The 2018 League of Legends Mid Season Invitational had it from an entertainment standpoint. The games were remarkable, the crowd was electric and there were no shortage of surprises.

While it was undoubtedly a unbelievable experience for the players, it was just as crazy an experience for the broadcast team.

We caught up with LoL esports host Eefje 'Sjokz' Depoortere to look back on what has already been an eventful season.

We caught up with Sjokz (left) to reflect on what has already been an eventful season for her

'MSI has been intense' said Sjokz, 'It' the first time that our schedules were so compressed. If you compare it to other MSIs, now it's all very close together, which I think was very intense for the production crew and I'd say the players probably as well.

'Fortunately, I've caught a second wind coming to Paris because this crowd is just crazy. I'm very sorry to the Brazilians and the Germans but whenever I come to France, I think they are just louder than anyone else, it's insane.'

Sjokz has a little bit of time to relax but in the matter of a few weeks, she'll be back in Berlin ready to kick off the EU LCS Summer Split. The European league had been criticised in the past, with fans arguing that their North American counterparts were favoured more by Riot.

Those complaints have vanished as the EU LCS have upped their production values and treated fans to plenty of high-quality broadcasts. According to Sjokz, it's been a long time coming: 'What you see now on broadcast is a project that has been going on for several years, it goes back to when we moved all the way from Cologne to Berlin.

Sjokz says getting the EU LCS broadcast right has been a long but rewarding experience

'It's frustrating when you know you can do better and not everything is there or there's things that you can't necessarily talk about because if you say, "well we're working on it" that doesn't help anyone. You just have to fight through and it's been really nice for us because we always knew that we could deliver.

'I think the community blew things out of proportion a bit, they said the show was complete crap. That's obviously not true but it had to be better for them and I think that's what you can see now hopefully.'

It's been a rewarding year for Sjokz, following on from when she was crowned the Esports Personality of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards last year. And one unexpected achievment she accomplished this year was becoming an in-game announcer for LoL.

During MSI, her and Trevor 'Quickshot' Henry could be heard in every LoL game on the EUW and EUNE servers as they recorded voice overs for moments such as minions spawning and penta-kills.

Sjokz was over the moon at getting to be League of Legends' temporary in-game announcer

Riot surpirsed Sjokz with the news a month ago and she couldn't have been more excited: 'It was amazing. It kind of snuck up on me because Trevor said oh hey they requested you and me to do a test for something. We had a really busy schedule from summer finals to here (MSI) and that was a day off but we were recording for about seven hours.

'When I found out it was for in-game, I couldn't believe it. They played us Kobe and Phreak's lines and there were a lot of Phreak puns in there so we changed it to what wanted to say and got to say the obvious things like penta-kill.

'We've been on the road so I only got to play two games but it was so trippy. I was on TeamSpeak with some of my friends and I was like, "Shut up I want to listen to myself!" It's just a great honour - I had the fun of having Primtetime Draven's shout-out of 'Sjokz better interview me after this.' That was already unreal, but this is just crazy.'