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Dfuse release players

eutalyx

March 7, 2021

DfuseTeam DfuseTeam Inactive hoppY Dylan Aube logaN Logan Corti AKUMAAAAA Alex Lo Bello TakaS Jonathan Paupard rodeN Rodolphe Bianco will allow their players to search for offers, citing "administrative issues" in a statement announcing the situation.

rodeN

@rodeN_GG

In mutual agreement with @DfuseTeam ,
we have the opportunity to look for other organizations.
They will release us by the end of March.
You can contact us at Oppsteam@ioneo.paris or you can dm me on twitter.

Just a day after confirming their presence in the Champions Tour Europe Stage 1: Masters by defeating G2, the squad is now left without an organization. The former Opportunists will be released at the end of March, ending their stint in the French organization which brought them to light as a European contender.

After a streak of good results in the European scene, including a victory over Gambit in the NGL Open Cup finals and ending their road to First Strike: EU a game away from the event, they were signed in late November 2020 by DfuseTeam, an organization created by Dfuse.gg casters.

The team continued sweeping European events like the Nicecactus Fall Trophy #2, as well as the second and third Underdogs events. They failed to qualify for the Red Bull Home Ground, also missing out on the S1: Challengers 1.

They lost in the Challengers 2 Qualifier Play-in against a dominant Alliance, but showed up in the entirety of Challengers 3. The French powerhouse won back-to-back series against Giants Gaming and G2 Esports, two of the biggest European teams. Their win against G2 guaranteed them a slot at the VCT Stage 1: Masters to be played from March 12 alongside names like Alliance, FPX, Heretics and NIP.

The following players are now looking for an organization:

Dylan "hoppY" Aube
Logan "logaN" Corti
Alex "AKUMAAAAA" Lo Bello
Jonathan "TakaS" Paupard
Rodolphe "rodeN" Bianco
Flavien "wallax" Lebreton (Coach)

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Astralis? Vitality?

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Misfits (french org) or Rogue most likely

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BDS or Solary

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BDS possible

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Misfits is a American org....

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I think they just have NA sponsors like the Miami Heat. But they keep having french players on their rosters so...

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On which team are they primarily french??? https://liquipedia.net/leagueoflegends/Misfits_Gaming

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Misfits is based out of UK. In Overwatch they had a primarily European roster before they franchised and became Florida Mayhem. Even going into OWL they were 100% European but sold their roster and went Korean after season 1. Not primarily French though (at least that I have seen) though I wouldn't be surprised if they had had French players in the past.

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Their website says that they are based out of Florida, USA, afaik they are secondarily based out of UK https://misfitsgaming.gg/about/

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The owner is american, and they are partially owned by 4 american sports teams.

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Way back before like late 2016 they had soon (oniby's older brother) and a couple other french players. They then went full Swedish I believe or full Scandinavian atleast

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Rogue where u at

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Change of rosters between Vitality and Dfuse

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perfect pickup for Vitality, unfortunate it didn't happen before

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Jup vitality should defiantly jump on this

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i dont think vitality will drop the whole roster that they just picked up

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Very unexpected move. Crazy that your reward for getting into Masters is a release from your organization.

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It makes a lot of sense. The roster after qualifying wants a higher salary that Dfuse cannot afford. Then they agree that the roster can look for a new org that pays more, but in the meantime they continue to represent Dfuse

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It's more complicated, they can't handle it, it's not about releasing and then look for an other roster to get, they are not strong or rich enough for it, no one signed Opportunists so they tried and wanted to see if they could meet their needs but at the end they couldn't, and I'm almost sure they knew it since a longtime

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It can't be a big org just rushing to get them THIS freaking fast, can it?

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Nope, they were going to leave dfuse no matter what.

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BDS

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Beatricio

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Ye, that's what I thought, BDS rogue misfits or LDLC

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https://twitter.com/DfuseTeam/status/1368637579843747843/photo/2

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Astralis would be a sick addition to the scene.

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afaik astralis are one of those orgs that want to exclusively field nordic cores, so I doubt we'll see them pick up this team.

plenty of other orgs that might take a look though ?

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Expected

#13

hekzy

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People out here downvoting my statement of how a small org couldn't keep Masters team on their payroll. Idiots, absolute idiots.

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Well, I don't think players asked for a better salary, just the "org" (cuz I'm almost sure they werent supposed to invest in a team) couldn't meet its commitment, no one were signing Opportunists which was already 1 of the best team in EU, they took the opportunity but at the end they can't handle it

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They are just a casting desk, not an org. Obviously it was gonna end up like this.

Anyway let's hope for misfits to swoop in. This team is great to watch.

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Ye that's I said "org" and idk if it was supposed to end up like this, I'm almost sure they didn't plan to keep the team for years but they probably didn't expect to not be able to meet its commitment

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It is expected for people aware of what is happening there. But them going to the Masters has NOTHING to do with them leaving. They were going to leave anyway because of problems with the org. If we even can call Dfuse an org.

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very just ;)

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Very true.
And it seems that the type of contracts that were signed with the players and staff were not the kind the orgs usually sign players with.
A shame they couldn't make it work but a great adventure nonetheless.
Best of Luck to all of them !

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They probably sold the team behind the scenes.

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Some org just prefer to wait to avoid paying extra money before signing ... Nobody can regulate the market since decade so, biggest structures stay in the game, and the smallest one cannot fight against colossus

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Nope.

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there is no sale since there is a breach of contract, so they are free very soon ;)

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Do the players keep the spot for masters or does the org own the spot?

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players

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good they deserve it!

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They'll go as Dfuse to the Masters event. After that there's no slot to hold anyway, so... who knows?

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Beat G2, org agree to let them go? They must have a big org in the works otherwise they should've put up more of a fight to keep them

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they aren't really an org
They couldn't put up a fight because they were broke and the players got let go due to a breach of contract

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