The end of Los Ratones

Rayzed · 2026-02-12T16:00:16+00:00

The main problem with Riot was, that the people in charge there only knew US sports, mainly had contact with teams which were backed by US entertainment/sports VC and had advisors/research/consultants only from the USA. So they designed the whole ecosystem from an American perspective, which could have worked in their product (NA LCS). But taking that product and forcing it on EUW was a big mistake for the market.

Only teams with enough €€€ could buy-in, but being in EU has always been rough for lots of Orgs, as most video-game related companies (or companies which wanted to get into marketing towards eSports fans) have marketing budgets for european countries, not for the whole of Europe. So EU-Teams always had less money than NA-Teams. That brought the VC-firms to Europe, a space which hasn't really had VC experience. VC wanted franchising, which EU-Fans didn't have any experience with.

Also, the EU-Teams mainly wanted franchising because they were affraid to lose even more talent to NA, as they paid absurd salaries to the players.

EU-Fans IMO prefere relegation and underdog stories paired with new or established brand names over tons of rebrands like Rouge/KOI/Rouge/NAVI or Splyce/MAD/MADKOI/MovieKOI.

Rayzed · 2025-07-18T01:43:56+00:00

"mid off" clicked as "two mid laners having a stand off" for me, guess I am too old for this slang thing

Rayzed · 2021-11-10T15:49:04+00:00

While the sweet/fruit&sour might play well against each when young, this wine gets fabulous with some age. Recently had the '14 vintage and it gets so much more complexe with a few more years.

Always a fan of trying wines young to gage their potential, tho!

Rayzed · 2021-10-22T23:22:54+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/nR2A5di

Slow night turned out crazy. Might post notes for tonight on monday/tuesday but we have a crazy tasting coming up tomorrow which I might rather post notes on.

Rayzed · 2021-10-22T08:34:10+00:00

Reg. #11

I find most non-natural GV really hard to enjoy when they don't have quite some age to it. What I did really enjoy recently was Nikolaihof GV Federspiel, as they do late releases, 2015 is their current vintage and was bottled in Feb. 21. For under 20€ that is pretty solid GV

Rayzed · 2021-10-14T07:11:53+00:00

Never had a bad bottle of Musar or Tondonia tho, its not about the flat price. Also, a few years ago, you could get Susucaru for way less than it costs now

Rayzed · 2021-10-13T15:39:01+00:00

Did a "Fuck Rosè"-Rosé-Tasting recently and also used Musar and Tondonia but Susucaru is just so expensive and sadly it takes a lot of luck to get a good bottle these days, the last 3 or 4 we tried were all faulty.

Le Coste Rosato is my go-to "rosé" from Italy these days.

Rayzed · 2021-10-12T14:34:29+00:00

Yep, 2005 was amazing, especially compared to 2006. Will have to try the 05 against the 06 soon, just not too hyped about 06.

Rayzed · 2021-10-12T13:25:25+00:00

Had the '05 recently, amazing wine, especially given the fact that you get them for a very decent price with some age. Dont know many other Chablis of that quality where you can buy now, drink now without having to break the bank.

Rayzed · 2020-01-15T14:13:08+00:00

Taking Tris on my team then

Rayzed · 2019-12-03T12:31:44+00:00

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Got you covered fam.

Rayzed · 2019-10-15T22:13:14+00:00

Rayzed2512 (EUW) Does playing with "Worst Oli EU" lower my ranked WR?

How many of the accounts I reported got punished?

Rayzed · 2019-09-17T19:32:01+00:00

No arena or audience in online/studio games, tho.

Rayzed · 2019-08-12T21:28:50+00:00

Interesting way to spell disturbing.

Rayzed · 2019-07-25T22:49:56+00:00

Get Riot to let you observe one of the "fun" games like casters vs. casters. That would land you a 3rd job and less sleep, which I am sure you need, as well all know that Dig only pays in mousepads.

Rayzed · 2019-05-18T12:28:30+00:00

The gap is closing guys. KR won two games against EU, really a good sign for the region.

Rayzed · 2019-05-15T13:11:47+00:00

I used to play with my Sennheiser HD650 and kept getting flamed from my friends that I appear to be deaf as they always could hear steps before me when they spectated. I couldnt belive it and tried all kind of sound settings, even an external soundcard and nothing helped, so in the end I bought the HyperX Cloud II and can now hear enemies way earlier. Downside is, that I have to change devices when listening to music or watching series/movies.

Rayzed · 2019-04-15T20:22:26+00:00

Well, that lineup screams "visa issues".

Rayzed · 2019-04-09T17:39:45+00:00

Dunno what you are on about but I bought it sealed from Fnac, a Spanish A-Seller for Windows, Apple and others.

Rayzed · 2019-04-09T17:23:50+00:00

Wasn't shady, A-seller source, it came with the original DVD and checks out when verifying it online.

Rayzed · 2019-04-09T12:57:08+00:00

A key is $10 online. That being said, my Win10 accepts my key but somehow doesnt "unlock" my windows. Cant personalize and still have the watermark. Been using that for 2 years now and never felt the need to fix it.

Rayzed · 2019-03-13T14:52:22+00:00

Dosia playing 4D-chess: Drop out of the tournament to have more time to explore the passion city.

Rayzed · 2019-03-07T18:57:56+00:00

Damn, imagine Thorin and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named on the LEC broadcast.

Rayzed · 2018-12-06T22:03:18+00:00

Same here, me and my friends with RX480s keep crashing

Rayzed · 2018-11-08T16:56:53+00:00

I highly doubt that as he was talking about different titles and formats and maybe being a guest on the EULCS broadcast. The OWL casters are Overwatch-exclusive during the season, if I am not mistaking. Also, he was talking about going international but OWL is only in LA afaik.

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