Team has too few players at the start of the league – old coach (27) has to play against young super talent

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In League of Legends, the US league LCS started last week after a delay due to a player strike. But the team “100 Thieves” was one player short. As a result, a coach had to put down the clipboard and grab the mouse and keyboard again.

This was the situation of 100 Thieves:

  • 100 Thieves have signed a midlane talent from Korean team Gen G. to replace Bjergsen: Quid (19). Gen G. has “Our Lord and Savior” Chovy in the mid lane and won’t need a replacement for years. But Quid had visa problems and therefore the 19-year-old was not in the USA when the league started.
  • Out of desperation, 100 Thieves brought in assistant coach Erlend “Nukeduck” Holm (27). The Norwegian had already ended his career in 2022, but he was a professional midlaner for a long time.
  • The problem: The opponent Flyquest had also recently bought in Korea and secured the 19-year-old South Korean VIcLa from KT Rolster. And he had his visa.

    • Could the 27-year-old coach really stand up to a young super talent from South Korea?

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    How did that turn out? The old coach and his team wiped the bottom of the Rift with FlyQuest’s enemies. They actually had a “flawless” victory, like in Mortal Kombat. With 17-0-20 you finished off the opponents in 30 minutes.

    Nukeduck played 1-0-5 on Ahri. His opponent, the 19-year-old from South Korea, played 0-3-0 with Jayce.

    There was a real atmosphere:

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    The other nominally strong players from FlyQuest, such as Impact, Spica or Vulcan, also did not see a country that day. Doublelift got the most kills for 100 Thieves – he is now 29, even 2 years older than Nukeduck.

    How is this commented? Reddit is having a blast thinking about how Nukeduck coached himself before the game:

  • “Nukeduck changed strategy before the game to ‘Just don’t die’
  • “Let’s just win lol – Nukeduck”
  • “I don’t think anyone had ‘100 Thieves wins near perfect with Nukeduck vs Flyquest’ on their list of things happening this season”
  • “The Year of the Duck”

    • The 100 Thieves social team can’t get enough of Nukeduck either. Here people spontaneously call out “The week of the duck”.

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    Well, after years of thinking that LoL was “No Country for old men”, this seems to have been reversed in the last few weeks:

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