If you give an organization a great team, they’ll make it last a season or two, but if you teach them how to put a good roster together, they can do so over and over again.
The problem is that if the organization overestimate their skill at the latter, they’ll end up throwing (tons of) good money after bad. Like North, or NiP or… dare we say it, G2 before HooXi?
Apeks have become the latest victim of the trend. They were a team bordering on top 30 when they had AcilioN and chawwzy on the roster, but as performance dropped a bit, they decided to rid themselves of the proverbial dead-weight, while keeping STYKO, jkaem and nawwk.
In theory a sound move, especially as shox replaced chawwzy and talented youngster jL came in to let STYKO take over for AcilioN. That’s a lot of firepower on paper.
But while paper is good for keeping records, it’s also destroyed very fast, and the speed at which Apeks has gone up in flames is quite spectacular.
In the last two months they’ve managed the following achievements:
And finally, as the cherry on top, Apeks have decided to simply pull them out of ESEA Advanced. You know, the tournament that gives you access to a tournament where you can win access to ESL Pro League.
It’d be like putting Karim Benzema in Crewe Alexandra, and then pulling the team from League 2 for not being good enough.
It’s so bad that it’s almost funny.
Which it obviously isn’t. And Apeks’ statement reads like the corporate version of Jason Lake’s juggernaut-tweet: “We hate our results but can’t get rid of our players”-ish.
Maybe they should do what Complexity did and pick up k0nfig. We hear he might be available soon…