Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.

Tonight I'm joined by regular panelists, freelance writer Julian Murdoch. Hello, everyone. We also welcome back to the show, Rea Aeschelian Monique, community director for Law King and site director at Wowhead. Ray, welcome back to the show. Hi, everyone. This is awesome. I'm really excited to be here. Finally, we welcome first-time guest, freelance writer, and RTS-G guru contributor, Julian Williams.

Julian, thanks for coming on the show.

Absolutely.

So I believe we agreed that there can only be one Julian, right?

So this is kind of our Highlander moment.

One of you is going to have to go.

One, two, three, not it.

You can just call me fucking Murdoch.

All right, yeah, that'll be fine.

Yeah, that'll be great.

Yeah, so as you may have guessed from this particular panel lineup, we're going to be

talking about last week's League of Legends Championship, the current state of the

League of Legends meta game, current state of the League of Legends

meta game, and kind of how e-sports influence casual play. But really first I just kind

of wanted to talk to you, Raya, and Eugenie, about the championship last week. Kind of what

were your impressions of it? And did you see anything there that really struck you about, like,

what the championship level teams were doing that's different from some of the stuff you see in ranked play?

I think it was a really, it was a really, like, eye-opening.

It was one of those things where you don't really get to see a lot of these

regions play very much. Like you might, you know, see them play once a while in a, you know,

a big tournament, but actually seeing all these regions collide, it was just very interesting

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