BanKs on Senzu: “I’ve seen him literally disappear in important, close matches before.”

BanKs: I’ll put it this way: CacaNito’s career has been a real roller coaster. Just look at his former teams. At one point, back in his Apeks days, he was an incredibly promising and hyped player. Then he got a chance on BC.Game Esports’ main roster, after which he disappeared into the Tier 3 scene for a couple of months. He later returned to BC.Game for a few more months, and since April of this year, he’s been playing for JiJieHao. For him, as a strong individual player, this is a huge step forward.

The same goes for sinnopsyy. After stints with Bad News Eagles and Guild Eagles, he had a spell with Into The Breach, which obviously turned out to be quite chaotic. He then played in various mix teams where random players simply got together. Now, at JiJieHao, he’s once again had the opportunity to lead a team—and he’s calling plays in English. So far in this run, they’ve only lost to Virtus.pro, but they’ve beaten Sangal Esports and DENDELE CS—teams we praised during BLAST Bounty—as well as Phantom Esports and HOTU. HOTU is also a tough opponent, especially at LAN tournaments.

Devilwalk: By the way, I just want to mention gr1ks’ stats for BIG. Over 11 maps played, his kill-death differential was +115, his overall KD at this LAN tournament was 2.17, and his rating was 1.58. He simply destroyed his opponents.

BanKs: He was literally farming kills. Imagine if the team could achieve even a fraction of that level of performance at bigger tournaments, like the ESL Pro League. Then BIG would definitely be playing at a whole different level. But in any case, I like that they’re continuing to move forward. The team is currently ranked 18th on Valve’s rankings, which will start earning them invites to major tournaments that top teams sometimes skip. We’re talking about 16-team events, provided, of course, that they maintain this position. I’m sure they’ll also compete in another strong Tier 2 LAN championship to stay sharp. Many teams are doing the same thing right now, and it’s a very smart move. So BIG is still on the rise, which is definitely good news.

BanKs: Yes, electroNic generally deserves some criticism, since he’s not playing nearly as well as we’re used to. But I’ll say this: this isn’t the first time Senzu has faltered at a crucial moment. Of course, Senzu is an incredible player, and I’m certainly not blaming him alone for this loss. He does a lot of amazing things, and his stats will always be top-notch. But this kind of thing happened back when he was playing for The MongolZ against strong opponents, too. I’ve seen him literally disappear in important, close matches before. Given his role on the team, something needs to be done about this. That said, I respect the journey BC.Game has been on, because they had to work hard for it. It’ll be really tough for the players to realize that just one lost round decided the outcome of the entire series. By the way, they still put up a fight on Anubis and didn’t just give up before the third map. It was a great CS match. I think whoever won that series would have ultimately qualified—whether it was BC.Game or 100 Thieves. BC.Game had also already beaten 1w Team, whom they would have faced in the next match. But I still have some questions about their play on Nuke. As something else to think about, I’ll point out their communication. The team definitely needs to work on helping the Mongolian players better understand so many different voices. To be honest, no one on this roster except Magisk speaks English fluently.