Yannick LeJacq's discussions

The first game was definitely the best! Read more

Not entirely, European teams are really strong. I’d say it’s more of an SKT > everyone else at Worlds thing. Origen won against KT Rolster, and Fnatic has held their own very well at this tournament. Read more

THEY’RE NOT OUT YET Read more

It wasn’t just the flash, it was how he dealt with the entire situation. I certainly couldn’t have pulled that off against SKT. I don’t think many other people could either. Read more

Oh I’m sorry! What was your last comment? And yes: I’ll definitely be watching Worlds this weekend! Read more

Yes! Read more

I have definitely NOT decided to stop caring about our readers. This entire article is devoted to weighing and considering the interests of different kinds of Kotaku readers. Read more

People have brought up the League subreddit a bunch when talking about this, and I think it’s important to understand a few things about it. First and foremost, it’s not a news organization. It’s a subreddit dedicated to a specific game, and caters to the interests of a specific subset of that game’s players. They… Read more

We’re definitely interested in setting up an eSports subsite! That seems to be the way all the other digital media companies are handling it these days as well. Establishing a new publication takes a ton of time/effort, though, so in the meantime we have to establish clear editorial standards and best practices for… Read more

That is a big thing that we debated/discussed internally, and I’ve done my best to couch spoilers when possible. What makes those kinds of headlines tricky is that they play a totally different way to our readers who aren’t super into League or its eSports. Read more

It’s definitely true that Worlds isn’t at convenient times for its American audience. But I’d compare this to something like covering the World cup, or the Olympics, which often take place at similarly inconvenient locations. If we covered soccer or the olympics, we’d have the same policy about them. Read more

It’s even worse when you’re playing in ranked (which has a time limit for her picks) when your teammates are screaming “ERMAHGERD WE STILL NEED A HEALER” and you only have four seconds left to choose and you’re looking EVERYWHERE for LiLi but you just can’t find her so with one second left you pick The Butcher instead… Read more

Sorry!! We’re definitely not flipping any readers off. You’re all wonderful. Read more

“Calls” in League eSports refers more to the practice of shot-calling. Usually there’s one person on each team doing so; someone on KT most likely is directly responsible for making the call to go for baron despite their bad positioning. Read more

thanks! Read more

Haha, I honestly hadn’t thought of that... Read more

I’m not sure what you’re talking about, Edward Gaming is definitely a Chinese team...

My money’s on KT! Read more

Is it still a debate? I personally feel like eSports count as sports, but it’s also one of those questions that I don’t think there will ever really be a satisfying answer to...sort of like “are video games art” or “are video games too long?” Read more

Exactly. Read more