draft for comfort picks, or do you force a draft for the meta? Drakos and Froskurinn discuss drafting in the LEC, and are joined by Deficio to talk about his experiences at Origen and answer your questions from Twitter.

Look out for us on your lunch break, Thursdays at 12pm CET; we’re available on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Youtube, and more.

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Opening Segment

🡒 0:00 Show Welcome

🡒 1:02 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

🡒 1:18 The Good: Mad Lions

🡒 3:00 The Bad: Fnatic

🡒 5:25 The Ugly: Twisted Fate

🡒 9:56 That’s F****** Dumb!

Drafting in the LEC

🡒 14:45 Introduction

🡒 16:24 Meta vs. Comfort

🡒 22:32 LPL

🡒 23:41 Dreams on Yuumi

Interview w/ Deficio

🡒 29:02 Deficio’s role in OG

🡒 29:59 How the roster was built

🡒 38:51 Importance of support staff

🡒 42:47 Personality vs. Talent

🡒 48:36 How to improve mindset

🡒 53:50 Axe that missed Alexander

🡒 58:10 Origen’s slow playstyle

Twitter Questions

🡒 1:01:59 Question 1

🡒 1:07:00 Question 2

🡒 1:07:28 Question 3

🡒 1:07:40 Question 4

Wait, what happened there?! The first Superweek of the Summer is now behind us. Cabochard and Mikyx join Drakos and Frosk to break down all of the upsets we’ve seen that week, including Innaxe’s Aphelios play.

Look out for us on your lunch break, Thursdays at 12pm CET; we’re available on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Youtube, and more.

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Opening Discussion

🡒 0:45 Community reaction on LCS

🡒 9:27 TL;DR of LEC

🡒 13:05 Segment: That’s F****** Dumb

The New Vitality

🡒 16:02 Interview w/ Cabochard

🡒 17:23 Team atmosphere

🡒 25:43 Goals for Cabochard

The Week of Upsets

🡒 29:16 VIT vs. G2

🡒 34:53 S04 vs. Rogue

🡒 35:42 Innaxe’s Aphelios

🡒 42:35 SK vs. OG

🡒 48:39 MSF vs. FNC

G2 Esports

🡒 54:26 Interview w/ Mikyx

Ending Discussion

🡒 1:05:32 Conclusion

Frosk’s back! Kobbe’s back! We’re back! You’re back!

Season Six of the EUphoria Podcast kicks off in our brand new studio, to go over our expectations for the Summer Split and our current favourites for Worlds. Kobbe and Carzzy call into the show to give their thoughts on the start of the season.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Unfortunately, the full-screen recording of our guests this week was not able to be recovered for editing. We cut into the television showing our guests so you can see them better while they talk, and for future weeks this will be resolved.

Look out for us on your lunch break, Thursdays at 12pm CEST; we’re available on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Youtube, and more.

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League News

→ 0:00 Intro

→ 4:23 G2 Lane Swaps

→ 7:26 Perkz vs. Faker

Interview With Kobbe

→ 9:06 Welcome

→ 10:18 Thoughts on his time in NA

→ 16:17 Kobbe’s impact on Misfits

→ 19:11 Ambitions for this split

Thoughts From Drakos & Frosk

→ 20:44 That’s business?

→ 24:00 Advice to new players

The 4 Seeds For Worlds

→ 26:22 Overview

→ 27:26 G2 & FNC

→ 31:35 OG

→ 37:33 S04

→ 42:22 MAD

→ 44:23 MSF

→ 44:45 RGE

→ 47:17 VIT

→ 48:51 SK

→ 50:45 XL

Interview With Carzzy

→ 53:50 Welcome

→ 58:49 Toughest bot lane opponents

→ 1:00:53 Who’s the Hero on MAD?

Twitter Questions

→ 1:05:54 S10 Changes

→ 1:11:17 Thoughts on Worlds Format

The #LEC Spring Split has come to a close, and with it, Season 5 of the EUphoria Podcast. Froskurinn joins Drakos and Yamato to review the split as a whole, and things get a bit spicy as recording goes on.

Thanks for watching this season of the show. We’ll be taking a break for a few weeks until the start of the Summer Split. See you then!

Here were the tierlists we had coming into the split:

Team Tierlist

D-Tier: SK

C-Tier: VIT, XL, MAD, MSF

B-Tier: FNC

A-Tier: RGE, OG, S04

S-Tier: G2

Top 20 Players: https://twitter.com/LEC/status/1219961178182561792

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0:00 Intro

0:59 FNC vs. G2 Review

→ 1:32 Frosk’s thoughts

→ 2:49 Yamato’s thoughts

→ 7:06 Hylissang on Braum and Tahm Kench

→ 8:51 Teamfigting

→ 10:01 Draft issues

→ 13:28 Draft in Game 2

→ 19:07 Result-based analysis

→ 19:56 Message to Fnatic fans

→ 20:53 Mithy’s first final as a coach

23:37 Bonus: Yamato’s cats

25:23 Opinion on G2 bot lane

→ 26:35 Yamato’s thoughts on G2

→ 28:51 Reddit bias

→ 30:15 Skepticism towards Caps

→ 32:47 Upsets are important

34:00 Revisiting: Top 20 List

→ 35:40 FORG1VEN

→ 42:12 Cabochard

→ 43:13 Xerxe

→ 45:02 Message to Origen fans

→ 49:14 Wunder

49:38 Revisiting: Tier List

→ 50:43 Schalke hype train

→ 51:18 Misfits

→ 52:42 Rogue

→ 58:36 Good surprises and bad surprises

→ 1:02:41 SK and VIT

→ 1:08:51 Responsibility of the organisations

1:12:06 Bet update

Guilhoto and Ender rejoin the podcast to talk LEC Playoffs, Origen, VALORANT, and… flame.

Look out for us on your lunch break, Thursdays at 12pm CET; we’re available on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Youtube, and more.

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0:00 Intro

1:46 Quick banter

2:48 G2 vs. MAD review

⟶ 3:13 Guilhoto’s thoughts

⟶ 4:14 Yamato’s thoughts

⟶ 7:07 Teams that beat G2 in Bo5

⟶ 7:39 Caps as ADC

⟶ 11:38 Impact of this loss for G2

16:09 MAD vs. FNC review

⟶ 19:24 Guilhoto’s thoughts

⟶ 21:38 Yamato’s thoughts

24:31 OG vs. FNC

⟶ 24:53 Ender’s thoughts

⟶ 25:45 Guilhoto’s thoughts

⟶ 27:56 Upset’s performance

⟶ 31:21 Yamato’s thoughts

⟶ 33:57 How is the team’s morale

⟶ 36:27 Goals of OG

37:55 Comparing OG to G2 and FNC

⟶ 38:59 Yamato’s thoughts

⟶ 41:15 Ender’s thoughts

⟶ 45:48 Guilhoto’s thoughts

⟶ 50:40 Ability to make trap plays

⟶ 54:05 Is OG good enough for Worlds

55:14 RGE vs. OG prediction

⟶ 59:47 What champion should Nukeduck pick?

⟶ 1:01:43 Will it be a slow game?

1:05:30 MAD vs. FNC prediction

⟶ 1:06:51 Who wins OG vs. G2 if it happens?

With Round One of Playoffs around the corner, Perkz joins the EUphoria podcast to talk about his favourite picks for the MVP and how he’s staying fresh for the upcoming playoffs run.

Look out for us on your lunch break, Thursdays at 12pm CET; we’re available on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Youtube, and more.

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0:00 - Introduction

2:42 - MVP

⟶ 3:04 - What do you consider when voting for the MVP?

⟶ 3:26 - Perkz’s thoughts

⟶ 5:06 - Yamato’s thoughts

⟶ 6:22 - Multiple MVP candidates from 1 team?

⟶ 10:17 - Bwipo

⟶ 12:40 - Can MVP be anyone outside of G2 and FNC?

⟶ 13:22 - Febiven

⟶ 17:06 - Yamato’s choice

⟶ 18:39 - Who do you think will be MVP?

⟶ 21:25 - Jankos vs. Perkz

33:46 - Playoffs

⟶ 39:13 - Not playing on stage

⟶ 42:19 - Managing burnout

⟶ 44:09 - How Perkz manages performance

⟶ 47:32 - Perkz: 2016 vs. now

⟶ 52:00 - Secret to success in esports?

⟶ 58:11 - Playoffs predictions

Misfit’s Strategic Coach, Amazing, stops by on the podcast to discuss the LEC’s Bottom 4 and Top 6; respond to Yamato’s thoughts on MSF’s performance; and answer some questions from the audience along the way.

This week's EUphoria Podcast was heavily impacted by degraded internet performance in Berlin. Unfortunately we had to cancel our originally planned webcam video coverage for today's episode as a result. As we continue to work on our tech behind the scenes, we appreciate your patience! Our goal is to provide coverage on the LEC as well as we can, given the circumstances.

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00:00 - Check-in: How are we doing?

02:10 - A farewell to the bottom four.

→ 3:15 - S04, Amazing has hope!

→ 4:14 - XL, has the same issues.

→ 8:45 - SK and VIT: What do you do as a coach?

→ 11:59 - VIT: Do you wait for teams to “click?”

→ 14:29 - SK: Where do they go from here?

→ 16:40 - Taking risks, and “seeing the light.”

→ 19:28 - S04: The Best of the Bottom?

→ 21:11 - On “Scrim God S04”

→ 22:56 - From Twitter: Who is the Worst Team?

24:59 - The Break: Off-Topic Twitter Questions

36:55 - MSF and the Top 6

→ 37:19 - Takes on Takes: Yamato’s on MSF

→ 38:49 - Takes on Takes: Amazing’s Response

→ 40:24 - MSF’s Performance in Week 8

→ 42:19 - Quick Comparisons: MAD/MSF

→ 43:39 - Quick Comparisons: RGE/MSF

→ 46:01 - MSF’s Laning Phase

47:36 - Standings: Does it match skill?

→ 48:10 - Amazing’s Rankings

→ 50:00 - Yamato’s Rankings

54:01 - Is this the closest FNC and G2 have ever been?

→ 54:50 - Amazing: they’re really close.

→ 55:40 - Yamato: unsure, but FNC is on the up.

58:55 - Matches Upcoming in Week 9

→ 59:20 - MSF resigned to 6th place?

→ 60:00 - Is there a shot for MAD?

→ 61:16 - RGE has an easy road ahead.

Drakos is joined by Riot Triaged, one of the Producers on the LEC, who talks about the suspension of the LEC last weekend, and what the team has been working on behind-the-scenes this week to get the show back on-air.

MSI has rescheduled, the Summer Split is beginning sooner, and Grabbz joins the EUphoria Podcast to discuss what it takes to keep G2 fresh for the full run of a LEC competitive season.

Look out for us on your lunch break, Thursdays at 12pm CET; we’re available on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Youtube, and more.

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0:00 - Intro

0:47 - MSI cancellation

→ 1:43 - Reaction from GrabbZ

→ 2:31 - How will you prepare?

→ 6:23 - Motivation

15:18 - Discussion on League format

→ 17:37 - One long season?

→ 18:34 - Reason for risk aversion on stage

→ 20:56 - Sets of two

25:54 - The Break: LS vs. MarkZ

27:38 - Drafting philosophy of GrabbZ

→ 37:51 - Why is there so much surface level analysis

→ 41:32 - Patterns and predictability

→ 46:22 - Scaling vs. Early game champions

58:52 - Match of the Week

1:00:38 - How much time does G2 need to get into top form