00:00:00 Intro 00:20:11 sakowitz's doomer take: this format is unwatchable 00:48:42 NZXT break! 00:51:13 stevenator's take: fearless has saved competitive play for viewers 01:05:03 franz is fading from League, but GeneralSniper keeps him interested 01:24:42 weldon asks Exyu what he thinks of Atakhan 01:37:34 worldstar's take: Team Liquid has lost their touch 01:49:36 Outro
People who say fearless doesn't matter in best of 3 don't realize how much as a viewer you've had to watch the same champions played over and over again for 3 games in a row. Fearless is one of the best things that happened for the viewing experience in a long time.
The bjerg tattoo caller is one of the most ridiculous calls I've heard. He wants new players but doesn't care enough to pay attention to the new players we have? And a bjerg sig tattoo is so silly for such a clearly casual fan. That's there forever. Idk that was a rough call lol
Also trying really hard to imply Zven is washed, rather than still one of the better players in the league. Sounds like he just wants player turnover for turnover's sake, until he happens to hit on a player he personally connects to.
@ this! “Hardcore fan” he said but even during the boring parts, I’ve been a fan since season 3 and I still can’t get myself to not watch league even if I don’t play SR and only play TFT. And yet Zven has been great man has been pushing for everyone to be a personality and do media things for a while now, he’s been great. Dude sounds more like a player stan than a league fan
Best guest this year! Love having more personalities in the LCS and I think more people need to rewatch Travis's surprise test for the different formats of the split, it's really good!
While I know Travis isn’t a traditional sports fan, the Super Bowl is the #1 most watched piece of tv every single year. Having your 1 game of days be on Super Bowl Sunday is insanity imo.
Travis's take on the Super Bowl is actually just dumb. You cannot tell me the no.1 televised event doesn't impact viewership for LCS/LTA. Also, the fact that Riot puts this on Sunday and Valorant gets to dodge by playing Saturday, this tells you everything you need to know
Cheers for all your league content, Travis, but special thanks for the delightful video with MarkZ on Stormlight 5 ❤ Had a blast listening to that and think you nailed your takes. Book has some definite weaknesses, but very few can deliver the epic in epic fantasy like BrandoSando
If they doubled the teams for the first international tournament and kept the same format (2 groups instead of 1 into seeded quarters instead of semis) it'd be the perfect international tournament for me. There'd be minimum 23 interregional best of series (with every region playing every other region at least twice) and maximum 4 intraregional series.
You basically exactly described my normal LCS/LTA watching experience. I am cleaning the living room and click on the youtube app and see it's live and tune it, but don't pay attention 90% of the time. Surprisingly enough though I've watched almost every HLL youtube upload since you started. I guess I'm the weird LCS fan that you said doesn't exist haha.
if you really listened, the caller's angle is DIG and DSG, but it isn't just about dig vs dsg, it is about all the other teams not able to play each other either. And additionally, they only played against 1 or 2 of the teams instead of every team. LTA really just needs to start adopting the Korean and LPL formats where games happen during weekdays as well. These are professional, full-time players and play competitively as a job. Imagine if the government that you pay taxes for only works on weekends. That sounds ridiculous doesn't it?
Atakhan as a name probably comes from Turkish-Mongolic languages “Ata“ meaning father (as in Ataturk - father of the Turks) and “khan” being the leader of a tribe. So the meaning of the name is like, “father of the khan(s)” or “Patriarch of the khan(s)”
So what they need is pre season games is basically what Exyu was talking about with "high stakes scrims". I still think there should be like seeding matches just for stage game purposes vs the eliminated teams to see who's the worst ranked team.
I think fearless bo3's has been one of the best ways to watch league so far, being able to see a smattering of champion diversity has been great. I think for playoffs, bo5's will be interesting because certain players will probably be target banned as the games go further into the series, but for the regular season I think by the end of the year I may firmly be in the camp that a single round robin of fearless bo3's would be the best format for any splits regular season in terms of watchability
I think the issue with split 1 is that coming from off season we don’t get enough introductions to the newly formed teams. If split 1 and 2 were swapped, we could have a short novelty split mid year once we already know the teams.
Here after the Fly C9 scrims with 50k peak viewers to dance on yall being hella wrong. 10k peak is what yall said (and you were being “generous”). NA ISNT DEAD 🕺🕺🕺
Idk if this is adressed but the first callers argument falls apart the moment you realise it doesn't matter what format split 1 is played because of the interconference playoffs it will still have a massive gap for whoever doesn't make it into the interconference playoffs
I dont think Travis gives the "casual" viewers enough credit for understanding the game. Definition is pretty broad, but I think the majority of that group are familiar enough to notice the extra 10 portraits from fearless (if they catch draft). My brother asked me what it was and if they added more bans (he only watches when I tell him its playoffs/worlds). The craziest part is that what he asked first is if C9 left LCS for a new region.........only noticed LTA because he was following the channel on Twitch and didn't know what LTA is or who Lyons were. Thought C9 left LCS for another region /s
Hmm, kinda too bad that when a pro player is on the podcast almost no one brings in takes about the actual exciting games that have been played this week . After months of waiting (where we had a lot of format calls) we still talk about this, we all knew how this was going to go so stop feeling butthurt, finally we had cool games and suprising results. And before people say; if you want good calls then call in yourself. Being from Europe it’s just too early to call in man, sorry. Hopefully next week more exciting calls instead of doomer calls, It”s a new year and a new brand give it a chance goddamnit. Prediction time: shopify will beat TL and Fly will win vs dig🎉 *thank god for worldstar with his take
Doublelift, sneaky, and meteos co stream games, I imagine that brings a good chunk of views by itself. I don't exactly know what more you want them to do.
I think it's highly overreactionary to judge a team off two series People were freaking out over G2 looking bad in their first two games, and now G2 is clapping people. TL will adjust to this new game meta and figure it out. As will FLY
I think it's highly overreactionary to judge them off two series People were freaking out over G2 looking bad in their first two games, and now G2 is clapping people. TL will adjust to this new game meta and figure it out. As will FLY
00:00:00 Intro
00:20:11 sakowitz's doomer take: this format is unwatchable
00:48:42 NZXT break!
00:51:13 stevenator's take: fearless has saved competitive play for viewers
01:05:03 franz is fading from League, but GeneralSniper keeps him interested
01:24:42 weldon asks Exyu what he thinks of Atakhan
01:37:34 worldstar's take: Team Liquid has lost their touch
01:49:36 Outro
Exyu is so fucking refreshing as a personality in the pro scene.
Exyu is a legend for coming on the show, more pros should accept the invitation to come on!
People who say fearless doesn't matter in best of 3 don't realize how much as a viewer you've had to watch the same champions played over and over again for 3 games in a row.
Fearless is one of the best things that happened for the viewing experience in a long time.
Exyu is based. Thanks for being on Hotline big dawg
The bjerg tattoo caller is one of the most ridiculous calls I've heard. He wants new players but doesn't care enough to pay attention to the new players we have? And a bjerg sig tattoo is so silly for such a clearly casual fan. That's there forever. Idk that was a rough call lol
His sniper glazing just didn’t make sense with his take lmao he didn’t need all that back story 😂😂
Also trying really hard to imply Zven is washed, rather than still one of the better players in the league. Sounds like he just wants player turnover for turnover's sake, until he happens to hit on a player he personally connects to.
@ this! “Hardcore fan” he said but even during the boring parts, I’ve been a fan since season 3 and I still can’t get myself to not watch league even if I don’t play SR and only play TFT. And yet Zven has been great man has been pushing for everyone to be a personality and do media things for a while now, he’s been great. Dude sounds more like a player stan than a league fan
Best guest this year! Love having more personalities in the LCS and I think more people need to rewatch Travis's surprise test for the different formats of the split, it's really good!
While I know Travis isn’t a traditional sports fan, the Super Bowl is the #1 most watched piece of tv every single year. Having your 1 game of days be on Super Bowl Sunday is insanity imo.
Travis's take on the Super Bowl is actually just dumb. You cannot tell me the no.1 televised event doesn't impact viewership for LCS/LTA.
Also, the fact that Riot puts this on Sunday and Valorant gets to dodge by playing Saturday, this tells you everything you need to know
If you were at the Grammy’s Travis, where are the interviews???? Now you wont have the chance to interview Beyoncé until she shows up at the LTA
BRO LET'S ACTUALLY GO. I love exyu hyped he's on the pod
This turned me into an Exyu fan.
That Franz guy just hates that Zven cost TSM the finals..
Dude has a Bjergsen signature tatted on him!
Cheers for all your league content, Travis, but special thanks for the delightful video with MarkZ on Stormlight 5 ❤ Had a blast listening to that and think you nailed your takes. Book has some definite weaknesses, but very few can deliver the epic in epic fantasy like BrandoSando
Thank you so much! I'm glad we were able to make that video together. I appreciate the support.
If they doubled the teams for the first international tournament and kept the same format (2 groups instead of 1 into seeded quarters instead of semis) it'd be the perfect international tournament for me. There'd be minimum 23 interregional best of series (with every region playing every other region at least twice) and maximum 4 intraregional series.
You basically exactly described my normal LCS/LTA watching experience. I am cleaning the living room and click on the youtube app and see it's live and tune it, but don't pay attention 90% of the time.
Surprisingly enough though I've watched almost every HLL youtube upload since you started. I guess I'm the weird LCS fan that you said doesn't exist haha.
Aint no way someone's mad bc they can't watch dig vs dsg for 2 months
if you really listened, the caller's angle is DIG and DSG, but it isn't just about dig vs dsg, it is about all the other teams not able to play each other either. And additionally, they only played against 1 or 2 of the teams instead of every team. LTA really just needs to start adopting the Korean and LPL formats where games happen during weekdays as well. These are professional, full-time players and play competitively as a job. Imagine if the government that you pay taxes for only works on weekends. That sounds ridiculous doesn't it?
I am, I really like Srtty and Exyu.
Been nice to have new personalities in the space.
The General Sniper fanboy is a little delusional...
I love 100T River we need more takes on River. He is so underrated.
Call in to the show
@@_OldGrandpaI'm too dumb to argue my point 😭😂
Is he though? I feel everyone has nothing but praise for him
@@hotprintsI just feel like no one talks about him enough. I can honestly see an argument for him being the best jungler in NA
Thankful to be in the timeline where my boy Travis gives Doechii her flowers 🙏🏾
Pretty funny seeing how Fly Quest themselves cracked 50K in total for the streaming scrims after they spent 20 minutes with their hot take
Atakhan as a name probably comes from Turkish-Mongolic languages “Ata“ meaning father (as in Ataturk - father of the Turks) and “khan” being the leader of a tribe. So the meaning of the name is like, “father of the khan(s)” or “Patriarch of the khan(s)”
So what they need is pre season games is basically what Exyu was talking about with "high stakes scrims".
I still think there should be like seeding matches just for stage game purposes vs the eliminated teams to see who's the worst ranked team.
I think fearless bo3's has been one of the best ways to watch league so far, being able to see a smattering of champion diversity has been great. I think for playoffs, bo5's will be interesting because certain players will probably be target banned as the games go further into the series, but for the regular season I think by the end of the year I may firmly be in the camp that a single round robin of fearless bo3's would be the best format for any splits regular season in terms of watchability
1yr Liquid fan feels the team has fallen off?? Wonder if he's heard of "Breaking Point"? lolol welcome to the TL fanbase.
I think the issue with split 1 is that coming from off season we don’t get enough introductions to the newly formed teams. If split 1 and 2 were swapped, we could have a short novelty split mid year once we already know the teams.
Here after the Fly C9 scrims with 50k peak viewers to dance on yall being hella wrong. 10k peak is what yall said (and you were being “generous”).
NA ISNT DEAD 🕺🕺🕺
Give it a month king.
1:10:40
wow the first 3 callers have been ass.
Idk if this is adressed but the first callers argument falls apart the moment you realise it doesn't matter what format split 1 is played because of the interconference playoffs it will still have a massive gap for whoever doesn't make it into the interconference playoffs
I dont think Travis gives the "casual" viewers enough credit for understanding the game. Definition is pretty broad, but I think the majority of that group are familiar enough to notice the extra 10 portraits from fearless (if they catch draft). My brother asked me what it was and if they added more bans (he only watches when I tell him its playoffs/worlds).
The craziest part is that what he asked first is if C9 left LCS for a new region.........only noticed LTA because he was following the channel on Twitch and didn't know what LTA is or who Lyons were. Thought C9 left LCS for another region /s
Hmm, kinda too bad that when a pro player is on the podcast almost no one brings in takes about the actual exciting games that have been played this week . After months of waiting (where we had a lot of format calls) we still talk about this, we all knew how this was going to go so stop feeling butthurt, finally we had cool games and suprising results. And before people say; if you want good calls then call in yourself. Being from Europe it’s just too early to call in man, sorry. Hopefully next week more exciting calls instead of doomer calls, It”s a new year and a new brand give it a chance goddamnit. Prediction time: shopify will beat TL and Fly will win vs dig🎉
*thank god for worldstar with his take
I hope Exyu stays on the show during the break…he is a great resource…I hope he goes and be a guest whenever possible,😊
The Brian Scalabrine thing sounds like amazing content, so of course Riot won't let them do it
Does bjergsen or any of the old pros do anything meaningful to help support the league? (Genuine question)
Doublelift, sneaky, and meteos co stream games, I imagine that brings a good chunk of views by itself. I don't exactly know what more you want them to do.
top 4 tier 2 vs bottom 4 tier 1 sounds so fucking fun bro
1:45:10 Such a weird take. It's actually the opposite. If Palafox didn't play bad games 1 and 2 they wouldn't have needed the game 3.
king on the hill like deadlock fight night
No topic about the double upset this weekend? 100T beating TL and C9 beating Fly?
It's literally in the video 1:37:00
@ObiWanShinobi917 that's a doomer take about TL, no? I was expecting a hype take about 100T and C9.
Grammys over this past Sundays games.... whoops
Ive been waiting on this all morning!
Me too lol
This format is god awful. 2 BO3's and you're out. . . not even BO5's?! NA has become such a joke region
Tattoo's dont hurt that long
I think it's highly overreactionary to judge a team off two series
People were freaking out over G2 looking bad in their first two games, and now G2 is clapping people.
TL will adjust to this new game meta and figure it out. As will FLY
Man that couple of min that you got Exyu just sitting there without saying anything is so awkward.
But the pay off is huge love his personality when he does talk
EXYU!!! Lessgoo
This is the same TL we saw at worlds. I still believe in their potential but clearly they still have things to work out.
I think it's highly overreactionary to judge them off two series
People were freaking out over G2 looking bad in their first two games, and now G2 is clapping people.
TL will adjust to this new game meta and figure it out. As will FLY
Exyu is giving me Doublelift vibes. I like him!
I love Travis' taste in music
21:50 rofl guy is an idiot lol
he would rather watch a wild card region than see more T1/ BLG? shameful.
world star you are Iron for a reason. TL just sucks.
Iron take. Just say you're bad.
@@ObiWanShinobi917 results speak for themselves lol
finally a guest!
You can tell travis voted trump with all his import player hate.
LMFAO, never