The primary LEC Area Roadtrip has kicked off in Spain’s Madrid Area. The profitable day of competitors opened with a best-of-three between heavyweights G2 and residential favorites GIANTX, with the latter claiming a closely-fought 2-1 win. We spoke to G2’s Basic Supervisor Romain Bigeard for an interview following the defeat.
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Esports.internet: Simply beginning with this occasion itself, how necessary is it to have some extra enviornment occasions like this, significantly with the variety of enviornment finals having decreased in recent times?
Romain: I feel these occasions are every part for the LEC. For esports, that’s how the sport is supposed to be performed — beneath tremendous excessive strain conditions on the stage in entrance of hundreds of individuals. That’s what makes us professional gamers for actual — it’s not taking part in so typically in the identical place, which is a small place with not a giant crowd, which seems like a bed room at one level a bit. A very nice, fancy, optimised bed room costing hundreds of thousands — honest, however nothing beats the stay viewers and the stay crowd and we noticed it as we speak. It was a very, actually cool collection.
Does the world environment even make it really feel extra necessary than among the Winter/Spring studio finals?
Romain: In a bizarre approach, extra strain since you need to make the followers proud and also you need to carry out. And also you need to present the world that you’re practising for an important video games, that are going to be the video games on the worldwide stage at MSI, at Worlds and so forth. And people video games can be in entrance of a crowd. So if you wish to get to greatest practise, you want to play these video games and you want to present that you simply’re in a position to carry out beneath such excessive strain.
Lee Jones: A number of of your gamers haven’t been on the prime degree since there have been fewer occasions.
Do you assume there might’ve been some nerves that performed a component within the loss?
Romain: At the moment was a great take a look at for certain.
We failed. We failed as we speak. We’ve one other day, versus an opponent even stronger on paper. So we’re taking it actually severely. And yeah, perhaps we choked a bit as we speak, they performed very well, to be honest to them. So yeah, let’s see tomorrow.
How a lot might stadium expertise like this assist once you do go to MSI or Worlds?
Romain: It’s going to be so useful for any sort of different worldwide occasion. That is so useful. That’s why once we first heard that these occasions will occur, I stated sure to each invitation immediately. It’s simply good. So we’re in Madrid, we’re going to go to Paris in two weeks, and that is invaluable expertise.
Would you wish to see G2 be the hosts of one among these? Do you might have a metropolis in thoughts, if that’s the case?
Romain: There’s quite a lot of enterprise rationale connecting to such an occasion, and we don’t actually have a giant metropolis base proper now. Or perhaps it might be Berlin, but it surely is senseless to organise one thing in Berlin when we now have the LEC studio there already. So no, I don’t assume we are going to manage ours, however for certain we’re going to journey all over the place, I’m down.
Lee Jones: On the information that Caps has re-signed, whereas the remainder of the squad is contracted till 2026…
Do you assume that can assist with the roster rising collectively now that there must be no looming roster drama within the close to future?
Romain: 100%. The quantity of chaos Caps not re-signing would have introduced not simply to our staff, however to all the ecosystem, was one thing I used to be not wanting ahead to. So I’m actually completely satisfied we ended up on a on a great deal for each events. And yeah, he’s going to remain at G2, so it’s cool.
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Lee Jones: For a stadium occasion, I used to be shocked to see you dressed usually as we speak.
Why no physique paint?
Romain: I reserve that for the ultimate, so it’s one thing distinctive and I get pleasure from each single minute of it. And yeah, perhaps the final time I did it was for the final closing, you recognize, and people are treasured moments. So no, if we go to the ultimate, I’ll have physique paint.
