Mi történt a H2K ellen? Mi lesz az EU LCS-szel? Mi lesz a Unicorns of Love csapatával?

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2017. The third year in a row, where Unicorns of Love have every chance to qualify for Worlds, however, in the end, they don’t make it. From a player’s perspective, who is part of the team from the beginnings, this is a horrible feeling, especially after a season like the one in 2017. Finally a stable starting roster, a very confident season in spring, and then – surprisingly – a weak summer with a bitter taste in the mouth in the end.

An exclusive interview with Vizicsacsi about the lost gauntlet match versus H2K, the mood inside the team, about the future and that was he the one someone shot in PUBG.

Those damn 5th games… However, as in last year, looking at the games, you were equal with H2K apart from some bad decision and ingame mistakes. What do you think, what was your biggest mistake in the series?

Indeed we were in party with H2K until the end, moreover, looking at our practices, I thought we could win as well. However, we played way worse on stage. Bad draft, communication issues, and the players’ confidence got shaky as well, which led to bad shotcalling.

After the series, Gilius said that it wasn’t H2K who won the game but you lost it. Also, many people talked about bad draft that you mention in your previous answers. Why did you pick Shen instead of Gnar in Game 5, when you clearly won with the champion in Game 4?

That’s a good question. To be honest, we banned Gnar in the first three games, because we knew that it will be an OP champ during the series. Nonetheless, we had to prioritize our botlane, because we didn’t have an extended champion pool, so I couldn’t play Cho’Gath in Gamer 3 or Gnar in Game 5. I also couldn’t pick my counters against Gnar because we had to prioritize our bot, so we sacrificed the top, but couldn’t manage to get a big enough lead on bot to make it worth. Jungle was the same, Xerxe wanted to pick Rumble in the first rotations, but didn’t get it so he had to play Ivern, which he didn’t even practice during scrims.

You have a lot of routine in Bo5 series, however, you looked nervous in the deciding game. Can you close out thoughts from you mind like “oh my god, what if we lose”?

I wasn’t nervous in G5, I’ve accepted that I have to play a losing matchup and trusted my teammates that they’ll provide me chances to use my Shen ult, so I can have a bigger impact on the game. This didn’t happen and I just went with the flow. I only had to hold Odoamne and not let him splitpush, but he got so many free kills during the match - including me - that this became an impossible option as well. "The only game I was mad about was Game two. I felt like we were out of ideas, our communication faltered, but I've felt this in Game 1 as well, when the enemy Syndra roamed top lane twice without us noticing it. I told my teammates that we should do something about it, “just play like in scrims”, but we couldn’t make it. Like we had a mental block or something."

How did the rest of the team handle the loss? UOL didn’t even communicate on its Facebook since that match…

At first, of course we were really sad, especially because once again we couldn’t transfer our practice form to stage, we had way more in us. For some reasons, we are much more relaxed and everyone plays a lot better. It’s an unpleasant loss, but we have to move on, there is nothing to do about it, so we look into the future. There will be something on Facebook probably, the ones responsible for it will decide, when.

At losses like this, conversations rise from the community like “Vizicsacsi should leave UOL, or he’ll never go to Worlds”. In a previous interview with us, you mention that Fnatic offered you a position back in 2016 but you didn’t accept it. After three unsuccessful attempts, don’t you think that if you want to play at Worlds, you should move on?

It’s sad that we missed Worlds the third time in a row, so it makes me think why we have bad summer splits each year. We have everything we needed in 2017: good team, great spring season, bootcamp in Korea before the summer split. However, there is always someone who has a downturn: first Vardags, then Move and now Exileh had a weaker showing than the rest of us. I think we could have used some extra mental training, like a sports psychologist. I proposed this option to our management around mid-July, after Rift Rivals, but they had different ideas. About the future… I don’t know, at this moment, we all have contracts with the team.

If you look back to 2017, how would you rate your year? This was the first time the same UOL roster played during spring and summer.

I think this team was the best UOL team ever, so I expected way more. That’s why we kept our roster after spring, we had no real weak points in the team. Sadly, something broke in the summer, so I think, we had a bad year overall. Even if you are good in spring, the summer is what really counts.

I’m sure you are aware of the upcoming changes in the EU LCS, according to sources, UOL will stay in Berlin. Do you think, this is the right direction for Europe? I’ll probably hurt teams on a short term. How will you play on a regular basis with top teams from other regions? Scrims?

It’ll be interesting, how Riot will solve these changes. There might be some decrease in the beginning, but they believe that this will result in a very stable European region on a long run. I’m curious.

Your contracts will end in November, but I have to ask: have you guys talked about roster changes? For example, Exileh was below his level in the summer, but he gathered himself for the last series vs. H2K. Will you go forward on this path together?

We haven’t talked about future plans with the team, but I know more or less, what my teammates are planning in the future. I can’t share the details.

What will you do in the rest of the year? There was a guy who posted a screenshot to a League of Legends Facebook group about shooting a player named Vizicsacsi. Was it you?

No, it wasn’t me, only my teammates play PUBG, I wanna focus only on League during the break as well. I think it’s important for an LCS player to stay in good form for the next season.

Who will you cheer for at Worlds?

Anyone, who can beat the Koreans. But if I had to choose one team, then Let’s get them, Gambit!



