What has Itopata done?

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Hades_Loves_Rb

It is worth questioning what evidence supports the notion that Itopata is an effective coach.

2023: He coached APEKS, a team that lost in the finals of ascension against M8s, a team that performed abysmally in t1 that won ascension relying on individual performances.

2024: Working alongside Goked, his team struggled with a poor performance in Kickoff and a decent Split 1, which can be solely attributed to individual players, as their actual strats were destitute and their wins were commonly due to individual players popping off. Their performance at Shanghai was similarly poor, which led to head coach Goked being let go.

Later in 2024, with Juvenille coaching by his side, the team saw a notable improvement in Split 2, finishing 3rd at Champions.

However, attributing this success to Itopata remains challenging due to the lack of transparency regarding the division of coaching responsibilities. To gain perspective, it is useful to assess the subsequent performance of the coaches he collaborated with:

Goked is currently leading M8, a team that had a solid kickoff and is performing exceptionally well in Split 1, demonstrating well-developed strategies and fundamentals, upsetting the former 2nd best EMEA team, Team Liquid, in a very convincing manner.

Juvinille is now coaching GE, who faced a difficult kickoff due to the need for an emergency substitute. Nevertheless, their Split 1 performance has been remarkable, with with great strategies and strong fundamentals.

In contrast, Itopata's 2025 record:

Kickoff: The team managed a single victory against Furia, who were severely disadvantaged after arriving from Brazil just eight hours before the match and at the time were the 2nd worst team in the region.

Split 1: The team's performance has been abysmal, with ineffective strategies, seemingly horrible player management and agent picks, and results placing them among the weakest across all four regions.

TLDR: He is part of the 70%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk2m1uxR-eM

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so at the end of the day, aspas wanting frod as coach instead of him back when lev just got eliminated from champs and him not wanting to play with itopata again, going for mibr instead was the foreshadow for all these problems?

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aspas was right

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who would've thought

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catNmouse

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that’s why he’s the goat

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Ardiis is retarded but yeah itopata is a fraud

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I just feel like if you have four stars, you don't get an opinion. That just seems to be the safest rule for society.

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akimb0_

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this means that you agree that your 400 icebox pages shouldve been ignored as it was then?

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m4

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Clearly not as you are expressing an opinion. The self-owns are getting ridiculous.

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akimb0_

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You're american and your english comprehension is as good as a toddler's, Talk about self-own

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m4

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What does the toddler have possession of Mr. English Comprehension? Is it your grammar?

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m4

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No way I'm famous in Afghanistan. I'm sorry for war on terror.

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Wait you're the 100t icebox guy? Holy shit man im a big fan.

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"Goked is currently leading M8, a team that had a solid kickoff and is performing exceptionally well in Split 1, demonstrating well-developed strategies and fundamentals, upsetting the former 2nd best EMEA team, Team Liquid, in a very convincing manner.

Juvinille is now coaching GE, who faced a difficult kickoff due to the need for an emergency substitute. Nevertheless, their Split 1 performance has been remarkable, with with great strategies and strong fundamentals."

aight imma just hold u up there brother
legit these teams have played 1 match each
hold up before your bronze ass comes to conclusions

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Trust me GE is really good, their Fundamentals and Teamplay from the one map alone looked really Drilled

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nobody___100

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ok but no sample size at all
fluking team cohesion exists
its too early to say goked and juvenile are better than itopata
especially after goked fumbled lev in stage 1/shanghai and under itopata they were an actually cohesive team
could it have been juvenile? maybe, but again, sample size too small.
trust me, i root for GE as much as the next indian GE flair.

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SleepingSnorlax

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It’s is also elevated who is helping him a lot so it is one of the reason they look drilled

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🥀🥀

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serot

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If you understand the game at all you can tell when teams have good fundamentals
GE fs have good fundamentals

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hehehe

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KClaw

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Ge thing sliggy told they look drilled so the guy isn't saying shit by himself cause I as hell done know much abt this and even tho goked has done an alright job with m8 against liquid , it was mostly minny doing most of the work on the map by getting the most important kills, and goked made a nice lev team choke against fut

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Alex clears

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is this a joke? this guy has obviously been bad recently but saying he has done nothing is ridiculous lmao

he coached apeks in 2023 which was consistently the best team in t2 emea but fell short in the finals
he took the team to 3rd place at champs after reaching a low in shanghai, and it is crazy to say this was the work of their assistant coach lmfao
"Juvinille is now coaching GE... their Split 1 performance has been remarkable, with with great strategies and strong fundamentals" brother ge has played one game this split

yeah he has fumbled but everything you've said is braindead asf lmao

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KClaw

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I think people are riding on the GE thing cause sliggy said so rest of it is pretty normal hate like almost every person player/coach receives when his team doesn't do good

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m4

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You are never going to win this argument. This community will jump on a grenade for a winless coach over their own mother.

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Epicgamer69

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didn't dryad talk about how all the team liked him or something?

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He seems like a good guy and a reasonable fella, just got to make better calls with the roles. I believe LEV's 2nd match was also a test, so hopefully they fix it for their 3rd match.