2014-05-05, 10:18 PM
I certainly don't know what's going on behind the scenes at TSM, but I feel like there was a lot of poor decision making involved.
First, Xpecial seemed pretty surprised by it. Sure, somebody can be a Negative Nancy and somehow be totally oblivious to how they're hurting their teammates, but after Xpecial got benched, he realized he had a problem and resolved to work on it. Despite that, the "team" "unanimously" decided that Xpecial needed to be thrown to the wolves instead of trying to work it out (well I don't know if they had tried an intervention before already). I get that certain people have better chemistry than others, but good teams aren't formed just because they hit off great and are buddy-buddies. Sometimes, you just have to hash out your differences on the road to building great teamwork.
*This is all under the assumption that TSM didn't already bring up the issue with Xpecial repeatedly and officially try to work things out.
I've been getting the feeling that 99% of LCS teams are about recruiting superstars and throwing out sub-optimal players. (Okay, I guess that goes for a lot of sports too) Whatever happened to good ol' teamwork and pride?
First, Xpecial seemed pretty surprised by it. Sure, somebody can be a Negative Nancy and somehow be totally oblivious to how they're hurting their teammates, but after Xpecial got benched, he realized he had a problem and resolved to work on it. Despite that, the "team" "unanimously" decided that Xpecial needed to be thrown to the wolves instead of trying to work it out (well I don't know if they had tried an intervention before already). I get that certain people have better chemistry than others, but good teams aren't formed just because they hit off great and are buddy-buddies. Sometimes, you just have to hash out your differences on the road to building great teamwork.
*This is all under the assumption that TSM didn't already bring up the issue with Xpecial repeatedly and officially try to work things out.
I've been getting the feeling that 99% of LCS teams are about recruiting superstars and throwing out sub-optimal players. (Okay, I guess that goes for a lot of sports too) Whatever happened to good ol' teamwork and pride?