{"id":10779,"date":"2023-01-08T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/opinion-imperial-2024"},"modified":"2023-01-08T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:00:01","slug":"opinion-imperial-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/opinion-imperial-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Imperial 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the year in the title is correct. Gabriel &#8216;\u009cFalleN&#8217;\u009d Toledo, the head of the whole &#8216;\u009cLast Dance&#8217;\u009d project, mentioned multiple times that this would be his last year competing in Counter-Strike. But what&#8217;\u0099s next for the team since Imperial is investing a lot of money in players to replace legends that left the project, Lincoln &#8216;\u009cfnx&#8217;\u009d Lau and Fernando &#8216;\u009cfer&#8217;\u009d Alvarenga?<\/p>\n<p>Besides the idea widely shared by FalleN since the beginning that the project is for two years, Imperial, as I said before, is investing heavily in new signings, and the organization shouldn&#8217;\u0099t be &#8216;\u009chostage&#8217;\u009d of FalleN and end when the player decides to retire. There should be a post-FalleN and post-Last Dance for Imperial, but the work should start now.<\/p>\n<p>Since the FalleN is the captain and IGL, Imperial should promote a signing or choose a player to render the legend in the captain role. NAVI made something with Danylo &#8216;\u009cZeus&#8217;\u009d Teslenko as the player announced he would retire; a time before, the organization signed Kirill &#8216;\u009cBoombl4&#8217;\u009d Mikhaylov to adapt to the IGL role and learn with Zeus while he&#8217;\u0099s active and the coach.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial, but FalleN, in particular, doesn&#8217;\u0099t have a better relationship inside the server with the coach, and the possibility of signing Rafael &#8216;\u009czakk&#8217;\u009d Fernandes sounds great. A coach that took Immortals to a Major final and, with time, built 9z a Major team and revealed new players. The topic I mentioned with FalleN and the team already defining a future IGL is something that zakk made before in 9z. When Bruno &#8216;\u009cbit&#8217;\u009d Lima retired, they adapted Maximiliano &#8216;\u009cmax&#8217;\u009d Gonzalez to that role.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;\u0099t go further with the creation of an academy that would help lot Imperial in the future and the AWP topic; since FalleN retires, the AWP role will be empty. However, since finding a good IGL in the market it&#8217;\u0099s very difficult, and the team has one year to teach and adapt a player to that role with names like FalleN and zakk mentoring, Imperial should look attentive to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the year in the title is correct. Gabriel &#8216;\u009cFalleN&#8217;\u009d Toledo, the head of the whole &#8216;\u009cLast Dance&#8217;\u009d project, mentioned multiple times that this would be his last year competing in Counter-Strike. But what&#8217;\u0099s next for the team since Imperial is investing a lot of money in players to replace legends that left the project,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}