I have seen a lot of comments on nadeshots tweet and on this site saying stuff along the lines of "100T shouldnt make any changes because they lost to two teams who are top 3 americas"
I dont understand this mentality, shouldnt that be a reason to make changes? isnt the goal to be top 1 americas, and eventually win an international? why keep a team that cant qualify for internationals?
someone who thinks im wrong pls explain your pov :)
genuinly dont see who you can replace on this team if asuna keeps delivering good performances in addition to being what his teamates call "selfless duelist"
i really think u might shoot yourself in the foot if u dont let this 100t team have atleast a split+ master period AT THE VERY LEAST imo. but also im not an org owner trying to make money so
I mean it would be wrong to tweet if he started hurling insults at the players, but he isnt exactly wrong that the team has been on a downward spiral since shanghai last year.
Honestly i think asuna needs to go, he is a good player but represents the problem that 100T has with accepting mediocrity and not demanding more.
Boostio is on thin ice, only reason he shouldnt go is because he has shown that he is good enough to make deep runs, but really needs to realise that the S in FPS isnt cosmetic, and that kills arent everything but they are something
Cryo is also on thin ice, although not as thin as boostio. he needs to pick a role and get good at it, either youre a smokes player or youre a duelist or a sentinel or whatever, but it is so much more difficult to build a good map pool when you have a guy that has no consistent role pool to choose from.
Zander should be given more time but his kickoff was shocking, anyone who says otherwise is coping for a fan favourite. His lurks had no impact, he was a major downgrade to the anchoring that bang gave last year. eeiu also started similarly poorly last year though so it is way too early to write him off.
eeiu only criticism is his limited agent pool, but idk if thats by his choice or coaching staff choice, because he said last year that he would play any initiator so idk if thats on him or zikz
controversial but i think zikz is a good coach, i like his comfort-first approach to the game but man it fucking sucks seeing how inflexible the comps can be. They played tejo on 1 map out of 8 in kickoff and beat SEN 13-4, so why arent we playing him on more maps? why are we still running the same comp and strats on bind that got figured out last year?
Zikz is held down by a ceiling to which it will take him years to break through.
He has no foundation in the genre. It would be like JJ Reddick deciding to coach baseball because they both use a ball. And then Mr. Reddick some how is supposed to strategies in these nuanced situations.
This community is super unrealistic. Coaches not only need to know the game they are coaching up and down. They need to be able to communicate those ideas in a way that allow the players to progress in their skill journey. I think everyone believes LeBron James came into the league and never had to learn a thing. Development has to happen for players to get better. Development is not scrimming for 12 hours a day. It's not trying to RNG improvement.
Most of this league's coaches are fraudulent and if you held up their records to any sort of scrutiny would get destroyed. Zikz is at 44%. What coach in any professional sport gets to keep their job at that win rate?
as a flex? 100% ardiis is way better than cryo..? hes actually gone and done it in the big stage so you know hes not gonna have "mood swings" when he needs to show up vs big teams. as for 100t not standing a chance, thats the thing. everyone sees 100t as a mid tier team because of their players. only proving the point they have to get rid of alot of players..
I think 100T is suffering from a lack of identity. The playstyles the team has when Asuna is on the flex and Cryo is on Duelist is nowhere near the same pace when Asuna is willing to run it down and the team be super Aggressive off that. The only real thing they can do now is stick it out and maybe commit to a sole duelist or get the team on the same page regarding tempo of play. If it ends up badly 100T needs to commit to Asuna or Cryo and let the other walk.
I'm confused by the communities response. They did a fraudulent coach search where they said they were going to look for anyone. In the end they got the same insider people.
I think the community doesn't know the dirty secret about coaching. Please anyone ask their favorite player, "How long is the average analyst report?" Spoiler, it's one singular page long.
How does anyone expect to get results when the very basics are not being done by the coaching staff? Not to mention, an assistant coach on EG, Zikz, claims to have contributed to EG's historic run, but we are looking at a 44% win rate since he's been on staff. I'm sorry, a coach needs to be a tactical fps player. Not a professional coach.
How do you guide a team to a win when you have no foundation in the genre you're a coach in? What if there is a missing component that all the professional players don't know or something that would help them from the past...
I just don't see grabbing some tier 2 player as the solution. This is a problem with the strategies that are being applied. The glaring foundational issues with players.
They should have actually tried to find a coach instead of farming others for ideas. Cheers to Anderzzz for that call out.
I'm not sure I actually understand all the people freaking out about 100T. They've had their roster for around 110 days, give or take a week, and lost to 2 teams in the top4 of NA VCT in extremely close series in Kickoff - the very first tournament of the year.
Half of the VLR community doesn't even consider LOCK//IN to be a valid win for fnatic because teams had so little time to practice and they were the first superteam to be formed.
EG didn't reach their peak until later in their 2023 season. Heretics didn't reach their peak until later in the 2024 season.
Why exactly are we freaking out about a team who performed well at the very first event of the year, exactly when the meta is shifting, running old comps?
Open to other perspectives
That 2023 100t almost lost to EDG if they hadn't choked (keep in mind this was when they didn't know how to play strategically) and FUT who at this point was literally a tier 2 team early games can matter quite a bit especially for a team that only make 1 change and it was kind of a upgrade in some ways they should be better than this either it's the players or staff who are the problem and I'm suspicious it's staff
The point is that it's much more risky to change something when it can work. You lost two very close games against two very good teams. Yeah you lost both of them this time, but this also happened last year and then you guys were the best team in Americas for a while. It would be very reactionary to change something now when it's only been kickoff, which is the most volatile tournament of the year, and you have a lot of potential
You miss the point. These are the kinds of teams that aren't really gonna have a tier gap above them. Your team is about equal with them which is what you can reasonably ask for. Ideally, sure you should want to be beating them 100% of the time, but we live in reality where top teams are competitive with each other. You're already a top team, you should be happy with that. Roster changes are risky, it could make you guys better, or it could fuck up what good you already have. Personally I don't see the point of fucking it up
I totally agree that for a team like 100T with the fanbase and clout that they have to be okay with always coming up short is not the right mindset. I agree that Asuna and Cryo are great characters and teammates but at this point the 100T roster has been Ship of Theseus'd around Asuna for so long and he's the only plank of the ship left to replace. Every roster regardless of players and coaches has always found a way to come up short and often choke in brutal ways after giving their fans hope. I personally think this last offseason was their best chance to make the change since Cryo looks best consistently on controllers specifically, and Asuna just lacks the elite consistency that a lead duelist at the top requires as well as not being able to play Jett since they seem to prefer Jett/Raze in their comps/map pool. Zander also hasn't had that pop-off yet in their games so far either, and Boostio has been repeatedly out-called and has fallen off hard mechanically too unfortunately. Mada and Verno literally showed them today what they could've had. In my opinion, Eeiu and Cryo(on controller only) are the only locks and everyone else including the coach have a big question mark next to their names.
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