From seeing TSM’s days of promise to straight up seeing them, as one might say, “shit the bed”. It is without a doubt that TSM is nearly extirpated. This is why TSM has been on a downtrend.
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Sentimentality of players - It first started off with the sentimentality. For example, keeping Tailored as a coach for an unnecessarily long time. Though they won tournaments in the early days of Valorant, I question whether it was because of the players themselves being ahead of time/being able to adapt to the game quicker than others w/ player synergy aiding or if it was actually Tailored helping them out. Main reason, DUDE was SILVER. MOTHERF*CKING SILVER ELO & you know where this is going. Most might argue that “you don’t need to be at the highest rank to have god game sense” although, there definitely needs to be a minimum rank that fits credibility. The only thing credible was TSMs lack of adaptation to the meta as in, playing around Wardell, let him get picks, & if he does go off from that. The sentimentality of TSM that caused Tailored not being dropped for an excessive amount of time has caused TSM to build bad habits & with small changes, time will catch up to you with the meta adapting & teams inventing new things.
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This leads me to my further explanation to why TSM is on a downtrend. Once they’ve noticed that Hello Kitty & friends wasn’t it, they’re solution was through capricious changes. Constantly over the past year, they’ve made capricious roster changes. For example, bringing in players like Brax or Bang for a tournament or two. When they’ve failed to reach what they were aiming for, BOOP you’re benched but to make you feel better we’ll let you stay on the org until you find another team. I can understand why Cutler & Drone were dropped to which through the year & end of last year, TSM might’ve felt like they weren’t as impactful as they are.
tldr; Sentimentality can unnecessarily cause bad habits for players on the team due to lack of changes. When that was noticed, TSM underwent a phase of capricious changes that affected the team & players that have just joined. Only now are they taking time on their next moves because there are no big tournaments this year. Though that means less practice for a stable team they could (maybe) have.
This is not to hate on TSM but give people an understanding of why TSM’s own sentimentality is their downfall.
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