Gross Gore: 'I deserve a shot at being on the LCS desk'

UK streamer Ali “Gross Gore” Larsen has spoken about his ambitions to work as a League of Legends desk host.
He was talking on stream yesterday evening when he discovered fellow British content creator Dan “Foxdrop” Wyatt was on his team in the pre-game lobby.
Gross Gore said: “I’m dead serious, bruv. Foxdrop is now on the LCS desk probably earning I don’t know how much a year.
“I should be doing that ****ing job, bruv. He’s in the same elo as me, I’m a better player than him, he always camps me, bruv.
“If I’m in the same elo as him, I deserve a shot at being on the LCS desk. Ask anyone.
“Am I wrong lads?”
Riot has brought streamers on stage as guest hosts and players in showmatches before, including the likes of tyler1 in the US.
Gross Gore previously told Esports News UK in an interview a few years back that he wouldn’t mind working as an esports coach or caster.
 

 

“Foxdrop is in the same elo as me, I’m a better player than him, he always camps me, bruv.”
Gross Gore

p-please don’t take my job @GrossieGore pic.twitter.com/pavmEDWyr2

— Foxdrop (@Foxdroplol) June 11, 2019

 
Foxdrop first started his esports casting career in 2017 when he helped cast some ESL UK and Ireland Premiership matches.
He made his EU LCS debut last summer and has cast in the rebranded LEC and also the EU Masters.
Foxdrop produces instructional League of Legends videos on YouTube, predominantly focused on jungling, while mid-laner Gross Gore tends to stream matches and is also known for his controversial comments and behaviour. Both players are currently ranked in Diamond 3.
Gross Gore also said on stream: “I believe I am a special force put in this world for a reason. I don’t think that reason is to be a 1K Andy or hard-stuck Twisted Fate player. I think I was born with a voice to spread goodness and the truth around the world.
“I feel like I’m the key to the universe.”

Dom Sacco

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.