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It's like, please just fix your kind of actual structure.

Because on paper, I just think, And I think it comes back to is Nertz a real opener or should he be how he was used in ENCE where it was like the second guy able to be on his own a bit more.

Because I don't know what you guys think of this, but I feel like if Mattis was just a pure bombsite entry and Nertz was more of like the lone aggressive rifler, that feels like it should work on paper.

But then they're coming out in interviews and saying like, oh, sometimes we struggle with like who wants to make plays early round.

That was a good roster in 2023.

They were one of the best teams in the world at the time.

But because ENCE is only a smaller organization in a place where things are already very expensive and sponsor budgets are going to be quite fought for because it's a prosperous... that are countries up there in terms of Counter-Strike and that type of shit, there's probably not a lot of money flying around.

So you have a good roster and then you get all these metrics for the year of 2023 where you're fucking pumping, you're doing well, you're getting your finals, you get a lot of viewership, there's like the revenue share and all this stuff, you're getting sticker money.

And there's a lot of orgs that have folded.

Recently, as a matter of fact, a few days ago, ENCE, if you remember them from primarily Counter-Strike, the Finnish org, also ended up filing for bankruptcy.

So they're gone.

So there's two things to this.

This is a tweet from Miller that I have linked here.

Previous player for ENCE.

I think Joski was as well.

Oh, that guy, yeah.

Yeah, he's also replied.

And he's, I'm going to read out what he said.

But obviously the context of this is ENCE has filed for bankruptcy today.

And they announced today anyway.

Who is he?" And then they go, "Ah, I need a hint." "Ukrainian flag." He'd guess every name wrong except Somedieyoung.

Same thing, "This player played with Alexcb in one of the best teams in the world." "Barz, uh, was it Ence? Was it this guy?" "No, no, you gotta wait till I finish the question.

He also was in one of the big teams in Counter-Strike." "Oh, fuck.

Who could it be then? Was it Alu, Ro-" "Nope, it was Mantuu." "Oh, shit yeah, he was in big clan, wasn't he?" Yeah, everything's a joke answer.

I'm just gonna say another name, but this might...

I wanna know where Dycha is, the former ENCE player.

Where's he?

Not in the team.

Like that sounds to me like either he didn't wanna join your team or something was fucked up with the deal, because how could GamerLegion have, we're assuming, millions if you can't sign the player? Well, similarly, right, there's a piece of information that doesn't add up that's also made me feel sus about this squad the whole time, which is people forget this.

They didn't actually originally try to sign matichy.

They tried to sign Xkasperskiy from ENCE, right? And what happened was, for whatever reason, that deal didn't happen.

And people forget this.

I started also giving the idea to Richard that maybe you need more firepower in my position because obviously if you don't have the greatest stars, the firepower does need to come from somewhere, which includes me.

And I think in the past, let's say five years ago, let's say when we came up with ENCE, I think I was maybe 10, 20% better individually, which meant that a lot of these close games that we ended up losing, I think maybe half of them we would have won if I was still the same player.

But I'm not saying I was great or anything, don't get me wrong, like some insane fragger, but I was definitely better, right?

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No, I think, to be honest, like...

I think obviously when CS2 came, I think the first four or five events was good.

I think I reached playoff with ENCE and also the first with Falcons.

But then afterwards, it's been rough.