Explanation of the poor relegation result and more



So where to start?

We just came home from a VERY disappointing 0-3 lose to Copenhagen Wolves who had a very clean and convincing series, which from the outside came as a huge surprise, because we H2K were on paper better players and by the community were the favourites to this game. So why did it end up this badly? I will try to give my point of view on the situation.



So first of all going into a relegation match there should be alot more pressure on the relegated teams, than the challenger teams, because in the end they are fighting for their job. Despite that statement it felt different for our match. It seemed like we had everything to lose, which leads to the first problem with our team, our mindset. Since we as a team were pretty hyped and everyone expected us to win were we not mentally prepared for the match. Instead of going into the game to WIN the game, we went into the game with the mindset NOT to lose. And i think everyone who watched the games could see that, we had no agression, and basicly running around like bots always being 1 or 2 steps behind.



Secondly i want to go through our preparation for the match. As most of you know, we picked up Woong as our coach 1 month before the match, but sadly it turned out that he couldnt really bring anything to the team + he had some personal issues so he didnt show up for alot of our practise. So we tried to find someone else, but never really found a replacement. So it ended up with ourself being our coach, and a little bit of help by Brokenshard (big thanks to him for taking his time to help us). Some of us took the coaching role more serious than others, but with low succes. For myself i put alot of effort looking at my teammates mistakes, instead of looking at my own weaknesses. That statement were one of the key mistakes for our preparatio for the games. Every team have strengths and weaknesses. We have strong laningphases, strong individual skill, but poor strategy and objective control. And since we didnt have a coach, we were more likely to play to our strengths in scrims than our weaknesses. Which was perfectly exposed in our games by CW, we had poor objective control. Our level 1 strategy was beyond awful, and lost us alot of momentum every game. And in general as i already pointed out, we were 1 or 2 steps behind CW every game.



Who to blame for all this? Who played worst? And what to learn from all this?

There is no one to blame but ourself and we simply lost as a team. I think everyone probably had their worst series ever due to the mix of high pressure, bad preparation and bad mindset.

we had no plans for the games. we just went into the games and hoped we would win, or more likely hoped we wouldnt lose. I myself learned alot from this experience and put alot of the blame on myself for not preparing enough, and i hope my teammates learned as much as i did. Our journey is not over yet. Alot of stuff in the management of our team will happen in the upcoming weeks, and hopefully that will help us improve as a team. Expansion tournament is ahead of us, and we will try our hardest to get through and join the LCS in the next season. Confidence is good, but overconfidence can bite you in the ass.



Thanks for everyone who supported and hopefully still supports us. We are not done yet.



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