FURIA Esports

Moving on, going back across the waters, but a little south this time, to South America.

Got some new news here, starting with FURIA.

FURIA were rumored to sign KV1 to replace former member Lost, which they did just officially announce his departure from the roster.

However, there is some question marks as it was posted a couple weeks ago that Yan will be taking a break from competitive play to have a mental reset, which absolutely a great idea for anybody that feels like they need that.

Rocket League is a mentally taxing game.

I don't think it would go quite as swimmingly.

And also, probably like, say, Yekandar on Furia.

It actually kind of can work.

It is so much about who that next guy in line is to call.

You just can't.

It's just every single weekend there's a final you should be following if you're an avid CS fan.

And I think that does hurt the scene in terms of we see situations like Furia where management are making them go to every event and it's burning them out and...

And whatever, maybe it's good for their VRS ranking because they're still getting points, but it's not good for their peak level.

So it will be a big surprise if they don't make the playoff.

But if anything, just by beating G2 and by beating FURIA in a best-of-three, they're showing positive signs.

And I want to see them play one more tournament to see if it's just stagnated at a relatively poor level now or if they're actually starting to increase their level leading into the major.

So it's a team that, once again, has my interest instead of just being a team where I'm like, oh...

Like those are some fucking mega scalps.

Remember I was pointing this out for the last like three months.

But boys, FURIA barely ever beats elite teams.

This is where they do it, and we consider them a top five, top six team.

Uh, they've been pretty explicit about being prize money that they owe.

Um, Astralis, 3D Max, Aurora, Furia, G2, Gamer Legion.

That's one.

Legacy, LinVision, MIBR, Pain Gaming, Falcons, Team Liquid.

You do know you're welcome to do what you want.

You could say the same thing about Fallen and Furia, right? They're not developing young Molodoy.

He's still inexperienced, not speaking Russian to him.

They're not bringing him the culture.

I feel a trolling moment, but I'm trying to, like, find...

Do

you think, is there a comparison between the two situations? Like, have they developed Mordor as much as they should have in Furia?

I don't feel that Moldoy is as good as Kiyosuki and Monashi.

I think a lot of that was like individual form on the day.

I think you actually kind of seen the other skew on that in terms of like when C9 went into the losers bracket and they lost to FURIA.

Yeah, okay.

What about, Yamato, as I say, people can just go watch the Power Spike episode.

Would that be accurate to say, Yamato?

I would say so.

I think, obviously, I wasn't there for the previous losses, but just based on the energy of some of the guys when we played the FURIA team, you could see that this is something that they treat and just view differently.

I think that the fear of elimination, I think, also weighed heavy.

I think that...

People become a lot more afraid to die, people are a lot more afraid to take risks, when in reality there's a bigger risk in just doing nothing, right? I think that you saw the biggest consequence of that in game four against FURIA, where we are missing ults on a target that is getting not resulted.

Like that is, at that point, it's not about prep at all.

It's just about where your head is at in the game.

And these are the best three teams.

Did we...

Did we underestimate what MVK and FURIA brought to the table on top of the fact that Cloud9 underperformed? I don't think that's too much of a ask.

But did we underestimate how good they could have been, those moments? Sansan getting subbed in for his first professional tier one game at Worlds? Like, SOFM's crazy, right? Like...