100 Thieves swap head coach amid dreadful LCS run

  ❘   Revealed: 2023-03-05T21:40:15

  ❘   Up to date: 2023-03-05T21:40:24

100 Thieves’ new LCS roster had quite a lot of hype behind it going into 2023 with some veteran expertise, however they’ve swapped out their head coach in the course of the Spring Cut up to attempt to stem the bleeding of their subpar efficiency up to now.

With a 5-8 report within the LCS up to now, 100 Thieves are bordering on being knocked out of playoff competition within the LCS 2023 Spring Cut up. Groups not often make it to playoffs with an 8-10 report, which means that another loss may show deadly to their probabilities of breaching the highest 6 groups within the area.

This flies in direct distinction to their previous couple of years of LCS competitors, with the crew all the time having a stellar common season and strong performances in Playoffs. Regardless of solely Can ‘Nearer’ Çelik remaining from that extremely sturdy roster, followers had religion that the contemporary expertise combined with veteran management would be capable of carry 100 Thieves the identical stage of success that they had earlier than.

In an try to vary one thing earlier than they’re out of Playoffs completely, 100 Thieves have promoted Erlend ‘Nukeduck’ Holm to their head coach for now and bumped Christophe ‘kaas’ van Oudheusden out of the place.

Nukeduck replaces Kaas as interim head coach to complete LCS break up

For LEC followers, Nukeduck could sound like a well-recognized title. He was on XL in 2022, the place the org made its first and solely exhibiting on the LEC Playoffs. After attending to the Playoffs and getting his spot within the LEC nabbed by Vetheo, Nukeduck landed a spot with 100 Thieves as their assistant coach.

100 Thieves have had an unexpectedly lackluster break up, even by the requirements of their very own gamers. Dexerto’s interviews with each Peter ‘Doublelift’ Peng and Søren ‘Bjergsen’ Bjerg close to the break up’s outset confirmed each gamers as being assured of their crew surroundings and total efficiency even when they nonetheless thought there was work to be finished.

Since then, that’s definitely modified. In a bid to attempt to change issues up as their playoff run is in peril, Nukeduck has been moved to the pinnacle coach place.

kaas is not with the group, citing that management “envisioned certain values” that he didn’t align with. Because of this, Nukeduck has now taken over the pinnacle coach place.

It stays to be seen whether or not these are the one modifications 100 Thieves will make. Whereas a roster transfer like changing Doublelift with William ‘UNF0RGIVEN’ Nieminen, 100T’s NACL ADC, may sound like a downgrade to most, UNF0RGIVEN’s final break up on MAD Lions painted him as top-of-the-line ADCs in Europe, and he’s had continued excellence in NA. Who is aware of what may occur if 100 Thieves miss the Playoffs?

For now, they’ve nonetheless acquired an opportunity. It’ll be a tough climb for them, nonetheless, and there’s an opportunity this isn’t the final roster change we see.