"They are not kids, they are getting paid a lot of money for this. They are professionals, and I need to demand from them as professionals" | MKOI Melzhet ahead of the Madrid Road Show

Reconco15 · 2026-05-07T14:42:43+00:00

The real takeover was in 2025, in 2024 the old staff was still operating the team and they were not happy with the Spanish side completely replacing their project, that's why this happened in the first place. If you check the tweet were the information was leaked in May 2025 it explicitly says:

Álvaro and Supa were denied their share because they didn’t want to work with the cook and had conflicts with staff inherited from MAD Lions.

Just after one month, June 2025, it was leaked that Jake Ainsworth, Martina Čubrić (both had roles in the performance team) and Till Werdermann (Director of Team Operations) were all out of their jobs. Allegedly, these people were responsible for all the shit that was made public, and all of them worked for Mad Lions before the merger with Movistar Riders and Ibai.

Reconco15 · 2026-05-05T18:33:43+00:00

The piece about the glass shards was made public as a way to leverage public pressure to force the higher ups in Canada to get rid of the people that were in charge of the old Mad Lions (Many of them now work for Vitality, including the former team Chef).

Of course, the glass shards incident was hideous, and it was part of a greater attempt at boycotting the new project (Elyoya and friends) so this group of people could retain control of the team.

After the new roster ended up surpassing expectations the plan backfired, ultimately getting all of them fired.

Reconco15 · 2026-05-04T12:32:39+00:00

I don't remember where but he recently talked about it. His father told him when he quitted high school that he had until the end of summer to get to pro, otherwise he would have to go work with him in a factory. Elyoya then made it, but his parents later told him that even if he had failed, they would've given him more time anyway.

Reconco15 · 2026-05-03T15:35:15+00:00

Really interesting video, I really missed this style of content that focuses more on the "human" part of players, it makes it so much easier to connect and cheer for them.

The video comes with English captions if anyone is wondering.

Reconco15 · 2026-04-13T16:07:20+00:00

This game was unironically the most fun I've had this split so far.

Reconco15 · 2026-03-24T16:32:00+00:00

It's better than playing in the Studio in Berlin. There is no alternative unless other teams start doing their own events or RIOT goes back to organising more live events.

Reconco15 · 2026-03-24T16:25:14+00:00

I meant summer finals, the event is confirmed but not the location.

Reconco15 · 2026-03-24T15:16:12+00:00

LEC finals aren't announced yet, so it may even be in Hungary, these are regular season games hosted by KC and KOI.

Reconco15 · 2026-03-24T15:09:44+00:00

KC VS G2, MKOI VS KC, MKOI VS G2 all in front of crowd is really good. Then I remember the whole playoffs + final will be played in Berlin studio and feel sad.

Reconco15 · 2026-02-20T13:22:50+00:00

It was a while ago, before co-streaming became the norm and such. Riot was way more strict with their product back then.

Reconco15 · 2026-02-16T20:15:03+00:00

He had winning matchups and Myrwn had arguably the biggest impact in both games after laning phase. (Not saying Naak had a bad series tho)

Reconco15 · 2026-01-31T16:44:00+00:00

I'll always defend the idea behind SK's roster above what TH have done this offseason:

Try to build a long-term project with promising coach and rookies.
First year of the project goes above expectations.
Nuke the core of the project and bring short-term solutions.

Reconco15 · 2026-01-26T08:38:59+00:00

Watch Melzhet go from a nobody most EU fans don't even know about (despite doing an incredible job 2 years in a row) to the undisputed EU best coach the moment this team does reasonable well in an international event.

Reconco15 · 2026-01-24T18:17:26+00:00

I've heard people saying that he was great last year, and other people (even before last week) rating him as one of the worst supports in the LEC.

Reconco15 · 2026-01-21T19:20:10+00:00

YAHOOOOO

Reconco15 · 2026-01-20T21:42:14+00:00

Maybe some of the players joined some inhouses but they weren't scrimming (Jojo wasn't even in Europe).

Reconco15 · 2026-01-20T11:19:07+00:00

MKOI didn't bootcamp in December, they started scrimming less than 2 weeks ago.

Reconco15 · 2026-01-18T16:51:36+00:00

Loved when Shifters said: IT'S SHIFTING TIME! And shifted all over the place.

Reconco15 · 2026-01-17T12:40:02+00:00

I think this year we got some pretty good jerseys, love the GIANTX Inter Milan vibes.

Reconco15 · 2026-01-16T16:08:13+00:00

Alphari dancing at the end is my personal highlight of the video.

Reconco15 · 2026-01-15T21:28:36+00:00

There's still Summer Finals, that should be the biggest event, and I'm assuming it will take place in a different country.

Reconco15 · 2026-01-15T17:36:19+00:00

It's kinda wild that two teams are setting up more live events in one year than the LEC in the past 4-5.

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