Luis Peacemaker · @peacemaker
6th Aug 2018 from TwitLonger
Updates - Heroic / Health Issues / MiBR / Future Plans - ENG
1 - Heroic
Its been 4 months since I left Heroic, where I stayed 7 months as their head coach, and first of all Id like to make a short resume about our journey:
I consider that our main goal was partialy achieved. During the whole period we qualified for a few big tournaments, where unfortunately we didnt reach some of our expectations, but we were improving a lot as a team and getting rithym of travels, experience on competing more as a team, dealing with losses and how to improve from it, etc..
We went from the top 20 on the official ranking to top 11 after a really short period of time, and during this period, I do consider we became the second best team in Denmark.
Unfortunately after this period, from february until may we had some situations to deal with, where I believe it directly affected our plans and goals for the first semester of 2018,
and as we can still see nowdays, Heroic is still going over periods of changes and I do believe as soon as they get a permanent roster and grind, they will once again become a really competitive team.
When a team starts improving and going up in the rankings, you end up automatically getting more invites, travels, commitments and responsabilities, and as it was announced previously, on 1st of may, me and RFRSH mutually agreed on terminating my contract as I was going through health issues, making it impossible to follow the team on practices or events, and also they were starting to completely rebuild the roster with new goals and everything else, so we both felt like it was the right decision in that ocasion, but I respect all of them and hope they do great in the near future.
2 - Health
Even tho RFRSH Etertainment and Heroic gave me full support and assistence while I was in Denmark, my main goal was to go back to Brazil and count with the support from my family, as well as start to investigate what was happening with me (feeling dizziness, chest and abdominal pain, heart burn after eating, so basically a constant bad mood)
As soon as I got back to Brazil, I did a lot of medical exams, and one of the doctors, made a huge misconception that made me very scared and also slowed down my recovery process, as after a small change on a electrocardiogram, he wanted me to stay in the hospital in a observation period cos he suspected I could be having a heart attack, obviously that made me panic (as I'm not that old or never had any tendencies or health issues at all in my entire life)
Anyway, after more investigation and going through another doctors and hospitals, aswell as new electrocardiograms, we found out that the problem I had (apart from the panic and being scared after the first diagnostic) was a gastritis crisis and also a food poisoning/infection, that also caused bad reactions in my body, moving away any problems related with my heart.
As soon as I found out about everything, that gave me a warning that I should be taking care about my health and my mind much more, as I have to admit im too focused on working and achieving my goals, and I kinda left a lot of other important things behind during these last years away from home.
Today I feel much better, I lost a bit of weigh and im slowly changing some habits to make sure my body and my brain doesnt feel a big change all of a sudden, the changes are making me happy and close to a 100%.
3 - MiBR
During these months away, obviously I kept following the tournaments and teams, updating my knowledge as much as I could and cheering for the teams I like, and of course SK/MiBR (as it is impossible for a brazilian to dont cheer for the best team in your region, even more in my case where I got friends and people there that helped me a lot in my career, with advices and sharing knowledge).
Hard for me from outside to point out what I do think MiBR needs to do to get back on being the best team in the world, but of course I felt and still feel like I am totally capable of helping them,
but in my eyes, their recent bad performances goes deeper than "having a coach behind or not".
As soon as I heard they were potentially looking for a new coach, of course I was expecting I could be the choice, but I tried to stay calm and collected about it.
Yesterday I saw an interview FalleN gave to DRIFT5 GG website (also posted on HLTV.org), and I wanted to make sure I first thank him privately, but I also would like to make public all my affection, respect and honor to be considered for the spot aswell as hear great things about me from one of the people that I most admire in CS and that deserves all the sucess he has. Id like to congratulate all of them for their strong decision on bringing YNK onboard and I really hope they achieve all their goals from now on because they deserve it.
4 - Future
During these last 4 months, I did receive some potential interests and proposals, but I didnt feel like it was the right moment to get back. Working with CS is definitely my biggest passion in life, and this period away made me re-think a lot about all the knowledge I gained during these years at the brazilian, american, european and asian scenes. It was amazing experiences and with a lot of informations that I couldnt find time to administer, so now I could organize it and keep all the lessons and good things from each team I worked with.
Even tho I would love to compete soon, I dont wanna make any mistakes on my next choice, but I am full focused on getting back to the competitive scene as soon as possible.
Sorry for the big text and potentially some grammar mistakes as english isnt my main language, but I felt like I needed this space to explain a little bit more of what happened with me during this period.
Once again, thanks to all the kind and respectfull messages I keep receiving, hope to see all of you in a close future.
Thank you.