Three fine young men are showing the European League of Legends community why British casters are so blooming great right now.
Joe “Munchables” Fenny, Ceirnan “Excoundrel” Lowe and Aaron “Sona” Chamberlain have been casting the EU Challenger Series qualifiers this week, and one moment in particular made the front page of the LoL subreddit.
During Fnatic Academy’s win over ASUS ROG, Munchables mentioned Caitlyn’s ‘Ace in the Hole’ ultimate ability, but ended up saying: “Ace… it rides up into his hole” (ahem).
He then starts to prevent himself from laughing out loud, while Excoundrel asks “what did you just say?” before bursting into laughter.
The community warmed to the British casters – and not only on Reddit either.
not going to lie, I laughed as well! GJ so far @Sonathecaster @ESL_Munchables and @excoundrel https://t.co/xigTpH4056
— Martin Lynge (@RiotDeficio) 12 January 2017
Can’t believe my casting got front page of r/lol last night! Over the moon on that one!
— Munch. (@ESL_Munchables) 13 January 2017
Yes boys reddit has been fairly nice to us today as well, basically mission success. https://t.co/whaLLLW7ww
— Excoundrel (@excoundrel) 12 January 2017
ACED IT LADS. Amidst all the flame we have converted one twitch chat user – day 5 twitch chat will all be love #EUCS pic.twitter.com/ncny1pzyVv
— Excoundrel (@excoundrel) 12 January 2017
Reddit user the_kiddd said: “Honestly these casters for the challenger series are super entertaining and fun to listen to.”
One (unusually for Reddit) polite user Leuchtrakete added: “Just wanted to say that your voice is very nice to listen to, and your guys’ casting overall is very entertaining.”
“I went into the CS qualifiers expecting nothing – production wise. That being said, I was very pleasantly surprised – and judging from the other comments in this thread, I am far from being the only one – by your guys’ casting and would like to see/hear more. #Supportyourlocalcasters”
All in all a great moment that helped to put this British casting talent further on the League of Legends map (just don’t mention that missed baron steal)!
Related video: 16 reasons why UK casters are the best
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
