The more I think about it

the more 100Ts issue is coaching.

This is a huge reach, and is purely based off of the fact that they don't change comps/stats/how they speak in interviews.

But I think that their main philosophy is to prioritse playing together and taking big messy teamfights, and while it sounds counterintuitive, I think that prioritising playing well together makes them play worse together.

I'm willing to guess that 100T has the least prep for each map out of any team in Americas (other than the bottom feeders). I'm guessing this for 3 reasons:

1. Their retakes and post plants are consistently amongst the worst in the league
2. their comps rarely change, even with a week in between games
3. bang said in an interview that SEN had more of a winners mentality than 100T, which I guess means they don't get as much work done in a day, explaining the two above

This affects guys like Boostio and Zander because with no prep, they are forced to improvise ways to enable guys like Cryo or Asuna rather than having prepped strats.

This philosophy directly works against a guy like Boostio. He himself has said he is more of an instinctive caller, and forcing him to be a mini FNS, micromanaging his players more, takes away from his ability to play his own game. On EG, he had Potter, Zikz and a whole reserve roster, so I'd imagine he'd go into games with a great understanding of how the enemy team was going to play, then use guys like c0m and ethan to midround while he tapped heads or Oped.

Before 100Ts bind got figured out, it was so strong on the attack side because of the telegraphed execs. If you gave them B long, or A short, then they took site for free because they would util dump + Asunas pathing was optimal, then they would have rechargeable Gekko utility to help them keep the site.

Compare that to this year, and 100T have way less pre-coordinated rounds than last year, which means that they rely on their individual brilliance a lot more than winning because they outplayed their opponent. Im going to blame this on Mikes leaving, because I remember an sgares quote where he said that Mike was "the only guy who could make an esports player show up on time" and he really made their defence rounds better when on the team.

This being said, I really think a coaching change is needed for 100T. I dont know if that means that Zikz goes, or moves to AC, but I really think that they would be so stupid to not try for Bonkar, given that so many pros name him specifically as a really impactful, high level coach

TLDR: 100T bonkar

Hello m4

No, everytime Zikz called a timeout on Pearl it usually led to a win the next round, yet they still threw that map it's entirely on the players.

They need more strats and help from the coaching staff like you said. They need to stop thinking about implementing strats not only with their current comps, but with different comps like maybe putting cryo on chamber on split. Im no coach so idk if that would be good or not. But they need to start thinking more. Like with sen and g2, Kaplan and JoshRT saw the navi comp, and well they both did pretty good on it

bruh just drop boostio its not that hard i've been begging