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\u201cWe had a pretty big talk in our practice room [after we lost Champions],\u201d Chet told Dot. \u201cWe were all pretty disappointed and wanted to try a more structured approach that I would offer with a lot more of my ideas and comps. All the comps are basically coming from me or I’m stealing them from a different team, then everyone gives their input on what they want to try.\u201d<\/p>
The new structure was implemented around the same time Envy transitioned to playing as OpTic, and the ideas created by or borrowed by Chet have been paying off since. Yay has taken on playing Chamber more instead of just soloing Jett, providing the team more firepower, map control, and entry kill prowess with Chet giving him ideal spots for teleports. Chet says the team\u2019s Split used to be \u201cjust horrible,\u201d so he adopted Gambit\u2019s composition featuring Neon that \u201cVictor is perfect for,\u201d adding a new form of aggressiveness on attack while providing fast rotations on defense.<\/p>
Chet told Dot that to be successful in VALORANT<\/em>, \u201cyou have to constantly reinvent yourself from qualifier to qualifier and match to match.\u201d He credits running new comps and \u201cnew styles within the same comp\u201d as a vital part of the success that OpTic found in Stage One of VCT 2022, and it certainly helps to have a roster that wanted him to implement structure. The new or borrowed ideas and ways of reinvention that Chet thinks up before Masters Reykjav\u00edk could mean the difference between another grand finals run or another early exit in the group stages for the OpTic roster.<\/p>
The group stage at Masters Reykjav\u00edk begins Sunday, April 10. OpTic will begin against a familiar foe in XERXIA, who eliminated them from Champions under the X10 banner.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Because of the success Envy had found already and the little amount of success in VALORANT Chet had accomplished, he opted to sit back and let in-game leader FNS and company drive themselves. \u201cI didn't really want to put my first foot forward and give them everything that I wanted to do,\u201d Chet told Dot Esports. \u201cBecause I felt like they did better than me in this game and they had something successful going on for them, I let the team do what they wanted for [Champions] and see if they could repeat the same success.\u201d Following Envy\u2019s run at VCT Champions, the team would transition banners from Envy to OpTic, but that wasn\u2019t the only thing they changed. Throughout 2022 NA VCT Challengers One, OpTic flourished in a structure with Chet on top making the calls and the comps, paving a path for the boys in green to reach the land of ice at Masters Reykjav\u00edk. Coming from CS:GO, Chet was a respected name that had coached teams like CLG, OpTic, and 100 Thieves, but found the most success with the NRG\/Evil Geniuses group that included the likes of tarik and Ethan, among others. But like so many who migrated to VALORANT, success didn\u2019t arrive instantaneously. He returned to NRG to coach its VALORANT squad, but after falling short in VCT 2021 Stage One Challengers events and failing to even make it past qualifiers in Stage Two, the two parted ways. Chet then was tasked with the Herculean effort of salvaging what had been a dismal year for TSM, but an eighth-place finish at the Challengers Playoffs meant no NA Last Chance Qualifier and certainly no VCT Champions for TSM. Chet acknowledged that the TSM and NRG players \u201cwere supportive of his comps,\u201d but there were bigger problems. \u201cThe teams that I had been in before [NRG and TSM] just had a lot of roster instability,\u201d Chet said. \u201cWhen I joined TSM, I knew we had to change players almost immediately, but I couldn't do it until we lost. It wasn\u2019t my plan to leave TSM either. I wanted to stay for the long run. We were trying out Cryocells, and we really wanted to make it a long-term thing.\u201d Despite Chet\u2019s desire to stay and make it work, TSM still agreed to his acquisition by Team Envy, who had a head coach vacancy after coach Michael \u201cMikes\u201d Hockom departed due to a contract dispute. Chet attended VCT Champions as Envy\u2019s coach, but deferred the decision-making to the players when it came to map selections and agent compositions. Envy had been dealt a serious blow before matches even started, when it was announced their go-to flex player Victor would have to play from an isolated room due to exposure to COVID. This forced the rest of Envy into a cramped practice room instead of a stage. And despite an opening round win over X10 CRIT, they would fall to eventual world champs Acend and lose a rematch to X10 that was ultimately decided in overtime. At their lowest point, Chet stepped up to implement a new foundation for the future, with himself in a more proactive role. \u201cWe had a pretty big talk in our practice room [after we lost Champions],\u201d Chet told Dot. \u201cWe were all pretty disappointed and wanted to try a more structured approach that I would offer with a lot more of my ideas and comps. All the comps are basically coming from me or I'm stealing them from a different team, then everyone gives their input on what they want to try.\u201d The new structure was implemented around the same time Envy transitioned to playing as OpTic, and the ideas created by or borrowed by Chet have been paying off since. Yay has taken on playing Chamber more instead of just soloing Jett, providing the team more firepower, map control, and entry kill prowess with Chet giving him ideal spots for teleports. Chet says the team\u2019s Split used to be \u201cjust horrible,\u201d so he adopted Gambit\u2019s composition featuring Neon that \u201cVictor is perfect for,\u201d adding a new form of aggressiveness on attack while providing fast rotations on defense. Chet told Dot that to be successful in VALORANT, \u201cyou have to constantly reinvent yourself from qualifier to qualifier and match to match.\u201d He credits running new comps and \u201cnew styles within the same comp\u201d as a vital part of the success that OpTic found in Stage One of VCT 2022, and it certainly helps to have a roster that wanted him to implement structure. The new or borrowed ideas and ways of reinvention that Chet thinks up before Masters Reykjav\u00edk could mean the difference between another grand finals run or another early exit in the group stages for the OpTic roster. The group stage at Masters Reykjav\u00edk begins Sunday, April 10. 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