nafany on slaxejezzz: “He’s still a good player, I think.”

It’s hard to say that he [atT. — Ed.] is a genius, but he’s clearly much better than lux was. At the very least, their results have definitely improved with him. Plus, actually, there’s been a trend visible for quite some time now that they’re really playing pretty well. <...>

But you see, they play a very aggressive style of Counter-Strike, let’s say. Still, they don’t… A lot of it, you see, comes down to one-on-one duels. That’s how I’d describe it. When you play like that, it’s very hard to find consistency. I mean, you always have to be on your A-game individually… Well, the level of individual play has to be up there—as tautological as that may sound. But it just works for them, that’s all.

Man, well, I’m happy for Abay—Abay is 100% a good player. It seems to me that the potential issue with slaxejezzz is that he hadn’t played at Tier 1 at all before this. <...>

In other words, the process of training young, inexperienced players takes time. And when you add an inexperienced player to an already established team and try to teach him, that also takes time. PARIVISION doesn’t have that time right now, because while you’re spending that time, you’ll be missing out on invites, you could potentially lose your slot at a Major, and you need to bring people into your system who, first of all, ideally already be familiar with it—they should be familiar with this system. And even if they aren’t familiar with it, they should already, well, have the basics down. As for slaxejezzz, well, he had nowhere to get those basics from. With all due respect to facecrack, I highly doubt that any real fundamentals were actually instilled in his head there. Anyway, one way or another—I remember we even played against them in TDK—they play, well, the default Tier 3 Counter-Strike, where there’s a lot of randomness, people don’t have consistent setups, and so on and so forth.

And I’m sure that slaxejezzz is a decent player. It’s just very difficult for a player with no experience and no understanding of how their system works to build a setup like PARIVISION’s and perform well right away. Well, that’s how I see it. And PARIVISION doesn’t really have that kind of time. I mean, it was, well, a bit of a risk, but they took it—I think I would have too. I’ve seen online that people actually often criticize PARIVISION for signing him in the first place, but from my perspective, that’s silly. I mean, it’s silly to criticize them. I mean, what if he’s the next big thing, and you let talent slip away? I mean, his online numbers were absolutely insane. Oh, and I think that overall, if he builds on the experience he’s gained at PARIVISION—and maybe rethinks some things—he’ll definitely get stronger, and it’s unlikely his online numbers will drop now. I mean, he’s still a good player, in my opinion. Maybe he just needs a little more experience—or maybe he just needs a little more time—that’s all.