Perkz slammed the former owner C9 on this team is really not good, VIT's goal is to win

Recently, foreign media published an article on Perkz's podcast interview with LEC, in which Perkz mentioned VIT's ultimate goal this year. The article is to the effect of the following:

Legendary Europa Leaguer Perkz appeared on LEC's EUphoria podcast this week, sharing his expectations for VIT's new lineup for 2022.

Europa League fans don't know Perkz's ambitions, and he's widely regarded as one of the greatest Euro-American singles of all time, after his return from LCS's Cloud9. He was the cornerstone of VIT's "Galactic Battleship," and it had as much of an impact in the European and American communities as it had when he moved to North America.

On Feb. 9, he appeared in the latest episode of the EUphoria podcast alongside LEC commentators Drakos and Caedrel. In this episode, the conversation quickly shifts to Vitality's goals for the World Series.

Perkz makes no secret of the fact that throughout his career, his ultimate goal has been the World Championship Trophy. He is one of the few Europeans to win an international championship, having played for G2 to win the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational. However, after G2 were swept 3-0 by FPX in the 2019 World Finals, they were ultimately unable to claim the title of World Champion.

In the podcast, Perkz revealed how he "indulged" in the idea of lifting the World Championship trophy during G2's 2019 Championship, so much so that it began to have a negative impact on his mental health and attitude towards the game. This obsessive mentality allowed G2 to be knocked down when he was closest to the world championship, but Perkz described how he "didn't feel very well" about his success throughout the season.

Vitality's expectations for international competitions

He explained to Drakos and Caedrel that VIT's goal is to "try out a number of different styles during the regular season and see what our strengths and weaknesses are." If teams still want to make the playoffs, their 0-3 start in the spring gives them less room to experiment, but Perkz is still confident.

In terms of operational level, he believes that on VIT, "everyone has the ability to be a player who wins the world championship." "In addition to assisting Labrov, every player at VIT has experience in international competitions and if they can qualify for international events in 2022, it will be a huge advantage for them.

This hope of winning the world championship is something he simply can't find in North America. Recounting his experience at Cloud9 in 2021, he explained that he saw a world race where no matter how the roster changed, it was impossible to win the World Championship Trophy. He also admitted that he didn't like certain elements of the team's culture.

"The reason I didn't like the C9 was when I joined the team and didn't know it until I was there," he said. "C9 already has an ecology formed in the original way, and C9 has its own player system. Fudge and I were just placed in their respective positions. ”

"There's a pre-existing team culture that I don't like. I don't like the way they communicate with each other and the way they do certain things. It's not what I imagined. ”

Cloud9 did well at the 2021 World Championship, qualifying as second in the group after winning three deciders between LEG's RGE and LPL's FFPX.

However, Perkz explained that their 3-0 defeat to Gen.G in the quarter-finals was the last straw that overwhelmed him, as he knew he would have to return to Europe if he wanted to keep his world championship dreams.

VIT didn't get off to a good start

But before VIT can win the world championship, they first need to win in the league. While a little too realistic to say, it was all hampered by their poor performances in LEC opening week. They started the season with a 0-3 record and Perkz said the points guys didn't take into account when looking at our team's performance.

"We were all very sick and I really had a fever the night before and couldn't sleep at all," he explained. "So to me, it seems so unreal that I don't believe what happened that weekend will determine what our future looks like."

For the remainder of the first round of the round robin, they had turned their poor performances into unbeaten streaks. Perkz explained how important the early defeats didn't "define our mindset" to the team, and while he doesn't think "we're great or anything else, I also think the first week wasn't what we were now at all." ”

Due to the aforementioned illness, the teams played at home during the first week of the tournament, which Perkz claims was a key factor in their poor performance. He claimed that "once we get together, it feels like we're really a team"