obviously in hindsight dropping patmen seems like a much worse idea because of how well he is doing on global now but still in the moment im confused on why they dropped him. it seems very uncharacteristic of paper rex to drop a player after literally winning their first tournament with him and then coming 4th at champs. i feel as if paper rex is a team that is notorious for hanging onto their players for an extended period of time, with 3 of their current players being on the team since 2021. when roster moves were made, they usually followed incredibly poor performances, such as getting 9th-12th at champs 2022 and immediately getting eliminated in lock-in, forcing them to pick up something and bench benkai. then, after getting 5th-6th at shanghai, getting 3rd in stage 2, and then getting grouped in champs 2024, they moved mindfreak to assistant coach and started patmen. After starting patmen, they then go on their lower bracket run to make toronto and actually win the whole thing, beating an incredibly good fnatic in 4 maps, destroying a heretics team that only lost to fnatic in stage 1, 2-0ed G2, a team they notoriously struggled against, and other in-form teams. Then, they had a dominant run in stage 2, only losing to zeta somehow, and while their champs start wasn't clean, they still were beating teams and looked in-form until they faced fnatic. now losing to fnatic with doma instead of alfajer is a bit embarrassing, but i think losing a 9-1 lead on map 3 is something that we can all agree is something that can only happen if a team is playing uncharacteristically bad, especially a team like paper rex. after beating heretics, they then lost to a very good drx team who looked like they had one of the best reads on the meta at the tournament (a drx team who at that point had only lost to nrg and fnatic btw in 2 improbable comebacks (8-4 against nrg on lotus and 10-2 against fnatic on haven)), finishing the tournament in 4th, a disappointing result for a team that was expected to come 1st sure but considering the circumstances it was by no means a bad tournament for paper rex. at this point patmen had played 2 tournaments for paper rex, helping them win their first tournament and coming 4th at champs. then, for some reason, despite this correlation of patmen with international and regional success, they decide to drop him??? obviously invy is a great player, helping paper rex reach 2nd at santiago, but most of the maps were pretty close, and they got thrashed in the grand finals. it just makes no sense that paper rex pick up a player that seems to have led to success and then immediately drop him the next season. invy is a great player, but when you make a change and then see immediate grand results, i think that it would have been better to give patmen another season or so to see how he develops. this is also bad for paper rex, because now patmen is on global and now paper rex have to play against this guy each stage. i think global actually looks quite good and i hope patmen gets the chance to prove himself, but dropping him in the first place seems like a choice that had to be made for some reason other than performance issues, because when you make a change and then immediately win, do you not recognize the correlation? im not saying that patmen is the only reason that paper rex had won toronto, but clearly he was bringing some sort of impact, because after moving him to the starting lineup, they started winning more. dropping a rookie after their first season doesn't really make any sense to me unless they performed extremely terribly, but paper rex literally won their first ever tournament with him on the roster, so did paper rex not even consider that when making their decision?
why did paper rex drop patmen? (rant)
because hes mid and invy has a way higher ceiling + is a recon player (which they needed more than a duelist/flex)
i feel like sliggy put it the best way
like you gotta make decisions to be the best team,old fnatic was good then they got alfa,leo and chron
patman isnt a bad player but invy is just an upgrade and just someone you have to pick up
insanely flexible player,great mechanics
and patman looks more comfy on ge and isnt always stuck on scan or viper
The answer is simple, prx didn't think patmen was a bad player to have on the roster. Alecks thought Invy would be an upgrade and he went for it. Alecks wants to win more trophies and he thought that invy will help achieve that better than patmen.
obviously in hindsight dropping patmen seems like a much worse idea because of how well he is doing on global now but still in the moment im confused on why they dropped him. it seems very uncharacteristic of paper rex to drop a player after literally winning their first tournament with him and then coming 4th at champs. i feel as if paper rex is a team that is notorious for hanging onto their players for an extended period of time, with 3 of their current players being on the team since 2021. when roster moves were made, they usually followed incredibly poor performances, such as getting 9th-12th at champs 2022 and immediately getting eliminated in lock-in, forcing them to pick up something and bench benkai. then, after getting 5th-6th at shanghai, getting 3rd in stage 2, and then getting grouped in champs 2024, they moved mindfreak to assistant coach and started patmen. After starting patmen, they then go on their lower bracket run to make toronto and actually win the whole thing, beating an incredibly good fnatic in 4 maps, destroying a heretics team that only lost to fnatic in stage 1, 2-0ed G2, a team they notoriously struggled against, and other in-form teams. Then, they had a dominant run in stage 2, only losing to zeta somehow, and while their champs start wasn't clean, they still were beating teams and looked in-form until they faced fnatic. now losing to fnatic with doma instead of alfajer is a bit embarrassing, but i think losing a 9-1 lead on map 3 is something that we can all agree is something that can only happen if a team is playing uncharacteristically bad, especially a team like paper rex. after beating heretics, they then lost to a very good drx team who looked like they had one of the best reads on the meta at the tournament (a drx team who at that point had only lost to nrg and fnatic btw in 2 improbable comebacks (8-4 against nrg on lotus and 10-2 against fnatic on haven)), finishing the tournament in 4th, a disappointing result for a team that was expected to come 1st sure but considering the circumstances it was by no means a bad tournament for paper rex. at this point patmen had played 2 tournaments for paper rex, helping them win their first tournament and coming 4th at champs. then, for some reason, despite this correlation of patmen with international and regional success, they decide to drop him??? obviously invy is a great player, helping paper rex reach 2nd at santiago, but most of the maps were pretty close, and they got thrashed in the grand finals. it just makes no sense that paper rex pick up a player that seems to have led to success and then immediately drop him the next season. invy is a great player, but when you make a change and then see immediate grand results, i think that it would have been better to give patmen another season or so to see how he develops. this is also bad for paper rex, because now patmen is on global and now paper rex have to play against this guy each stage. i think global actually looks quite good and i hope patmen gets the chance to prove himself, but dropping him in the first place seems like a choice that had to be made for some reason other than performance issues, because when you make a change and then immediately win, do you not recognize the correlation? im not saying that patmen is the only reason that paper rex had won toronto, but clearly he was bringing some sort of impact, because after moving him to the starting lineup, they started winning more. dropping a rookie after their first season doesn't really make any sense to me unless they performed extremely terribly, but paper rex literally won their first ever tournament with him on the roster, so did paper rex not even consider that when making their decision?
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