The League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC) is kicking off this Saturday, releasing a hype video forward of the beginning of the Spring Break up.
The video, titled ‘Give me Chaos,’ options League casters Andrew ‘Vedius‘ Day and Daniel ‘Drakos‘ Drakos, in addition to gamers from six of the ten LEC groups: MAD Lions, Crew Vitality, GIANTX, G2, Fnatic and Karmine Corp.
Specifically, the French workforce Karmine Corp, which got here second at First Stand and are the newest LEC champions, had a particular function within the bridge of the tune earlier than the final refrain.
The tune even had mentions of well-liked anime Solo Leveling and esports persona Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont by way of his nickname ‘Sally’ and his ‘xdd’ emote, usually utilized by his group throughout streams.
The video marks the return of a previous custom that noticed LEC skills being concerned in producing songs round upcoming competitions within the area. The 2025 Spring Break up hype video is the primary one since LEC Winter 2024, when Riot Video games launched ‘Every little thing We Acquired.’
Paired with the return of the weekly podcast EUphoria, the LEC workforce has elevated its content material requirements as soon as once more. Firstly of 2024, Riot Video games was hit with a wave of layoffs, letting go of 11% of the worldwide workforce. Among the many affected, the corporate terminated 27 staff working immediately on the LEC, which was probably an influencing think about final 12 months’s lack of content material within the following splits.
LEC’s Music Video Historical past: From Arcane to Rap Battles
Ever because the first music video again in 2020 titled ‘I Need the LEC Again,’ the EMEA broadcast expertise has printed a number of songs and teasers.
Previous to this break up’s tune, the LEC skills produced a complete of eight songs, with ‘Wildfire’ recording over 4.1m views on YouTube. The tune was made in collaboration with American rock band In opposition to The Present. The opposite large hit was ‘Reckless with My Coronary heart,’ a tune printed when European Legend Carl Martin Erik ‘Rekkles’ Larsson moved from Fnatic to rival workforce G2 Esports in what was thought-about one of the vital surprising transfers in LEC’s historical past.
On high of releasing songs, casters have additionally labored on rap-focused segments. Generally known as ‘Mediocre Rap Battles,’ they have been often created round particular matchups or main as much as the playoff levels — one was even centered round Riot Video games’ personal animated collection, Arcane. Essentially the most-watched video of this collection was the one recorded for the 2020 LEC Summer time Playoffs, which hit over 2.1m views.
