Highlights of the report:

• Initial plan was to reformulate the team almost completly. (I remember news that only RGL was likely to stay)

• MIBR coaching staff made a huge effort scouting players they presented upper management with 10 possible lineups, outlining the budget and expectations to each squad.

• MIBR management said they wouldn't invest heavily and only approved two of the lineups. The current lineup was the at listed as the last option and the expectations were that it was very likely they wouldn't qualify to international tournaments.

• The other lineup involved at least 3 non-brazilian players, but negotiations went nowhere.

• They did the tryouts with multiple players that were free on the marked. It included names like qck and Xand and others, but in the end they prioritized the budget with only Mazin and Artzin being hired.

• No one on the coaching staff was in favor of keeping 3 players from the 2023 core. But because of the financial circumstances it ended up that way.

• fRoD only accepted the proposal because of the relationship with Bzka as the offer was below market price.

• Now with Bzka out, fRoD is the Head Coach of this team with the same financial restraints as Bzka had and an even worse market as most players have contracts differently to the pre-VCT off-season.

• Bzka and the orgs relationship was pretty bad at this point and it was just a matter of time until he exited MIBR. He couldn't bare being the scapegoat for managements decision, while management couldn't justify keeping him after so many bad results.

The tweet is long and to those who want more details I'll leave the link so that you can check with the translate button:

Disappointed he won't be returning to C9 but super happy to still have him in the league. Gives me a reason to watch Dignitas games now.

つ ◕_◕ ༽つ TL TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ IMPACT TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ UMTI TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ APA TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ YEON TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ COREJJ TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ SPAWN & REIGNOVER TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ DODO & TL STAFF TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ TL TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ LET’S GO LIQUID ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

I hope TL plays their style of League tonight vs Fnatic.

One thing that i feel like i keep seeing from NA teams throughout the years is that NA try to quick adopt to whatever emerging meta seems to be the most prevalent during international tournaments. This year it happens to be Lane Swapping and you can see FlyQuest hard forced that strategy with less than ideal draft picks. Granted i feel like TL didnt force this style of play as hard as FQ, i did see hints of it especially in game one, but i do admit it was mostly TES that started the laneswap/ However i feel like this is why NA seems to always look so bad during international.

Without going into it too much, i feel like TL's strongest has always been standard lanes while giving UmTi an aggressive engage jungler who can move around the map causing chaos. The team looks best when they have tempo from UmTi and Core and i feel like we can easily win against FnAtic if we can just play our game and not whatever meta the current worlds state is in. If you look at G2 vs T1 games last night, G2 played standard lanes and played their game. They didnt try any fancy lane swap meta and if anything went very off meta with their picks (for better or worse). And while they did lose, they were the only western team to push a Major Region Eastern team to 5 games. They are the example that we should be following. NA needs to define their own meta much like how LPL and VCL have done. in previous years. We always look behind in the curve in international when we try to play the current meta and i think we'd do better as a whole if we just ignored that and played the style that got them there in the first place.