Octane expected to get dropped by LA Thieves before Major 4 & CDL Champs wins Instagram: LA ThievesLA Thieves AR star Sam \u2018Octane\u2019 Larew has revealed that he thought the team was going to drop him halfway through the season, just a couple of months before they earned their historic back-to-back victories at CDL Major 4 and the World Championships. Octane has been recognized as one of the greatest AR players of all time, his individual skill almost never in doubt even when his teams were struggling. That said, he found himself in a position at the beginning of the 2022 Vanguard season where his performances weren\u2019t up to his usual standards, no longer able to completely shut down his opposition and go on the insane killstreaks he had become known for. This is something Octane acknowledged and worked to address halfway through the Vanguard season \u2014 but he admitted that he thought he was going to get dropped before having the chance to turn things around and eventually become world champion. Appearing on The Merk and Maven podcast, Octane spoke about how his season went, turning it around from being a middling team to world champions, and made the admission. \u201cI thought I was getting dropped,\u201d he said when discussing the issues that plagued LA Thieves\u2019 early season. \u201cI spoke to Kap [Thieves coach Jordan \u2018JKap\u2019 Kaplan] about it after Champs. But I wholeheartedly thought I was going to get dropped after Major 2. I was playing really poorly, and maybe I was in my own head about it. \u201cI\u2019ve really never been bad. I\u2019ve never struggled individually \u2026 So when I was bad at the beginning of this game, it was unchartered territory for me.\u201d Timestamp 12:29 Octane explained that he also spoke extensively to a sports therapist at 100 Thieves to help him, and that it was a \u201cwake-up call\u201d for him not being dropped, realizing that he had been given the chance to step up. Of course, things turned around for LA Thieves big time after Major 2. They came 2nd at the Pro-Am and, while Major 3 wasn\u2019t massively fruitful, they went on an incredible run to place 1st at Major 4 and Champs, earning millions of dollars and etching their names in the CoD history books. While Kenny \u2018Kenny\u2019 Williams was named Champs MVP, Octane\u2019s abilities as a leader shone throughout the tournament and he\u2019ll be delighted at how his season turned around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Octane expected to get dropped by LA Thieves before Major 4 & CDL Champs wins Instagram: LA ThievesLA Thieves AR star Sam \u2018Octane\u2019 Larew has revealed that he thought the team was going to drop him halfway through the season, just a couple of months before they earned their historic back-to-back victories at CDL Major […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}