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Aeromi
France14455 Posts
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AlterKot
Poland7525 Posts
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AsnSensation
Germany24009 Posts
On May 04 2014 02:38 AlterKot wrote: Obviously website down. Did the article say anything interesting? + Show Spoiler + For those who cannot see the website: Today we are forced to announce that on May 1st Alexey "Alex Ich" Ichetovkin made a decision to leave Gambit Gaming. In this statement we would like to clarify the given outcome. Back in March 2014 Alex Ich got in touch with our management. The point behind his request was that he wanted to avoid constant flights that had a negative impact on his physical state and the time available for him to spend with his family. It is important to note that he didn't intend to leave our organization and to step aside from competitive League of Legends. Given his marital status, we decided to accommodate his request, and both sides began considering possible options. The only condition was that he will continue playing for our core roster until the conclusion of LCS Spring Split. 1) The primary option was to create a secondary Gambit Gaming roster with Alex Ich in charge of it. That would allow him to resume his gaming career as well as to develop upcoming players, while suffering minimal negative consequences. On top of that, Alexey could rejoin our core roster in case of a dire need in order to accomplish our formulated goals, to be more specific, to qualify to and to successfully perform at Worlds. 2) The most complicated solution was for Alexey and his family to move to Cologne. We don't want to overburden you with the details required to carry this option out, but it is manageable. In the end, Alexey decided to leave Gambit Gaming. Our common journey has lasted for more than two years, and Alexey proved to be a top-notch player, his skills aided us in securing multiple victories. We would like to thank Alexey for his contribution to the development of our team and organization as well as to wish him luck in his future endeavours. Statement by Alexey "Alex Ich" Ichetovkin: "My time in Gambit Gaming has come to an end. I crave to tell you about the number of reasons that induced me to make this decision. It all began one and a half years ago, after S2WC. At least, then I noticed the first changes, even though it could have begun much earlier. Suddenly we stopped listening to each other. Everyone considered himself to be grand and mighty, aware of all the in-game nuances. We didn't listen to advices from other lanes, because we considered ourselves kings in our respective roles. Afterwards we lost our zeal. The exact same youthful zeal that accompanied M5's victories. Crazy dives, risky moves. We started playing like veterans, carefully and tediously. If only it yielded good results... But no, everything was getting even worse. Due to our lack of discipline and the lack of common opinion in our team, we stopped trusting each other in making moves and preferred to avoid taking risks. Our attempt to hire an analyst yielded minor results: everyone in our team was so used to listening to himself that it was difficult and by no means immediate to embrace his suggestions. His role was important though: he provided an outsider's opinion, paid attention to our problems and tried to solve them with picks, realizing that it's impossible to alter our characters. We had ignored a lot of his suggestions in our match against Roccat and have consequently paid for it. In our match against Wolves I did what I could to assist the team in saving their spot at LCS, even though at that point I was already aware that our paths will split. Nevertheless, I did my best in these two games. Over the past year Gambit has brought me only frustrations. After Katowice in 2013 we haven't showed anything of worth, as we were playing for playing instead of winning. We have spent the past year in constant flight and travelling. We couldn't practice decently over the course of two days that we had between play days and flights. I have barely seen my family and didn't have a chance to spend time with them, since upon coming home I had to immediately commit to training: time is money. All of it has exhausted me and took away a lot of energy. I could deal with it as a long as we had good results. But since Spring 2013 our play was only getting worse and got worse to the point that we had to prove that we are worthy of an LCS spot. Of course, it didn't come down only to flights, even though they played a significant role. We lacked motivation. You could easily notice that victories didn't bring joy as much as they used to. As I've said earlier, there was no zeal that is instrumental for winning. Thanks to all of you who was supporting Gambit and myself. I did in fact wanted to win World Championship with a team that I was a part of for more than two years. It ended up being like a family for me. It's hard for me to leave my friends, Konstantin and Edward - people who motivated me to play lately. Thanks to them for what they did for myself and Gambit. They are truly great people who deserve a lot of respect. Sometimes you have to make a choice, a tough choice. I found the strength and the courage to make it now, even though I've been thinking about it for a while. I might have been the weakest link and my departure may lead to Gambit winning the World Cup, who knows. Whatever happens is for the best, remember it." | ||
Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
Oh also ~suuuupppppeeeeeeer teeeaaam~ | ||
ManBaker
1943 Posts
Alex Diamond MIthy Freeze Nukeduck would have been much stronger In fact, I have no idea why Diamond is staying. If they had a good replacement then maybe it'd have been "Well Diamond doesn't want to miss the chance of going to Worlds again". But seeing that they only pick up russian speaking people that's really not happening | ||
Lylat
France8566 Posts
RIP IN PIECES M5 :'( | ||
Slusher
United States19143 Posts
On May 04 2014 02:43 ManBaker wrote: Alex should have brought Diamond with him for the super team Alex Diamond MIthy Freeze Nukeduck would have been much stronger In fact, I have no idea why Diamond is staying pretty sure Alex intends to play challenger so he can stay at home with his wife and kid | ||
ManBaker
1943 Posts
On May 04 2014 02:44 Slusher wrote: pretty sure Alex intends to play challenger so he can stay at home with his wife and kid He leaves Gambit because they're not competitive enough, and goes to play the player-dad from home? He intends to play challenger because he thinks the new team will be stronger. He'll be at a gaming house and get things done like a proper team would. His wife numerous times said she's all for putting alex in a team house/gaming house if it makes him better at the game | ||
Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
Nope nope nope nope nope Alex will not be retiring so alex in pyjamas incoming | ||
AsnSensation
Germany24009 Posts
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AlterKot
Poland7525 Posts
BTW Kittz (mouz manager) said in past days that best challenger teams earn more than worst LCS teams, LCS salary wasn't that big considering how much they had to spend on hotels and flights. | ||
Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
Firm statement on the wolves situation by youngbuck, puszu is an option but it's 99% likely going to be woolite should contract negotiations with denial go well. Jungle is between santorin and whiteknight and youngbuck bitches about forg1ven | ||
oo_Wonderful_oo
The land of freedom23126 Posts
Alex, why you do it yo us ): And not only EU has 2 of 3 best midlaners in region with 2 of them being in same team in Challenger scene but EU in general now has 2 competitive teams. GG. | ||
ParadeofMadness
United Kingdom1027 Posts
On May 04 2014 03:02 Fusilero wrote: http://www.ongamers.com/articles/cph-wolves-close-to-signing-woolite-looking-at-whiteknight-or-santorin-for-jungle/1100-1356/ Firm statement on the wolves situation by youngbuck, puszu is an option but it's 99% likely going to be woolite should contract negotiations with denial go well. Jungle is between santorin and whiteknight and youngbuck bitches about forg1ven funny he didnt talk about amazing lol. what he didnt want to say is the two good players on cw peaced out after tired of carrying three shitters | ||
onlywonderboy
United States23745 Posts
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oo_Wonderful_oo
The land of freedom23126 Posts
I just hope that it won't be NiP. But guess they will. | ||
Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
Bjergsen heard talking to amazing on dyrus' stream. | ||
AlterKot
Poland7525 Posts
Edward got the short stick of everything - first, he wanted to change a team back when no one really thought of importing EU talents except for CRS and we know how that ended. Then he wanted to play on a super team and that didn't work out. And now that he's either out of shape, or maybe even past his prime, EU talent is regularly exported to NA and his only teammate that still plays well left. I hope his recent attitude change will get him back in shape and hopefully he'll end up on another top team in the future (hopefully Zoro will be back in a year, so maybe S6 will be the season of EU). | ||
oo_Wonderful_oo
The land of freedom23126 Posts
On May 04 2014 03:35 AlterKot wrote: https://www.facebook.com/Edwardcarrylol/posts/776276489050369?stream_ref=10 Edward got the short stick of everything - first, he wanted to change a team back when no one really thought of importing EU talents except for CRS and we know how that ended. Then he wanted to play on a super team and that didn't work out. And now that he's either out of shape, or maybe even past his prime, EU talent is regularly exported to NA and his only teammate that still plays well left. I hope his recent attitude change will get him back in shape and hopefully he'll end up on another top team in the future (hopefully Zoro will be back in a year, so maybe S6 will be the season of EU). Gambit are just half-dead right now, i have no idea who they can grab as midlaner right now. Edward is pissed as hell as well, i bet if Alex stayed now, Gambit anyway after S4 Worlds were going to disband with Darien/Genja retiring, Alex going to play with k0u , Edward can find team easily and Diamondprox to retire or become an analyst. | ||
AlterKot
Poland7525 Posts
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