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TSM’s Big Mistake Was Made 6 Month’s Ago

IncrediPhiLL·10/14/2017, 2:45:17 PM·1 votes·496 views

How cocky can a team (owner) be? DL decides to sit out the spring split, missing practice time and games with the team overall that could have built some better synergy to prepare this team more for international play. They are successful with Wild Turtle for the split, then bring back the quitter for the summer split? They struggle (as expected).

Sure, They were giving (won) the split anyway, but how can we expect a team to be successful among the best teams in the world with a quitting (I need a break) ADC, then re adds the obviously so dedicated to the team ADC back for the summer split?

The team has a toxic and cocky mentality that begins with Reginald and has become the personality of the team. I know it’s not always the case, but when you just let people leave your time and come back to play when they feel like it, you probably aren’t gonna have the best team synergy.

Am I overreacting here? I just feel like that whole thing was stupid and gave this team a faulty mindset.

16 Comments

passıon10/14/2017, 3:37:44 PM3 votes

IIRC, Turtle left TSM, no?

Also DL isn't the problem. Sven is

xJLx MCHammer10/14/2017, 3:25:51 PM3 votes

They should have kept Wild turtle

The issue was, WT is a chill dude. You can see in videos he isn't aggressive, controlling, or the person to start blaming other. Watching videos of WT in TSM, you see Reggi always picked on him for mistake that WT was not a part of. Xspecial would always be the one to stand up. Surprise surprise, both of these players got kicked out

So DL likely shittalked his way into ADC role laughing at WT publicly.

I'm glad TSM lost 2 years in a role with DL. Clg couldn't keep in knowing how he acts (tilts, ego) and kicked him up. They have been better since

Linna Excel10/14/2017, 2:49:44 PM2 votes

DoubleLift wasn't a quitter so much, he was completely burnt out at that point. Burn out does happen. Needing a break does happen.

As for wildturtle, it's impossible to know if he would have done much better at worlds.

Hemanth10/14/2017, 2:53:22 PM2 votes

Also the small amount of time in Liquid

ForFoxSakes10/14/2017, 4:51:12 PM2 votes

DL is still better than Wilfturle who makes stupid plays like flash in for a kill vs 3 ppl only to instantly die after. DL also provides some shotcalling while WT is a huge liability. When it came to the decision which ADC to take it was a no brainer

Stars Shaper10/14/2017, 3:30:22 PM1 votes

From what i saw during the years, TSM (and most of western teams) are dedicated only to their region meta rather than developing more viable strategies and play style even with champions outside the meta in place.

Far Eastern teams do so and force the enemies into playing their game and that's the main issue which brings NA and EU on their knees when facing them. TSM is just really extremist in doing so.

IncrediPhiLL10/14/2017, 2:53:33 PM1 votes

Nah. I don’t support that. If you’re serious and passionate about the game, you don’t get burnt out. If you want to be competetive on a World’s stage, you don’t get burnt out and “take a break”

IncrediPhiLL10/14/2017, 3:27:57 PM1 votes

Reginald is a twit. Plain and simple. As a twit, he attracts other twit. Enter DL. Get rid of them both.