The Esports Prodigy that Quit for the Army | A League of Legends Documentary
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The story of Lemondogs is one of the most interesting stories in League of Legends history. Going from academy/challenger to worlds in a year is impressive. But what might be more interesting is the story of their top laner - Zorozero. I hope you enjoy this esports documentary.
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One of the crazier stories from League of Legends esports history in today's documentary. I hope you guys enjoy! Lots of new videos coming out soon :)
From the way he seemed to not really care about publicity, he seemed more in it for fame and money. So, when he got full of both and was doing good, he probably just wanted to move on. This is just a theory but its the best I can figure from how he was described.
hey man i really love your content. The editing might not be as slick as your main "competitor" exil i would say, but youre just such a sympathetic guy i always cheer when a new video pops up. hope you can make a living doing this, i'd join the patreon if i had money to spare.
Hey Gbay, I'm not sure if you've seen the whole situation with Riot shutting down the fan made legacy LoL project Chronoshift, but that might be an interesting topic to cover for a short video.
We lost the chance to have a team called Samurais in Jeans on the LCS, that's a travesty
@@_BenL_ that's why said it, imagine the legendary rivalry, the eternal fight between ninjas and Samurais, and between pyjamas and jeans.
@@Dominion_Hawks they were named that because when they would get into LCS, they would be picked up by NIP and play under their name in LCS.
@@frederikmannoob oh, way to break my hopes and dreams
@@Dominion_Hawks Just dreams. Hope is all gone🤣
I love how the Polish team name Kiedys Mialem Team translates to I Once had a Team
Yeah that team has some wierd JGer
Looks like you had fun with inverting colors haha
Hell yeah! Gotta find a way to break up the monotonous walls of text sometimes lol
THE SHEN GOD HIMSELF
River Shen
Ok
Me before watching: So basically almost every Korean.
Me after watching: THIS GUY COULD'VE WON WORLDS FOR NA!!!!!
he played in eu
I was expecting a Korean too
not even Jesus would win worlds for NA my dude
Weeeeell... he couldn't carry an EU amator team through relegation playoffs, I don't see him in any dimension carrying NA in worlds....
@@jentele1 clg.
Someone really wise once said, you don't want to be the guy with lots of potential for too long.
I'm willing to bet there was something happening behind the scenes to make him flip like that.
Lemondogs is still my summoner icon and shall forever remain my summoner icon. I played for the same basketball club as Nukeduck, and my Brother was a class above him in high school, they are in the same wow guild as far i am aware, a fond memory was me as 13 year old watching sinners never sleep qualify to the EU lcs
Man, league back then was so fun to play and watch. Nowadays I feel like I can't enjoy as much as I used to. Being on the edge of my seat all game long. Nowadays teams are far more controlled and smart about what they do. It's still co to watch, but not as much as back then. Good old days man...
@@vklyns5128 I always just throw that up to nostalgia, for one I was never to the game, and I was really young, so it also becomes assosciated with a simpler time, where I didnt need to clean, or work, pay rent or really do much of anything. I know you didnt make the claim here but when people say it was more balanced or felt more fair those people must have never played into atmogs, or a 700 range kass ult with a silence on his Q, or DFG Ahri/LB haha, I would say definatly the game was worse back then, but it was new to me, and alot simpler kits so I guess that is why my memories are so fond.
@@vklyns5128 Might also help that it was the peak of Nukeduck's career his only worlds appearance so that might sway me abit aswell haha.
same. still rock s3 lemon dogs, or as my friends used to call them, demon logs icon.
Gbay is just such a damn good content creator.
what an absolute throwback
12:51 actually not a bad try gbay, polish is a hard language.
I remember watching your video like 7 years ago about you not knowing what direction you wanted to take your channel or if you even wanted to keep doing youtube. I think you found the content that you where meant to make. GJ gbay
Just to mention, KMT (Kiedyś miałem team) where Jankos played means "I used to have a team"
ye but they sold their lcs spot to roccat as they qualified
I love the use of the Obra Dinn music.
Yeah I remember Zorozero very well! Always wondered what the full picture was, this is such a great video.
this entire channel is great, just a nostalgia trip which i can fully enjoy and understand, having quit league years ago. Stopped following the pro scene as well, so this is such a nostalgia trip.
I love this pro play documentaries and I genuinely hope you can start recovering from your carpal tunnel soon
Thanks for all your hard work and passion
Excellent content Gbay99. You do such a great job making these videos. I use to play league a long long time ago and somehow stumbled upon your youtube channel. Literally watched the full 28 minutes and enjoyed all of it. Thank you!
This is the nostalgia I needed today. Keep at it Gbay 👍
2:48 Bully theme song fits this type of video so good, good choice gbay 😄
beat me to it such a good choice of music
Anyone know the song in the intro?
@@john-marccartagenas6706 It's the main theme of "Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure" czcams.com/video/Je1nL5y2qUg/video.html
@@OmegaMacling thank you!
Bro I'm so happy that u are doing so great, good content, unique content, gbay99 is like 2016 alla over again. Respect
I can smell your video style evolving and i love it
This is for the algorithm! Keep up the good work GBay.
Awesome content as usual man. It’s amazing what you make despite the difficulties you have to face.
This content is really good Gbay, glad you found your groove.
Never heard of this guy, what an awesome piece (of content)!
Personnally I find these «not so known» stories much more intereresting, you really have narrator talent
Always nice seeing you posted
18:20 I can hear my heart pounding when you enter the map in Conflict Desert Storm with this soundtrack
High quality video as always, Gbay
I remember ZoroZero, but I did not know that he was that good. As usual, Gbay educates us about League history :).
Hope you’re recovering swiftly!!
Thank you for sharing this story! It was super interesting. I haven't ever heard this guy's name before!
Thought we would see a video about Rush, great video as always Gbay!
amazing music choice in this video Gbay
love the Desert Storm ost in there! What a hit of nostalgia I love it
Really good video keep it up @Gbay99!
12:48 As a pole I must say you did really good on the pronunciation of that name. Good job ^^
Loved the video! Keep up the good work!
Great Vid, Gbay! :) Hope you are well
So glad zoro finally is getting his tale told like this. The biggest whatif of all lol history
great documentary
Damn i barely remember Zoro, i started watching s4 so only big thing i remember is the nip millenium series (what a series that was). Great vid as always
It’s that Gbay again with that quality content
Great content!
Great video gbay, only one qualm I had with it was the inverted colours on every webpage you displayed :D
Keep up the good work!
Man i still remember this dude from his lemondogs days. Such a shame that he didn't get a long career in league but I hope he's doing well regardless
If he’s in the military, I can tell you he ain’t. Should have just went pro.
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@@Whowhatsit Depends what country he is from tbh.
@@Whowhatsit
not doing well my ass, he's gonna retire at 35 with a big ass monthly compensation, if that's not well then call me sick
@@Gigantoscula Your just wrong here. I am a veteran and I can tell you that for 1, nobody retires before 38 at the youngest but generally 40's. It isn't a big ass monthly compensation, it's 50% of your base pay monthly, and lastly people who retire from the military and generally fucked up after leaving.
Love the Bully music at the start :')
great vid!
gbay is back!
I love this kind of thing, because it shows how slapdash and poorly organized even pro play was a decade ago. A team getting the chance to play-in to a spot in the playoffs because a team didn't fill out paperwork, but missing said chance because their top laner was so behind that patching his client took so long it caused his team to *also* miss a deadline? Only pre-2014 LCS, baby.
Damn bro lemondogs, i actually cheered for them as a teenager for the entire time they were in EU LCS, and at worlds
9:40 OH BABY THE MARIO KART WII WIFI MUSIC
Love the content
>"Ahahahaha okay im going to Brazil?"
>disappears forever soon after
i guess he really went to brazil
Great documentary 😊
Thank you!
Love this channel and its long ass videos
The flip is honestly unimaginable to me. The first leave from pro, going back to school, was understandable. But from probably playing 8-10 hours of soloq a day to completely quiting the game to pursue something else is just so odd to me. He seems like the kind of person to, when he's out of the army, immediately change to another unrelated career
yes what baffles me is why choose the army? the average lifespan of a pro game is super limited so why not just do that first and then go to the army. apart from being one of the greatest he could have made a fortune
Dude Loving the old NCAA football music at 20 mins
"He's living real life" Sounds to me like he never really saw eSports as a legitimate career... And the fact that he went back to school as well... not at all uncommon back then really... I wonder if he'd feel differently had he been so prominent in these later years..
It still isn't. Let's face reality. In the future maybe, and I hope so, but as of now, no. Not everyone is a Faker, a Bjerg, an Uzi, a Caps for you to not worry about your future anymore. Yeah he made a name for himself but who knows what the future would hold, esports is something so volatile as of now. Also, maybe it's what he really wanted. Not every one is in it for the money you know. And the term "He's living real life" is an appropriate comment, no one can stay pro forever after all. Let's be happy for the guy.
@@fightme4136 You don't have to be Faker, Bjerg, Uzi, Caps or xPeke to have a profesional career playing videogames (eSports). Sure it's not as fleshed out as many other sports leagues but it is followed by more people than many others. There are university sponsorships, training schools, clubs that groom their players... Anything that other "traditional sports" have.
My point is that it's neither as impossible nor as far off as you make it sound.... Plenty of low level but profesional players... Just like football, "soccer", tennis or golf.
@@ViMBarN true. but my point is there are more billionaires in the world than esports players who found success and can live comfortably if they don't play anymore. Esports give you a lot of injuries btw so everyday is a ticking time bomb for you.
Yeah I could see that, after losing promotion and getting tossed around by teams to other continents he was probably thinking about his future in the long term
Wait a minute, that's Bully soundtrack playing as background music. Great choice my friend, great choice.
You can hear Gbays phone ringing at 10:34 literally frantically searched my house for my phone trying to find the ringing after lmfao
???
That's mario kart wii ost. Not a phone lmao
Very good video.
Always wondered what happened to him.
So, I have all notifications on for your channel, and didn't get the notification at all. Only saw this after seeing your social post.
Great documentary. Did you try and reach out for a comment from him? Would have been interesting to here one last time on how/what exactly he was doing.
obra dinn at 7:03 was so good lol
I see you with that ncaa football music gbay.
man, that Return of the Obra Dinn OST fits really well
shoutout that bully music soundtrack in the beginning
Is that Rhythm Thief at the intro? If so, that's good shit
Great documentary from the european league scene
Bruh the random obra dinn music gave me chills
I am truly sad still at this point about Zorozero´s decision
You know there is something bitter sweet about this, its sad that Zero left league, and ye i think we can all agree to that, but i can see it differantly, imagen for a second that all that skill he has, all the intelligence he has, and all the stuff he has learned from league (teamplay, tactics ect) is now being utilized by an Army, he now puts all he was given in life in the prospect of defending his home.
I dont know about you, but to me that is quite cool, Respect to ZoroZero
Or he went to his mandatory conscription, had to take a year off league, and understood that he was probably not going to make it anymore as an esports proffessional and decided to move on.
as a bronze player going in to the army i get this guy :)
@@mafreeze3409 hhaha
You should save yourself the PTSD and just join the AF
many soldiers and people from the military believe they will do noble and necessary things for their country, but in reality they will most probably be only pawns (regardless of rank) to do the dirty work for the ruthless psychopaths that own the armies and become a threat to innocent civilians. This is true for the military from the US, Britain, France and some more countries. Let's not forget what they did on Syria as of recent. Not only that, but the military at least serves to each country's ruling class to stay in power willing to commit genocide if they "must". Add chemtrail spraying all around the globe (unacceptable) and many kinds of power abusal during all of history, supression of the insurgents, the list goes on... US Democracy is nothing like the Democracy Plato wrote about, so please do some research about the institution you are planning to stay for years, it's a big deal and you (like most of the veterans) could regret it a lot.
Hope you are better at IRL combat my dude.
@@alanarguello3704 your right about the nobility, but for the most part in the American military you’ll just be sitting around training
The bully theme is iconic
0:27 I recognize that clip...pain
I knew immediately from the titel it was Zorozero and it still sadness me to this day
You should make a video talking about how Rekkles played ad kennen and why it worked out so good for him. @Gbay99
I liked just because of the opening music
His kennen was legendary, might be the reason I play top
Zorozero actually went to university to study Computer Science and Software Engineering. He's probably going places in life.
Only legends know the Intro music. Legendary Rhythm game for the 3ds
I have a theory. Maybe his parents said they give Zoro x amount of years to have a successful career in gaming and if he didn’t make it he gotta join the military
Very pog video!
thanks man, glad you enjoyed it :)
My man chose to split push IRL 💀
I don't skip ads on gbay videos
did u use bullys soundtrack ? the trowback was HUUUUUUUUUGE XD
Well, we have to remember what these young pro's are giving up for this career. Sure, they get and experience alot, but there are also alot of things they cant do that their friends at home might do. And while it may not matter, but the pay in his time wasnt something crazy, unless you were they big streamers! Great video my mate.
2:48 I recognize this music, but it's on the tip of my tounge. I swear some other youtuber also used it.
wow I wonder what led him to make that decision. I can't even imagine.
Most surprising thing I learned was that the Danish has an army.
As a former Danish Soldier turned professional League caster, i am very split, because on one hand, he had imense talent, and could to this day still be one of the best toplaners if he continued, but on the other, a career in the danish military can be very attractive and lucrative. This story hit so hard, great job Gbay
Who knows, maybe he'll become a caster after he retires from military
Poor Dyrus is never safe.
Honestly at this point I would watch Gbay docco's regardless of the topic
Gbay , could you explain why they decided to stop with qualifications system for LCS. I loved it back in the days to see a LCS team fight viciously for keeping there spot . Now a days it feels like time waste to watch the lower half of teams playing against each other . We had soo much Storys from teams fighting there way up or teams loosing there spot. It was emotional and beautiful ....
Can't stop dreaming about the past days while I still loved the game 100%. So probably just nostalgia talking .
Looks like you aint gettin answered soon so I will do you a favor. There are 2 big reasons why relegation was abolished atleast in NA:
1. Franchising. Well I guess you already knew what this is so I will leave it right here. If you dont then just google the word and the answer is pretty clear.
2. C9 Challenger. It is a known story in League that there was this one insane team made of washed up LCS pros who were constantly stomping other Challenger teams and just took the promotion spot.... Only to sell it to the highest bidder and goes back to the Challenger circuit next split to repeat the same thing. After 3~4 splits of this Riot realised that these clowns were fkin destroying their promotion system and the Challenger circuit is useless as there were no teams capable of stopping them. So they pulled the trigger and the Academy system was born to replace the Challenger circuit.
And so we arrived at the LCS today. No need to thank for the explaination just press like :))
@@gaoaibai6243 thats the same Problem in non esport. NOone cares it. ANd you could ez create a league for academy teams and for challenger teams. Like in NA. Ye they habe franchising but they have a academy league and multiple other college leagues. In china there is a secon league. the second argument is bs. and it didnt happen often. c9/h2k, mfs, fnatic, ..... dont remember much more. When i thinking about promotion i think about g2, origin, copenhagen wolves, roccat, tdk, enemy esports, renegades......
Finally gbay doing a documentary on himself, didn’t know u joined the army tho.
Early season league is so much fun,specialy teams figuring so much OP strats that now seems basic.
using songs from Return of the obra dinn, excellent choice
i remenber i started playing adc because of SNS tabzzz his adc was clean