China Talk Episode 15 VOD

This article was originally published on GameSpot's sister site onGamers.com, which was dedicated to esports coverage.

China Talk, a talk show focused on spreading information about and analyzing Chinese League of Legends games and teams, has moved to onGamers. This week, we continued with our Worlds coverage with a special guest to shed light on the Taiwanese participants, Machi Esports coach, Chia "Reazony" Yu.

VOD and Topics:

Part 1:

Part 2:

PART I:

00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:20 EDG's poor showing Part 1: SSW and Aaron's Statement
00:08:30 Reazony gives an overview of Machi Esports
00:13:00 Cultural Esports context for Taiwan
00:19:00 EDG vs ahq
00:24:00 EDG's poor showing Part 2: ahq disrespect and will EDG have a better QF performance?
00:33:00 Is NaMei overrated?
00:37:00 UZI's playstyle (and slight aside on the U-Z-I vs Uzi debacle)
00:41:15 Fzzf as the best performer for his team
00:42:30 Chinese top lane picks (why the Ryze?)
00:43:45 TSM vs StarHorn Royal Club
00:51:30 Why didn't everyone laneswap against StarHorn?
00:57:20 Who would have won the third game of SHRC vs TSM?
01:04:00 Hughbo's social platform
01:09:00 TPA vs StarHorn Royal Club
01:17:00 Unexpectedly strong GPL/LPL performers
01:22:30 SK Gaming's run
01:28:00 Rumble viability
01:32:00 Meta picks and Cloud9
01:35:30 Predictions for Group C
01:44:30 Predictions for Group D
01:48:00 QF Predictions Based on Group picks
01:52:45 StarHorn Royal Club vs Edward Gaming (carries on to Part II)

PART II:

00:00 Reazony's StarHorn Royal Club vs Edward Gaming prediction
03:00 Edward Gaming or StarHorn against White Shield

Q&A

05:25 TSM vs SSW
06:50 LMQ in Group C and SK with Svenskeren
08:40 Lucian picks
11:30 What champion picks we want to see at Worlds
12:45 Reazony's Mata PSA
13:00 Analyst Desk salt and Deficio Shoutout
14:40 Closing statements