This means 100T won't be doing trials for players and discussing the 2026 roster with the HC until after ascension right? Since Nbs is probably fully focused on TSM's ascension run right now
because 100T want to rebuild their team from the ground up, but they are waiting 2-3 weeks for a head coach to get knocked out of ascension before they even start trialling players. In that time, other teams are going to be trialling players and 100T may miss out on some of them before they start to even look at them.
I dont hate Nbs but I dont think he is worth waiting for, TSM are a decent team but have never looked like the best team in Ascension other than 1 BO5 they played vs ENVY. 100Ts main advantage coming into this offseason was that they had more time than the other orgs who were at champions and now they are pissing it away for an underwhelming coach
Well I do not like this aspect of the hiring for sure, but Nbs also beat out Happy for the job. It's not like 100T did a coin flip and picked Nbs, Nbs must've convinced them or had a better vision for the future of 100T comparatively than Happy.
The other bonus with Nbs is, no one knows who the best players in Tier 2 are better than someone who had to gameplan against Tier 2 stars week in and week out for a whole year.
I'd be pissed if my team didn't make Champs and decided to wait until after Ascension for roster moves.
The only advantage a team like 100T have over the non-Champs teams is the fact that they had a month earlier to scout and trial.
Like imagine you want a player and now have to compete with Sentinels. Or s0m retires and youre now competing with the Champs winners for a controller or sentinel player.
I would hope they've been using this time trialing because they are certainly the backup option for any player who has multiple teams calling