Octane Explains Why He Thinks Luminosity Have Struggled With FormaL On the Roster Former Luminosity player, Sam \u201cOctane\u201d Larew, discussed briefly why his former team have struggled in the CWL Pro League, since he was replaced on the roster by Matthew \u201cFormaL\u201d Piper. Octane moved to OpTic Gaming in a straight swap for FormaL mid way through the 2018 WWII season, but one team has faired considerably better than the other since the transfer. Luminosity\u2019s performance took an immediate dip after the trade, but many fans and even the players themselves attributed it to having to \u2018relearn\u2019 the game as a team. As their performances have continued to be poor however, failing to qualify for the Stage Two playoffs, Octane believes it comes down to FormaL not being the most suitable replacement for him on the team. During a desk segment at the MLG Arena, Octane was asked by host Rich Campbell where he thought it was going wrong for his previous teammates. \u201cI think they had just such a slow start, that you get that \u2018we need to win\u2019 mentality. Sometimes it\u2019s good, depending on the team, but if you have that in the back of your head that \u2018if we lose this, we are done for\u2019, then that can kill a team. I think that\u2019s what happened.\u201d He also affirms that because FormaL\u2019s play style as an AR is so different to his own, the replacement was not best suited to Luminosity. \u201cIt had to have been [that reason]. I left the team, and they declined.\u201d Octane later took to Twitter to explain that he misspoke slightly and didn\u2019t completely finish his thought, saying \u201cI didn\u2019t mean it like that.\u201d Whatever LG\u2019s issues, they now have less than a month to do their best to resolve them, before the World Championship begins on August 15. More: OpTic Gaming Puts a Flawless Search and Destroy \u2018Retake\u2019 On Display Against UNILAD at the CWL Pro League – Despite their Pro League performance, they have shown they are capable of playing well in a tournament setting, managing 3rd place at the last major open, CWL Anaheim \u2013 OpTic placed 5-6th. If they can find the momentum they conjured up at Anaheim and fine tune their mistakes, they undoubtedly still have a talented enough roster to go very far at Champs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Octane Explains Why He Thinks Luminosity Have Struggled With FormaL On the Roster Former Luminosity player, Sam \u201cOctane\u201d Larew, discussed briefly why his former team have struggled in the CWL Pro League, since he was replaced on the roster by Matthew \u201cFormaL\u201d Piper. Octane moved to OpTic Gaming in a straight swap for FormaL mid […]<\/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-30310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30310","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=30310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}