After a fun night of watching 2 amateur teams go toe to toe for our amateur finale, it's time to talk about Proving Grounds quickly as it starts 3/16 3 PM PST on https://twitch.tv/academy
We cover early matchups, Raafaa tries to get a bracket to work, 1st round matchups, our top 4, and who we think is going to win all in the episode. Tune in and support amateur & academy throughout Proving Grounds.
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For EP41 we sit down with Mist, the current head coach of 100 Thieves Next, and a top 5-6 Support in Spring '21 Proving Grounds with EGP. We talk about his transition into his current role and aspirations he has in League of Legends, Amateur vs. Academy in Spring '22 Proving Grounds, what it's like working with 100 Thieves and 100 Thieves Next, and complain about broken champions.
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Hey we're back with a PGP episode, and we're joined by Yeon for our 40th edition of the podcast. We go through Yeon's career from before he joined 100 Thieves Next in 2020 to being on that team, SGC 2020 and working with Spawn & CoreJJ there, then moving into TLA for 2021 and of course the 2022 season. We also hear about how Yeon picked his IGN, how Eyla ordered food without him, and he wants to remind everyone that Spawn is old.
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We sit down with eXyu, one of the new junglers in Academy this split. We go over dropping out of college to hit top 25 3 weeks later, SGC 2021, Academy and the Lock In appearances, LA first impression, and how the secret to the good vibes at the DIG compound are a freaky mannequin and a Giant Sonic the team won at Dave & Busters.
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The boys are back...and when we say that we mean Oceanic Visas. No but actually we got the fine gents back together to check in on our NA Talent. We have some actually gameplay to go off of so we recap the academy standings and where the teams are at early season. Followed up by our PG teams review and semifinals + finals preview, that just about wraps it up.
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We are back not with amateur but with Academy for this episode as we give our preview and preseason thoughts for the league. That also involves recognizing the Academy teams and talent that have been participating in LCS Lock In. We go over those performances, preview all 10 teams in the league, and give our predictions for who gets out of groups for UGP.
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For today's episode we sit down with the new jungler for EG Prodigies Perry to chat about his start to his 1st competitive season. We chat about his experience in PG OQ #1 as well as his 1st group games, expectations for himself and the team this year, how he's found an early gaming/life balance, and Smax and Perry talk about Anime.
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We're back for 2022 by going over the teams that are in OQs for the 1st Proving Grounds Qualifier. It's great to have competitive league back as the start of the podcast we talked about weather and by the end Smax was relegated to down bad jokes. Thankfully, the middle we talked about the changes for 2022 in the AM space, previewed the top 8 teams and 8 collegiate rosters, and went over some dark horses that we have for this tournament.
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Welcome back to the Proving Grounds Pod for 2022. To kick things off, we're joined by the new top laner for 100 Thieves Next General Sniper. This is his first year he's eligible to play competitively in NA, and at the time this video is published and at the conclusion of S11 General Sniper was Rank 1 on the NA Ladder.
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It's been awhile but the casters reconvened to preview the 20 players that will be playing at Scouting Grounds. We give summaries from what we've seen for those that have competed in Proving Grounds, and what we've learned or know about the solo queue players who have also qualified. To anyone and everyone attending: best of luck, and we're all excited to see what you can do on the rift!
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We sit down with the marksman for Resolve this past split of Proving Grounds and the current marksman for University of St. Thomas and Scouting Grounds Qualifier Array for EP 36. Topics include him going from bagging groceries and school to committing to League of Legends full time, his first split on Supernova, not feeling like he was ready for Resolve, improving and when he mentally knew he was ready, and of course some chatter about Worlds.
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We sit down with the head coach of Team Liquid Academy after a 2nd place finish in Summer Proving Grounds, and the Academy Playoffs victor. We chat with Spawn about his offseason and how he landed on Team Liquid, his roster and how he motivated them, and their season from his perspective from Spring to Summer, as well as hitting on some caster memories along the way.
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The first year of Proving Grounds has come and gone and we take a look back at this past tournament, some of our favorite memories from PG this year, and Smax and Raafaa talk a lot about their own caster journeys and some of the trials and tribulations that the casters faced for the first year of PG, as well as some of the highlights.
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We sit down with Bradley, the mid laner for Wildcard Red to talk about their 5-6th finish in Proving Grounds this split. He also gives us a preview for how he believes top 4 of Proving Grounds will go, we talk about Bradley's improvement and picking up control mages, as well as balancing collegiate and amateur play at the highest level.
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For EP33 we sit down with Lourlo who is leading the on-fire DIGA to not only a UGP victory but now Proving Grounds success after their 2-0 victory week 1 over IMTA. We talk about DIGA's recent success, including their UGP victory, how DIGA has incorporated Will and scrims around his schedule, Lourlo's thoughts and wishes for Academy, and his wishes for himself, playing in the LCS again, and how his fire for competitive LoL may be burning hotter than ever.
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With the conclusion of LCS and beginning of Proving Grounds, we sit down to talk with Emily Rand, renowned writer and member of the 2021 LCS Analyst Desk. We chat about Emily's first year on LCS, how Emily got started covering League of Legends, the 3 teams NA is sending to Worlds, give a little Proving Grounds preview and recommend some players to watch, and also talk about the development of players not only in NA but across the world.
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With no #ProvingGrounds action going on this week, we thought it'd be the perfect time to sit down with Rebel Fox, assistant coach of Maryville, quiet Project Manager in the NA AM scene, and a fellow color caster. So, a man of culture. We talked about getting started in casting, some of the challenges and successes he's faced while trying to climb the casting ranks, and our thoughts headed into Proving Grounds.
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After a long hiatus, we are once again back at it again with Raising NA featuring Raafaa in a Snorlax onesie to symbolize how we took a few weeks off. But, we have a lot of updates and actually fit it into a brief amount of time. We said goodbye to the LCS orgs that have left us for the year as we celebrate our 3 orgs going to Worlds. We briefly touch on Academy Playoffs and also United Grand Prix results, as Smax gets to tell Cubby "I Told You So." We also get story time with Marc talking about his biggest dub back when he was still a piss random.
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We sit down with the $60k/month man in RBM as he gives us a lot of insight on AOE qualifying for Proving Grounds and his year competing in amateur, along with a ton of laughs. Topics include landing on AOE, and what it's like competing with their org, Zoos spring split and his love for Raheen, Twitch Rivals, his fix for solo queue, and how he'd give up his salary to work the Tribunal full time if he could stream it and if it was brought back (Cubby would join too).
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We sit down with the marksman of Zoos Gaming Raheen who just qualified for his 2nd straight split of Proving Grounds with Zoos. Topics include how the Toilet Paper Cats came together in the Spring, Raheen's improvement in his 1st year of competitive play at this level, qualifying through UGP, and chatting about Zoos chances in the rest of the tournament.
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