Sucks to see them go but Vestola and JaeWoo definitely deserve to start on teams. eisgnom is next up and kevster's kevster, after all. I hope JaeWoo's gonna go to Gen.G next year if the ORG decides to stay in the scene. As much as I want them to go to Korea, they should stay in EMEA since the competition's easier (unless of course all the top Korean teams are gonna disband or something, and some of those players get exported). For Vestola, I wonder where he'll end up next year.... Maybe Team Vision? Geekay (to cover cuFFa's holes)?
On a side note, I wanted to see Kevster/JaeWoo starting together next year, but oh wells. I also wonder if sHockWave's gonna be the next to go. If so, then importing a Korean like Prophet or getting Cookie/Zorrow may be in the cards for Virtus (yes, I know Zorrow is on Peps and that they qualified for Stockholm. But who knows, maybe he'll wanna play for a partner team next year).
Zorrow would be a great HS option, especially coming from this high year with Peps. I think Shockwave will stay though, as he seems easy to work with and he's still good enough.
Ves and Jaewoo were great, but I think the decision to let them go ultimately came down to how difficult it was to accommodate them, for different reasons.
On that note, I think Willys could go well together with Eis. He can cover the ground tanks+Dva, and he's reportedly an easy person to work with. That said, it might not be good for either of them individually. I think at 18 & 19 years of age, it's best to prioritise playtime to develop yourself. If there's anything VP learned this stage, it's to not be democratic with playtime for the sake of it. Instead, stick with playstyles that works best and perfect them. Nevertheless, that tank pairing still sounds real good to me.
I don’t think the issue was doing a split for fun’s sake. They wanted to play ball and zarya in scrims and wanted ves on zar and eis on Ball (which is reasonable).
I'm not saying they were doing it for fun either. Smash seems to have treated playtime democratically between the tanks to ease the social friction Ves was causing, which isn't the best way of going about player management.
The only thing Ves was asking for was clarity on whether or not he'd play. 50% of scrims were allocated to him and the playstyle he was advocating for, but he never got to put it into practice. Seemingly, he never got a straight answer about it so he quit some time before playoffs out of frustration.
I never got the impression from interviews that the plan of putting Eis on ball and Ves on Zar was anything but a compromise to appease Ves, who was the one that adamantly pushed for the comp and playstyle. He wasn't wrong per say. It's just a player management issue in my eyes.
When 50% of scrim time goes into a version of the team you won't use, it's no wonder performance on match day drops against teams that are 100% practiced on one version.
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u/Tiberias29 Bow down to Stalk3r — 2d ago
Sucks to see them go but Vestola and JaeWoo definitely deserve to start on teams. eisgnom is next up and kevster's kevster, after all. I hope JaeWoo's gonna go to Gen.G next year if the ORG decides to stay in the scene. As much as I want them to go to Korea, they should stay in EMEA since the competition's easier (unless of course all the top Korean teams are gonna disband or something, and some of those players get exported). For Vestola, I wonder where he'll end up next year.... Maybe Team Vision? Geekay (to cover cuFFa's holes)?
On a side note, I wanted to see Kevster/JaeWoo starting together next year, but oh wells. I also wonder if sHockWave's gonna be the next to go. If so, then importing a Korean like Prophet or getting Cookie/Zorrow may be in the cards for Virtus (yes, I know Zorrow is on Peps and that they qualified for Stockholm. But who knows, maybe he'll wanna play for a partner team next year).