Ed Sheeran and Eminem. David Beckham and the MLS. Now LS (aka Nick De Cesare) and DonJake can be added to the list of historic UK and US collabs.
DonJake, the co-owner of London-based esports organisation Ruddy Esports, has teamed up with popular League of Legends personality, content creator and former coach LS.
The pair spoke on a podcast on the Ruddy YouTube channel a few days ago, titled ‘A Ruddy Podcast: Powered By The Sack – LS talks founding a Cult, Autism and The Path to Happiness’.
The in-depth two-hour chat covered all kinds of topics, and follows Ruddy’s first long-form podcast with Bwipo a couple of weeks ago. DonJake said it was ‘possibly the most anticipated meeting since Chris Eubank vs Nigel Benn at the Velodrome’.
The LS video has since become Ruddy’s most popular video on their YouTube channel, with 50,000 views and counting. Their recent collab with Caedrel, for TheShyisBack song, has also amassed almost half a million views on Caedrel’s YouTube channel.
Now the pair are teaming up again, for a livestream on LS’ Twitch channel taking place at 2pm GMT, just after the publication of this article.
DonJake said it’s a massive honour to be a part of it, and will be the first time he’s contended with ‘the unwashed masses (Twitch chat)’.
LS said he’s hoping it’ll be the best deep dive talk he’s ever done on the League of Legends esports scene.
He also said it’ll be a closing stream, implying it’s either his final stream this year, or forever.
The stream will also feature a recap on LS’ career, including his major controversies, a Q&A on his game philosophy (with questions chosen by Jake) and some of the darker parts of LoL that LS says can’t be changed.
While this is a big move for Ruddy, given LS has more than 300,000 followers on Twitter and 660,000 on Twitch, it’s not the first time LS has engaged with UK League of Legends.
Way back in 2017, UK LoL support player Prosfair was shouted at coached by LS on stream.
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.
