Author: Aykut "Kots" Sapaz

It’s easy to look at something and say, “It’s wrong.”, but it’s hard to know what’s wrong with it and much harder to know how to fix it. Esports teams have all sorts of variables and factors that affect their performance, not just day-to-day but even year-to-year. Coaches hold a big part of the responsibility of fixing the inconsistent and flawed parts and improving the performance of their team. It would be fair to say that, in LEC, no team is as consistent and improved as G2 Esports.We spoke with Dylan Falco, the head coach of G2, about their consistency…

G2, the samurai of LEC, have led their fans into a year with interesting results. Finishing Winter Split as 4th and winning the shield in playoffs, finishing 3rd in Spring and playing finals against MAD Lions and losing only one game in Summer Split and none in Summer Playoffs as of now. We don’t know how they will conclude the year, but if the steady improvement of their placements continues, G2 fans will have a good year to look back on.Aykut “Kots” Sapaz of BLIX spoke with G2’s top laner, Sergen “BrokenBlade” Çelik, about their consistent improvement over the year,…

Of all the teams coming into the LEC 2023 Summer Split, KOI underwent the most controversial change compared to their last split. Replacing their support with Henk “Advienne” Reijenga raised some questions from fans, but the roster has proven in their first regular split that they can advance to playoffs. The question now is how they’ll perform there.We spoke with KOI’s new support about his time with the team, his interesting journey leaving and returning the LEC, as well as what went wrong in the G2 game, how playoffs will go and more.Aykut Sapaz, BLIX.GG: Hello, Advienne. Thank you so…

Since the start of 2023, G2 have gone from being the best, to being mediocre and then back to being the best, with interesting performances, both good and bad. However, since the League of Legends European Championship (LEC) 2023 Summer Split started, they’ve been performing exceptionally well, only losing one game in the regular split.As they head into the playoffs as the 1st place seed, it will be interesting to see how far this streak of good performance will go. It certainly isn’t showing signs of stopping any time soon.Aykut “Kots” Sapaz of BLIX spoke with G2’s jungler Martin “Yike”…

Known as EULCS long ago, the League of Legends European Championship (LEC) has been on a journey with many twists and turns for better or worse. After changes and changes and changes, the Spring Split of LEC 2023, the second showing of the league’s new format, is close to its completion, with BDS on one side and MAD Lions on the other. We are still determining where the road leads and what will happen next, the only thing we know is how fun the journey is and hopefully will be.Just before the LEC Finals ceremony started, we had a long…

For a team with their past performance, Astralis have been performing brilliantly ever since the start of League of Legends European Championship (LEC) 2023 Spring Split. With a second-place finish in the regular season, they came into Bo3’s with high spirits and a win against Fnatic.After their victory in the series, we spoke with Astralis’ top laner Finn “Finn” WiestÃ¥ about the game and the interesting draft choices, the flexibility of Irelia, the morale in the organization and their match against Team Vitality.Aykut Sapaz, BLIX.GG: Thank you so much for being here with me after your victory against Fnatic. Let’s…

It’s been quite a journey to watch Team Vitality in these last couple of years, they’ve come so close to victory and all the spoils that entails, but returned empty handed. In Winter they finished the Bo1 stage in first place but they weren’t able to make it to the finals. This split, they’re more determined and ferocious than ever — and so are their fans.We caught up with Vitality’s coach Alexander “Carter” Cartwright ahead of their first match in the LEC Groups this past Saturday and spoke about their finishing match against KOI and their regular season finish. Plus,…

The European superpower fnatic have had a tough start to the year. They suffered a 9th-place finish in Winter and 0-4 start to the Spring. With their first win against Team Heretics and a second win against KOI, both they and their fans have found some confidence and gathered some hope that they can rise back to the top.On the long way up the summit, back to where fnatic was in 2018, we spoke with the team’s new top laner, Óscar “Oscarinin” Muñoz Jiménez, about their win against MAD Lions, making the Playoffs, their boost in confidence and what else…

Not many teams worldwide have achieved the success G2 Esports has throughout their years, including an MSI trophy and Worlds finals appearance alongside countless international wins. But that G2 of old is gone with only two of the players from that roster on the current team. But not to worry as the current squad of G2 is excited to surpass their predecessors, starting with MSI 2023.We spoke with the new jungler of G2, Martin “Yike” Sundelin, about their regional competition, being part of LEC, adjusting to the meta and MAD’s problems, watching international competition and more.Aykut Sapaz, BLIX.GG: Hello Yike.…

One of the newer additions to League of Legends European Championship (LEC), Team BDS are standing atop the standings of the Spring Split. Having taken down almost everyone they faced in the regular split, they are going to the playoffs as the favorites no one expected. In the Winter Split, they made the playoffs with a 5-4 score and didn’t advance further than groups. This split, they’re coming in hot with the opportunity to go even further.We spoke with Ilias “nuc” Bizriken, the mid laner of Team BDS, about their match against Team Vitality, who won’t make it to playoffs,…