Three League of Legends pros sat down at the LCS desk to walk viewers through the playoff picture. What the audience got instead was a teleprompter begging for attention.
Niship “Dhokla” Doshi, Jesper “Zven” Svenningsen, and Kacper “Inspired” Słoma took over a between-games desk segment as part of a player takeover on the broadcast. The plan was straightforward: explain the standings and the postseason scenarios with help from the prompter. The execution wasn’t.
The trio struggled to keep pace with the scrolling text. Eyes drifted off camera. Nobody seemed sure whose line was whose. Rather than bail out, production doubled down. The prompter started talking about itself.
“Is this thing on? Can anyone see me? I feel so alone, abandoned, isolated, without anyone deciding to read me. What is my purpose, if not to prompt?” It kept going. “They said it was a pro player takeover, but the only thing that has been taken over is my ability to be read. It’s so cold. The light is fading. Can anyone hear what I’m saying?”
Reading out loud is a skill
For context on the three victims: Dhokla is a North American top laner with a big personality, which is exactly why he keeps getting invited to these things. Zven is a Danish veteran who has played at the top of both Europe and North America, mostly as an AD carry and later as a support. Inspired is a Polish jungler who built his name in Europe before moving to NA, and is usually the guy explaining pathing rather than reading copy.
None of that prepares you for a teleprompter. Prompters usually carry intros, transitions, sponsor lines, timing cues, and stat context. Regular hosts and analysts do use them constantly: they’re just good at hiding it, glancing over, and then talking around the text in their own words. Put three players who haven’t done it on one desk with one shared script, and the machinery starts showing.
