Head Coach cvMax parts ways with Griffin

AdsMoFro

Australia3520 Posts

September 26 2019 05:35 GMT

Just days out from the start of the World Championship, Griffin have announced that they've parted ways with their head coach, Kim "cvMax" Dae-ho.

cvMax was credited with taking the team from unknown rookies to three straight LCK Finals and two consecutive LCK Regular Season first places.

No reason was given by the team in their twitter post confirming the news.

UPDATE: 26/09/19

On a livestream on AfreecaTV, cvMax revealed some details of his sacking. There was some friction with the upper management of the team that was growing but really kicked up after the Summer Finals. After that, it was already determined that he'd be kicked. He holds no ill will to the players and still believes they can win Worlds.

evilfatsh1t

Australia361 Posts

September 26 2019 05:38 GMT

wtf? why wouldnt they wait until at least the season is over before they make changes

AdsMoFro

Australia3520 Posts

September 26 2019 06:39 GMT

cvMax was certainly a character. He's produced some of my favorite quotes in LoL of all-time.

One example:

, "If you are playing the game with a bomb tied to your neck like in the movie 'Saw', would you have made that play? Even if your head was on the verge of exploding? Are you so incompetent that you can't even avoid your own death?"

- Source

He's also said his goal is to have a team that can play in utter silence as no calls are needed because every player knows what to do with minimal talking. I'm assuming the methods to get that team to that level were controversial to say the least.

Lmui

Canada2362 Posts

September 26 2019 06:47 GMT

I dunno if that's the best thing for them this close to the world championships. Depends on the support staff I guess...

LuckyGnomTV

Russian Federation22 Posts

September 26 2019 07:32 GMT

What? Are they out of their minds? Worlds in like 2 weeks..

p.s. Lehends and cvMax were a reason I kind of liked this team..

DarkCore

Germany3286 Posts

September 26 2019 08:45 GMT

Well I guess this is a good thing for G2 and C9, although personally I was hoping that this was the year GRF proved themselves on an international stage.

AdsMoFro

Australia3520 Posts

September 26 2019 15:20 GMT

evilfatsh1t

Australia361 Posts

September 26 2019 17:11 GMT

"for poor performance". what a joke
he literally coaches a 2nd tier team to 3 consecutive finals in an instant and thats considered poor performance? the higher ups at griffin are smoking some strong shit

DarkCore

Germany3286 Posts

September 26 2019 18:44 GMT

Maybe they thought throwing a (seemingly) lot of money would magically make them number 1, ignoring all the other good teams in LCK. Or in their mind, not being the very best isn't good for advertising.

Numy

South Africa17632 Posts

September 26 2019 18:50 GMT

#10

cvMax always seemed like a bit of a weirdo to me. I figured he'd either be there forever or be gone sooner rather than later. How this happened though seems kind of shit.

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