Can the LCS be saved? / New Fearless Draft is amazing - Power Spike S3E16

[@lastfreenation]

What message would you send to dGon via the infamous LCK trucks?

[@papafoundry5537]

Fire your barber

[@MiiMiiOwO]

hes the 2nd cutest host on power spike, but much higher than the 3rd

[@randomlatindude2119]

@@MiiMiiOwOWho’s on first?

[@buttp0under420]

"Areas with 750,000+ people are not considered 'medium small sized towns,' you fucking clown"

[@MiiMiiOwO]

@@randomlatindude2119 it's obvious, come on

[@G2LoL]

How many 1-2's do we need until we make Keep or Kick

[@ObviouslyMich]

2 more

[@lastfreenation]

Commit to the bit and go 0-3

[@gnarlyguy9740]

You deserve it 😂😂😂

[@G2LoL]

@@lastfreenation we'll try our best

[@damiester1]

@@G2LoL Teemo top for the boys?

[@fireelemen6163]

Dgon: "thanks to our sponsors for keeping the lights on" Also Dgon and Dom: streaming from the void

[@TheEZ1997]

Thank you Manscaped for bringing back Ball Spike or Power Balls

[@lulkaku]

DGon actually goat for pulling through to do the show. America to Asia is a fucking rough time zone switch. Takes me like a week to fully get used to it but I'm terrible with jet lag.

[@treynguyen1236]

LA to Korea is not super bad. It's really just dealing with international flights and security protocols that made him exhausted

[@kai-takahashi]

nah serious congrats dgon, thats fucking huge, hard work pays off

[@TonyLee-fm2fy]

When Dom talked about good and bad players and being able to freely describe what’s in front of your face… It reminded me of what Thorin said… 11 years ago when he was made a Villain for criticizing Zuna

[@TonyLee-fm2fy]

RIP ❤️

[@Shreddasaurus]

Lol what? Everyone agreed Zuna was never good. Thorin and Dom cry victim enough alone, you dont need to do it for them.

[@theanonymouschicken169]

@@ShreddasaurusWhat no, can we not make up stuff and ruin people’s legacy? He was legit in season 3, where his role was to be a secondary carry like sneaky was while letting Mancloud(Best Native NA mechanical player at the time) and Xmithie mid jg carry the game. It was in Season 4 when they rebranded to XDG did *EVERYBODY* play bad and other than xmithie, they disappeared from the game.

[@liarsdice]

CONGRATS DGON! So excited to see you on LCK. Keep up the great work!

[@phoenix8632]

Shout out to Dgon man been watching this show and LCK for the longest time and im sure Dgon will be a great host over there and have great chemistry with the casts that are already over there

[@samuelballou4890]

Can we please get Dom to do one of the sponsor ads?

[@Grizzleface]

happy for dGon to be doing LCK. he's a good dude man

[@unclespunkle4063]

Full fearless draft with 369 Jax vs Bin Ornn sounds like the play to me

[@cryfest]

Gz Dgon, happy for you.

[@lulkaku]

Marco Zimmerman de Silva. Hell its long enough to be a brazilian name too. 😂😂😂😂

[@mhakeyhaughton]

They wearing black to mourn the death of CBLOL and LLA 😂😂😂😂

[@dunlosi1438]

Monte is coping hard on Canna, he was disgustingly shit in that Gragas game, enemy team just hard threw.

[@Lip836]

We LOVE you in Spain Dom ;). MAD earlygame is good, they need to learn macro past 15 mins if they want to get top 3.

[@l0jackspeter577]

Being from a town of 3000 and hearing Dgon call Boise a small town LMFAOOOO

[@chriswoolard7962]

Town I grew up has a sign that says welcome to Stacy, population 210.

[@eVillGaming-eng]

@@chriswoolard7962 my home village has 700 people with a church in the middle, half the population is like 75 so it's kinda fked

[@moonfall425]

tbh if you live in a place with only 3000 inhabitants it is probably a village, not a town

[@MichikoHoshi]

Being from California, he will call your small town a neighborhood lol

[@stefankatsarov5806]

@@moonfall425 There are plenty of plases that are towns and not vilages. We have a town whit like 200 people ( it used to be a very big one but it depopulated over the years ) and some that where big vilages whit over 3k and got granted the right to be a town even if they still look and feal like a vilage. Also in the USA everything is a called a town.

[@beatsbydr.draven1932]

I'm listening to the show on Raycon everydays right now that I got with code LFN, while eating Trolli sour bryte crawlers 🔥 Great show y'all

[@drewmalekith4614]

Ironic seeing this drop on YT the same day the announcement of the LCS, LLA, and CBLoL merger happens

[@lilvegedog5653]

Can we have an episode of power spike(or just a podcast video in general) that has an influencer from the NA community and the other from the BR community to discuss and exchange thoughts about the Americas region merge? Bc. now it seems these two sides are having quite opposite opinions about the merge

[@ogun6464]

If they go fearless draft in playoffs, they should go old school OGN and have game 5 blind pick

[@ThePolarpop]

But would all the champs still be unable to be picked during the blind? 🤔

[@ogun6464]

@@ThePolarpop I was being facetious, but the old OGN system was full blind pick. Any champ for either team.

[@spectranv]

Loving the new thumbnail but we gotta get an updated headshot for Dom. Feels like he's been using that one for forever

[@GabrieldoLago]

I love the brazilian colors on Dgon too lul too good

[@JohnDyr_Lawnmower]

To Dom: the Indonesian migration to Netherlands is 95% of the time due to the separationist war in the 1940s so many Dutch with Indo roots only trace back 1 or 2 generations to 100% Indonesian blood. Your grandparents might have been direct migrants themselves or children of direct migrants, therefore having 100% Indonesian blood. Source: Dutch with half Indo family

[@thelight3270]

Always a good idea when more content featuring my boy IWillTencent comes out

[@ThePolarpop]

You're so dedicated it makes me jealous man

[@CaioFehr90]

Great ADs

[@ip-sum]

And Keep the bans in ratio with the original 6 to X, rounding up?

[@IncomprehensibleFool]

Gz dgon!!!

[@ElReyDeNoche]

I loved the bo3 era with the double streams but yeah, there was an A and B stream running at the same time. They should have known and accepted that the series weren't goign to have the same view success. If C9 and TSM are playing in one stream and it was the two worst teams in another C9 and TSM are going to take all the views back then. The real solution would have been spreading the series out over the week. Probably would have costs the same as having 2 streams anyway. Shame we are going single round robin but with the official announcment for 2025 out I'm just going to look forward to that and hope we have some cross conference weeks.

[@Jose-cr3zn]

I completely agree with everything Monte said. It would be way cooler if Riot just had a playoff bracket with teams from every region play and just eliminate play ins. I would love to see playoffs for LCS be to beat Brazillian and Latin American teams. A super server mega region like lpl would be ideal tbh. Making the players play in Brazil also makes the most sense cost wise and time zone difference wise for the most viewers. Watching 24 American teams compete in Brazil for worlds spots sounds epic to me as an LCS fan.

[@hobobonobo652]

sad that raycon doesn't ship to Asian countries, I was already filling up my details on the checkout page.

[@slendian]

I don't know why they don't do the regional clash like they used to vs europe. Have local playoffs for each region, top 3 then competes in "americas" then we have a 4-6th tournament that each win gets points similar to when we played europe.

[@Cashmoneez]

Fearless is great bc it finally somewhat addresses riots problem of having totally safe broken blind picks like azir and ksante from being repeated every game. If anything the argument that players can’t play what their best doesn’t have a lot of teeth bc they will be banned anyways ala bin Jax. At least in fearless you are incentivized to let them play it at least once

[@chrisblackwell6112]

Pros should have broad champion pools fearless shouldnt be a problem i wanna see champs we never see not just the same ones

[@radwald189]

I feel sad for the Brazilians, CBLOL is going to be sacrificed for the LCS in the long run. LCS should be folded and have 3 orgs from NA sending teams down to Sao Paolo, if anything.

[@coler1744]

Bro LCS got it worse the CBLOL

[@willyoung859]

I think the questions is not “can” but should the LCS be saved

[@chamway3472]

Just me or can barely hear them at max volume?

[@CaptainMorghan4152]

Just you

[@Savaris96]

The next week will be a tragedy no matter what in regards to G2: Either they go 1:2 or 0:3, which would put them at actual risk to even making the Bo3s, or they are actually back in shape and come out swinging, in which case there will be some murders Or they will just somehow win games they arent supposed to and lose games they arent supposed to, which would be the biggest tragedy of them all: Mediocrity

[@lukenuke8991]

Yall missed a golden opportunity to do keep or kick for who loses the franchise spots

[@spartanvinc]

Targamas has been the worst player in the lec all year yet he doesnt get replaced

[@camfilewich5340]

I think Montes take about fearless being a bad veiwing experience is kind of a huge L. There is nothing worse as a viewer than stale af drafts and matchups. Like variety in games and strategies make it interesting and keep it engaging. From an analytical standpoint sure, best player on best champ is preferred. From a casual normy (which should be your goal of entertaining because they will make up the majority of your veiwership when it's high) Azir V Corki for the 900th game in a row is an easy way to get people to tune out. Maybe fearless is a little too "beer league" silly but copy paste doesn't seem to be helping viewership numbers

[@BornoftheSun89]

Shouldn’t they just move the league to Cancun so when they all get sent home early they get sent directly to Cancun! Skipping a step for efficiency/cost savings.

[@Iasleepful]

These ads are getting kind of out of hand. Though maybe I just wish the chapters warned of ads.

[@momentai8342]

43:08 Ay my fellow Southeast Asian

[@ja5140]

i though Dgon was going to korea, but it looks like he's in the void. oh north korea issues, he's in a blacksite.

[@iliekturtles2709]

Four Play the LFN culture show with Monte, Thorin, and Richard. The less cultured version of that show is brought to you with Dom and the sack called "Goon Squad."

[@FlashlegendSC]

Moist Esports is tier 1 in Apex legends. Might be confusing since Apex has so many unsigned teams but please don't spread misinformation.

[@millennimeme9401]

Was just about to comment this they were literally match point of the most recent Tier 1 LAN event lol

[@rockylee943]

Hero canna ? he made one or 2 good moves and was invisible rest of game and got solo killed while Upset played well the whole game despite hes support being non human, Canna did not win the game for them he done what a top laner should do and peel at one point when mad lions got horny to end.

[@HeLLraiSa911]

👍

[@Cheezperson]

nice

[@shinobuu__]

Its actually sad that the argument against true fearless is "we dont want to watch pros play champs they arent good at" These people are top tier players who should be proficient enough at their role that losing 4-6 champions in your role by game 5 shouldnt be a massive disadvantage to your team.

[@astolfo99]

true , one tricking is soooo boring both in soloq and pro ...like woow chovy azir corki oriana havent seen those , full fearless would be more fun seeing more picks and how they manage to win with them not just cycling the same 5 champs on every role

[@stefankatsarov5806]

The same people where part of the complaining that pros play the same champs all the time

[@ShirtsAreRare]

This is such an ignorant take. It's extremely hard to be world class at more than like 5 champs. If you have to be proficient at more, your level of play for all of them will drop. I don't think anyone wants to watch worse mechanics, at least I don't.

[@shinobuu__]

@@ShirtsAreRare there are pros who have been playing for 6 years who still play the same 6 champions every year no matter what. These people play this game for 12+ hours a day, every day for years. You shouldnt expect a champ pool of 6 champs from them

[@astolfo99]

@@ShirtsAreRare What are u talking abt there is no such thinfgs as world class mechanics its all deciion making and movement thats it u have 5 buttons 4 spells and 1 mouse button and i can guarantee you that pros know more than 5 champs they are not soloq freaks that never touched more than 10 champs in their life and thoso so called pro dont even play good with their main champs and we've seen it milion times

[@sotokorro]

Changes to the LCS are great guys. Most viewership is not coming from NA. It is a dying league nobody really cares about. Tune onto their main channel with 17k viewers and tell me this is a major region. No hate but NA has been in a slow decay for years now and they are changing things up for other viewers. NA best players are not from NA. 6/10 players from the LCS at MSI were imports. Bussio, Massu, Aper and Yeon have came up through the academy system but still have to get carried by imports. NA in its best form relies on upsets

[@InterMiamiFanTV]

Honestly the amount of DGon Korean talk was exhausting.

[@MiiMiiOwO]

dgon said the earbuds would fit in my pocket, i wear leggings, i feel scammed

[@SalmonDaddy42]

So Dom likes the team that drafts poorly AND throws 10 k gold leads. It really must be the hispanic heritage

[@bussinboots6616]

Nah i get a manscaped after listen to them talk about their family jewels fml. this is worst then KC games

[@chriswoolard7962]

The fact that dom has you scared to speak facts says a lot.

[@RomnysGonzalez]

I hate the 3 split shit.I hated on LEC... i hated before it. Is a terrible format. LLA is ok. The league was dying either way. So this is a safe line for them. CBLOL i'm so sad for them. They are being stripped from a league that was thriving for years in favor of force to save LCS If Riot is gonna do this thing, they better guarantee at least 3 weekends being play at Brazil and LLA. The league should be 4LCS teams, 4 brazil and 2 LLA. Then put a relegation on top. Brazilians either way are a better and bigger fanbase than LCS fans who don't give a fuck neither got any passion or love for the LCS regardless

[@SrPicolo]

We do not want LCS. We don't care about worlds/international championships. Leave CBLOL alone!

[@leevimasalin2301]

So like I was saying, about a year and a half ago, they finally will make NA a minor region merging it with Brazil. So like Riot said, there are LCK, LPL, LEC and Americas, (APAC) also, Americas is the only name that changes and the only league that changed xdd, there is no longer LCS or NA sadge, well it took 15 years for NA to die and become dead region. Riot is now forced to bandage and merge the region with a minor region. Well no one still watches NA so i dont think Brazil will save it.

[@randomlatindude2119]

I agree with everything you say but the amount of brainrot in that comment is hurting

[@ClubNicholas]

LEC already name changed to EMEA to get oil money

[@leevimasalin2301]

@@ClubNicholas actually thats true, the oil money is important xdd.

[@watermage25]

Ur wrong lol. Travis already made a video about it.

[@ioan9937]

It's so over.

[@wideputin3649]

God dgons the fucking worst STILL

[@janssonsamuel8005]

DGON need to learn to stop to speak. When hi is tire or high he speak alot and never come to point. And when some speak you dont need to say yes, that right every 5-10 sec. It fucks with flow in the show. But love this 3 guys best league show.

[@ip-sum]

I'm ready to bootcamp and help turn this franchise around, reportjungler NA#1 hmu teams, I'll work for nickels

[@papafoundry5537]

Latinx isn’t real