The team were already filling the broadcast with skits and songs, but translating that sense of fun to something that people could do from their various homes around Europe was a unique challenge. Things amped up for the LEC team during the pandemic. More importantly, I think it lands with the fans.” “When you see the opening ceremony of a 10,000-seat arena for our first summer finals in three years, and we open with a Rock, Paper, Scissors competition, you show me other broadcast that is bold enough to pull that off. ![]() Which brings us back to the Rock, Paper, Scissors competition. “Once we saw the success and the response from fans, that got weaponised, and now we have a division of weaponised cringe creatives.” Henry is happy to own up to the fact that the broadcast talent now, in collaboration with Riot, look at ways they can play up to the unique in-jokes, memes and pure silliness that will appeal to fans of League Of Legends. “I think if you look at the trajectory of LEC, specifically when we rebranded and launched, we were very tentative and dipped our toes in the water with silly comedic ‘cringy content’,” admins Henry. It can be a surreal watch, but Trevor ‘Quickshot’ Henry – a League Of Legends commentator that has become the face of the game’s European esports – says this is by design, and it happened when Riot’s European circuit rebranded from the Europe League Championship Series (EU LCS) to the League Of Legends European Championship (LEC) in 2019. READ MORE: The 8 best PC games you need to play in 2022.While League Of Legends is a fairly serious MOBA, the broadcasts are anything but, with comedy music videos, bizarre memes and even a 10,000 seater stadium broadcast kicking off with a Rock, Paper, Scissors fight that pokes fun at the widely-mocked rumour that two of the broadcasters on that week’s stream might have got into a fight behind the scenes, during their playing days. ![]() ![]() If you’ve ever tuned into one of Riot’s European League Of Legends broadcasts, you might have found yourself a little confused.
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