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MentalistC is a proven quantity - he was a vital part of the Fnatic team at SI 2020, and had been a teammate to HysteRiX and SpeakEasy in 2019, including at the Season 10 Pro League Finals. So, gone were Lunarmetal, Jrdn, and Jo, and in were Patrick “ MentalistC” Fan, Nathaniel “ Naate” Williams, and Jack “ Jigsaw” Gillies. The team eventually came to rely almost entirely on his in-game leadership, making him further irreplaceable for a long time until he was able to finally take the retirement plunge in 2022. Lunarmetal was a vital part of the team since its inception due to his rarity in the scene as an IGL, according to HysteRiX. “It was always on the back of our minds that he’s gonna retire one day … there were a lot of times when we lost LANs on the APAC level and Glen wanted to quit … and we kinda had to motivate him to stay.” “He didn’t really plan for this to be a career, but I think one thing led to another and eventually we kept making APAC LANs,” revealed HysteRiX. In addition, Lunarmetal’s desire to retire had apparently stretched as far back as the first-ever Pro League APAC Finals in 2017. That lack of problem-solving ability and adaptability was attempted to be fixed by the leadership of Lunarmetal and SpeakEasy, but it “just wasn’t enough”. We were just going with the flow, we just kept playing and playing but we weren’t actually trying to figure out what’s the issue.” “The voices on our team weren’t strong enough to actually like (say), ‘Hey let’s make a change in the round right now’. “During our SI Quals run … we eventually fell to CAG and we just couldn’t adapt,” spoke HysteRiX of their loss in the APAC SI 2022 Qualifier grand final. That was also a potential source of stress that the team failed to overcome, he reflected.Īs good as Invictus looked in Stage 3, where they secured auto-qualification to the Sweden Major through APAC South and when Jo stated he finally felt like he had gelled with the rest of the team, there were “a lot of other issues” (such as a lack of “player confidence”) that lurked beneath the surface. They were only signed to an initial six-month contract, HysteRiX revealed. The players were also under a tight timeline to impress Invictus Gaming in 2021. “We had our individual skill to help us, but at the same time we weren’t as good as we thought we were.”
“There was definitely a lot of skill gap and a lot of issues with individual performance that led us to constantly getting knocked out of groups overseas,” he elaborated. But that was all an illusion, with HysteRiX revealing that the event was when internal perceptions about their international strength began to deflate. Things were feeling good domestically again, and the team began dreaming of Mexico Major success after seemingly having fixed its issues. “We needed to go through the playoffs to qualify for the Major… we had a really good playoffs run.” “Backs were against the wall, I guess,” said HysteRiX of that Stage 2 turnaround. But the quality was apparent for Invictus as they turned a do-or-die final play day in Stage 2, where they would have been either last or fourth, into Mexico Major qualification. The changes also stemmed from flirtations with the bottom of the table in Stages 1 and 2 of the 2021 season. Yet, international results were what was desired, and HysteRiX, SpeakEasy, and iG coach Ellis “GiG” Hindle risked a sharp drop to the bottom to push for the taste of that elusive success. The Singaporean team had been a giant in the APAC scene since 2017, and emerged second in APAC North in 2020 and top in a hyper-competitive APAC South in Stage 3 of the 2021 season. Their international failures aren’t to say the team was ever outrightly poor, though. MentalistC (right-most) at the Pro League Season 10 Finals alongside SpeakEasy (third-from-right) and HysteRiX (second-from-left). Two Six Invitationals and two Six Majors had seen the team disappoint internationally, never making playoffs, and it had only impressed at the ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals in Nov. “We were constantly making Majors, but we weren’t ever performing in them,” explained HysteRiX in an interview with SiegeGG before the start of the 2022 season. Lunarmetal retired, and Jordan “ jrdn” Cheng and Jose “ Jo” Iman were both dropped, making HysteRiX the most senior member on the team.
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