#esports documentary

[irrieia]

The day I decided to binge the show they put it on YouTube LOL

unironically a very good show and I really enjoyed it 

[rebeccasthoughts]

The Battle for Glory: esports, TV, and media I like (and don't)

Hey all! This post is kind of long, but have no fear I have broken up some of the parts into different TL;DR posts. They will be rolled out in the next couple of days (maybe into the next couple of weeks) and will be linked in the comments when they are posted! You can get notification upon publishing if you subscribe to my newsletter (found at the bottom of the page). Hope you enjoy! 🙂 Media…

[denisekuan]

LCS Video Feature - DRIVE: Santorin (2019)

Santorin’s sweater: Topman V1per’s shirt jacket: All Saints

Styled by me Photography by Colin Young-Wolff Hair & Makeup by Kassandra Karr

[amanedachi]

nitrogen / flower

Part of LoL Esports Elemental Series.

[markatoto]

what's your favorite model of camera?

to this day, i STILL use the canon t3i for all my documenting needs - although it starting to show its age

it can only do 1080p 30 fps MAX and so many cameras are capable so much more now a days.... but i use this thing ALL the time to this day, especially for the cooking streams and it STILL looks great!!! love this thing. one of the best purchases ive ever made

[wizardnuke]

what is in the water today. everyone is so irritable. i am included in this

[miss-ellie-logan]

Gonna be live today on the radio!

Check out here at 11 am bst.

https://boomscotland.com

Me and my friends are gonna be talking about mental health, musical theatre, e-sports, parasocial relationships, and even dungeons and dragons.

And... everything entertainment.

[nexttimeisnotthesame]

THE $2 MILLION DOLLAR APEX STORY | iiTzTimmy's Pro Return.

"The Dojo documentary" (edited by Swell) details Timmy's return to the pro scene and the boys' journey from LCQ (short recap) to the bootcamp and the whole ALGS Year 3 Championship that took place in Birmingham, UK on the 6-10 September, 2023.

It was amazing! Since it was in the UK, I was able to watch all the matches live and I don't think I've been so excited and invested over an e-sport championship. For regular sport yes, but never game related competitions. But since I have a team to root for this time, it becomes so much more entertaining to watch.

CHAPTERS

Teaser

My Time is Up

New Roster

Last Chance Qualifiers

A New Challenge

The Dojo Branding

London Bootcamp

Group Stages

Winners Bracket

Grand Final

Reaction

What's Next

[moonlight-tmd]

If Bumblebee is into esports he probably gets into screaming matches in vc with random players on Overwatch or Pokémon Unite or smth

A bit off topic but one time I literally got so mad after losing a ranked match in Pokémon Unite that I had a nasty migraine for like two hours and I feel like that would probably happen to Bee

Surprisingly, no.

Bee tends to avoid online multiplayer games other than the times he plays with his teammates/human friends online.

One time when he was still learning to play games he joined an online lobby for CS:GO, despite Sari warning him not to do that, and got heavily shit talked by some kids. Prowl found him crying in the hallway and comforted him after he couldn't figure out how to turn off the game to watch his documentaries. He never plays with strangers online, it's just not worth his mental health.

[cabbybaby]

my friend showed me the faker documentary, and by the end of it i had crafted a sakuatsu league of legends esports AU, enemies to lovers, two beefing anonymous players who end up on the same team. the horror of realizing the player who has terrorized you for years is hot. AND they’re in bot together. my friend is sick of me

[forwhatiam]

Watching the new HBO documentary Quad Gods about the first all-quadriplegic esports team. Will report back with my thoughts

[irrieia]

the new VCT documentary series is... kinda weird? 

the gameplay footage was too short for me and edited off-sync with the casting; most teams were barely mentioned or not mentioned at all, making this international event feels very small; it feels more like a recap video with bts footage than a documentary (imo)

so here are the storylines and narratives they tried to squeeze into this 30-minute video:

the cinderella story of Zeta 

LOUD making Brazil proud

the rise of minor regions teams

Benkai being a goofball (?)

Fnatic losing (????)

esports mental health (??)

and I want to talk about them briefly one by one: 

the underdog story of Zeta Division is probably the biggest headline for Masters Reykjavik. it ties in with the minor region narrative as Japan was considered a weak region. this was handled ok in the documentary. you do get a sense of how they defied expectations and how important it was for Japan. but because the storylines are so scattered, you dont feel the momentum building or the emotional through line (imo)

LOUD had high expectations representing Brazil and they did achieve the region's best result internationally. However, a big part of LOUD’s story is their rivalry with Optic formed at this masters, and Optic was completely absent until their lower finals with Zeta 

there was a weird moment during the grand finals where pansy was talking about “this is a wake up call” for major regions and you can't underestimate any team, while Optic, a major region team, is 1-0 up against a “minor region” team in the grand finals... like????? major region is doing pretty well here 😅 (a better time to bring that up would be when PRX beat The Guard)

so benkai is a goofball and wears silly costumes to walkouts. he presents a different personality to those that view esports in a very serious and formal manner. this would be cool if he is put in contrast with player opposite of his views, but there isn't one? (ig Laz takes esports seriously but that would undermine the first storyline, and it’s not Laz’s vibe anyway)

I understand Boaster is very charismatic but Fnatic has no place in this documentary other than being the loser, feel bad for me please 🥺 and they dont even do that right! the tragedy of Fnatic’s performance was that their star player got covid and their other key player had visa issues and neither of them could participate in the event. to sum it up as “they had to play with subs” makes it seem like this is a new team (kinda like LOUD) that still need to find their footing when in reality this shouldn't be the team at all. 

this doesn't feel well-thought-out. its kinda like they had this footage of pansy talking about mental health and decided to cram it in there. I guess it relates to the pressure from Brazil for LOUD? but Sacy never really said anything about it. the timing was not the best. 

[leagueoflasagnas]

For all the French people out there: you can now watch a special documentary made with Laure about the ESport scene on Canal + ✨

[denisekuan]

LCS Video Feature - DUOS: Crown & CoreJJ (2019)

This was the first shoot I ever styled w/ the video team. That year we used to go shopping with the players to pick out their outfits for the shoots, but Crown wasn’t available so I bought this jacket hoping he’d like it (luckily he did). CoreJJ I went shopping with and he picked out this shirt himself. Crown is wearing his own clothes otherwise and his own jewelry that we requested him to wear to the shoot!

Crown’s jacket is from The Kooples  CoreJJ’s shirt is from Zara, and the jacket he’s wearing is his own Photography by Shannon Cottrell

[amanedachi]

silicon / prove

Part of LoL Esports Elemental Series.

[darksvster]

happy christmas, i wrapped it up and sent it — ➥ e, one-shot, 10158 words about six months ago, rhaenyra, who spent her days as a wildly popular social media influencer, accidentally started dating the annoying, crass, not-so-young, hot-tempered daemon, an esports gamer and twitch streamer. like any normal relationship, they slowly got to know each other and oh yeah, then happened to find out they're related. by blood!

two break-ins, a lot of sex, and some frank conversations with viserys and aemma later and now they're off to old valyria (located snugly in the Alps) to meet the rest of the family. how will christmas go? what surprises await them in that quaint little eastern european country?

read the holiday special to find out.

a daemyra streamer/influencer au story.

ao3 link

“Okay, I need you to say it for me now.” 

“I was wrong and you were right,” Daemon says, sounding completely unconvincing.

"Hmm... no, that's not enough."

"I was very wrong and I should have listened to you, my sweet and beautiful girlfriend." 

"Yeah, I don't know if that's enough either."

"What if I promise you multiple orgasms on top of my apology?”

"Psh, that doesn’t mean anything to me. You give me multiple orgasms every Wednesday!"

Daemon pouts, moving his chair closer to her in the airport lounge so that he can reach out to stroke her arm. Rhaenyra turns her nose up at him but her upset face breaks when he picks her hand up and kisses her knuckle, offering her a dashing smile.

"God, you’re so annoying," she says, rolling her eyes, suppressing the grin on her face.

"But you love me all the same?"

She frowns, looking at her watch. "I don’t know this trip is really testing me, Uncle." She smirks at him when she sees his eyes darken. God, he was easy to rile up. "You know we could be in the air right now? We could be fucking 30,000 feet up in the air. But no, someone didn’t want to fly in a jet. Even though you fly in jets for VPL all the time!"

"I don’t know how you can watch a documentary about how dangerous private jets are and not be terrified about flying for 12 hours with some random pilot!" Daemon says, throwing his hands up.

"Okay, how dare you! Harry is not some 'random pilot'!"

"What’s his last name?"

Okay, he's got her there. She pauses for a minute. Was it Stone? Rivers? She can't pinpoint it so she shakes her head, unwilling to concede. “That’s not important! He flies a ton of rich and famous people around if they trust him we can. The Kardashians trust him with their lives, Daemon.”

"Private planes are 200 times more likely to be fatal, Rhaenyra!" he yells, throwing his hands up in the air. A couple of children in the lounge look over at them and their parents politely jerk their faces away. Leave the crazy man alone. "Besides, we're flying first class!"

But she just gives him an 'aww you’re so cute' expression. “Babe, first isn’t what it used to be. It’s basically business class at this point,” she says sounding unintentionally haughty.

“I’m a man of the people, Rhaenyra, I don’t have a point of comparison. First class is first class.”

“Ugh, at least on this airline we can lay together," she says as if it's the least they could do.

“We get to lay down?” His head perks up, eyebrows raised.

“Oh babe, you're so cute,” Rhaenyra laughs, nodding over at the bartender in the lounge, who brings her over another glass of champagne. "You're going to be like a little puppy when we get onboard, I just know it."