How One Streamer Brought An Entire League To Its Knees

About this episode

Thorin and YamatoCannon discuss the impact of streamer Caedrel on the LEC and Riot's response.

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People in this episode

Host: Thorin

Guest: YamatoCannon

Topics covered

• streaming
• LEC
• Caedrel
• Riot Games
• gaming community
• esports

Keywords

• Caedrel
• LEC
• Thorin
• YamatoCannon
• Riot Games
• streaming
• esports

Sponsors

PrizePicks, AG1, Hims, Raycon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Riot

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