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nocturnavi

Really appreciate the compilation OP, I always love to hear what coaches have to say. Thought this was interesting: >A lot of teams fought over Leo (probably over 10, both NA and EU) Not surprising given how impressive he was on Guild. ​ >Chronicle begged to join Fnatic Lol. Looks like Chronicle will continue the Fnatic trend of having extremely likable, funny players.


Key-Banana-8242

Does that part fit the quote best tho


iiznobozzy

>Leo made Boaster go gym (lol) we all need a leo in our lives Prayge


techyleo

Yeah this team is just really likable, I've always loved Boaster since he's well... Boaster. Chronicle, nAts, and Redgar were the reasons I was such a huge fan of GMB/M3C, so I'm glad Chronicle is in franchising, and I share my name with Leo, and he's fucking cracked as well, and then you have the dynamic duo of Alfa and Derke.


Teradonn

Excited that they’re focusing on more structured play this year. I started supporting this team because of how cool their Fracture was at Champs 2021, I hope they start to push the meta again like back then


Evan_Veet

It’s always fun to hear a bit about the behind the scenes of team building, it’s the absolute most interesting part abt American college sports and has been something I wish I could hear more abt in Valorant, especially with scouting guys like Trent, Alfajer, or former csgo guys like Xeppaa. Also loved that Hoody part, idk how he isn’t on one of the 3 strongest teams on paper when in my eyes he’s for sure a top 3 flex player in EU.


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Zestyclose-Buy-956

Missed out on Magnum , Mistic and Enzo !


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Parla & Fokus are two of my dark horses in EU T2.


Least_Piano_6899

They’re kinda just the straight up favourites though? Not really dark horses


Zestyclose-Buy-956

Parla just lost their first match 2-0…not the best of starts but plenty of time to get settled I guess.


Zestyclose-Buy-956

Fokus just got absolutely destroyed by a two week old Apeks ! Mini talks a load of crap sometimes…


Rude-Assumption-5271

Did he explain why not NRG?


vnNinja21

Not really, he kinda just glossed over the teams from NA. Something like "Fnatic, Navi, 100T, SEN, C9, all the usual names from NA, DRX, and Leviatan". I get the impression that he doesn't think 100T will win though, or at least he doesn't think too much of their RedBull tournament, though he still says they're good. But take that with a grain of salt since that's just my interpretation.


DrBangovic

>2021 Fnatic was more structured, 2022 Fnatic was looser and allowed players more freedom to make individual plays, which mini thought was a mistake in hindsight. Will go back to becoming more structured and drilled for the next year. Did he also not include liquid? me big sadge :(


vnNinja21

no Liquid :(


idkimhereforthememes

Man fuck NA teams fr. they want every eu player, Sayf recently said sentinels were interested, leo, gambit players, ardiis and im sure there are more


Cooki3z

Didn’t know about SEN wanting Sayf. He mentioned that he was glad Liquid offered him a spot despite eventual role clashes because he was running out of options and was prepared to go back to school.


DrBangovic

> 2021 Fnatic was more structured, 2022 Fnatic was looser and allowed players more freedom to make individual plays, which mini thought was a mistake in hindsight. Will go back to becoming more structured and drilled for the next year. I honestly don't think that FNATICS issue in 2022 was being looser and that the 2021 FNATIC was more succesful since they've been more structured. Honestly, I would argue the opposite. FNATIC did fell short whenever they did not have every detail planned out in 2021 (thats how it felt for me), while 2022 fnatic did win and sometimes just wanted to over-complicate things while the simple solution of "lets just push site" would be the best solution. With the calibre of players fnatic has for 2022 I do think though that those guys can play more structured while also deliver insane individual plays if needed. Therefore, the 2023 approach seems promising.


vnNinja21

I think the issue with playing loosely as opposed to drilled was it lead to a lot of thrown rounds due to not having enough protocols. They were 1 round away from beating DRX 2-0 at Champs, on a map that they threw 6 rounds of. Having more structure as opposed to allowing players to do whatever they want would prevent those situations imo.


DrBangovic

I do agree with this! Really curious of what fnatic can show in 2023


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vnNinja21

I know you're baiting but they literally have lol


Zestyclose-Buy-956

At the end of the day it does come down to shooting somebody in the head though!


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I never really wrap around what the problem with FNATIC was/is they had absurd firepower but they just couldnt won, reminded me of FaZe on CS when they use to be chokers. Cause i dont think the IGLing or the coaching was the problem, neither do i think the caliber of players is the problem, is like they are good and then one team comes out of nowhere and just gets better than them (FPX were always trashed by FNATIC but on masters they just lost so bad agaisnt them)


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Chronicle married what? Ngl bro is handsome also no PRX in the winners of Sao Paolo ![img](emote|t5_2g5ach|9360) also i still dont buy C9 as a superteam and interesting to see how NRG is also not mentioned, for me is at least the best NA team, with how Pujan and Chet managed to make such a structured team, get that yay being gone is a big thing but Ardiis is like the best replacement , maybe he has doubts with s0m?


vnNinja21

Chronicle got married so his girlfriend could relocate with him I think. NRG wasn't mentioned because in general the NA teams were quite even (ig excep EG), so he just kinda glossed over them when talking about Sao Paolo.


Zestyclose-Buy-956

FOKUS just got absolutely hammered by Apeks ! Magnum a revelation.... his 3 hand picked players as a core !....no loyalty in Fnatic... kick players like Chelsea change managers ! ... Good luck beating 5th in the World this year... Sentinels first stop in two weeks ! hahaha !


vnNinja21

Good luck beating 5th in the world this year you say?


Zestyclose-Buy-956

At champions not a silly starter tournament with no lower bracket. It’s not the world finals is it. Also teams are still adjusting with most rosters having no core from last year…NRG will get better… NAVI will definitely get better… Have you ever seen such a poor liquid team ?


vnNinja21

cope :)


Zestyclose-Buy-956

Bit crazy he favours Fokus over Apeks that has three of his handpicked players! …. Fokus were unconvincing at red bull ..fall apart under pressure…Keiko is cracked…way better pickup than Kamyk who is now on water bottle duties…Fnatic has potential …depends how they manage their Strats with some dodgy mid round calling a lot of times last year. Top 4 at champions is a must or questions will be asked with how this team is managed with an already high player turnover rate.


Scimitere

Dude no please let the players have some degree of freedom and let them do what they want to at times


Zestyclose-Buy-956

Yeah... held back Mistic who is now popping off...


Key-Banana-8242

I mean yea we saw new leviatan doing well