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We don’t really know what to think of TSM and managing his League of Legends team this year. If some teams tend not to communicate enough, this historical structure of the LCS does just the opposite! She communicates a lot, but it is precisely for this reason that we grope. On February 16, in an incomprehensible press release, TSM sent its Chinese support to the academic league. the first excuseit was to give him playing time in a weaker competitive environment in order to restore his confidence, at the mechanical level but also at the level of the shotcall.
Two weeks later, the player was reinstated in the first team, good for him. But the TSM coach spoke in an interview with the media Upcomer… He returned to the episode Shenyi to offer us another truth. The player was benched because he was punished for his bad behavior. In other words, his level of play was above all a pretext. We hope that in the future TSM will let us know in advance when they plan to release two different versions.
Shenyi selected a champion without the agreement of his coach
chawy the TSM coach explained that during week 2 of the LCS, Shenyi behaved badly, which prompted the technical staff to send him to the academy league. The Chinese support has thus selected a champion in the draft phase without communicating and consulting his teammates and his coach. This selfish attitude is condemnable in a game that is played as a team, especially when the coaches try to apply a specific game plan to find the best combinations and play on the strengths of their players. To make matters worse, when the coach went to chat with the Chinese after the game, the latter would have had an attitude “negative and disrespectful“. Sent for 2 weeks in the academic team, he had to have time to think and question himself.
Several influential members of the community have spoken out about TSM’s situation. We think in particular of LS, the former Cloud9 coach. He did not wish to overwhelm the player without having more details. He also explained that there were often compromises during the draft phases between the players and the coach, who do not always share the same opinions. He took his own example to illustrate his words. The American coach is really not a fan of Aatrox, but his former player, Summit, was very fond of the champion. He was therefore not obliged to accept this choice, since in the end it is often the player who has the last word with the mouse in his hand.