The Dallas Fuel have Monday off after one of their longest days of the season.

The match -- the Sunday-night finale, the last of four scheduled clashes -- ended about an hour later than expected because of a bug that started with Benjamin "uNKOE" Chevasson being unable to select his hero.

The Fuel (10-17) lost their 11th straight match Sunday, 4-0 to the Guangzhou Charge (15-13). Dallas was officially eliminated from postseason contention over the weekend, before the clash.

You could forgive the Fuel players for wanting to rest as the final match of a disappointing season nears. Practicing eight hours a day, sometimes six days a week, can drain anyone

But Timo "Taimou" Kettunen won't be putting his feet up Monday.

"Eh, I'm going to be playing," Taimou said with a chuckle Sunday night.

Taimou, a veteran Team Envy pro, has finally come back onto the stage over the past month. He made his season debut in the final match of Stage 3, and has shared playing time with Dylan "aKm" Bignet over the final quarter of the season.

Lauded for his sharp Widowmaker play, Taimou knows how frustrating it can be to sit on the bench. His team is streaky, and the momentum hasn't been on its side. Dallas hasn't won a match since June 9 (3-1 over Washington).

It would be easy for him to dismiss playing for pride or dread going into the team training facility day after day, loss after loss.

"For myself I try not to think of it as a job," he said in a phone interview Sunday night, "because I feel like if you're just doing a job, you're not going to like it. Any job sucks, right? So I just try to think of it as a game, something that I can have a good time with my friends."

It's a good mentality to have, especially in an industry filled with turnover.

And there could be turnover in Dallas before next season.

Envy Gaming/Fuel owner and CEO Mike Rufail pledged change going into 2020. He didn't get into specifics, but it's clear Dallas needs a shakeup. It could come in the form of a more balanced schedule.

Or it could come in the form of player additions or subtractions. Or coaches.

But since contracts aren't publicly disclosed, speculation is about all we'll get regarding what kinds of changes Rufail means. The owner, through a spokesman, declined to comment Friday afternoon beyond the tweet.

The second half of our OWL season has been less than ideal. We have to do something about that and we will. That’s a promise. — Mike Rufail (@hastr0) August 16, 2019

Fuel head coach Aaron "Aero" Atkins thought the tweet seemed pretty natural. After all, Envy is a worldwide esports brand that's used to winning.

"I would expect the organization to want to make changes," Aero said Sunday night after his team's loss. "Obviously I can't really talk much deeper than that. Everyone wants to make sure that Dallas is a thriving organization in terms of our wins and losses and everything.

"Everyone wants to be better, so we're dedicated to doing that."

Aero said he keeps in touch with Rufail, a veteran gamer who moved Envy's headquarters to Dallas from Charlotte in 2017, "about everything" to always make sure they're on the same page."

Aero said he wasn't worried that he wouldn't be coaching the Fuel in 2020, but acknowledged that he couldn't go in-depth about it.

"I don't believe that's a situation," he said, "but of course it's not really something that we can talk about in relation to roster or coaching staff contracts."

But what Aero did talk about were the problems the Fuel have had, and it continues to be adaptability and teamwork in game, he said. The Fuel, who lost to Hangzhou on Thursday, had similar issues Sunday.

Despite a strong start on Illios, where the Fuel were one percent away from taking a point, it had another poor second half on the hybrid and escort missions.

There was the return of Pongphop "Mickie" Rattanasangchod, who played on Havana in Map 4 for his first appearance of the season, but that was one of the lone highs after the Fuel trailed 2-0 after halftime.

There's only one weekend left in the season, and the Fuel face Atlanta on Saturday at The Novo in downtown Los Angeles. There's not much time left for more highlights.

Winning Saturday won't mean much in the standings, but it would mean Dallas avoided an 0-7 stage.

"I just really want to win the last game because I would be very upset if we went 0-7., Taimou said. :That would be very devastating. Everybody in the team would feel really bad. I just want to make the fans proud and myself proud that we did it, at actually got a win under our belt and finished the season strong."

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