Darshan: "I do think that the low amount of change was probably the biggest thing for us not to be on the top and stagnate."
Posted Aug 13, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC
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I will never forget how much this guy made me feel welcomed when I first moved in. I didn't talk to the league guys much at first but one day he overheard how I had a knot in my shoulder from sleeping wrong. He actually offered to massage it out for me (and did so). He's always been upstanding and always worked hard. I hope no matter what comes this season he has time to rest and start fresh next year for his own personal journey.
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Darshan you're a legend. Fuck what the masses think / say lol, underrated king
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I think he addressed an important issue. Obviously while it worked for C9, it doesn't necessitate it works for CLG. However by two weeks, we should have taken action rather than hope it all comes together.
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The head scratcher here is that he says "no one expected this." Theres no way with how the spring split went and all the problems we had spanning the entire spring split that you could go into the summer thinking this wasn't a possibility at all. Any competent management had to be thinking about this, and they should have had a plan B ready.
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I believe that as players and as team, these guys obviously thought they were capable of being good, being a great team. By the end of spring, the team started improving, in that "almost miracle run" to not reach playoffs. Eventhough they failed, the feeling of improvement must've remained.
If you add these two factors, it's completely understandable that they thought things were starting to work. This creates expectations and perhaps a (now clearly false) sense of being a good team.
Something happened in this process and it didn't work. Maybe those good performances were flukes, maybe they lost that winning method, maybe the meta evolved and they didn't adapt, maybe a little bit of everything, who knows?
I agree about the plan B, tho. And this is a management problem. We have a good academy roster, we had examples from C9 and other teams about using your full roster if not to win, at least to give time to players to adapt and improve and a feeling that they had to perform in order to retain their main squad status (read: motivation).
We definitely shoudn't be bashing on the players, but the management (that might have also felt that the team was improving). I agree some measure of change was necessary before the split started, but the biggest mistakes were the reluctance to change and adapt during the playtime.
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yep i thought the same, like did they not watch TL last year?
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Darshan was really well-spoken in this interview, even though he clearly looks down. Hoping for the best, Mr. President.
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Kind of annoying that they always say oh last split we didn't know what/how to solve our problems but now we know the solution, then end of split comes around and they say we couldn't solve our problems. Rinse and repeat.
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I love Darshan so much. I would love to see him maybe take a step back from being a player and taking more of a leadership role with the team in general.
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Tankshan, stuck on tank duty since 2015
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ooof. its tough man. wonder where clg goes from here. who stays who goes, who is demoted etc.
who the fk do they pickup or hire as a coach. i dont get why they would boot or have tony step down unless they actually thought he was dumb and not doing any work and/or actually had someone in mind other than plop to replace him coming up.
wonder why the players are good at scrims and cant work it on stage. wonder why their drafts are so rigid. wonder why we are hard inters and cant cs and just die to the mid game.
what the fak is going on.
ugh love darshan for being an awesome dude. he is the man. always does interviews always trys to say the right thing, is super standup and i hope he comes back to not just be a shitlord tankbot-top
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This sounds like he might be thinking of leaving the org
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Lmao no.
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This was one of the hardest interviews I've ever done, if not THE hardest. Darshan is an amazing player and an amazing guy for the scene. It is heartbreaking seeing him so down. Props to him for giving an interview to his fans. Thank you Darshan. <3
He's the man.