Jico
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Q: How did you come to be released by TALON? FrosT: "Because of Jake Sin in VCT Pacific. They decided to break us up. In my opinion, what I believe now I know more information about why they made the decision. Respectfully, not a lot of people understand how esports works." "I think people have an idea of how business works they definitely are not in the industry long enough to know how esports works. They basically kept delaying, delaying, delaying, the decision on TALON. So basically I had 3 organizations that were all tier 1 in CS. Ready to sign everyone [on TALON] and keep the departments the same. They were gonna buy shit just to prove next year that they can show Riot, 'look we can be in this and we can show that we can do this.' [TALON] knew about [their departure from VCT] as early as in August or September. I had it (orgs) lined up within 24 hours when I found out what happened with TALON. Because of esport connections. I had three big orgs, ready, waiting JUST WAITING. Crws was meeting with Riot, Crws was having these discussions, I was coaching Crws through it. Free agency starts October 15th. By November 1st you need to start practicing and forming rosters for the OFF//SEASON tournaments. Riot knew this two weeks before November 1st." "And then still, TALON is still, no decision on TALON, constantly in communication with Riot about this. Jovi was the domino to fall because bro 'I can't be in limbo, But I have a head coaching job offer, like I'll stay but I need to know I'm going to have a spot in the league." "Because another thing Riot did that was incorrect was there was already rumors and people talking that they were going to add another Japanese team. So now we are like there's a chance they're not in the league anymore. How does this even work? So if we stay together we we're going to be in the league if they didn't get accepted. And this is not a fault of our own, so this is why I'm so cavalier about naming VCT Pacific and Jake and everybody, they knew from the beginning." "Just accept these orgs [that I suggested]. And Riot even made a mandate that we have to find "CS orgs" that also have some asian representation. So I even had to narrow the search and find teams that had APAC in other division. I even did that. We did everything we possibly could to get to the finish line. November 1st comes, crickets. No reply, no communication. I got the deadline, I had to accept. Jovi goes to RRQ. I had no other choice."
“Not here to be your friend.” I don’t know the first thing about VALORANT coaching, but wouldn’t the most constructive and formative feedback be more effective coming from someone you see as a friend? I think the best example of this is @Officialbonkar with NRG. Based on team comms and other interviews, he and the players seem to be genuine friends, yet he’s still extremely critical of them when needed. Feel free to disagree with me in the replies, but I think this is pretty obvious.
@PolymarketVAL Feels like Frost used the situation as a way out to join FS while the players are now taking all the blame. If management reached out to fix the issues, he should’ve handled it instead of leaving them behind when he was already talking to FS 🥴
More updates on the new VCT in 2027: - 8 partner teams in each territory (32 total) - 12 teams at Kickoff and Cups - Minimum of 4 open teams per tournament - Triple elimination returns for Kickoff - Opens in 14 regions - Qualification stipends for open teams: $100K at Cups, $200K at Masters, $400K at Champions - Additional $6M in prize pools - $100K for teams qualifying to GCC - New community tournament guidelines
congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight
