Feedback of the first esport year VG

Hello everyone,



Let's begin by the start of it ! :



This crazy year and amazing journey would have never been possible without some people :



-All VGL crew , big up to DonJon and Bluberry to created and made the VG eSport a thing !

-SK gaming team , special thank to Jetpacks and Martin to let us Participate in the Automn European Final , the sportmanship at his best !

-SEMC who have created a wonderfull game with no shame regarding other MOBA , your game is complete , addictive , with high-play mecanics.

-Kemal Sadikoglu , director of Team Secret, who make my dream came true by offering us the opportunity to give our best to the game. Definitively an eSport lover !

-And of course , every player of this game. You make the competition of VG live by watching all event and supporting your favorite players. Thx you so much for that.



Media Pixel to Team Secret :



After playing other MOBA for a long time (LoL, Smite , Dawngate (this one is for you Zekent , <3)) , a friend of mine (cOucOu) showed me Vainglory. At start i was skeptical, the game was looking nice, but the competition was absent. Then i saw some team going to Korea after winning ESL cup, i was like "no way !" Going to Korea always have been a dream for me, so i gave it a try in VG. And i enjoyed it so much , that i bought an Ipad and started to grind every day, every night the ladder, reaching VG silver in 3 weeks. Thing wasn't going well in my life, my job was pissing me off, so i quited without anything else. I commited in VG for 5 Month, with the goal to win all competition and get some money from it (without winning Automn Finals, i would have finish with zero on bank account by end of January ^^).



So with my friend, we started to look for other great players and form a team. We posted our first recruitment on the forum and contacted some friends. Then cOucOu met KValafar and decided to give it a try with us. KValafar was like me, grinding the ladder realy quick, and everything went fine by playing together. Then we added Ika, an online friend playing LoL. We started to do some competition, it went OK but we were still losing to the Top team at this moment like SK , G2 and others. During a competition, we discovered the talent of Palmatoro, almost winning a game in 1v3 vs SK with Taka. Ika wasn't playing anymore , so we decided to contact Palmatoro and play together. Media Pixel reached a great lv with this addition, and everyone who faced us on ladder will remember ^^.



Then we failed again in VGL, due to lag issues who were frequent at this time, and we fall down at the 8th place with a score of 25 pts. We thinked that with the first VGL score, we would have been qualified anyway. But they putted us at the 9th place cause VGL 2 was a priority and another team reached 25 pts. Afer this huge deception, i started to look at finding job and stop VG, maybe VGL still have my huge comment i made to explain my dissapointment xD. It was realy bad to be so close of your dream and miss it cause of rules factors. Rest of story is known : SK wasn't able to send the two roster , and gave us the opportunity to join the tournament. Think i will never forget the moment I received the message in the Meltdown Bar. Went crazy as fuck ^^.



The event was sick : We were like a big family , playing all together in the lobby at the Hostel , cheering each others, the stage public was like 20 personns but who care , we were on a fucking stage playing in front of 3000 viewers ! And we won everything. The feeling can't be describe at this moment. I will just say that you feel you belong to the place you are and you achieved something you will remember forever.



http://brokenmyth.net/media-pixels-esports-trolls-the-competition/



Team Secret first step :



Few times after , Palmatoro get contacted by Kemal Sadikoglu who was enjoying and playing the game from every kind of place :p and wanted to build a brand team for VG. We told him we just won the EU live finals, and get hired to become Team Secret VG.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8GuxXj45tU&index=3&list=PLhitC2ZBOX2G5BUpqLSu_eeQlTeq4FUQL



We succed to win in a row the Winter and Spring Live Finals, with only one defeat at VGL spring split 1, finishing third. I don't realy know if there is something to say during this period, it just feel like we were dominating the EU scene, our hours of practice were enought to reach the highest level, and the draft abilities and pool champ our best addition to it. We didn't had the chance to do any bootcamp yet, but the sinergy of the team was clearly here.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjqa1mToavo&list=PLAsH-7M-EiOvtLWG0-e_91mOwK33Kl4s3



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzjEEr2nwTE&t=4s



Summer season :



After those two good result, everyone made real life decision to commit even more into the game. But the reverse happened. With exams, summer holidays, and other personnal issues, we spent less hours on the game than we should have. It affected a lot our individual mecanics and the hero pool of everyone. It resulted that in Evil 8 split 2, we finished second place behind GSC. And even with some good tactic (roamer samuel OP Tetno :p) , we failed to win 4 time in a row vs SNOW avalanche who came with pick we didn't predict and were use to play against. We missed by the way the potential of Koshka and Kestrel during this event.



It was clearly due to the lack of train, and this first failure costed a lot to the team spirit and trust in each other. We knew after this, the next event were going to become harder and harder, and we had to adapt ASAP.



World period :



We decided to manage two bootcamp for the Worlds, one at Istanbul in Team Secret's gaming house and another in Nvidia Quarters. We started to train as always but argue between each others and loss of motivation appears, we were hoping to resolve all the issue during the Bootcamps.



The first one, Palmatoro couldn't join cause of school, so we went as three , KV cOucOu and me. We resolved some mental issue and spirit, but we felt like mecanicaly we were still far behind cause lack of solo Q and team trains. It resulted in the third place of evil 8 for first split and , 4th place for the second.



The Bootcamp at Nvidia was awesome, and thanks again to Clay for the support. We tested our skills and tactic vs NA teams, in particulary vs TSM. First day went okey , other day went even, and some went super bad for us xD. Everytime we were bringing something new to the table, we were winning, but then after TSM was able to execute it better than us ^^. We decided to prepare some comp for the world, with the Ringo farm strat and other stuff who were doing welll vs TSM. Still during this bootcamp, i adopted a bad mentality hard to resolve cause directly impacted by our poor mecanics plays and decision making.



We went at World without confidence, but with hope that what we prepared work. We almost created the surprise vs Armada on first game, and get crushed after. Detonation Gaming finished on 2-0 after eguality in robin round. The event was sick, meeting everyone was sick, reaching this level of vg was sick, the public was sick, the chinese theater was sick. Only our skills wasn't. And i talk about skills, not tactic and draft who went pretty good for us, allowing to win often early game. We were not able as a team anymore to finish a game, keeping the lead the entiere game and doing the decisive move. We lost our sinergy by lack of commitment and for that, I and probably all the team is sorry. Still i want to thx everyone particpating in this event, making VG a S-class game (Third on Twitch TV).



http://www.moesport.com/2016/12/03/north-america-dominates-eu-disappoints-during-first-day-of-vainglory-world-championships/



What's next ? :



Team Secret will remain, only Palmatoro is leaving us ffor other project. We will actively looking for a new teammate who can commit into the game and all together get back into the best level of Vainglory. We know our mistakes, we know how to solve it, we know we are capable of it. Next time, we want to go at tournament with the anger who animated our firsts challenges. We wish all the best for Palmatoro who have been an excellent player and also a friend during this year.



I hope you will still cheer for us, be on our backs and support VG with all your energy.

I realized my dream this year, but you are the one who make it longer. Once again , thx you all , and i see you back on Stream or in the Fold !



Vivien "Mowglie" Dugoujon.





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