A story of NicoThePico in Origen and Fnatic + The coming of Caps and Broxah

Replied this to a reddit thread regarding Riot accepting EU LCS Apllication where in the commet section my name was brought up plenty of times.



This caught my eye:

"Nicothepicos vision for fnatic was signing amazing on a full time one year contract, having him be presented along with the rest of the starters and then switch him for broxah three weeks later? Also caps wasn't some unknown that nicothepico discovered, if fnatic didn't sign him anyother team (probably not g2?) Would"



Under follows my reply to this comment:



Caps was a complete unknown, and I was already in contact with him for nearly two years before I picked him up for Fnatic.



Keep in mind I had Febiven in my roster at the time, and I chose to rather pursue Caps than keep Febi in my roster. I built the entire team around Caps, and I built the entire Academy roster around Broxah.



I wanted Broxah to have at least a split in Academy before taking him as in-house sub for the LCS team together with Amazing. Sorta like Bwipo/sOAZ. But because of internal issues I needed to make that change earlier, and that was without any doubt the right call.



I built the entire LCS team, and the entire Academy team that qualified for LCS. Broxah, Caps, Nisqy were all unknowns coming in.



I had known Broxah since season 3, and Caps since season 4. I had contacted both while I was in Origen that I would be interested in them for 2017 when they came of age for in-house subs. Then I swapped teams to Fnatic and the roster wasn't working out, even when Deilor was coaching them. So I already started my vision for the 2017 roster. This can all be confirmed from FNC staff.



I also already in summer 2017 mentioned Bwipo to FNC management directly as a possible top sub after having stepped down from the team but still under contract, but I will not take any more credit than having mentioned him then, as his current coach Mephisto contacted me about him, this is also easily confirmable.



And I again after the 2017 split seeing Youngbucks free agency directly and HEAVILY recommended FNC management to pick him up. While at the same time heavily recommending Youngbuck to reach out to FNC. I am sure Youngbuck can confirm this if asked.



I have also in the time after NiP on multiple occasions helped and provided Broxah with jungle specific analysis to help him as sort of a role coach. There was talks that I would become a role specific coach for Broxah but this didn’t fall through. Regardless I still scouted junglers for him and provided analysis for Broxah directly going into 2018 spring finals and during spring split.



Deilor chose to leave FNC on his own terms, I came to Fnatic wanted to be his assistant/strategical coach. I did not ask Deilor to leave, and in hindsight, him leaving straight before worlds qualifier was very unfortunate, as I would have loved his wisdom and assistance during it, especially with Spirit who had a very close relationship with Deilor.



Hate if you want. I joined a Origen that was dying on the inside at the bottom of the league in 2016, took them to finals in Rotterdam losing to G2 in the finals. Zven and Mithy left 2 weeks before roster lock without any notice to me, and I had to fill their shoes (IMPOSSIBLY HARD) before roster lock. Our best bet was Hybrid coming straight from winning EULCS with G2 and Forg1ven. Amazing/sOAZ/Xpeke was sure we would be able to work together with him, but because of internal issues that arose even before we had our first meet and scrim in the team house we had to bench Forg1ven and set in Xpeke.



WE did hold ADC tryouts, but Xpeke literally outvalued every adc we had in tryouts. Albeit the ADCs left free agent after summer split 2016 started was scarce and low quality.



Origen was a family project and ran like one. We (me+players) were told by Peke that Araneae would join us later in the split and the players would get to decide who was on stage with them. Keep in mind, at the time I had an incredibly good relationship with all the players in the roster, especially sOAZ, Amazing and POE.



Araneae came, and the next day I was informed I was fired. NONE of the players knew of this and was informed the same day Araneae would be their new Head Coach and that I would be leaving.

Oh and Origen refused to pay the last month outside of LCS stipend, and refused to cover my plane ticket back to Norway and told me to GTFO pretty much. I asked for 2-3 days to make arrangements and moved to a hotel for the next three weeks, paying out of my own pocket until I joined Fnatic.



The Origen players were furious at this decision and it was a full fiesta at the team house in the remaining days I was there. The day I left I was offered to stay the remaining 2 months for 500 euro. (BIG XD) Which I obviously declined. On my way out to the taxi picking me up, Araneae came after me, looking pale and stressed and asked if he could change my mind. He offered to split his salary with me (Which BTW was way higher than what I ever got) if I stayed as his assistant. I couldn't believe this turn around and was to fed up with the shit and declined.



OH fun fact, during the entirety of 2016 spring split I had 1 analyst with me in OG, Wolle, who later joined me in FNC. Origen promised him a salary and never came through on it. So after making finals that split I shared part of my own salary with Wolle to compensate him.



Origen downfall was after this fiesta. I had multiple players from Origen write me in the time after talking about quitting the team and not wanting to continue at all because of what happend. Also the entire volounteer media crew and Orgien all quit as a statement of how I was dealt with.



Yes I stepped down from FNC. Yes NiP failed, although our goal was only to survive the split as relegation was to be removed after, and we were only 1 match away from this goal, even starting the season with only 3 games of scrims before first LCS match.



To this day I have a very strong relationship with most of the players I have coached, most of the FNC staff and anyone who has worked alongside or under me.



Oh and the famous Amazing AMA, That was 99% bullshit and lies, I immitiadly contacted a lawyer and was instructed to not comment or stir anything up at the time, and just let it die out. Which is what I did. I never dated a previous girlfriend of any player and I would never do so. And 99% of the conspiracy theories Amazing came up with regarding me and Kubz "setting" him up to fail is straight lies.



To this day most of my heart lies with Fnatic, and I still hold contact with nearly everyone I worked with or coached during my time there.



I didn't mean to write this whole wall of text but sorta got caught up in it, if you read this far then know I appreciate you!



Tl;DR: I scouted and made the full FNC lineup of 2017 and the full FNC academy team. Specifically worth mentioning is Caps and Broxah who I both knew for years and Nisqy.

I already mentioned Bwipo to FNC in summer 2017. Also directly recommended FNC to pick up Youngbuck and directly recommended Youngbuck to apply after he announced free agency from G2.



++ Origen details and some stuff with NiP and me helping Broxah after NiP, in addition to Amazings AMA.







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