I haven't really done Talk At The Camera Menacingly videos before so I hope this came across well. Thanks for all the supportive comments on various socials and I hope I get to cast an international next year with all of the awesome talent involved!
Time to face it, Riot dont value your skills and expertise... you are one of the best in the business, you have a great voice, good on camera and you seem like a hard worker so hope you get some more respect in the future
Considering there are various LPL casters based in Europe, yourself included, it's actually so criminal that none of you got even one day of Worlds. It's been so horrible watching Riot neglect LPL English year on year. You've all worked so god damn hard, for a product that has such an uncertain future even now. Also you and Sam/Initialise are so f**king based for cataloguing the LPL games throughout the year, as well as keeping us viewers so informed about teams/players/metas etc. I pray you all still have jobs next year, and that eventually your efforts are suitably recognised and rewarded
You saying it's actually made you reconsider your career feels like a stab in the heart. Riot are blind if they didn't bring you back to LEC or for Worlds consideration. You've done a wonderful job building your brand this year, and I've really enjoyed following you over the last couple of years. I've loved watching the LPL, it's my favourite region, and I'm grateful to you and the rest of the team. Your such a wonderful talent, and while it's ashame it won't be seen on a larger stage, you've grown so much. Whatever you do next, you have my full support!
I'll be around as much as I can be, it's whether I can pay rent and bills really. I'm earning about half of what I did 2 years ago while working twice as much which is pretty hard to work with.
@@AlexNymaeraHapgood😢. ATB and i’ll give you a follow on twitch so i could show some support whenever you stream at least. You are quite literally my favourite lpl caster, and if you’re gone it’ll be so over for me
Mate, you've done such an excellent job, I can't believe people would criticise. Don't mind the haters. Hope you get a World's call up one day. All the best.
Im so shocked you didn’t even get co stream rights. Idk I’m not asking riot to be a hero and give a chance to everyone ( even though it would be nice ) But my god at least give them a chance to participate in any way… Thank you for all the content and best of luck moving forward 🙏
Dude, you've done an awesome job on the LPL. While the LPL generally isn't that popular with the Western audience, you have done a great job casting it and bringing attention to it. It's a shame as the LPL is a really "fun" region (whether or not you think it's the "best" or second best is besides the point) and really entertaining. It's honestly surprising that Riot has chosen to not have any LPL casting representatives for worlds AGAIN. I know those who are going will be trying hard to get up to speed on the LPL, but it really is not the same. A lot of the narratives will be like 2-3 years old and not representative of what the region and players are like right now. Keep up with the awesome work man; it's really appreciated from a casual fan in the west like myself who can't understand the Chinese cast.
hugely respect the grind you've put in to give everyone the ability to have the lpl with English commentary all year and I've enjoyed you, initialise, jamada, troubleinc especially but all lpl casters for this year and wished that at least some of you could've been given an opportunity at worlds. you guys made in my opinion the best league for game quality outside the top of lck, feel lively and energetic even in a situation that was optimal for commentating.
Nymaera, you are great, your casting is awesome and the work you did this year matters a lot. I‘m convinced that you’re one of the best talents in League and if Riot won’t appreciate that, it’s their (and sadly our) loss. I will remain hopeful to see you cast the biggest games in the future and give you a shoutout wherever I can 🫡 Keep it up, boss!
I started following the LPL a couple of years ago and when you started casting it you very quickly became one of, if not my favourite of the LPL casters. As soon as I found out that there was no official broadcast on Mon-Weds, you were my first choice of casters to follow and I am so glad I did. I have massively enjoyed the casts you, Sam and the various other talents you've had alongside you to cast what has been a challenging year and I guarantee that I will carry on watching every stream I can. It's not a great feeling to be left out of something, especially when its as monumental as Worlds on your doorstep but the outpouring of support I've seen for you hopefully makes things just a little bit better. I'll see you in the next stream - Katari
As someone who only watches LEC I was really wondering where you've been. You did a great job at the time and now I hear this. I hope you can maybe come back to LEC next year and become more stable financially, or just find a more stable LPL career, or just anything that both gives you joy, stability, and the recognition you deserve, because, from the outside looking in you deserve it.
Absolutely loved your casts for LPL this year, watched a lot of broadcasts during my time off over the summer and your analysis was definitely a highlight. Hope everything gets better for you!
Thanks for the grind you put in this year dude, you carried LPL haaard (not to undermine the other great talent). I had a lot of laughs listening to the casting banter between you and your brother. Oh and the particle physics puns during RA games are always.... *chefs kiss*
It sucks so much how riot neglects the LPL (One of the Best Regions in the world). From not promoting it at all anywhere to not even considering bringing the people that know the region the most. Even with BLG being one of the favourites to win it all. It's like they think the LPL has no fans in the west or something. I love watching your casts of the LPL and the vods + games analysis. You're the heart and soul of the LPL fanbase in the west. I hope riot reconsiders their desicions. If you do a co-cast of worlds I'll be there for sure. Wish you the best man. 🗿
You are fab! Everytime you are casting or on posdcasts you always have thoughtful and insigtful commentary. Can't imagine how much it must suck to be continuously overlooked by riot, but if nothing else, perhpas it softens the blow knowing that riot are habitually shit and have, throughout esports history, been utterly wrought with favouritism and nepotism. You are amongst good comapny of people who riot take the piss out of and sideline on the regular. Stay strong, hyped to hear more form you in the new season (or in the off if you're making content!).
Always appreciated your casting and game knowledge. You deserve better, and have continuously been the bigger person, and taken on the more difficult jobs in the industry. Sounds like a lot of life has been hard mode, and you're all the more impressive for it. I hope you get your due. And not just because an event is at your doorstep, but because you deserve to be flown out to be there. People should be on your side, and I hope you and organizers see that we are. Thank you for your work and effort. There would be a void without you. That's not an obligation to fill it, just another thing to appreciate.
I haven't been into esports for very long and I mainly follow the LCK as someone who speaks Korean, but you've made me want to follow the LPL more closely. Your perspectives and approach to casting and your work in general is really admirable and it sucks to see that all that effort has been snubbed. I would totally understand if this made you pivot into a different direction and focus more on building a personal brand but I hope you know that there are still lots of people who appreciate the work that you do for the LPL and the lolesports community at large.
You seem like such a chill dude, and I think your analysis is some of the best in the world; it's never baseless narrative, it's never reductive or hyperbolic, and you always quote examples of the things you're talking about. It's clear that your analysis is this good because the amount you watch, and the amount you remember, as you're clearly a smart guy. I'd love you to find some way to make a living out of this, if the talent hiring team for Riot have some kind of issue with you, maybe there's a whole other angle that none of us have thought of yet which you coild pioneer...we don't have an equivalent of Match of the Day? Theres a youtube channel with game highlights. But there isnt a show which plays/curates those highlights and then gives analysis and punditry before/after showing them. It's a lot of work though 🙃 just throwing something out there. Good luck bouncing back!
Keep up the great work Nymaera I hope they sort their shit out and you get to cast next year man. You're a great talent look forward to more of your content :D
Your point about the archives is so true. As a long time League fan, it's sad when I look through the wiki of early seasons and there are no vods. Your costreaming of the LPL was the most professional of the english options and thats the reason I leaned towards watching it live, but the archive is invaluable as well.
Never give up and keep up ur work, if u stabilise your own audience you will get higher chance to get costream rights next year and also income possibility. Remember that quitters never win and winners never quit. And you just started growing numbers. And your streams were literally saving grace when literally No one could find other sources. I really appreciate the fact that you were so dedicated and lowkey inspiring in your positivity and consistency. DO NOT GIVE UP.
kiorun the goat for following during a off-stream recording o7 fr tho i hope riot starts recognizing the amount of effort you put into their game at SOME point. god it's infuriating to hear about :C
LPL always had good and great casters, where some of them started there (not necessary the ones I'll mentioned next, but some did from this list, too), Atlus, PapaSmithy (now FLY manager), Aux, Dagda, Hysterics and others.
I understand your personal frustrations, and I'll also echo the general fan sentiment it feels disrespectful to not have a SINGLE LPL broadcaster at worlds, a tournament there's a probable chance one of those teams will win. I would love to see you on dom or yanato's co stream if that's something doable. You're a great talent and i want to see your work succeed
I feel really bad for you and I really wish Riot will contact you next year. You are one of my favourite casters and I love watching LPL with you casting it. I hope your situation to change in the future as soon as it could.
How sad cause your my favorite caster together with chronlicler 🥺 you do such a great work all of the year and i am really sooooo thankful for your casts when there is no international lpl stream. Good luck next time 😢
Hey Nymaera, thanks for your wonderful work. I have watched lots of your casted LPL games. Perhaps it would be beneficial for you to create something like Contribee? You could do some content there and it would let you pay the bills easier. It works as subscriptions. I think many of us would join that for your quality content.
I'm a big fan of your content. I liked you in LEC, I like you in different podcasts (90% of the reason I watch Rich's podcasts is because you are in them). The main reason I like your content a lot is because you are very analytical and explain a lot of details of what's going on, which is something I do for myself anyway because I'm a gigantic nerd when it comes to League, but you are extremely knowledgable about the game and I learn a lot from listening to you, the same way I love watching when Caedrel or Dom go full analytic nerds, that's my jam when it comes to lolesports content. Sadly, I can barely watch your LPL casts because they tend to start between 2 and 4 am here and I still have some respect for my sleep schedule, and I truly think you (and other LPL casters too, I just can't point out other names because like I said, I can almost never catch the broadcasts) deserved a spot at Worlds, and the english LPL broadcast talent has been extremely neglected by Riot for ages at this point, despite it being the best (or, at worst, 2nd best) region in the world, which is insane to me. I wish you had the chance to be on broadcast, or at least costream it, but if you choose to live view the games, you'll find me in your chat. Wish you the best
You have grown so much in your career since I first saw you on summoning insight as the LJL expert. You have become more confident and, imo, have had great trajectory. If you decide to quit casting, no one would blame you. I do believe though you will get the world’s gig one day.
you really ARE one of the best casters, you've been doing this for ages, LJL, LPL and even LEC, idk why you havent been brought back to LEC, maybe you didnt have time idk. not many people are more knowledgable about the current state of LPL... why they cannot bring you in is not only bullshit but frankly seems planned and strategical. F Riot
It's always been hard there. Hysterics was killing it in the LPL for years and never was called for worlds. The moment he made it to the LEC, he gets to worlds (I am happy for him). Riot does not care about the LPL casting, it is pretty clear.
The company is not Riot, it's lolesports. It's a separate company and IT is the one handling people. Riot, as a whole, is very good to its employees. Even in these crazy layoffs this year, the benefits they got were the most generous I've ever seen from any tech company, ever. It's definitely a sour spot not to have people like this invited but it doesn't mean there is no care. Esports is hard to work with. It's a relatively new industry where everyone without exception are still getting used to it. If you want this type of stuff to happen less, keep supporting the scene. Keep watching. Keep talking. If you can afford it and value the items and experience, go buy tickets and merch. Maybe even engage in social media if you're that type of person. As long as esports is struggling, you'll see more cases like this where some people are put to the side because of priorities. Every single ticket sale matters. And playing favorites and only doing some and not others really hurts work relationships. It's a very complex ecosystem. So while we can feel bad an sympathize from the sidelines, there is a lot of room to also sympathize with the business side of things which we sadly don't get much inside information on. LEC was cut in half too. There are huge reshapes to the Americas region as a whole, so LCS is also getting smaller. Corners are being cut everywhere and experimentation is rampant because, again, this industry is still finding its footing. Riot is usually incredible when it comes to being the second to do something. In esports they are the leaders. So if they fail, most esports will likely fail for the foreseeable future. And yes, it also means cutting people off of co-streams. Not sure if you know, but the more co-streamers the less value sponsors get and the less value the production itself gets. I always watch the main broadcast and then catch up later on series or matches I care about from other personalities (like Caedrel or YamatoCannon). One of the reasons is that I want to support the broadcast. So, until this industry is sustainable enough, this types of things will just keep happening because they have to happen. No matter what your morality states, the real world doesn't care and you can't run a business on your wants. You need to manage resources at the end of the day and if they are not available, some things will suffer. The fact we have what we have, to me, as someone who loves economics and doing personal analysis of various sectors of the economy, this is mind blowing. Sports are really hard to monetize. You have to have EXTREME interest from an absolute massive section of the world's population. Soccer and Basketball are this big only because enough people care. I don't but many of my friends do. American Football is cared about almost exclusively by the US population but its to such a degree that it makes up for it. Now go to volleyball or water polo or chess or speed cubing or marathons or esports and the levels of interest are so much smaller. While I love esports and engage with it with quite a bit of my free time, I can't carry it alone and neither can you. It has to be bigger than that. I keep a friend of mine updated and so he sometimes watches and wants to go to events and it makes playing the game with him more fun. But that's almost all I could do. I have other friends who play League and they couldn't care less about Faker or LEC or esports in general. They either follow traditional sports or they don't follow anything of the sort - they prefer watching Netflix or reading books or smth. When (and if) esports becomes big enough, these situations will happen far less. It's a money problem. And being "nice" doesn't solve it unfortunately.
Riot is an absolute joke, to not even bring even ONE LPL Caster for a top 2 region to talk about their history, players and stories is an absolute travesty.
will be watching your lpl costreams if you do them next year, i didnt know the amount of work you guys were putting in and as an lpl fan who didnt get to watch many games. really appreciate the work and i think its disappointing that a league this big cant find a bit more of a budget to share their games with international audiences...
As bittersweet as it is to say, you're a living proof of how hard work and talent doesn't always lead to greatness. You have been neglected for too long and it pains me. You are one of the most brilliant minds in the league scene. I remember when Montecristo left the LoL scene and I felt like you came along and carried his torch with the same great wit and analysis. I really hope that things will fall into place for you in the future and that you get what you deserve. All the best to you!
It's a real shame. At a minimum, I was praying you would be on the broadcast to celebrate the Hawks, tell those stories that are so consistently missed for minor teams, and throwback to our LJL days. You and Sam have been doing insane amounts of work to keep the caster dream alive, and it's disappointing you can't round off the year with Worlds. ♥
You can be genuinely proud of your body of work this year Nymaera. I have mainly followed LEC, with a bit of LPL and LCK. And it's only when we watch LPL and LCK can we appreciate what good casting actually is, and what a loss it is for the LPL crew especially to not be there. LEC casters in general did NOT have a good year and IMO should have had only 2-3 people at Worlds. I hope you will be able to continue analyzing worlds with Rich and Keire, and hell - maybe you can do something similar to "Bangers only" that Monte does.
Yo Nymaera! Ive listened Summoning Instight, Side-select about the topic of LPL casters not being called up for internationals. Correct me if im wrong, but in the past the main argument was that LPL casters have none or very few stage/stadium casting experience and I think this reasoning still remains. Nevertheless keep your heads up! I remember Lyric in 2021 at worlds and Munchables last year at play-ins, so LPL casters NEVER being at worlds is definately innacurate, so if you are passionate about the game as you are right now, it will be just matter of time!
@@AlexNymaeraHapgood Ok, I see! Once you get invited, you will find your synergy with the others and youll become integral to the international crew, dont worry!
It's an absolute war crime that you aren't casting worlds. It's like you said it's so much more work to cast LPL than any other league and always has been. That alone should garner you more respect from Riot let alone how good your casting is. Same goes for all the other LPL casters. Not having a single one of you at worlds when LPL arguably have the most teams that could WIN THE TOURNAMENT is completely nuts.
Riot are a toxic company. They obviously aren't selecting based on merit or what's best for the broadcast. You are conscientious, driven, intelligent, articulate, and young - the world is your oyster.
I really thought this would be the year too, and im very surprised it wasnt. I feel like slowly theres a group of casters that formed that will just go to worlds no matter what. And thats a shame. Dont like that its turning into an exclusive social club.
Hey nymaera, hope you're well! Im sorry to hear you didnt get costreaming or a love slot for worlds! As a fellow "physics gratuate wait i dont like physics" person, i can relate a lot. To me at least it kind of feels like a choice between doing something i know will lead to a moderately wealthy boring life, and forging my own path. I'm currently a carer for my wife and her parents, but finishing up the last few eleemnts of coaching and personal development qualifications! If i had spare money id donate to your patreon, but untill i have some more clients, the best i can offer is some free coaching sessions, or a couple of questions that may help you decide what you want to do! What avenues exist within your control that allow you to cast worlds? Think of the caster you admire the most, what do you think is their most noticeable quality? How can that inform your future development? Hope this is helpful if youve read this far, and all the best for the future!
It's a real shame. Riot has some favourites that don't make sense to me. The bare minimum of having some LPL and LCK English casters not even being met despite both having the best casters in the scene and covering the best leagues on the planet is disgraceful. Nepotism seems to be the root of it. I am sick of it. I hope that you find better pastures while pursuing your interest in casting if you stick with it and want to leave LoL altogether. You're good at what you do, mate. I always enjoy your insight on the regions you choose to cover.
My personal opinion is. I wish they would have one big caster and one smaller caster for the play ins. Then if there like keep them if not at lest there had there time in the sun. It's been the same thing every year even when it was lpl vs lpl and no lpl caster I was mad.
I personally like that the wildcard regions casters are always the ones casting worlds. You know those weak Regions like PCS, VCS, LCS and LEC that has the least amount of game experience and game knowledge for their lack of high quality gameplay and low number of games casted. I personally just like hype casters, casters that are experts on rambling or is trying to make horrible plays sound good, is a perfect match for worlds where only the best players in the world get to compete and the wildcard regions are there to. If you spotted the sarcasm here, I salute you.
I'm sorry man, really feel for you and the rest of the team. Disgusting and careless decision from Riot as per usual. I guess it comes down to self interest but I do struggle to understand how casters from other regions haven't advocated more for LPL casters at international events? The nepotism is so frustrating. Best of luck for the future and all the respect for the work you've put in. Don't let them gaslight you, you're a great caster!
That’s totally fine actually, casting is subjective to a degree. However the LPL has an absolutely huge amount of games; 500+ per year, and that amount of gameplay makes it very hard to keep on top of the most important stories in the region. Not having LPL casters at worlds may cause issues because these teams may well win the whole event, and it’s very very hard to deliver the best material on broadcast if you haven’t followed them through these huge amounts of games.
I consistently watch all of the top 4 leagues and what Riot did to the eastern regions this years Worlds is so bs , especially LPL. Yourself , alongside Trouble and others made the league so much more fun and accessible to the western audience. The fact that Riot didn't even bother inviting you guys is laughable and quite disappointing. Thank you for the hard work and I hope to see you keep doing this next LPL season aswell,hopefully Riot will actually give you a shot as you rightfully deserve.
I dont even understand why riot doesnt give costreaming rights to every caster considering its idk, literally taking away nothing from them except maybe, their highest view number which they can show to their sponsors
I can't tell if you were one of the best LPL casters or the middle one, but it feels like Riot has an insane hate boner towards LPL, and I think currently Nymaera is one of the more enjoyable casters out there. I hope LPL will continue to get attention and get an actual budget to work with (I get doing regular season online but still, at least do finals live and playoffs in a studio, and give casters a small budget for whatever they wanne do).
I feel like your dedication to the game is being robbed. The work you put in to documenting LPL for english speaking viewers is critical in delivering an experience to hardcore League fans that riot is failing at. And some of those were big name matchups. Keep it up if it suits you and the people who want this level of content will hopefully continue to support you.
Why doesn't the lpl have in person casting like the lck does? All of the problems with sound quality and casting difficulties would be solved by just not making all your casters live in a different continent, and lpl would get a lot more viewers
The viewership is not related to that, at some point they were living in Shanghai till 2019 and streaming from stage. Now because of budget, they do it this way.
If Riot is the only one listening and the one that takes the decisions, it'll only lead to exclude them even more. When there was that situation of NA orgs wanting to drop their academy teams, nobody wanted to directly support them, just a moral support, because Riot would have changed them and that's it.
At this point it seems Riot is trying to thin out all broadcast teams to bare bones only consisting of members with the highest clickabilty. And push all other engagement to co-streamers who for the most part already built their fanbase. Riot just wants to live in a world where they can farm the most engagement all while spending the least amount of money. They don't care about people streaming and actually casting the game well. They only want the numbers. The amount of people on the list who haven't actually co-streamed a single League game is ridiculous. To add always have had much respect for your view on League and what your bring to the table. But I just don't watch LPL with any consistency for years now. From someone who watched every game in all major regions for years since '13, LPL always felt the hardest to feel objectively connected to. So many format changes and format revisions. Not aguring it at points wasn't a better model but was just easier to have access at convenient times from all other regions.
Unfortunately, we all know Riot doesn't pick casters based on expertise, skills and merit. They have shown consistently how incompetent they are managing the esport part of their activity and are the main reason why the game is slowy but surely dying.
The truth is that you wouldn't bring any new viewers to Worlds and would just split the viewership. Consider either diversifying your brand (moving into more general esports or variety digital entertainment) or making your platform bigger either through: 1. Producing regular content with bigger platforms like IWD (podcast/content on LFN and try to join the sack regularly) or ideally Caedrel 2. Start covering things people actually care about, major regions like LCK ideally. 3. Stop spending your time with dead end time drains like LJL. Sadly less than a percent of a percent of western viewership really gives a fuck about how the japanese teams do internationally and even less so about the LJL in general. You cannot spend time there and expect good things to come to you.
LCK fans and their silly noses in the sky. In which way, even if it happens, it affects splitting the viewership? It still counts for Riot as viewers, if not they just pick 1 co-streamer per languages. People watches the WC, because it is that. Subjectively, I don't even pay attention to what the casters say, it just works as background sound for the hype.
"2. Start covering things people actually care about, major regions like LCK ideally." You know that LPL is the other major region right? of which, he is almost undeniably the best caster
@@TheKingThEmperor I am aware, but most western viewers don't really care for watching the LPL. The LCK is far more popular here, and I'm saying this as an LPL fan.
@@dazh686 I don't even watch the LCK if Gen.G isn't playing currently, I'm not a fan of that league. But you know who are? Western viewers who are awake when it's on, aka most of Europe.
I mean you dont have any engagement, co-streaming is more than just about knowledge of the game. You have 2k youtube subscribers, i have no idea who you are, and id recommend building your brand outside of LPL and bring in other people from other games and regions to watch you talk about LPL. Youre very monotoned, and if you want to engage people you need to change it up, like caedral.
I had average 3-5k viewers for LPL costreams this year, and am well known in the league esports scene I’m monotone in this video because I chose to be very laid back and low intensity, my streams and casts are much different
@AlexNymaeraHapgood okay, English isn't my best? The point still stands brother. If you had more engagement on youtube, could gather more people from outside of the usual league scene. If you're going to insult people for giving you criticism, even if you don't accept, you will not be any further ahead next year man
@@creamofthecrop5563 that wasn’t an insult, it was debunking a comment you made confidently without really having enough context on to speak with authority on. I don’t believe the point stands, I’ve done a lot to build my brand off of this channel, and videos like this exist partly to build my brand here! TH-cam is not the only platform out there. I’ve also already been involved with content and broadcasts for other regions. I’m on a weekly podcast for LEC and LCK which get good viewership, and was just on hotline league and summoning insight in the am last day which are two of the largest esports podcasts out there. I was also on one of Caedrel’s videos about playins. I have done an awful lot of work to build my brand and presence which.
@AlexNymaeraHapgood it was more, to bring people outside of league into the league scene, I don't even play league of legends my friend, I only watch a few streamers that play league as they're also variety and they're funny, and that's why Caedrel has co stream, I confidently made it because it's true looking at the fact that you need to bring in viewership outside of league into league to gain value through co stream otherwise riot lose main channel viewer to someone without bringing in New viewer. You can build your brand all you want in the league scene but you need to build it outside to gain different viewership to maybe want to watch or play league I am sorry if i upset you, I wish you the best of luck. I pray for you, to achieve what goals you may have
I haven't really done Talk At The Camera Menacingly videos before so I hope this came across well. Thanks for all the supportive comments on various socials and I hope I get to cast an international next year with all of the awesome talent involved!
Time to face it, Riot dont value your skills and expertise... you are one of the best in the business, you have a great voice, good on camera and you seem like a hard worker so hope you get some more respect in the future
Hoping you get to do internationals in your future and just more opportunities in general.
Considering there are various LPL casters based in Europe, yourself included, it's actually so criminal that none of you got even one day of Worlds. It's been so horrible watching Riot neglect LPL English year on year. You've all worked so god damn hard, for a product that has such an uncertain future even now. Also you and Sam/Initialise are so f**king based for cataloguing the LPL games throughout the year, as well as keeping us viewers so informed about teams/players/metas etc. I pray you all still have jobs next year, and that eventually your efforts are suitably recognised and rewarded
You saying it's actually made you reconsider your career feels like a stab in the heart. Riot are blind if they didn't bring you back to LEC or for Worlds consideration. You've done a wonderful job building your brand this year, and I've really enjoyed following you over the last couple of years. I've loved watching the LPL, it's my favourite region, and I'm grateful to you and the rest of the team. Your such a wonderful talent, and while it's ashame it won't be seen on a larger stage, you've grown so much. Whatever you do next, you have my full support!
I'll be around as much as I can be, it's whether I can pay rent and bills really. I'm earning about half of what I did 2 years ago while working twice as much which is pretty hard to work with.
@@AlexNymaeraHapgood😢. ATB and i’ll give you a follow on twitch so i could show some support whenever you stream at least.
You are quite literally my favourite lpl caster, and if you’re gone it’ll be so over for me
You are doing god's work for LPL
Thank you as well for your highlights!
Love your work too, recapping matches would be very very difficult without channels like yours
Mate, you've done such an excellent job, I can't believe people would criticise. Don't mind the haters. Hope you get a World's call up one day. All the best.
Im so shocked you didn’t even get co stream rights.
Idk I’m not asking riot to be a hero and give a chance to everyone ( even though it would be nice )
But my god at least give them a chance to participate in any way…
Thank you for all the content and best of luck moving forward 🙏
They are super stingy with those for some reason
@@AMGKITTENZbad company.
Absolute legend, just finished binge rewatching fringe after you said about it on euro league, forgot how great that show was!
Dude, you've done an awesome job on the LPL. While the LPL generally isn't that popular with the Western audience, you have done a great job casting it and bringing attention to it. It's a shame as the LPL is a really "fun" region (whether or not you think it's the "best" or second best is besides the point) and really entertaining. It's honestly surprising that Riot has chosen to not have any LPL casting representatives for worlds AGAIN. I know those who are going will be trying hard to get up to speed on the LPL, but it really is not the same. A lot of the narratives will be like 2-3 years old and not representative of what the region and players are like right now. Keep up with the awesome work man; it's really appreciated from a casual fan in the west like myself who can't understand the Chinese cast.
hugely respect the grind you've put in to give everyone the ability to have the lpl with English commentary all year and I've enjoyed you, initialise, jamada, troubleinc especially but all lpl casters for this year and wished that at least some of you could've been given an opportunity at worlds. you guys made in my opinion the best league for game quality outside the top of lck, feel lively and energetic even in a situation that was optimal for commentating.
Nymaera, you are great, your casting is awesome and the work you did this year matters a lot.
I‘m convinced that you’re one of the best talents in League and if Riot won’t appreciate that, it’s their (and sadly our) loss.
I will remain hopeful to see you cast the biggest games in the future and give you a shoutout wherever I can 🫡
Keep it up, boss!
GOAT
Thank you famous anime character Loid Forger from hit show Spy x Family
I started following the LPL a couple of years ago and when you started casting it you very quickly became one of, if not my favourite of the LPL casters. As soon as I found out that there was no official broadcast on Mon-Weds, you were my first choice of casters to follow and I am so glad I did. I have massively enjoyed the casts you, Sam and the various other talents you've had alongside you to cast what has been a challenging year and I guarantee that I will carry on watching every stream I can. It's not a great feeling to be left out of something, especially when its as monumental as Worlds on your doorstep but the outpouring of support I've seen for you hopefully makes things just a little bit better. I'll see you in the next stream - Katari
As someone who only watches LEC I was really wondering where you've been. You did a great job at the time and now I hear this. I hope you can maybe come back to LEC next year and become more stable financially, or just find a more stable LPL career, or just anything that both gives you joy, stability, and the recognition you deserve, because, from the outside looking in you deserve it.
I love your work man. Keep your head up
My favourite caster. Appreciate what you do
Shoutout to the offline follow alert at 14:08 that got me good
Absolutely loved your casts for LPL this year, watched a lot of broadcasts during my time off over the summer and your analysis was definitely a highlight. Hope everything gets better for you!
im sure i will see you at next international event! Dont give up! I really appreciate ur work!
Just want to say thank you for your work for the LPL cast. I hope you can get some good opportunities soon because you deserve it.
Thanks for the grind you put in this year dude, you carried LPL haaard (not to undermine the other great talent). I had a lot of laughs listening to the casting banter between you and your brother. Oh and the particle physics puns during RA games are always.... *chefs kiss*
It sucks so much how riot neglects the LPL (One of the Best Regions in the world). From not promoting it at all anywhere to not even considering bringing the people that know the region the most. Even with BLG being one of the favourites to win it all.
It's like they think the LPL has no fans in the west or something.
I love watching your casts of the LPL and the vods + games analysis. You're the heart and soul of the LPL fanbase in the west.
I hope riot reconsiders their desicions. If you do a co-cast of worlds I'll be there for sure.
Wish you the best man. 🗿
You are fab! Everytime you are casting or on posdcasts you always have thoughtful and insigtful commentary. Can't imagine how much it must suck to be continuously overlooked by riot, but if nothing else, perhpas it softens the blow knowing that riot are habitually shit and have, throughout esports history, been utterly wrought with favouritism and nepotism. You are amongst good comapny of people who riot take the piss out of and sideline on the regular. Stay strong, hyped to hear more form you in the new season (or in the off if you're making content!).
You have been an absolute gem in this community!
Always appreciated your casting and game knowledge. You deserve better, and have continuously been the bigger person, and taken on the more difficult jobs in the industry.
Sounds like a lot of life has been hard mode, and you're all the more impressive for it. I hope you get your due. And not just because an event is at your doorstep, but because you deserve to be flown out to be there. People should be on your side, and I hope you and organizers see that we are.
Thank you for your work and effort. There would be a void without you. That's not an obligation to fill it, just another thing to appreciate.
I haven't been into esports for very long and I mainly follow the LCK as someone who speaks Korean, but you've made me want to follow the LPL more closely. Your perspectives and approach to casting and your work in general is really admirable and it sucks to see that all that effort has been snubbed. I would totally understand if this made you pivot into a different direction and focus more on building a personal brand but I hope you know that there are still lots of people who appreciate the work that you do for the LPL and the lolesports community at large.
You seem like such a chill dude, and I think your analysis is some of the best in the world; it's never baseless narrative, it's never reductive or hyperbolic, and you always quote examples of the things you're talking about. It's clear that your analysis is this good because the amount you watch, and the amount you remember, as you're clearly a smart guy. I'd love you to find some way to make a living out of this, if the talent hiring team for Riot have some kind of issue with you, maybe there's a whole other angle that none of us have thought of yet which you coild pioneer...we don't have an equivalent of Match of the Day? Theres a youtube channel with game highlights. But there isnt a show which plays/curates those highlights and then gives analysis and punditry before/after showing them. It's a lot of work though 🙃 just throwing something out there. Good luck bouncing back!
Keep up the great work Nymaera I hope they sort their shit out and you get to cast next year man. You're a great talent look forward to more of your content :D
Your point about the archives is so true. As a long time League fan, it's sad when I look through the wiki of early seasons and there are no vods. Your costreaming of the LPL was the most professional of the english options and thats the reason I leaned towards watching it live, but the archive is invaluable as well.
nymera i love watching you my man u will become even greater :)
ty for letting us have some lpl this year
Never give up and keep up ur work, if u stabilise your own audience you will get higher chance to get costream rights next year and also income possibility. Remember that quitters never win and winners never quit. And you just started growing numbers. And your streams were literally saving grace when literally No one could find other sources. I really appreciate the fact that you were so dedicated and lowkey inspiring in your positivity and consistency. DO NOT GIVE UP.
kiorun the goat for following during a off-stream recording o7
fr tho i hope riot starts recognizing the amount of effort you put into their game at SOME point. god it's infuriating to hear about :C
Well I will be at least happy to see what content you put together during the tournament!
We really appreciate your good work broadcasting the lpl this year 🎉🎉🎉
Massive respect for the grind ⏰
you have the skill and the drive. tbh you deserve it over some others. hopefully riot will realize your talent before its too late.
i love you bro hope we never lose you
You're more than capable of worlds, i hope riot sees it someday soon.
first year i ever watched the lpl u where a big factor of why the casting was good keep ur head up solider i still have hope for u
LPL always had good and great casters, where some of them started there (not necessary the ones I'll mentioned next, but some did from this list, too), Atlus, PapaSmithy (now FLY manager), Aux, Dagda, Hysterics and others.
I understand your personal frustrations, and I'll also echo the general fan sentiment it feels disrespectful to not have a SINGLE LPL broadcaster at worlds, a tournament there's a probable chance one of those teams will win. I would love to see you on dom or yanato's co stream if that's something doable. You're a great talent and i want to see your work succeed
I am a huge fan of your content, I really hope you stick around, you are my favorite LPL caster!
I feel really bad for you and I really wish Riot will contact you next year. You are one of my favourite casters and I love watching LPL with you casting it.
I hope your situation to change in the future as soon as it could.
How sad cause your my favorite caster together with chronlicler 🥺 you do such a great work all of the year and i am really sooooo thankful for your casts when there is no international lpl stream. Good luck next time 😢
Im sure you know it already but you have the talent to do so. Love your casting
Hey Nymaera, thanks for your wonderful work. I have watched lots of your casted LPL games. Perhaps it would be beneficial for you to create something like Contribee? You could do some content there and it would let you pay the bills easier. It works as subscriptions. I think many of us would join that for your quality content.
I'm a big fan of your content. I liked you in LEC, I like you in different podcasts (90% of the reason I watch Rich's podcasts is because you are in them). The main reason I like your content a lot is because you are very analytical and explain a lot of details of what's going on, which is something I do for myself anyway because I'm a gigantic nerd when it comes to League, but you are extremely knowledgable about the game and I learn a lot from listening to you, the same way I love watching when Caedrel or Dom go full analytic nerds, that's my jam when it comes to lolesports content. Sadly, I can barely watch your LPL casts because they tend to start between 2 and 4 am here and I still have some respect for my sleep schedule, and I truly think you (and other LPL casters too, I just can't point out other names because like I said, I can almost never catch the broadcasts) deserved a spot at Worlds, and the english LPL broadcast talent has been extremely neglected by Riot for ages at this point, despite it being the best (or, at worst, 2nd best) region in the world, which is insane to me. I wish you had the chance to be on broadcast, or at least costream it, but if you choose to live view the games, you'll find me in your chat. Wish you the best
You have grown so much in your career since I first saw you on summoning insight as the LJL expert. You have become more confident and, imo, have had great trajectory. If you decide to quit casting, no one would blame you. I do believe though you will get the world’s gig one day.
we love you
I'm not suprised that riot can't spot real talent. Whatever you do for Worlds, i'll be there.
you really ARE one of the best casters, you've been doing this for ages, LJL, LPL and even LEC, idk why you havent been brought back to LEC, maybe you didnt have time idk. not many people are more knowledgable about the current state of LPL... why they cannot bring you in is not only bullshit but frankly seems planned and strategical. F Riot
STICK THROUGH IT KING 👑
It's always been hard there. Hysterics was killing it in the LPL for years and never was called for worlds. The moment he made it to the LEC, he gets to worlds (I am happy for him). Riot does not care about the LPL casting, it is pretty clear.
You will always be my goat
Didn't even get bought a ticket by riot is disgusting
It's expected from that company. They have a history of not caring about employees.
The company is not Riot, it's lolesports. It's a separate company and IT is the one handling people. Riot, as a whole, is very good to its employees. Even in these crazy layoffs this year, the benefits they got were the most generous I've ever seen from any tech company, ever. It's definitely a sour spot not to have people like this invited but it doesn't mean there is no care. Esports is hard to work with. It's a relatively new industry where everyone without exception are still getting used to it.
If you want this type of stuff to happen less, keep supporting the scene. Keep watching. Keep talking. If you can afford it and value the items and experience, go buy tickets and merch. Maybe even engage in social media if you're that type of person. As long as esports is struggling, you'll see more cases like this where some people are put to the side because of priorities. Every single ticket sale matters. And playing favorites and only doing some and not others really hurts work relationships. It's a very complex ecosystem.
So while we can feel bad an sympathize from the sidelines, there is a lot of room to also sympathize with the business side of things which we sadly don't get much inside information on. LEC was cut in half too. There are huge reshapes to the Americas region as a whole, so LCS is also getting smaller. Corners are being cut everywhere and experimentation is rampant because, again, this industry is still finding its footing. Riot is usually incredible when it comes to being the second to do something. In esports they are the leaders. So if they fail, most esports will likely fail for the foreseeable future. And yes, it also means cutting people off of co-streams. Not sure if you know, but the more co-streamers the less value sponsors get and the less value the production itself gets. I always watch the main broadcast and then catch up later on series or matches I care about from other personalities (like Caedrel or YamatoCannon). One of the reasons is that I want to support the broadcast.
So, until this industry is sustainable enough, this types of things will just keep happening because they have to happen. No matter what your morality states, the real world doesn't care and you can't run a business on your wants. You need to manage resources at the end of the day and if they are not available, some things will suffer. The fact we have what we have, to me, as someone who loves economics and doing personal analysis of various sectors of the economy, this is mind blowing. Sports are really hard to monetize. You have to have EXTREME interest from an absolute massive section of the world's population. Soccer and Basketball are this big only because enough people care. I don't but many of my friends do. American Football is cared about almost exclusively by the US population but its to such a degree that it makes up for it. Now go to volleyball or water polo or chess or speed cubing or marathons or esports and the levels of interest are so much smaller. While I love esports and engage with it with quite a bit of my free time, I can't carry it alone and neither can you. It has to be bigger than that. I keep a friend of mine updated and so he sometimes watches and wants to go to events and it makes playing the game with him more fun. But that's almost all I could do. I have other friends who play League and they couldn't care less about Faker or LEC or esports in general. They either follow traditional sports or they don't follow anything of the sort - they prefer watching Netflix or reading books or smth.
When (and if) esports becomes big enough, these situations will happen far less. It's a money problem. And being "nice" doesn't solve it unfortunately.
It's a shame, I would've loved to watch you costream worlds. Next year surely!
Riot is an absolute joke, to not even bring even ONE LPL Caster for a top 2 region to talk about their history, players and stories is an absolute travesty.
It's a shame to don't have any caster from the LPL. Continue doing an amazing job. I would watch you even if you can't costream worlds
It's a shame how LoL casters have been treated for more than a decade, you guys deserve so much better, love your work dude ! I hope it gets better.
will be watching your lpl costreams if you do them next year, i didnt know the amount of work you guys were putting in and as an lpl fan who didnt get to watch many games. really appreciate the work and i think its disappointing that a league this big cant find a bit more of a budget to share their games with international audiences...
As bittersweet as it is to say, you're a living proof of how hard work and talent doesn't always lead to greatness. You have been neglected for too long and it pains me. You are one of the most brilliant minds in the league scene. I remember when Montecristo left the LoL scene and I felt like you came along and carried his torch with the same great wit and analysis. I really hope that things will fall into place for you in the future and that you get what you deserve. All the best to you!
It's a real shame. At a minimum, I was praying you would be on the broadcast to celebrate the Hawks, tell those stories that are so consistently missed for minor teams, and throwback to our LJL days. You and Sam have been doing insane amounts of work to keep the caster dream alive, and it's disappointing you can't round off the year with Worlds.
♥
Lots of love man, should catch up soon ❤️
damn bro you're hair looks good af. makes me wish I didn't chop mine off recently 😭
You can be genuinely proud of your body of work this year Nymaera. I have mainly followed LEC, with a bit of LPL and LCK. And it's only when we watch LPL and LCK can we appreciate what good casting actually is, and what a loss it is for the LPL crew especially to not be there. LEC casters in general did NOT have a good year and IMO should have had only 2-3 people at Worlds.
I hope you will be able to continue analyzing worlds with Rich and Keire, and hell - maybe you can do something similar to "Bangers only" that Monte does.
Paying for the $500 Ahri Skin should have been enough to get an invite, Riot really lost the plot..
Keep your head up king, Riot decision makers been sniffing glue for years fr fr 😔🙏🏻
Yo Nymaera! Ive listened Summoning Instight, Side-select about the topic of LPL casters not being called up for internationals. Correct me if im wrong, but in the past the main argument was that LPL casters have none or very few stage/stadium casting experience and I think this reasoning still remains. Nevertheless keep your heads up! I remember Lyric in 2021 at worlds and Munchables last year at play-ins, so LPL casters NEVER being at worlds is definately innacurate, so if you are passionate about the game as you are right now, it will be just matter of time!
Many LPL casters have cast in studio and stadiums very often! I cast in studio for 2+ years between LEC and EMEA Masters.
Appreciate the love ❤
@@AlexNymaeraHapgood Ok, I see! Once you get invited, you will find your synergy with the others and youll become integral to the international crew, dont worry!
Riot doesn't deserve you in connection with their game mate, as is the case with many. Appreciate your work.
14:O7 oh wait thats me! Love your casting :>
The GOAT
You are one of, if not the most watchable caster alongside TroubleInc. Absolutely goats.
It's an absolute war crime that you aren't casting worlds. It's like you said it's so much more work to cast LPL than any other league and always has been. That alone should garner you more respect from Riot let alone how good your casting is. Same goes for all the other LPL casters. Not having a single one of you at worlds when LPL arguably have the most teams that could WIN THE TOURNAMENT is completely nuts.
You should be at worlds, you are one of the best casters in the worlds (major region)
Riot are a toxic company. They obviously aren't selecting based on merit or what's best for the broadcast.
You are conscientious, driven, intelligent, articulate, and young - the world is your oyster.
I really thought this would be the year too, and im very surprised it wasnt. I feel like slowly theres a group of casters that formed that will just go to worlds no matter what. And thats a shame. Dont like that its turning into an exclusive social club.
Hey nymaera, hope you're well! Im sorry to hear you didnt get costreaming or a love slot for worlds!
As a fellow "physics gratuate wait i dont like physics" person, i can relate a lot. To me at least it kind of feels like a choice between doing something i know will lead to a moderately wealthy boring life, and forging my own path. I'm currently a carer for my wife and her parents, but finishing up the last few eleemnts of coaching and personal development qualifications!
If i had spare money id donate to your patreon, but untill i have some more clients, the best i can offer is some free coaching sessions, or a couple of questions that may help you decide what you want to do!
What avenues exist within your control that allow you to cast worlds?
Think of the caster you admire the most, what do you think is their most noticeable quality? How can that inform your future development?
Hope this is helpful if youve read this far, and all the best for the future!
Ive never watched the lpl broadcast but if you live view I'll definitely tune in🎉
It's a real shame. Riot has some favourites that don't make sense to me. The bare minimum of having some LPL and LCK English casters not even being met despite both having the best casters in the scene and covering the best leagues on the planet is disgraceful. Nepotism seems to be the root of it. I am sick of it. I hope that you find better pastures while pursuing your interest in casting if you stick with it and want to leave LoL altogether. You're good at what you do, mate. I always enjoy your insight on the regions you choose to cover.
My personal opinion is. I wish they would have one big caster and one smaller caster for the play ins. Then if there like keep them if not at lest there had there time in the sun. It's been the same thing every year even when it was lpl vs lpl and no lpl caster I was mad.
I personally like that the wildcard regions casters are always the ones casting worlds. You know those weak Regions like PCS, VCS, LCS and LEC that has the least amount of game experience and game knowledge for their lack of high quality gameplay and low number of games casted. I personally just like hype casters, casters that are experts on rambling or is trying to make horrible plays sound good, is a perfect match for worlds where only the best players in the world get to compete and the wildcard regions are there to. If you spotted the sarcasm here, I salute you.
I'm sorry man, really feel for you and the rest of the team. Disgusting and careless decision from Riot as per usual.
I guess it comes down to self interest but I do struggle to understand how casters from other regions haven't advocated more for LPL casters at international events? The nepotism is so frustrating.
Best of luck for the future and all the respect for the work you've put in. Don't let them gaslight you, you're a great caster!
I personally dont enjoy listening to any of the lpl casters right now so im not really too sad about it honestly
That’s totally fine actually, casting is subjective to a degree. However the LPL has an absolutely huge amount of games; 500+ per year, and that amount of gameplay makes it very hard to keep on top of the most important stories in the region.
Not having LPL casters at worlds may cause issues because these teams may well win the whole event, and it’s very very hard to deliver the best material on broadcast if you haven’t followed them through these huge amounts of games.
@@AlexNymaeraHapgood yeah that's true, it's missing out on knowledge for sure I missed that part. That might actually be a big issue...
I consistently watch all of the top 4 leagues and what Riot did to the eastern regions this years Worlds is so bs , especially LPL.
Yourself , alongside Trouble and others made the league so much more fun and accessible to the western audience. The fact that Riot didn't even bother inviting you guys is laughable and quite disappointing.
Thank you for the hard work and I hope to see you keep doing this next LPL season aswell,hopefully Riot will actually give you a shot as you rightfully deserve.
you should do a LFN show with Dom like the monty and wolf show but focused on the LPL
Would love to do some regular LPL content, idk what Dom’s bandwidth for another podcast is though, would love to do something with him at some point.
I dont even understand why riot doesnt give costreaming rights to every caster considering its idk, literally taking away nothing from them except maybe, their highest view number which they can show to their sponsors
Oh I’m sorry for you
It's certainly not a you problem. It's a treatment of the LPL problem. It's going to be v ironic when BLG wins worlds with no English LPL broadcast.
Mf got robbed by riot. Company never fails to shaft the people thst keep the game alive
Gracious af for someone who got shafted, again. Also kudos on pronouncing Oisin properly.
I think I'd be stopped at the Irish border for LPL if I butchered his name
I can't tell if you were one of the best LPL casters or the middle one, but it feels like Riot has an insane hate boner towards LPL, and I think currently Nymaera is one of the more enjoyable casters out there. I hope LPL will continue to get attention and get an actual budget to work with (I get doing regular season online but still, at least do finals live and playoffs in a studio, and give casters a small budget for whatever they wanne do).
Best caster duo this year has been you and Trouble. It's shameful you won't be at Worlds.
Hope Trouble, Sam and I get to bring back The Boys tricast from our EMEA Masters days
Trying to work for riot is like trying to work for some corrupt criminal you can't do it
I feel like your dedication to the game is being robbed. The work you put in to documenting LPL for english speaking viewers is critical in delivering an experience to hardcore League fans that riot is failing at. And some of those were big name matchups. Keep it up if it suits you and the people who want this level of content will hopefully continue to support you.
good luck
Why doesn't the lpl have in person casting like the lck does? All of the problems with sound quality and casting difficulties would be solved by just not making all your casters live in a different continent, and lpl would get a lot more viewers
The viewership is not related to that, at some point they were living in Shanghai till 2019 and streaming from stage. Now because of budget, they do it this way.
Costs of running an in-studio broadcast are much much higher
Does Nymaera have a degree in physics or *physique*? I've heard Europe has a really strong modeling scene...
Physics 💀 studied at the University of Sheffield
It's completely unfair how lpl casters get snubbed every year at worlds. You and other casters should absolutely voice your complaints.
If Riot is the only one listening and the one that takes the decisions, it'll only lead to exclude them even more. When there was that situation of NA orgs wanting to drop their academy teams, nobody wanted to directly support them, just a moral support, because Riot would have changed them and that's it.
How Riot handles the English LPL casts are honestly just embarrasing to see
At this point it seems Riot is trying to thin out all broadcast teams to bare bones only consisting of members with the highest clickabilty. And push all other engagement to co-streamers who for the most part already built their fanbase. Riot just wants to live in a world where they can farm the most engagement all while spending the least amount of money. They don't care about people streaming and actually casting the game well. They only want the numbers. The amount of people on the list who haven't actually co-streamed a single League game is ridiculous.
To add always have had much respect for your view on League and what your bring to the table. But I just don't watch LPL with any consistency for years now. From someone who watched every game in all major regions for years since '13, LPL always felt the hardest to feel objectively connected to. So many format changes and format revisions. Not aguring it at points wasn't a better model but was just easier to have access at convenient times from all other regions.
Unfortunately, we all know Riot doesn't pick casters based on expertise, skills and merit.
They have shown consistently how incompetent they are managing the esport part of their activity and are the main reason why the game is slowy but surely dying.
Riot Games - It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it
The truth is that you wouldn't bring any new viewers to Worlds and would just split the viewership. Consider either diversifying your brand (moving into more general esports or variety digital entertainment) or making your platform bigger either through:
1. Producing regular content with bigger platforms like IWD (podcast/content on LFN and try to join the sack regularly) or ideally Caedrel
2. Start covering things people actually care about, major regions like LCK ideally.
3. Stop spending your time with dead end time drains like LJL. Sadly less than a percent of a percent of western viewership really gives a fuck about how the japanese teams do internationally and even less so about the LJL in general. You cannot spend time there and expect good things to come to you.
Literally no one watches Worlds because *x* person is casting.
LCK fans and their silly noses in the sky. In which way, even if it happens, it affects splitting the viewership? It still counts for Riot as viewers, if not they just pick 1 co-streamer per languages. People watches the WC, because it is that. Subjectively, I don't even pay attention to what the casters say, it just works as background sound for the hype.
"2. Start covering things people actually care about, major regions like LCK ideally." You know that LPL is the other major region right? of which, he is almost undeniably the best caster
@@TheKingThEmperor I am aware, but most western viewers don't really care for watching the LPL. The LCK is far more popular here, and I'm saying this as an LPL fan.
@@dazh686 I don't even watch the LCK if Gen.G isn't playing currently, I'm not a fan of that league.
But you know who are? Western viewers who are awake when it's on, aka most of Europe.
I mean you dont have any engagement, co-streaming is more than just about knowledge of the game. You have 2k youtube subscribers, i have no idea who you are, and id recommend building your brand outside of LPL and bring in other people from other games and regions to watch you talk about LPL. Youre very monotoned, and if you want to engage people you need to change it up, like caedral.
I had average 3-5k viewers for LPL costreams this year, and am well known in the league esports scene
I’m monotone in this video because I chose to be very laid back and low intensity, my streams and casts are much different
@AlexNymaeraHapgood okay, English isn't my best? The point still stands brother. If you had more engagement on youtube, could gather more people from outside of the usual league scene.
If you're going to insult people for giving you criticism, even if you don't accept, you will not be any further ahead next year man
@@creamofthecrop5563 that wasn’t an insult, it was debunking a comment you made confidently without really having enough context on to speak with authority on. I don’t believe the point stands, I’ve done a lot to build my brand off of this channel, and videos like this exist partly to build my brand here! TH-cam is not the only platform out there.
I’ve also already been involved with content and broadcasts for other regions. I’m on a weekly podcast for LEC and LCK which get good viewership, and was just on hotline league and summoning insight in the am last day which are two of the largest esports podcasts out there. I was also on one of Caedrel’s videos about playins. I have done an awful lot of work to build my brand and presence which.
@AlexNymaeraHapgood it was more, to bring people outside of league into the league scene, I don't even play league of legends my friend, I only watch a few streamers that play league as they're also variety and they're funny, and that's why Caedrel has co stream, I confidently made it because it's true looking at the fact that you need to bring in viewership outside of league into league to gain value through co stream otherwise riot lose main channel viewer to someone without bringing in New viewer. You can build your brand all you want in the league scene but you need to build it outside to gain different viewership to maybe want to watch or play league
I am sorry if i upset you, I wish you the best of luck. I pray for you, to achieve what goals you may have