One of the bleakest moments in North American League of Legends history just came out again, and it’s still just as awkward eight years later.
The clip comes from Breaking Point, Team Liquid’s behind-the-scenes documentary about its chaotic 2016 LCS season. In it, rookie jungler Joshua “Dardoch” Hartnett is talking through his pick with head coach Choi “Locodoco” Yoon-seop during champion select.
Dardoch’s contribution: “Pick me whatever, let’s just lose in peace.”
No debate about matchups or comfort pick request. Just a teenager who had clearly stopped believing the game was winnable before it started.
Locodoco keeps working the draft anyway, trying to sort out a composition while his jungler checks out in real time. Mid laner Kim “Fenix” Jae-hun isn’t much happier in the same sequence, snapping: “How can I f***ing save five men?”
The footage shows a player who had mentally given up on a draft. It isn’t evidence that Dardoch intentionally lost the game, and no disciplinary finding ever said otherwise. What it does capture is a team whose communication had completely broken down.
Team Liquid’s 2016 roster was a revolving door. Lourlo, Dardoch, Fenix, and Matt were joined by a rotating cast at AD carry, with Chae “Piglet” Gwang-jin moving in and out of the starting lineup, Fabbbyyy filling in, and Brandon “Jynthe” Chen getting a brief run as a substitute. Dardoch himself was benched and reinstated more than once.
Add language barriers, Korean imports adjusting to life in North America, and a coaching structure that expected one person to handle strategy, scheduling, and teenage tempers at the same time, and the “lose in peace” moment starts to feel less like a one-off.
Dardoch was around 18 when it was filmed. That explains some of it. It doesn’t erase the fact that he spent the following years bouncing between rosters, with stops at Immortals, CLG, Echo Fox, OpTic Gaming, TSM, and Dignitas, always talented, rarely settled.
A proper time capsule
Part of the clip’s charm is how old everything looks. Irelia’s pre-2018 model is on screen, the client is ancient, and the whole production feels like a version of esports where teams hadn’t yet learned to lock down camera access.
Breaking Point is still held up as one of the best documentaries the scene has produced, precisely because Team Liquid let cameras film the arguments instead of the highlight reels. Most organizations stopped doing that a long time ago.
