What did Chet see in Demon1?

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amovie

Chet in an interview a while back talked about how OPTIC was managed around setting yay up for success because of his potential as a player to frag out, and it was of course an immense success for everyone involved.

But after acquiring Demon1, 2023 EG’s core fragger on multiple roles and champs MVP, he ended up abandoning the method he used to make yay into a star and ended up putting Demon1 in mundane or just downright awful setups as a strict role player for the team.

Genuinely, what was his line of thinking about? Did he think that Demon1 was a bit fraudulent on EG and that he couldn’t be a heavy carry again for another year? Did he think NRG’s lineup overall was simply too good to play around a single player? I’m genuinely curious.

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teilwal

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lemme ask him rq

#3

SXNFLGJL

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idk

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Hades_Loves_Rb

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he thought it would be easier (less work for him) if Demon1 could play duelist only

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amovie

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he saw eg demon1 stomp the best teams on 3 different roles and paid money out of his own pocket to see him be a duelist role player while the rest of the team were heavily playing their own game lol

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Chet viewed him the same way he viewed ardiis, made both play mainly jett at the start of the year then tried to force him into roles he hasn't played in his old team when NRG started losing

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he talked about how brute forcing demon1 to play raze in split 1 in a post match interview in order to make him “improve as a player” (champs mvp btw) and it was honestly just sad af watching him be so stupid, it’s like his time with ardiis never existed. Then after the expected failure became a failure, he benched demon1 for “obvious reasons” for all of split 2 and then got fired.

what’s funny is that ardiis himself would talk about on stream that demon1 shouldn’t be getting benched no matter what when it was going down.

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sexocum

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hear me out. chet was a good coach when valorant could still be played like CS, not anymore tho (could be the shittiest take from me ngl)

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solo exit bro
another excuse washed up cs player

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TooCaution_Heartless

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chet fraud coach as always Optic >> yay go kill

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Chet fucked up with Masters winning Ardiis. Chet fucked up again dropping the best controller of Americas at the time which was S0m for Marved. Then Chet fucked up with Champions winner Demon1.

3 strikes and you're out. Chet The Snake is his legendary name.

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I think it might be because demon1’s roles aligned with what he was looking for. Chet most likely wanted an initiator igl (because in theory it is the best role for it) and a cracked duelist. However, the main issue with the roster was that there was no senti/viper player. Demon1 flexing into smokes would fix that. On maps like split, bind, and other raze maps, viper tends to be meta as well. Thus, you can run D1 range smokes, Marved viper, and victor raze. (Which is what they were doing at the start of the season) On Jett maps like ascent, viper tends to be less meta, so Marved just plays range smokes while victor plays senti and D1 plays Jett. Unfortunately, theory does not always equal success in practice, which we found out very quickly.