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Carpe is an OWL pro and one of the best players in that game at his peak. It wasn't risky considering Sayaplayer, Munchkin, Babybay, Bazzi, Zunba, and other OWL pros have had good success in Valorant. Hell, Derrek was not even Tier 1 in OW and is a solid player for 100T.
Beomjun was signed because Munchkin vouched for him, not because T1 had a shitty selection process. Munchkin duos with Beomjun a lot. Munchkin's voice definitely has merit as even the DRX staff I believe have praised his smarts.

ah yes a totally smart move from the best staff team in the world! lets sign a random player who is a jett one trick with 0 exp because ANOTHER jett/chamber one trick said so! and just because those others players had sucess doenst mean hes gonna have too, and none of these except derrek had any real sucess lol. like what the fuck is this logic?

Plus, for example, Xerxia's Surf was a Ranked demon and he was literally only picked up because of that. Zero professional experience and he's immediately picked up to replace at the time APAC's best duelist. And he's proven himself as a replacement over Pati, so it's not that big of a stretch especially considering Beomjun is the 6th man and not a starter. He also hit Radiant in NA, APAC, and Korea.

thats just bullshit. theres a thing called "trying out players" and he didnt get "immediately" picked up. they had months and months of real matches and scrims to determine if he was actually good for future big tournaments, please do not even compare them two. atleast hes a 6th man which makes things a little better, and hitting radiant in multiple regions doenst mean shit. basically every pro can do this and even some average radiants and streamers.

It's actually delusional to think that Bail, a coach who created TNL, built up Meteor, Hate, eKo, Exy, and TS, a coach who made Masters with Northeption, and a vetted CS 1.6 player on the same team as Glow, Termi, Peri, and Solo, doesn't know what good talent is. He said he picked Secret because he believes in his potential.

and thats just TOTAL BULLSHIT lmao. bail is a great coach no doubt but saying he "built up" any of these players is BEYOND delusional. specially this core of eko, exy and ts. in the early days these guys were destroy others kr players that nowdays are considered the best, they also have easily one of the best aims in kr. ANY coach in the world if they had the opportunity to build a team in the early days in this region 99% would pick this core, and i dont even need to explain meteor and hate, basically the same thing. and not everyone has insane potential. im not hating on secret, if secret atleast was getting a little bit better after some time i would agree with this pickup and have no problem in saying he has potential, but hes literally a mediocre player. was the worst player in desperado and DAWMON too, hes also really inconsistent. idk what role is he playing or if they are flexing with each other but thats even worse.

As for basic logical connection to assume it's a KR org...bro already forgot about RRQ using the same old players who managed to fail getting into playoffs and only changed because of huge community backlash.

i really dont know if youre baiting on purpose, but this is beyond being ignorant lmao. rrq has already a roster to play, so i dont even understand the need to use them as example, and they didnt get hated because "they didnt get into playoffs" they got hated because they were getting PH players with WAY better ID out there like monyet, and then they needed to get ID players because of riot, they also said top tier ID players werent "qualified enough in trials" which is just braindead, atleast get your facts right. im saying its probably a KR org since its the only region in asia that i can see that has alot of tier1 orgs, and based on these pickups like i said its likely to be a KR org. its really not that hard to understand that. do i need to draw it for you?

I don't understand the logic - what's wrong with picking up promising talent and aiming to build them up? With that same method of reasoning, DRX picking up MaKo was the worst decision ever at the time because MaKo had never played smokes up until then.

i literally never said that's wrong. i'm saying that going for that route in times like this is just stupid. this is franchising, any type of loss is risky. and do you understand that they are going to play in just some days? do you think secret will surprisingly get insane out of nowhere?
i just feel sad that this roster had potential to beat DRX but bail decides to throw a t2 inconsistent player in there. and PLEASE just stop with the typical cringe argument "b- but mako never played smokes and look where he is now" MAKO WAS LITERALLY DROPPING INSANE STATS. +20 every game. with 170+ adr, basically 60 kills every game with insane FK-FD stats even when he rarely played OP. and him switching roles is not surprising at all and not special. basically every top tier smokes players in the world right now was playing different roles, just to name a few: bang (was main initiator) marved (always played smokes since beta but most of the times was flexing between agents) pancada (duelist/raze main) and etc..

i know that you're salty because i said its probably a KR org, but you're literally being beyond delusional with these logics and reasonings. also its not that deep, please i dont want to write an essay again just to prove you wrong.