G2 Esports had a rough post-season. After dominating Europe for two straight splits, they headed into the 2016 League of Legends World Championship with a group many thought they could easily qualify out of. But unusually shaky play cost them a shot at the quarterfinals, and AD carry Jesper "Zven" Svenningsen says that the blame doesn't fall on any one player.

"We suffered a bit of a mental loss [after the first week] I think," Zven wrote in a TwitLonger. "People openly said that they felt uncomfortable on stage, mouse shaking etc (I have been there myself last year when I first entered the Worlds stage so I understand) and they felt like they couldn't play as good as normally but we got it together and tried to look towards our next 3 games as it wasn't completely over yet."

"This led to us having one of those "Heroic Speeches about Life" where we all agreed that we could have won all of those games as easily as we lost. The next week, we actually had good mood and good practice partners (TSM, EDG, RNG, H2K) and things were looking good. I went to bed with actual high hopes of going 3-0 and winning a tiebreaker for 2nd seed."

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G2's first week at Worlds was rough — they lost lost every single one of their games, including taking a loss to IWC team Albus NoX Luna. And in Week 2, despite the high hopes Zven says the team had, G2 was only able to pick up one win against ANX, losing every other game of their group stage run. G2 was eliminated in 13th-16th place, far lower than anyone would have expected for the European powerhouse.

"I think Worlds was a disappointment to say the least," Zven said. "I am truly sorry to embarrass you guys because I know you guys expected great things from us and we were given the opportunity to do so but we failed when it mattered the most. It's sad to be laughing stock for fans but it's deserved for now. We have IEM Gyeonggi coming up in December. We will work hard for this tournament and I genuinely hope we can make a statement there."

G2 has a spot at IEM Gyeonggi thanks to their first place finish in the Summer split, but will have to work their way to the IEM Season 11 World Championship in Katowice if they want a pre-season crack at Europe's most successful team at Worlds, H2k-Gaming.

For now though, Zven says that the organization is focusing on infrastructural changes, while he and his bot lane partner Alfonso "mithy" Aguirre Rodriguez need to shape up their picks. He also noted that, at least for now, the players are hoping to stick together as a team.

"I don't think I was necessarily the reason we lost any games but I wasn't a force to be reckoned with for the enemy team either," Zven said. "I didn't have that individual impact that you guys are used to seeing from me at international events. I think it comes from our (mithy and I) picks on bot and also just me playing the wrong champs ...

"We will most likely use the Spring Split in 2017 to improve our infrastructure and try to set up ideal practice environments as well as work with more staff (analysts, life coach, psychologist, all this kind of people) to set us up for success. Then in Summer, we will keep what works and remove/fix what doesn't and hopefully look towards a better Worlds 2017."

Daniel Rosen is a news editor for theScore esports. You can follow him on Twitter.