"I Revolutionised Roaming in North America" - Reflections with Smoothie 1/2 - League of Legends

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Andy "Smoothie" Ta, former Support of Cloud9 and TSM and currently teamless, is the star of the 367th Episode of 'Reflections'. This episode is part one of two about Smoothie's career.
Smoothie's career got its start playing in NA Challenger Series with Team Dragon Knights. From there he would briefly join Team Liquid before making his way over to Cloud9, where he began to build his name.
Known as a strong botlane with Sneaky Smoothie became famous for roaming and shot-calling his team to elite status. They would play in back-to-back LCS finals with him, losing both to TSM, and attend both S6 and S7 Worlds. In both Worlds appearances the team escaped a tricky group draw to make the quarter-finals.
Moving to Echo Fox, Smoothie saw less success and it would be a move to TSM that saw him back at the championship level. Partnered with Zven he reached the S9 LCS Spring final only to be reverse-swept by Team Liquid and denied the title. TSM fell apart over the summer and a transfer to CLG saw Smoothie's results fail to rise to the top level again. He has played in Challenger/Academy the last few years and is currently teamless and undecided about his future.
In part one, Smoothie talks about entering the scene, putting emphasis on learning shot-calling, playing with names like Sneaky and Jensen, making two Worlds play-off runs and what stopped C9 winning those LCS finals.
This interview was recorded on the 24th of February, 2024.
► Time-line of topics discussed:
00:00 Entering pro scene
03:05 LCS a dream for him?
03:49 Seraph
05:59 Alex Ich
07:19 Team Liquid and Piglet
11:03 Cloud9 and competing with BunnyFuFu for spot
13:39 Shot-calling
15:48 S6 summer run
17:07 Meteos
19:51 Doublelift story about flaming him
21:58 S6 Worlds group
23:39 SSG quarter-final
24:53 Sneaky
27:01 S7 Spring final vs. TSM
27:57 Jensen rivalry with Bjergsen
30:02 Roaming
31:43 Reapered
33:26 Gauntlet
34:53 S7 Worlds group
36:13 Playing T1 multiple times
37:17 Team WE quarter-final
39:07 Sneaky story about not tanking an ashe arrow
40:21 Getting benched in S8 summer
42:36 Ego
44:22 How did he come to leave Cloud9?
47:04 Lost
48:19 Huni and Dardoch
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[@5eur]

Smoothie is such an OG support player, gonna be a great listen. Thorin dropping non-stop bangers!!! The streak is insane!!

[@loxi9]

Smoothie is one of the most overlooked players of all time. He was victim to two insane game 5 throws (2017 Jensen Ekko and 2019 Zven Ezreal). I wonder how history could have been different if he had won those two finals.

[@powerpiginc]

another goated interview to add to the accolades

[@PluristPurist]

I always thought Smoothie was so good on C9, I remember one game where he was trundle support and saved somebody from a blitz hook with pillar. Blew my mind, also that WE series was so fun even though C9 lost. Looking forward to the next part. I always wondered why he didn't stick around in the LCS as long as I thought he would

[@DoggyP00]

Yeah, I remember most people thought ruler was a weak link of that samsung team, but randomly they became by far the best bot lane in the world during the second half of that tournament

[@rangoonrush]

YES - been waiting for this one for a while. Thorin doing awesome work

[@TheGarouKami]

thorin always releasing fucking bangers man

[@FatOldMan4141432]

Fantastic Pro Great career

[@CxerRy96]

I'm sad he didn't win that spring split with BB Akadian Bjerg Zven and him...also, high time we heard from Akaadian make it happen ginger man

[@dividion]

Scarey face at the start of the video made me jump

[@marrek6312]

Cant wait for part 2 for some clg stories

[@Rusty_Justice]

Has to be one of the most well spoken western pros. Great listen part 1

[@IncomprehensibleFool]

Seems quite intelligent and qwll spiken. Wonder if he would do well on one of the shows

[@ayh4968]

banger

[@akomar93]

😮

[@FortheWolf]

Smoothie sneaking in the ‘who was the second Chinese team?’ Implying Flashwolves is a CN team lol

[@ukstevey]

Thats an old intro