Twitter sucks these days, so here’s a transcript that isn’t just an image attachment.

“Scrims don’t matter as long as they perform on stage”

But they do

Scrims show that you are not hopelessly slaughtered in every team fight

Scrims get you a glimpse of how you can match anyone mechanically

Scrims give you a sense of how much everyone cares about practice. They show you are not an underdog everyone believes you are.

Scrims give you hope.

You can say that every other team was testing us, testing limits, that they don’t play their best in practice, or that we were just getting our comfort picks, but no other team in the West matched everyone, including LCK and LPL, that well in scrims. Every time you hear about LEC or LCS team doing well in scrims, it is extremely overplayed by Asian teams based on the 1-2 blocks they played.

People talk like good teams lose scrims on purpose to get better, but that’s just how Western teams are used to be doing every Worlds. People are so used to the West doing badly in scrims that somehow it became our mantra to get destroyed and just show up when it matters. Every win in Scrims vs East is called a fluke because - “well they are not trying”, or “we got lucky on the day”.

Everyone talks about how you can’t practice as hard as Asian teams, but that’s what we did. We tried as hard as we could and we gave a fight to everyone we met, including them. If you prove to them that you are good, they will tryhard against you. They played their best picks, they played extremely good league of legends in scrims. And we beat them there.

That gives me more hope in the West than any upset ever did.

It shows that if we put our mind to it, we can be the best. Maybe even in the world.

And that’s what broke our hearts last week.

I always believed in this roster for 2023, and I will always believe in it for 2024.

I hope you will continue to believe in us too