Early LoL Esports Archive

Sic vos non vobis.

Recovering and archiving historical footage from the early lolesports scene (2010-2014).

Contact me: [email protected]

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Posting the VOD for ASUS ROG PGW 2011 today!

LAN tournament debut for yellowpete, Krepo and Moopz and also featuring hyrqBot.

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In the same vein as yesterday, the stream 2 for day 2 has also been found. We've recovered these 4 lost games.

VOD up, leaguepedia later today. 🤠

[Early LoL Esports Archive @earlylolarchive]

Recovered the VOD of the second stream for IEM Hanover 2012 day 1.

It affects these games, all of them had dead (or straight up missing) links. I'll update them later today, the VOD is already up.

[LEC @LEC]

The EU LCS is coming back with a legendary showmatch on the 25th of July! 🗓️

More information to follow soon.

[Early LoL Esports Archive @earlylolarchive]

Became a national archivist for my country today after long months of exams :)

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Here are the first game's rosters!

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Go4LoL wasn't just a scouting ground for players, but also for casters! Throughout 2012, the NA side featured over 16 different ones.

Amongst them was @esports_kobe , who debuted on NESL GO4LOL #60 on April 29, 2012.

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@dauntedjokkedk I'm pretty sure the video you are refering to is the one with this youtube link https://t.co/d958GbB027

It was titled "Hanging with CLG Eu at the CLG House". Unfortunately I have not found any mirrors of it yet, but if I do I will upload it ^^

[Early LoL Esports Archive @earlylolarchive]

I've started assigning reference codes and it really makes the gaps in the documentation stand out.

Out of Fnatic's first 42 videos, we only have 7 (one not included here as it's still available on Fnatic's channel - FNA/1/020 "Cooking with xPeke").

:(

[Early LoL Esports Archive @earlylolarchive]

@dauntedjokkedk Is there any particular video you remember and can't find anymore?

I do have Wickd, Snoopeh and Yellowpete streams to upload still, but other than that I feel like most of the CLGEU/EG content is still available. But feel free to dm me anything!

[Early LoL Esports Archive @earlylolarchive]

@Akira51p Thank you very much, hopefully we can recover as much as possible ^^

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Also, because of Millenium reuploads, 2 missing TSM videos and 2 missing Fnatic videos have also been found.

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Retrieving all the Millenium content, this random high elo custom game is now the earliest record I've found for both Vizicsacsi and Kasing (YerrowStarr here), two future significant EU LCS players.

29th May 2012.

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Update on 1.1: added two new general stats tables on top of the big query, just as fun facts/trivia. Like everything else, it is dynamic based on the filters.

Also, last week the catalogue reached 650 games (1.0 was 498), hurray!

[Early LoL Esports Archive @earlylolarchive]

@jcdenton1899 Thank you!

There's not one single method that works for everything, but some I've used: warcs from the IA, vod deletion-exempt twitch channels, videohosting sites like dailymotion/youku/kakao, youtube urls through waybackmachine, etc.

[Early LoL Esports Archive @earlylolarchive]

Recently recovered another batch (4) of Fnatic content videos, so we are up to 18 from the total 113 I know to exist.

Very slowly getting there.

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Check this out! The revolving stage set-up at European Regionals 2012 (Gamescom). While two teams were playing, the next ones were setting up backstage to shorten downtime (that's my guess).

I think this is the only time it was shown on the broadcast. Looks cool as hell.

[Early LoL Esports Archive @earlylolarchive]

Working through the IPL records, I've found what I think is @nRatedlol 's debut for Fnatic. Still with the Millenium tag, Pheilox had played support just 2 days before (vs Gamehoppers)

Fnatic vs x6tence, IPL Elites, 28th July 2012, currently lost (we're fixing that soon!)

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East Coast > West Coast!

An IPL fan-voted showmatch that took place on March 10th 2012 in Austin decided it!

Precursor of events like the Riot World Invitational and All-Star.

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Sharing the lost videos I've identified so far, in hope that we can recover as many as possible. If you have any leads as to where any of them might be, please contact me.

https://t.co/We8dSe0vEl

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The Fnatic Youtube channel has every lost video about their 2011-2014 League of Legends team set to private. I've been trying to recover them for a while but to no luck.

To anyone at @FNATIC , please be sensible. Don't hand over control of the channel before saving your history.

[Sheep Esports @Sheep_Esports]

Fnatic is reportedly seeking to sell the club for a value of around $100M

They are said to have entered discussions with potential buyers

via Sky News