The truth behind Vitality's Spring playoff performance.

So this has been sitting on me for some time now, I've wanted to talk about it or put it out but this industry is extremely close nit & burning bridges gets you no where fast. I'm not here to burn bridges, it's truly not my intent. For me it's about setting the record straight. This is about my career & how something like this has been a frustration for me to not be let known. Although I have this creeping feeling doing something like this with the atmosphere we have in our League is "career suicide" sometimes it's better to just keep it real, even if the standard says otherwise.



Now coming into Spring playoffs everything was pretty hyped for us, which I believe rightly so. Given the time period there is no reason for Vitality not to have coasted off with a convincing series victory of the Fanatic roster. So what happened? Why did Vitality's performance do a 180 of what everyone expected?



Well, this is what the public believes to have happened; https://youtu.be/5rwGuii0JLM?t=1266



And it's partially my fault for not addressing this sooner & being worried about how it would affect future employment. On the other end a lot of Vitalitys fans who believe in what I say & do deserve to know as well as everyone else. So thank you for reading this.



The true answer for me is depressingly simple, Vitality did not adequately prepare for their match set VS FNC. "Heartlock what do you mean?" I mean that from my end of what I experienced when playoffs came there was little to no extensive or higher circumstantial practice implemented or discussed. On a pure competitive level this was a disgrace, this is something that was frustrating & undermined my own impact. I don't go into any job expecting to lose ,but going into playoffs I knew this would happen.



I'm going to keep this short, but for the entirety of the 2 week prior grace period to prepare for our playoff matches I not only pushed to start conversation within our staff group (Me + Vae + Shaunz) on how /what we were going to do heading into playoffs but at the same time was denied & had the subject pushed off for the time period.



Gathering information is fine, taking time to develop an approach is fine. But if i'm pushing for practice or discussion or the basic approach for how we're going to tackle playoffs and that doesn't even begin/happen thats inexcusable.



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Now maybe they did prepare & it was truly them "knowing FNC were better" But if that was the case would you attempt to utilize all your resources if you know it's going to be hard. Although I never heard talk of this and everything seemed to be taken pretty lightly to the point we tried volibear jungle 1 week before our set... Thats beside the point.



Although I'm eternally grateful for the amazing experience & opportunity Shaunz & especially Vitality gave me during our spring split to me that was a Spring playoff winning team. Me & Shaunz could have worked much better together in an in house scenario I believe but both of us faltered in utilizing each other to the best of our ability. There was 0 excuse for us not to make it so which is why this whole thing rubs me so wrong. The loss was solely from not taking the situation seriously and accepting that we needed to implement regiments/ practice that would help for our set. I'm sorry to the Vitality fans & anyone who follows me for not pushing harder to make the staff at the time see it so. I always look back and see there was so much more I could of done but the playoffs have sat with me so wrong ever since it happened I need to let it out.



Thanks for everyone who still supports me & what I do. I really wouldn't be here without you, I hope I can soon show you again what I can do for teams sometime soon.

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