Good tidings, all you beautiful individuals. Welcome back to another epiapleagun like mining. Is Eric Fline a little? You know the drill? Han Solo today on the episode as we get into the metal rounds of the Asian Games. Obviously, gotta get into the gold metal action right away. Team Korea against the absolutely massive underdogs in Chinese Taipei and there was no real drama in this one. There was no miracle run from Taiwan. It was sub 30 minutes and back-to-back games, sub hour overall for the finals as Team Korea captures the gold metal, which means yes, military exemption for all of the starters plus Faker who played but a single game. It was a good great game on Yone. But he plays one game, guess the gold metal will get the military exemption. We know he did so much behind the scenes and was just an absolute... My guy didn't even have time to be practicing because he was speaking with taking pictures with signing autographs for so many different fans throughout this event. He was playing his role perfectly as ambassador of both League of Legends and esports. But this team, I mean they jelled together immediately, ends up being an 8-0 run from them. They did not drop a single game, not even in that hyped up matchup against China. It was a 14-KDA for Kenavi across the board. He had to again play, you know, he's playing the RAL and the Vi patch 13.12 again. Gotta prep us that. But he looked amazing throughout the entire event. I've never seen Zeyuz look happier in the last year or so, probably in a big part due to playing alongside Kenavi. So we'll see how things go when he's back paired up with owner on T1 for the World Championship. But you can talk about, I think it counts. This is an international event. It's a grand finals. So for Kierriya and Zeyuz, Kirsten's broken. They finally are not runner-ups. They're not getting a silver medal. They get the gold. They perform when it matters the most. Ruler was fantastic. Again, in this matchup against Dago, he had Bessiah and the Zerry. You know, honestly, the bot lane picks. Aside from Kysa being even more meta, haven't changed that much from seven patches ago to what they're playing on here in 13.12. So more of the same for him. But across the board, Chovy planned pretty standard stuff. It really feels like this team Kierriya team wasn't even tested. Didn't even have to unleash any legit strategies. And I'm not sure they had crazy ones again for this incredibly outdated old patch. With how things went here and the team chemistry, these guys were joking around some of the most wholesome moments you will see as they were still laser focused in on winning and capturing that gold medal, representing their country, doing it proudly. Absolutely. They did. Now they head back to their respective teams to get ready for the World Championship. But I think it's only going to boost up how you're feeling about a squad like T1, like Gen G, like JDG coming with now a couple titles for Kenobi who was honestly the best performing member of this star studded squad. And ruler obviously looked great as well. So so happy for all these players to have what I can only assume is a massive pressure and weight lifted off their shoulders now that they do not have to do that mandatory military service coming home with the gold medal, getting redemption from the 2018 Asian Games for both Faker and ruler where they finished runner up to team China. And obviously again, we apologize because we don't have highlights to go through here. But I'm not risking any copyright strikes for Caspar anywhere anyone else involved. We already know how difficult it was to find the games. Let alone be dropping some highlights here. So yeah, we got some boards. We got some stats, but overall incredibly happy for the boys on team Korea. And listen, a silver medal finished for Chinese Taipei. You got to imagine Taiwan is absolutely thrilled with that. They finished higher than China in this tournament because of course they were on the other side of the bracket. That was our bronze medal matchup where this this is where the real drama was on the day because not only did Vietnam pick up game one in pretty convincing fashion which China dropping a game here was already a surprise, especially considering how beat down Vietnam got by Chinese Taipei and those semi-finals on the other side of the bracket. But Levi on the boys absolutely showed up on this one. Night got a little bit angry in game two, busted out the J-sense had a nice clean 8 and 0 start. Despite China losing to Korea, we're leaving this whole event feeling even better about JDG obviously because Kenobi and ruler one, but also night was the best performing mid laner at this whole event despite going home with only a bronze medal and it was dramatic fashion in that third game. But China was so close to losing game three. They were down 4k gold. And for most of the game it finally comes down to some good engages and a nice flank, a Wombo combo between Mako and night on that Niko in that third game. Two back-to-back team fights that China ends up winning to steal the victory from Vietnam and that last team fight where there is a solid engage from night and Mako 4 out of the 5 Vietnamese players still had flash. You gotta wonder if they flashed away or had an opportunity to flash away from that rel engage how differently things would be but who knows either way incredibly competitive series really the only competitive series that we had at this entire Asian Games event at Vietnam absolutely testing China. Imagine the backlash this team would have felt. They already felt it from losing to Korea if they didn't even come home with a bronze, I honestly would have worried for these players. So happy that they did manage to hold on even though you're a little bit sad that Vietnam didn't get that absolutely incredible upside. You heard some of the casters they were so excited. It's so disappointed when it didn't end up coming through for them. But what do you take away if you're feeling really good about JDG even better after this event? I feel like I'm leaving maybe a little bit more worried about BLG than I was because I don't think Ben had a great tournament. His KDA was under 3. He never was a huge impact really even in this series where you thought he would bounce back after getting outmatched and back-to-back games against Zeyuz. Was it really the case? He was fine. He's playing a lot of Renekton in this tournament and again it's hard to take anything too seriously from this entire event because so much of the competition is not at the level of these top four teams and it's so old. It's so outdated the meta that's going on here but I mean some of these picks are still going to be around at the World Championships. So I am a little bit legitimately concerned about BLG. I already was after obviously losing back-to-back best of 5s to close out the summer playoffs in the LPL but now you see the level that Ben is at and it's not great. I'm definitely feeling still a lot better about Squats like LNG. We didn't have any players at this event and now T1 with Kira and Zeyuz. The curse is broken. I'm feeling much better about them than BLG heading towards this year's World Championship but either way. Metal rounds, Korea gold, Silver to Chinese type A, China gets bronze and Vietnam. We're giving them the honorary copper medal because they had such a fantastic performance. Again the most exciting series of the entire event because it was actually back and forth and if we see an inkling of this level of competition and level of play from Vietnam at this year's World Championship well then it's going to be oh so spicy not only just in that plan stage but even advancing ahead and maybe you're sweating a little bit if you're the Golden Guardians or Team BDS matching up against that second VCS seed team whales in that play in stage but overall obviously very difficult to watch any of these games but happy with how things played out and happy with the hype that was all around it and again big congrats to the team Korea squad for capturing that also elusive gold medal but that is it today for League of Mock. My name is Eric as always thank you all you beautiful individuals across the globe for joining us and we will catch you on that flip itie flip. you