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| FURIA founder and co-CEO Jaime Pádua explained to Dexerto why their new League of Legends team represents the start of a new era for the Brazilian organization in the esport. When people talk about Brazil’s League of Legends scene, FURIA is not a name that comes up in the discussion about the nation’s top teams. Aside from a fourth-place finish in the 2019 Winter Split and a third-place finish in the 2020 Summer Split, the team has not been a contender within the CBLOL, the country’s top league for the game. In the two 2021 CBLOL splits, FURIA finished ninth and tenth in the ten-team league. This prompted sweeping changes from the org, whose founder and co-CEO, Jaime Pádua, told Dexerto why fans can expect a new era from FURIA’s League of Legends team. Jaime Pádua New era for FURIA “We really took a beating in those splits. It 메이저사이트 was not a pleasant experience.” Padua said of the 2021 season. “In every chat that we had with sponsors, fans and potential investors, it was like, ‘Counter-Strike is going really well, you have one of the best streamer networks in the world, you have great brands working with FURIA, the project is growing a lot, revenue is growing every year’. But then came that damned question: ‘But League of Legends is going terribly, isn’t it? It’s f**ked’. And it really was. “Our results in the game didn’t represent the standard of quality that we have in every other area. And that really started to bother. It’s like a stone in your shoe, you see that everything is going well but you have that Achilles’ heel exposed. Speaking with my co-CEO, I said, ‘We have two options: we either quit the game and sell our slot, it doesn’t make sense to be in a game to get thrashed, or we change everything, we go to war, we invest more money, we bring in the best professionals, the best coach, everything that is necessary for us to make a difference and put the team on the level that is expected from FURIA.’ “And we decided to go to war.” The first move the org made in regards to League of Legends was to find a new leader. They replaced 2021 head coach Edward ‘Edward’ Abgaryan with Lucas ‘Maestro’ Pierre, who had coached fellow CBLOL team INTZ to two Worlds appearances during his tenure with the org. Then came the new lineup. |
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