ALWAYSWANNAFLY Steps Down As Talon Esports Coach
Maksym ShylovEsports player, analyst, coach and streamer Andrii 'ALWAYSWANNAFLY' Bondarenko announced on his Telegram channel that he is now a free agent. The Ukrainian specialist is also looking for a team for the coming season.
The fact that ALWAYSWANNAFLY joined Talon Esports as a coach became known on September 19 this year. The newly minted coach helped the team to pass the regional qualification for The International 11 in Southeast Asia. ALWAYSWANNAFLY advised players remotely during the qualifiers The specialist missed the first days of the group stage due to a long road to Singapore.
The players spoke well of their coach. Under his leadership, 23savage and the team took down Fnatic and Entity . The players also won one map against The International 10 champions, Team Spirit , as well as the upcoming champions of this year's World Cup, Tundra Esports . Unfortunately, the Asian team lost to Entity in the tiebreaker for reaching the lower bracket of the playoffs and left the tournament. Probably, such a result did not suit the management of the organization, and it was decided to say goodbye to the Ukrainian coach.
The Talon Esports roster is shown below:
- 23savage
- Mikoto
- Jabz
- Q
- Oli
Recall that The International 2022 was held in Singapore from October 15 to 30 of this year. The venues were Suntec Singapore and Singapore Indoor Stadium. 20 teams competed for a prize pool of $18,930,775. Tundra Esports became the world champions, earning $8,518,822.
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Maksym has been working at EGamersWorld since 2017. Joining the company during his first year at university, he worked as a translator until 2022. After that, Maksym began working as an editor. His main discipline is Dota 2, and over time, Maksym's responsibilities expanded to include CS:GO, CS2 and Valorant. Additionally, as an editor, he publishes various materials on gaming topics.