Very happy with the insight and details Regi gave in this interview. I hate to see some of my favorite players no longer be a part of TSM, but videos like this remind me why its OK to still be a TSM fan.
Yea that's basically it.. As a jungle main it was always fun watching Svenskeren but like.. He's not even a team player. Like every TSM match he's goin solo q style and either does well or shits the bed. Doublelift just thinks hes better than he is and Bio was pretty new so whatever. So yea it comes down to Hauntzer and Bjerg.. both solid players.
Yeh, i don't wanna try to prove anything, i'll just write my opinion. Hauntzer is THE WORST top laner Na ever had. Mechanicaly, he's not even in top 5 for me, he can play semi-tanks and snowball with them if Sven gank 47 times for him( cuz Na as a region is poor, and TSM somehow always ends snowballing even thou they should Deff lose that game). I can't forget that 1v1 vs C9 Ray( kennen vs Camila) where after bilion ganks and redemptio from Bio helped him to kill Alrdy behind kennen, and even casters were proud about that... Such a useless shit
Literally the most pointless comment ever. "I dont wanna try and prove anything".. If you're gonna drop some heated opinion as you did you 100% need to have facts to prove.. Funny though
Give Regi some credit, TSM successfully completed a year with zero international loses. As Regi promised, no more loses in the international group stage. POG
Agreed. I understand people may not like his interview style, but I think that he really allows players and people he interviews to elaborate on their points, and also asks the most interesting and good questions. Really love his interviews
Harry Polden it took me a while to really come around to his interview style, but he gets way more actual information out of people then anyone else does with their cookie cutter questioning. Add that to his new call in show and no other content hub compares currently.
Agree, yet there is still something nagging me about him; I think it was because he was begging for people to sub to his twitch channel once, which I found pretty distasteful. I do, however, respect the fact that he speaks his mind to anyone, regardless of who they are.
Have to give it to Regi. Every player he released he cared to get a competitive team, and he actually looks forward to see how this improves them. He doesn't care about stomping NA, he wants the league to be as competitive as possible. That's an approach that should really be appreciated.
You never know, Doublelift is the best ADC in the west and a big star (tons of fans = merch and stream numbers) so he will definitely get a team. Bio is a NA talent which is super valuable now. Maybe he just helped Sven but other than that he may not have done much.
+Aaron Joseph if your refering to when reginald calls him game over its at 15:25 , if not look at reignovers leaguepedia, in the trivia it talks about how he used to be called game over
I can't see how you'd think that way. Regi clearly said that RO had an off period compared to what the level he used to play at and if he manages perform as he did in his early days again, he can elevate the entire team's level. Both that he was incredibly good and that he later fell off performance wise are undisputable, also Regi didn't say RO can't play that well again. So, what's your problem?
Svenskeran and Biofrost were replaced because they aren't communicating and having mechanic skill isn't enough on the world's level. Andy confirmed that they just needed a shot caller, they wanted just mithy but had concerns of having a repeat with yellowstar and doublelift not being compatible. Zven was just as good as doublelift and already has success with mithy, so andy decided to take g2's bot lane as a package. It's unfortunate for doublelift. Andy always puts the team first. I can respect that. Looks like I'm rooting for TL.
jujurawks actually Sven had to leave bc they needed 2 import slots for the botlaners. Double got offered more at TL and so they wanted zven but then bio had to go for mithu
Exactly. Wow, I found the only few people that actually paid attention to the interview. 98% of the other comments are from low IQ soy-boys that are butthurt over Dlift getting booted. Jesus.....
I actually dont get it, they already had 2 shotcallers and still have 2 now. But dw if TSM will win worlds we all know their jungler will get a ward skin instead of champ skin bc also MY will turn into a ward. Idc about DL but do care about bio and sven, andy changed them way too much..
I mean I can't really blame EUSM for getting good EU players. Can't blame the EU players to go for the obvious better salary. I rather blame rito for being NA biased and not giving EULCS equal chances... EULCS is just not that much fun with all the hyped players leaving all the time.
BOB MASTER riot forced na down everyone throats. They promoted na more they gave the na better times of streaming better formatting. Eu one of the oldest region and most popular across the world but riot choked eu every year to make them weak state we are now. Even after outperforming na every year they still don't care about eu. But hey riot can't give na skill that something they can't take away.
Honestly, you might like the players they had previously, or dislike Regi, but the way he has gone about it, and spoke in this interview is actually really respectful and smart. he went more for long run, what would fix the team, how to improve and stay number 1 in NA, granted i thought sven was the main issue on TSM but seeing that there was more core issues that Regi was aware of and worked to try impact that in a positive manner is amazing from a tactical viewpoint. i actually give him props for how he manages everything.
This is great content Travis! Testament to your relationship with folks in the industry that they open up to you in a honest way. Also so impressed with how Regi handles his business that ex-players don’t have hard feelings
glad to see your covering the scene since yahoo stopped their esports division keep up the good work travis! you asked every question I thought of and more about the roster changes.
they will prolly just semi stomp NA again in normal season bcos all the teams are just mixed up so hard now and then next year at worlds, MY will be just as passive as all the other carry junglers TSM picked up and crippled or "fixed" it, like its a bad thing to be able to play carry junglers competitively and then at worlds they wont get out of groups again and this interview will come again in approx. a year, talking about that person xyz on the team didnt communicate or shotcall again and then 2-3 people will be replaced again, we've seen it already like 3 years now, dont see a reason why the next year would be any different
How many years/seasons has Regi said communication is the problem... changing players hasn't fixed the problem maybe cuz it isn't? I really feels like developing strategy and adaptation have been TSM's actual issues.
amnieto88 adaptation isn't to bad for them, or at least, it wasn't. (They were at their best in best of 3/5 games as they adaptated to Opponent play). Strategy building is definitely an issue. But they does have a basis in shot calling.
It's not even just a TSM jungler problem. It's a lot of teams picking up carry players and forcing them into supportive styles to help out their star child (in TSM's case, support the bjerg to god tier). In some cases it works, but in most cases the person that has to adapt to a totally new style of playing gets screwed over.
Just this past season was bit different with jungle. It isn't really TSM's fault for having passive jungle. Riot kind of made it to where junglers can just rotate and stay in jungle while keeping up with cs and exp with lanes. So the game was so heavily focused on laning as late into the game as possible.. But if the jungler gank, and happen to fail, then they ended up being behind. So it actually was a safe way of playing, having a passive jungler.
TSM gets so much pressure to succeed globally... underdogs don't get ANY pressure from people. I reckon TSM players get this pressure into their heads. They dress nicely, they have big salaries, but THEY'RE turning into the underdogs. just a thought
They need a new coach. Regi was good, but only good enough to worlds group stage. There HAS to be a reason why Korean teams are so dominant. We can't simply say "Korean's are just better." NA has bigger population with much more diverse group of people. We can find better talent here. But we don't have the culture and the discipline of Korean teams. That's what we need. We don't need "better synergized" players. We need a better coach who can train the players like how they do in Korea.
Mechanics can be learned and ingrained by practice. I'm not denying the "natural talent." But it's not like all Koreans are naturally better than players from NA. Koreans are just trained better.
guys an ace. clean ass cut w the yeezy's great representation. confidence is there. made me a tsm fan, ill be riding w liquid from now on but i support the shit outta this guy
The more I think of this, supp-jungle synergy this year will be huge. We got Mike and Mithy, Sven and Smoothie, Reignover and Bio, and of course last split's mvp couple Xmithie and Olleh. These are all very interesting pairings, with a good mix of shotcalling and playmaking that will make NA very competitive this split.
rekkles was performing slightly better then zven imo, but zven was also really good. They were both way better then the next tier of ADCs in EU at least. Mithy though was the best support in EU last split imo. So to get the best support in a position your looking to strengthen and the second best ADC (in EU) for bot lane is a pretty good deal. I personally think that the ADC position in NA will be a lot harder to compete in then the EU ADC role this year now, with NA taking zven from them. The ADC talent pool in NA is really strong right now and even if you have a top tier ADC, you dont really guarantee your bot lane winning all the time. It will come down to team communication, patches a lot more next split to make these ADCs look good.
He said the team was having major issues. What more do you need? You had the best mid laner and the best adc in NA. booting 3 guys because of Shot calling issues is a dumb excuse move. You're back at square 1 again.
Given the lack of support that the lanes received from jungle in worlds, they should have replaced Svenskeren and Biofrost for Mike Yeung and Aphromoo. That would fix the shot calling issues and synergy in bot lane. I think they are seriously underestimating how much pressure they lost in bot lane that will ultimately affect the other lanes. Watching worlds was a nightmare because they literally left bot lane to fend for themselves and BioLift still managed to be relevant. All they needed was a little jungle support to get that lane snowballing. TSM will be 4th place next year.
The problem is getting Aphromoo, the reason he is not in CLG anymore is because, according to rumours, he was asking too much money. Also you can't say Zven/Mithy is a downgrade from Biolift if anything is an even trade except Mithy brings what TSM needs.
I am glad he brought up the comment about NA's player base being 1/3 the size of korea and EU. This is a fact that is heavily overlooked when people want to trash talk NA talent, like we got a huge pool of players to pick from.
I think Regi's statement about the new team's rosters was a bit naïve. There wasn't even close to a fair playing field. Several players have stated point blank they didn't want to join first year teams because they didn't want to go through the growing pains of a new org. Doublelift, for example.
he never said that the players wanted to leave, he is an owner and if he wants to improve his team by changing players thats within his right. He simply stated that he thinks he got them good teams that fit them better then TSM and mostly that if TSM wanted to improve that they needed to make some changes so withen that context it was the best that he could do for the players without hurting his own team.
Idk, their rosters are pretty shit. The bigger thing to me, though, is how in the world Flyquest is still in the LCS. They abandoned all their note-able players, and they made a team that looks worse than many of the new incoming teams. Like, wtf.
Yeah I actually think FlyQuest looks fairly strong. Golden Guardians is the team that I'm expecting to take last. Lourlo, Contractz, Hai, Deftly and Matt. As much as I like Contractz and Hai and the top and support are probably sidegrades from FlyQuest roster, Deftly is a massive downgrade in the position that was one of FlyQuest's strongest.
As a TSM fan I'm genuinely concerned that TSM is going to get stomped this coming year strictly due to this new lineup but I hope they do really well I really wish they would have kept Doublelift though :/
No, Dlift is a top tier player but his communication style was too risky to keep with Mithy's shot-calling style. The synergy would have been a huge gamble as was the case with Yellowstar. Dlift prefers to play with passive supports like Biofrost becuase Dlift is an assertive leader and shot-caller. Aphromoo grew to became a more assertive shotcaller at some point which is why Dlift was given the boot from CLG cause he wasn't compatible with the "new" Aphromoo anymore in terms of communication style.
Maybe it would actually be better for them to have a mediocre season and then win in gauntlet plus go to worlds. So the expectations wouldnt be as huge as the years before. I feel like the pressure it applied to them is part of what made them fail.
Trust me, Zven and Mithy will be the top botlane in NA. They've been a duo for 3 years now, so they have insane synergy while also being individually high-mechanics players. Mithy might not be the most mechanically skilled support in EU (that honour goes to Hylissang), but he shot calls incredibly well and never really gets caught out.
I became TSM fan because of Reginald. He has such an understanding of the game and is always making bold decisions to improve overall performance of TSM.
"TSM isn't just an NA team" TSM is THE NA team, the definition of NA scene; big talk with nothing to back it up. Riot is gonna start giving out "Worlds Group Stage Participant" award just so NA can get something at Worlds even if they're 0-6.
Idk why people brag about imports coming to other regions. It’s like Regi said organization are going for the team which will hopefully give them the most success. And if that means getting 2 or 3 players from another region I don’t see any problem with that. I mean look at European football clubs , they have a lot of people from another country as well, doesn’t matter where If it’s Barcelona or Bayern or Real Madrid. And no one cry’s there about players not coming from the country the league is playing in. People really got to stop seeing the player as an individual and more as the organization as itself and what they stand for. I’m always gonna be an TSM fan because I love what the organization stands for and not only the players which are playing for them.
All football leagues have this sort of rules, you cant have a team full of imports. In Spain you can have players from any other European country, but only 3 from the rest of the world.
Biofrost is too much of a nice guy to want revenge lol, but DL on the other hand.... He said he wants to tear apart TSM's legacy lol. I'm still rooting for Biodaddy though.
I really love the way Reginald express his opinions and explain his perspectives. It just feels so informative and resultgiven, I truly enjoy to hear whenever he decides to share his thoughts to the fans and everyone. I'm a big fan of the entire TSM organisation and love the way he handles big situations and decisions, just in generel very straight forward. I can't wait to see the new TSM line-up in action, good luck :)
With all those kick or other Jungle/Supp he didn't explain why he kicked both, he could get a bot lane and keep Sven, half assed answers to keep bandwagoners around
Alexandre Martins because Zven and Mithy are a package deal and take both import slots meaning you can't have Svenskeren and Zven/Mithy playing at the same time.
Alexandre Martins Rules changed, now if you want to be considered a resident you have to actually apply for citizenship in US or Canada. Bjergsen and other players don't count because the rules were different back then.
Wasn't updated on that one, still thinking it was the 2 years playing wich made more sense since they have short careers and it shouldn't affect their personal life. On the other side i would rather kick Bio and work around it, other teams won so much with those 3 leaving. We will have a even better season this year looking at rosters
Alexandre Martins Regi said that initially he wanted just Mithy, but he wasn't going to leave w/o Zven and on the other hand Zven/Mithy already have 3 years playing together so the synergy is already there. Bringing in just Mithy and having him adapt to DL's playstyle could potentially end up being a Yellowstar 2.0
I respect this man so much. I'm such a fan of Reggie. Team leader of an exports team when it was just getting started. turned CEO of international video game brand. He's has such big dreams, I believe in this guy.
I feel like when he said that no one stepped up to communicate during groups, happened practically every worlds before that. I mean there were a multitude of problems but that statement right there really feels like what is wrong with TSM and has been for years.
I don't like how Regi sees carry-focused jungling as a negative thing. He said its something to “fix” in this interview. TSM does this with every jungler they’ve had since TheOddOne. Can’t wait to see Mike get fucked over and become Sven part 2. :/ Also "since the beginning we were never really an NA team" is bullshit. Your starting lineup was only NA players. Chaox was born in China but grew up in Canada and later the US. You were very obviously representing NA.
Uhh... at what age do you cut off "growing up" in a place. Because Chaox didnt move to the US until he was like 14.... I don't call that "growing up" in the US, hell 4 years after he moved here he was an adult.
Fallen Deus he moved to Canada when he was 7 which is in NA. That's a pretty good age. When I moved to the current city I live in at a similar age. I say I grew up here because I spent a good bit of my childhood as well as all of my teenage years here. Those are very formative times in a person's growth. I also hold no ties to where I lived before.
so if you know samsung and skt (worlds final) ,both teams have those ward bot junglers( blank and ambition). It is how the game is supposed to be played on the highest level. That's why peanut never became real part of SKT. I also dont like this style but it has been working so unless peanut (LZ), maxlore(MSF) or mike(TSM) show the weakness in it it will still be the way to play in the jungle. You can even see that RNG jungle mxlg played this way as well at worlds although he is consideredto be hard carry jungle
Lets end this now. Zven is better than Doublelift. Zven plays safer, and makes better decisions. Doublelift is better mechanically. Depends what you want on your team. This is pro scene, so they take consistency over clutch 1v9.
Alright so first off, this interview is good on Travis' part but on Regi's part, his description of 'elaborating' is well we were losing here and we changed it vs. C9 owner Jack where 'we were feeling weak at this point and this is why and this is how' although i'll give Regi cudos on the brand he has built, he really needs help as an owner. Every 'perspective' Regi speculates on is quite a juvenile perspective if you take my opinion for anything.
I waited 25 min for you to ask him about the new coach and how much control he will have and you didn't ask. Honestly that was the most important question for me.
Chicco3220 I love double and bio, but honestly I think there will be more consistency out of zven and mithy. Also rift rivals obviously didn't mean much since our teams layed an egg at worlds. But I guess time will tell. I hope bio and double have success next split.
No wonder their communication is an issue, it's because every shotcall is "Uhh... practically like, the whole entire time in the like... uhh... baron?".
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This aged beautifully
You have no idea
Very happy with the insight and details Regi gave in this interview. I hate to see some of my favorite players no longer be a part of TSM, but videos like this remind me why its OK to still be a TSM fan.
Dane Train You forgot your "/s" buddy
Let's be real Bjerg and Haunzter were the 2 most consistent and hype players anyway. I'm excited to see what TSM can do moving forward.
Yea that's basically it.. As a jungle main it was always fun watching Svenskeren but like.. He's not even a team player. Like every TSM match he's goin solo q style and either does well or shits the bed. Doublelift just thinks hes better than he is and Bio was pretty new so whatever. So yea it comes down to Hauntzer and Bjerg.. both solid players.
Yeh, i don't wanna try to prove anything, i'll just write my opinion. Hauntzer is THE WORST top laner Na ever had. Mechanicaly, he's not even in top 5 for me, he can play semi-tanks and snowball with them if Sven gank 47 times for him( cuz Na as a region is poor, and TSM somehow always ends snowballing even thou they should Deff lose that game). I can't forget that 1v1 vs C9 Ray( kennen vs Camila) where after bilion ganks and redemptio from Bio helped him to kill Alrdy behind kennen, and even casters were proud about that... Such a useless shit
Literally the most pointless comment ever. "I dont wanna try and prove anything".. If you're gonna drop some heated opinion as you did you 100% need to have facts to prove.. Funny though
Give Regi some credit, TSM successfully completed a year with zero international loses.
As Regi promised, no more loses in the international group stage. POG
make it 2 years OMEGAFUCKINGLUL
Can we get 3?
Zven, Svenskeren, Xmithie and Mithy in the same league, the casters are gonna have a nightmare
Daniel Patterson I mean xpeke + might =Xmithie so I'm sure they'll be fine :^)
Ya imagine if Huni was still in NA lcs...hehe
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This aged soooooo well!! Thanks for so much Regi!!!!
Fantastic interview. Keep it up travis. You easily crush everyone else with your content.
Agreed. I understand people may not like his interview style, but I think that he really allows players and people he interviews to elaborate on their points, and also asks the most interesting and good questions. Really love his interviews
Harry Polden it took me a while to really come around to his interview style, but he gets way more actual information out of people then anyone else does with their cookie cutter questioning. Add that to his new call in show and no other content hub compares currently.
Ross Guy I feel like it lets the person he's interviewing speak with ease and say what they want.
word bro
Agree, yet there is still something nagging me about him; I think it was because he was begging for people to sub to his twitch channel once, which I found pretty distasteful. I do, however, respect the fact that he speaks his mind to anyone, regardless of who they are.
You can tell how much regi has grown. It's very impressive.
Regi looking like he's hit the gym/training lately. Nice!
are you serious lol, pathetic
what gym? lmfao
savaiiboy the business side made him lose all that weight.
Yeah, he recently dropped a lot of dead weight.
but he still looks like a wukong
Have to give it to Regi. Every player he released he cared to get a competitive team, and he actually looks forward to see how this improves them. He doesn't care about stomping NA, he wants the league to be as competitive as possible. That's an approach that should really be appreciated.
You never know, Doublelift is the best ADC in the west and a big star (tons of fans = merch and stream numbers) so he will definitely get a team. Bio is a NA talent which is super valuable now. Maybe he just helped Sven but other than that he may not have done much.
AGED WELL OMEGALUL
0:35 he was about to say flyquest.
speaking of flyquest... in which team is wildturtle heading to?
Flyquest
Probably your best interview. Very in depth and relevant. Also good timing posting it because right now is when people are asking this.
Not doing a longer Video because of your Parking Ticket, goddamn Travis xD
support him on Patreon and he won't have to worry about that :')
Keep bringing this sweet ass pre-season content please!!!! I'm eternally grateful honestly
"Right now he's GameOver"
fucking lol,
they called him that in korea when he was really bad
+Aaron Joseph if your refering to when reginald calls him game over its at 15:25 , if not look at reignovers leaguepedia, in the trivia it talks about how he used to be called game over
Lmao ty for time stamp totally didnt even catch that
+Dank you no probleem bro! always glad to help
I can't see how you'd think that way. Regi clearly said that RO had an off period compared to what the level he used to play at and if he manages perform as he did in his early days again, he can elevate the entire team's level.
Both that he was incredibly good and that he later fell off performance wise are undisputable, also Regi didn't say RO can't play that well again. So, what's your problem?
Never heard this much information about the specifics of a roster swap before. It cleared up a ton. Really nicely done interview!
Anyone here just to laugh after the fiasco that was 2018?
So glad we have clarity on everything. Thank you!
Props to Regi for putting their former players in a team where they can succeed.
I agree. sometimes players, no matter how mechanically good they are, just find better success on different teams.
I feel SO much better now that I know the thought process behind the new roster. Thanks for the interview Travis!
Svenskeran and Biofrost were replaced because they aren't communicating and having mechanic skill isn't enough on the world's level.
Andy confirmed that they just needed a shot caller, they wanted just mithy but had concerns of having a repeat with yellowstar and doublelift not being compatible. Zven was just as good as doublelift and already has success with mithy, so andy decided to take g2's bot lane as a package.
It's unfortunate for doublelift. Andy always puts the team first. I can respect that.
Looks like I'm rooting for TL.
jujurawks actually Sven had to leave bc they needed 2 import slots for the botlaners. Double got offered more at TL and so they wanted zven but then bio had to go for mithu
they couldn't take the risk to put doublelift with mithy and be a tsm yellowstar 2.0
Exactly. Wow, I found the only few people that actually paid attention to the interview. 98% of the other comments are from low IQ soy-boys that are butthurt over Dlift getting booted. Jesus.....
I actually dont get it, they already had 2 shotcallers and still have 2 now. But dw if TSM will win worlds we all know their jungler will get a ward skin instead of champ skin bc also MY will turn into a ward. Idc about DL but do care about bio and sven, andy changed them way too much..
lol
happy to see your success and upgrade Travis. Keep up the Professional work.
Good interview, still rooting for TL for the players , and Biodaddy, because of him
Holy shit this is one of the most informative interviews I've seen! Great job with this!
If TSM ever wins worlds their jungle will get a ward skin instead of a champ skin! Kappa
Oh Long Johnson says the one with the meme name from 2013? Bye bich
why are you guys so angry its true he never wards lmao
Don't talk....ever...
nicholi boucher Sven wards...when he plays lee sin
Thanks for sharing Regi. Glad we share similar thoughts :)
nice interview dad
Zach Slappey is he really your dad?
XxRDZ15xX no hes my dad
Travis the GOAT coming in with the clutch interviews. Riot is missing out on this guy.
I mean I can't really blame EUSM for getting good EU players. Can't blame the EU players to go for the obvious better salary. I rather blame rito for being NA biased and not giving EULCS equal chances... EULCS is just not that much fun with all the hyped players leaving all the time.
broefkip it’s all about money....
jup
No one care about eulcs. eu player dont want to play in eu. Eu player are broke . Eulcs is boring. Fking tcs pull more viewer
Eu doesn’t bring in them money cause realistically no one likes that region except eu and a couple of Korean players. Demand>anything
BOB MASTER riot forced na down everyone throats. They promoted na more they gave the na better times of streaming better formatting. Eu one of the oldest region and most popular across the world but riot choked eu every year to make them weak state we are now. Even after outperforming na every year they still don't care about eu. But hey riot can't give na skill that something they can't take away.
Honestly, you might like the players they had previously, or dislike Regi, but the way he has gone about it, and spoke in this interview is actually really respectful and smart. he went more for long run, what would fix the team, how to improve and stay number 1 in NA, granted i thought sven was the main issue on TSM but seeing that there was more core issues that Regi was aware of and worked to try impact that in a positive manner is amazing from a tactical viewpoint. i actually give him props for how he manages everything.
"Right now hes game over"
that's cold blooded regi... but kind of true
good, insightful and not overbearingly long interview, gj
After a year we watch back this video, we finally realize TSM is a fucking joke.
Really good interview. Asked all the right questions.
12:20 still referring to svenskeren as "our sven" lol
He is so broken inside after giving Svenskeren the shoe.
This is great content Travis! Testament to your relationship with folks in the industry that they open up to you in a honest way. Also so impressed with how Regi handles his business that ex-players don’t have hard feelings
Hey Travis can you ask if the owners got all the players they initially wanted or did they have to choice between 2nd or 3rd choices?
Ghost 760 league of legends draft. Lmao
glad to see your covering the scene since yahoo stopped their esports division keep up the good work travis! you asked every question I thought of and more about the roster changes.
I dont know who to root for anymore.. :O DL to TL, Sven on c9, a whole new TSM team
You know, how bout root for NA region to get out of groups at worlds.
Your interview style and Regi's ability to explain things in detail is like bread and butter. Shit works together so well
they will prolly just semi stomp NA again in normal season bcos all the teams are just mixed up so hard now and then next year at worlds, MY will be just as passive as all the other carry junglers TSM picked up and crippled or "fixed" it, like its a bad thing to be able to play carry junglers competitively and then at worlds they wont get out of groups again and this interview will come again in approx. a year, talking about that person xyz on the team didnt communicate or shotcall again and then 2-3 people will be replaced again, we've seen it already like 3 years now, dont see a reason why the next year would be any different
How many years/seasons has Regi said communication is the problem... changing players hasn't fixed the problem maybe cuz it isn't? I really feels like developing strategy and adaptation have been TSM's actual issues.
amnieto88 adaptation isn't to bad for them, or at least, it wasn't. (They were at their best in best of 3/5 games as they adaptated to Opponent play). Strategy building is definitely an issue. But they does have a basis in shot calling.
It's not even just a TSM jungler problem. It's a lot of teams picking up carry players and forcing them into supportive styles to help out their star child (in TSM's case, support the bjerg to god tier). In some cases it works, but in most cases the person that has to adapt to a totally new style of playing gets screwed over.
Just this past season was bit different with jungle. It isn't really TSM's fault for having passive jungle. Riot kind of made it to where junglers can just rotate and stay in jungle while keeping up with cs and exp with lanes. So the game was so heavily focused on laning as late into the game as possible.. But if the jungler gank, and happen to fail, then they ended up being behind. So it actually was a safe way of playing, having a passive jungler.
TSM stomp
Great interview, very insightful! Keep up the good work!
TSM gets so much pressure to succeed globally... underdogs don't get ANY pressure from people. I reckon TSM players get this pressure into their heads. They dress nicely, they have big salaries, but THEY'RE turning into the underdogs. just a thought
They need a new coach. Regi was good, but only good enough to worlds group stage. There HAS to be a reason why Korean teams are so dominant. We can't simply say "Korean's are just better." NA has bigger population with much more diverse group of people. We can find better talent here. But we don't have the culture and the discipline of Korean teams. That's what we need. We don't need "better synergized" players. We need a better coach who can train the players like how they do in Korea.
moschoi well let’s be real they are better mechanically
Mechanics can be learned and ingrained by practice. I'm not denying the "natural talent." But it's not like all Koreans are naturally better than players from NA. Koreans are just trained better.
The problem is that the NA soloq is so much worse compared to KR and EU (talking about high elo) so they pratice on a lower level.
Love his comments on Bjerg, the kid works so hard to be the best he can and improve those around him. Gotta respect it.
Where can I see TSM's video application?
Alas, they're not as transparent about it as TL. Maybe that'll change.
guys an ace. clean ass cut w the yeezy's great representation. confidence is there. made me a tsm fan, ill be riding w liquid from now on but i support the shit outta this guy
is he related to pants?
Ok this just got spicy :D
Nice shoes Regi.
Thank you for supplying what we need during this drought of pro play Travis.
Damn Regi lost some weight!
I love Travis and Andy! This interview was so dope!
Cannot wait for Doublelift to demolish TSM.
KayVwj you're in for a long wait lol
Richard Pinnock u seen tls roster lmao
Dymitr Mykhaylenko what you mean? isnt rift rivals enough to show you DL and Bio is better than those two? Obviously a blind EU fan.
Cannot wait for NA to get destroyed at Worlds next year :)
Still bringing up not flashing? You're as trash as trash gets. Keep routing for those weak ass eu teams. You guys are still sht.
The more I think of this, supp-jungle synergy this year will be huge. We got Mike and Mithy, Sven and Smoothie, Reignover and Bio, and of course last split's mvp couple Xmithie and Olleh. These are all very interesting pairings, with a good mix of shotcalling and playmaking that will make NA very competitive this split.
I Always said that Mithy was the more valuable part of G2 and of this "Best Bot lane in the West" ....
I'm really sad that Mithy left G2 :/ ...
G2 got absolutely dismantled haha only their mid laner stayed
You didn't watch last split then, Zven was the better one by far
rekkles was performing slightly better then zven imo, but zven was also really good. They were both way better then the next tier of ADCs in EU at least. Mithy though was the best support in EU last split imo. So to get the best support in a position your looking to strengthen and the second best ADC (in EU) for bot lane is a pretty good deal. I personally think that the ADC position in NA will be a lot harder to compete in then the EU ADC role this year now, with NA taking zven from them. The ADC talent pool in NA is really strong right now and even if you have a top tier ADC, you dont really guarantee your bot lane winning all the time. It will come down to team communication, patches a lot more next split to make these ADCs look good.
Now it's time to see if G2 is an actually good team or if they will do an Origen.
At least zven and mithy are still together
Great interview, well done Travis!
*Monthly arrival at this video to laugh @ it*
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Really like your interviews. Keep going.
I feel like i heard the same every year
I think that last year, when they didn't change the roster is an exception.
I really appreciate how honest and open Reginald is about his decisions.
Love me some Regi
Actually a really interesting interview regarding the management side.
He said the team was having major issues.
What more do you need?
You had the best mid laner and the best adc in NA. booting 3 guys because of Shot calling issues is a dumb excuse move. You're back at square 1 again.
Right? I cheered TSM on for years, but I just can't take this roster change. I want to route for an NA team, not an EU one. Go TL!
MistahUnknown now they have 3 people who balance out the team ? Instead of 5 core mechanical players.
Given the lack of support that the lanes received from jungle in worlds, they should have replaced Svenskeren and Biofrost for Mike Yeung and Aphromoo. That would fix the shot calling issues and synergy in bot lane.
I think they are seriously underestimating how much pressure they lost in bot lane that will ultimately affect the other lanes. Watching worlds was a nightmare because they literally left bot lane to fend for themselves and BioLift still managed to be relevant. All they needed was a little jungle support to get that lane snowballing. TSM will be 4th place next year.
The problem is getting Aphromoo, the reason he is not in CLG anymore is because, according to rumours, he was asking too much money. Also you can't say Zven/Mithy is a downgrade from Biolift if anything is an even trade except Mithy brings what TSM needs.
What happened to rallyz? lmao
I am glad he brought up the comment about NA's player base being 1/3 the size of korea and EU. This is a fact that is heavily overlooked when people want to trash talk NA talent, like we got a huge pool of players to pick from.
I think Regi's statement about the new team's rosters was a bit naïve. There wasn't even close to a fair playing field. Several players have stated point blank they didn't want to join first year teams because they didn't want to go through the growing pains of a new org. Doublelift, for example.
he never said that the players wanted to leave, he is an owner and if he wants to improve his team by changing players thats within his right. He simply stated that he thinks he got them good teams that fit them better then TSM and mostly that if TSM wanted to improve that they needed to make some changes so withen that context it was the best that he could do for the players without hurting his own team.
Idk, their rosters are pretty shit. The bigger thing to me, though, is how in the world Flyquest is still in the LCS. They abandoned all their note-able players, and they made a team that looks worse than many of the new incoming teams. Like, wtf.
GEM4sta Nah their roster looks pretty decent especially with Flame up top
Yeah I actually think FlyQuest looks fairly strong. Golden Guardians is the team that I'm expecting to take last. Lourlo, Contractz, Hai, Deftly and Matt. As much as I like Contractz and Hai and the top and support are probably sidegrades from FlyQuest roster, Deftly is a massive downgrade in the position that was one of FlyQuest's strongest.
Crocoroar Agreed
Great questions, insightful answers, nice interview :)
Gonna be interesting if NA fans start bragging about how much better Tsm are than eu teams considering they have more EU players than Na lol
1st off thats false and also Jesus Christ why the instant negativity towards imports????
Even before the new members they still beat eu at rift rivals
and china beat korea in rift rivals, china is best region then?
What is false? bjergsen, zven and mithy are all from eu. 3/5 are from eu. TSM is now closer to eu team than NA team.
Mc Fusiak I never said NA was the best. They still beat eu at rift rivals LOL
riot should give make a flash skin for doublelifts performance in worlds
As a TSM fan I'm genuinely concerned that TSM is going to get stomped this coming year strictly due to this new lineup but I hope they do really well I really wish they would have kept Doublelift though :/
No, Dlift is a top tier player but his communication style was too risky to keep with Mithy's shot-calling style. The synergy would have been a huge gamble as was the case with Yellowstar. Dlift prefers to play with passive supports like Biofrost becuase Dlift is an assertive leader and shot-caller. Aphromoo grew to became a more assertive shotcaller at some point which is why Dlift was given the boot from CLG cause he wasn't compatible with the "new" Aphromoo anymore in terms of communication style.
Maybe it would actually be better for them to have a mediocre season and then win in gauntlet plus go to worlds. So the expectations wouldnt be as huge as the years before. I feel like the pressure it applied to them is part of what made them fail.
Trust me, Zven and Mithy will be the top botlane in NA. They've been a duo for 3 years now, so they have insane synergy while also being individually high-mechanics players. Mithy might not be the most mechanically skilled support in EU (that honour goes to Hylissang), but he shot calls incredibly well and never really gets caught out.
I became TSM fan because of Reginald. He has such an understanding of the game and is always making bold decisions to improve overall performance of TSM.
"TSM isn't just an NA team"
TSM is THE NA team, the definition of NA scene; big talk with nothing to back it up. Riot is gonna start giving out "Worlds Group Stage Participant" award just so NA can get something at Worlds even if they're 0-6.
how does that make sense when C9 has literally had better success internationally??
i love travis realism w his ratings - tsm almost always wins but he loves his best friend in doublelift
a shotcalling support, i've seen this before :thinking:
YELLOWSTARRR
Andreas Banane yeah but we put bottom 5 support with #1 aggressive adc NA, now the bot duo is here so there won't be any synergy problems
Poohmandu Season 3? Worlds winning supp shotcaller, there you go.
In response to that he brought up the compatibility thing. Yellowstar was fine and played a big role in Fnatic's dominating 2015 roster.
Aphromoo
Ty for This interview, it was amazing
HOw TSM isnt just an NA team
ya they're an EU team with 2 wards top and jungle team.
NA is so shit lmao
nice meme haHAA
SilenceOfThought Bjerg is overrated trash.
Hauntzer is best top in the west. stay mad eurotrash
but muh rift rivals
Idk why people brag about imports coming to other regions. It’s like Regi said organization are going for the team which will hopefully give them the most success. And if that means getting 2 or 3 players from another region I don’t see any problem with that. I mean look at European football clubs , they have a lot of people from another country as well, doesn’t matter where If it’s Barcelona or Bayern or Real Madrid. And no one cry’s there about players not coming from the country the league is playing in. People really got to stop seeing the player as an individual and more as the organization as itself and what they stand for. I’m always gonna be an TSM fan because I love what the organization stands for and not only the players which are playing for them.
All football leagues have this sort of rules, you cant have a team full of imports. In Spain you can have players from any other European country, but only 3 from the rest of the world.
Biofrust and DL want revenge.
CLG and TL vs TSM gonna be personal matches.
DL already said he has no problems with TSM. As for Bio, if you think that then you really don't know him.
Biofrost is too much of a nice guy to want revenge lol, but DL on the other hand.... He said he wants to tear apart TSM's legacy lol. I'm still rooting for Biodaddy though.
Biofrost is the most chill guy out there professionally. Pun intended
Why is everyone forgetting Sven?
Super Pony 3 no... No they don't
Appreciate the honesty Regi - great interview Travis
If they kept svenskeren they could build a full danish team. well almost they got 4 lol
How? Mithy is Spanish
Hauntzer isnt even from EU
Silki Box I think he was counting MrRallez, which would be 4 if they kept Sven
Great interview Travis
TSM EU
I really love the way Reginald express his opinions and explain his perspectives. It just feels so informative and resultgiven, I truly enjoy to hear whenever he decides to share his thoughts to the fans and everyone. I'm a big fan of the entire TSM organisation and love the way he handles big situations and decisions, just in generel very straight forward. I can't wait to see the new TSM line-up in action, good luck :)
With all those kick or other Jungle/Supp he didn't explain why he kicked both, he could get a bot lane and keep Sven, half assed answers to keep bandwagoners around
Alexandre Martins because Zven and Mithy are a package deal and take both import slots meaning you can't have Svenskeren and Zven/Mithy playing at the same time.
Did import rules change ? Afaik Sven is already NA from the splits he made on TSM, can be wrong
Alexandre Martins Rules changed, now if you want to be considered a resident you have to actually apply for citizenship in US or Canada. Bjergsen and other players don't count because the rules were different back then.
Wasn't updated on that one, still thinking it was the 2 years playing wich made more sense since they have short careers and it shouldn't affect their personal life. On the other side i would rather kick Bio and work around it, other teams won so much with those 3 leaving. We will have a even better season this year looking at rosters
Alexandre Martins Regi said that initially he wanted just Mithy, but he wasn't going to leave w/o Zven and on the other hand Zven/Mithy already have 3 years playing together so the synergy is already there. Bringing in just Mithy and having him adapt to DL's playstyle could potentially end up being a Yellowstar 2.0
Damn Regi, smarter than I thought! Good interview! Keep it up!
Why not just say zven and svenskeren instead of sven and zven
I was thinking that too! It's so obvious tho.
40 years from now Travis is going to be that beloved old man that has dedicated his life to E-Sports and helped develop its popularity.
LOOOOL
I respect this man so much. I'm such a fan of Reggie. Team leader of an exports team when it was just getting started. turned CEO of international video game brand. He's has such big dreams, I believe in this guy.
I believe in him too
@@SaveTheBestForU It's really funny reading this comment now 5 years later. He ruined his own company.
"So like if Sven was playing with Mithy"
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"An then if Bio was playing with a Mithy equivalent of a jungler"
Lul, Mike just got rosted ^^
Well to be honest Mike has only 1 year and he was not the shotcaller on that team...
AFK Royal did you listen to what he was saying?
Great video and great questions!
Where's the Roster for Andy's eyebrows? Must be MIA.
I feel like when he said that no one stepped up to communicate during groups, happened practically every worlds before that. I mean there were a multitude of problems but that statement right there really feels like what is wrong with TSM and has been for years.
I don't like how Regi sees carry-focused jungling as a negative thing. He said its something to “fix” in this interview.
TSM does this with every jungler they’ve had since TheOddOne. Can’t wait to see Mike get fucked over and become Sven part 2. :/
Also "since the beginning we were never really an NA team" is bullshit. Your starting lineup was only NA players. Chaox was born in China but grew up in Canada and later the US. You were very obviously representing NA.
Uhh... at what age do you cut off "growing up" in a place. Because Chaox didnt move to the US until he was like 14.... I don't call that "growing up" in the US, hell 4 years after he moved here he was an adult.
Fallen Deus he moved to Canada when he was 7 which is in NA.
That's a pretty good age. When I moved to the current city I live in at a similar age. I say I grew up here because I spent a good bit of my childhood as well as all of my teenage years here. Those are very formative times in a person's growth. I also hold no ties to where I lived before.
Yeah but that's just your opinion.
durta llocodoco was on the original team.
so if you know samsung and skt (worlds final) ,both teams have those ward bot junglers( blank and ambition). It is how the game is supposed to be played on the highest level. That's why peanut never became real part of SKT. I also dont like this style but it has been working so unless peanut (LZ), maxlore(MSF) or mike(TSM) show the weakness in it it will still be the way to play in the jungle. You can even see that RNG jungle mxlg played this way as well at worlds although he is consideredto be hard carry jungle
Really good interview, keep it up!!
Lets end this now.
Zven is better than Doublelift.
Zven plays safer, and makes better decisions.
Doublelift is better mechanically. Depends what you want on your team. This is pro scene, so they take consistency over clutch 1v9.
Jordan Michael I can agree with this.
Wow looks like you were right on the money kappa
wow zven "best in the west" hope they make it out of groups....oh wait
Alright so first off, this interview is good on Travis' part but on Regi's part, his description of 'elaborating' is well we were losing here and we changed it vs. C9 owner Jack where 'we were feeling weak at this point and this is why and this is how' although i'll give Regi cudos on the brand he has built, he really needs help as an owner. Every 'perspective' Regi speculates on is quite a juvenile perspective if you take my opinion for anything.
Tsm Omegalul
I waited 25 min for you to ask him about the new coach and how much control he will have and you didn't ask. Honestly that was the most important question for me.
Zven just as good as Double? Then why did Peng Wang shit on your new bot at Rift Rivals?
Chicco3220 I love double and bio, but honestly I think there will be more consistency out of zven and mithy. Also rift rivals obviously didn't mean much since our teams layed an egg at worlds. But I guess time will tell. I hope bio and double have success next split.
Not only that, but as much as I love BioLift and TSM. They did lose their lane bottom. Check out the RR performance stats.
Chicco3220 Lol that's why they're still on tsm right? Lmao
Chicco3220
Dude rift rivals were for fun.
China beat Korea at rift rivals...
Tom Thomson exactly
No wonder their communication is an issue, it's because every shotcall is "Uhh... practically like, the whole entire time in the like... uhh... baron?".