Hi Lubby. How are you?

Hi. I’m fine. I guess.

We heard that First Departure have disband. Is it true? Anything you want to comment regarding the disband decision?

Yeah. It’s true. Well, It’s a sooner or later i guess since there are so many shits happening in the SG scene and part of it i think are internal problems

First Departure was 1 of the longest team in Singapore and survived through a lots of difficulties. Do you think there will be a FD in the future again?

No one can predict the future. If we can, everyone will be god right now

Care to elaborate on the internal problem? Your fans probably interested to know.

For a team, when there is a clash of thoughts, problems occur. And when you are just teammates instead of friends, things will just get worse and more tension will be built in the team. Then sooner or later, the team will just crumble cause everyone is just playing for themselves, not as a team

Currently, RRQ, Orange, Execration and now FD disband. Do you think ti4 qualifiers actually killing professional teams?

Nope. its like a relationship. these are obstacles just for you to go through, its either you go through the loss together and become stronger, or just fall out with one another and walk your own paths. If your team is not that bonded together, these kind of disbandment will just happen eventually.

Scythe and FD performance in the qualifiers are unexpected. FD beat Scythe in the group stage. As we know, Scythe are made from Ex-FD players. What is your feeling being able to defeat them in such important match. Does it mean anything to you?

It does not really mean anything much as i know that FD are capable of beating such teams even after this huge reshuffle done by scythe. I don’t really think we are really “down there” even after the roster changes. I believed in my teammates skills and believed we can make it to the top. Just that it is unexpected that we lost to the bottom 2 teams although we managed to win some of the so-called ‘favourites’ in the qualifiers. It was quite ridiculous when we even think of it. Could it have affected our chances? Hmm.

Many of Singaporean teams are doing extremely well in online tournaments and many fans think its because of the extra advantage being close to Valve server. Do you think the extra 30ms help the Singaporean team?

It plays a part that i must say. That i cannot deny. But not totally because of that we(Singaporeans) are winning so many online tournaments. There are a lot of factors, such as drafts, teamwork, how familiar you are to the game etc. Just because we win games doesn’t necessary mean we won cause of the pings although it affects during big clashes, especially engagers where their timings would be a bit off compared to us where we got “LESS LAG”

Do you think MVP will survive the wild card and make it to the Ti4?

I don’t think there are much chances for them as the other teams in the other qualifiers are quite experienced. But nothing is impossible since its the SEA team we are talking about, we are the most inconsistent region which everyone says right? Haha