l'En Avant de Guingamp crepes into Premiership

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January 28, 2019

Continuing the proud tradition of teams almost entirely made up of the same nationality having names that the casters won’t be able to pronounce, l’En Avant de Guingamp will be competing in the next Premiership Season—and hopefully will have more success than their football counterpart. The team is mainly filled with experienced players, but with some novelty sprinkled in as well.

Néo makes his return in the top flight with this team, where he was last seen with Ascent.EU in Season 30. A core member of the early iterations of the top5_rocket that were sponsored by nerdRage and Ascent, he grabbed a silver and a bronze medal in Seasons 26 and 28. He’s also a fairly competent sniper.

Nevo was pretty much a one-team man, being an integral part of Ora Elektro for the last 5 seasons—a time frame that saw them finally reach Prem after 2 failed attempts and turning from a bottom-table to one that had a legitimate shot at playoffs, even placing 4th at Insomnia63. Nevo’s flank partner during all of this was Azunis, and they were often noted for their great coordination together. Gaining an experienced flank in a newly-formed team could be of great help, so look out for them.

Corbac will be on pocket soldier, and was often noticed for his incredible jumps as well as his unstoppable thirst to kill the enemy demo on mids. Part of the same top5_rocket squad as Néo, he also more recently finished 3rd with Faint Gaming last season. Another member of the previous Faint team is also here in the presence of Ama, who makes the switch from pocket to demo for this season, making him one of the more unknown quantities of the team. The other unknown quantity is sanz. Assuming he's gonna have a bad time being bullied by his teammates due to his Belgian nationality, lack of a capital letter, and absence of Prem experience, he still does have a large amount of High seasons played, and it will be exciting see how he’ll adapt to this new challenge.

Corbac made it very clear that this quote should not be translated :

Nevo m'a contacté il y a quelques semaines pour essayer de monter une team française ayant le niveau prem. Ca m'a tout de suite intéressé et on a pu monter rapidement un roster stable. J'ai pu retrouver des joueurs avec lesquels j'ai joué dans le passé, et personnellement ça m'a remotivé pour m'investir dans le jeu. C'est aussi beaucoup plus facile et efficace de communiquer en français pour être sur la même longueur d'onde. Nos débuts en scrims ont montré qu'on a du pain sur la planche si on veut atteindre les playoffs en fin de saison mais j'ai confiance en nos joueurs. Il nous manque une cohésion d'équipe et des automatismes mais ça va venir.

Hoping that the legacy of the 2014 Coupe de France can carry over in videogames, l’En Avant de Guingamp fields :

Scout: Néo
Scout: Nevo
Roamer: Azunis
Pocket: Corbac
Demoman: Ama
Medic: sanz

Ombrack

16 Frags – +

facile

Yohn

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Azunis

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Bonsoir, c'est Guingamp avec un n dans le titre, merci de corriger.

Cordialement

ÉDIT: C'est parfait maintenant, merci encore.

Bonsoir, c'est [b]Guingamp[/b] avec un [b]n[/b] dans le titre, merci de corriger.

Cordialement

ÉDIT: C'est parfait maintenant, merci encore.

Alexandros

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Trop facile pour corbac

Rebite

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i am canadian therefore i perfectly underestood what was said. Watch this. Je ne parle pas francais

5unny

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Say la oui, baguette baguette!

DuMmTm

Twitch Prime

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12 1/2 Frenchies in prem is definitely too many

trippa

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sanz undertale

Dagger

cp_granary_pro

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vive le quebec libre!

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Twiggy

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so 12 frenchies + 1 francophone belgian. Are we m

DuMmTm12 1/2 Frenchies in prem is definitely too many

is that more than brits?

so 12 frenchies + 1 francophone belgian. Are we m[quote=DuMmTm]12 1/2 Frenchies in prem is definitely too many[/quote]
is that more than brits?

#11

leth

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theres too bloody many thats for damn sure

#12

3006

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9-0 en grande finale svp

#13

3006

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Twiggyso 12 frenchies + 1 francophone belgian. Are we mDuMmTm12 1/2 Frenchies in prem is definitely too manyis that more than brits?

what about opti and ombrack?

[quote=Twiggy]so 12 frenchies + 1 francophone belgian. Are we m[quote=DuMmTm]12 1/2 Frenchies in prem is definitely too many[/quote]
is that more than brits?[/quote]
what about opti and ombrack?

#14

sheepy_dogs_hand

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Corbac made it very clear that this quote should not be translated

Swear he just did that to piss me off

[b]Corbac made it very clear that this quote should not be translated[/b]

Swear he just did that to piss me off

#15

qbown

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DuMmTm12 1/2 Frenchies in prem is definitely too many

[quote=DuMmTm]12 1/2 Frenchies in prem is definitely too many[/quote]

#16

dbk

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crepes

#17

Twiggy

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3006Twiggyso 12 frenchies + 1 francophone belgian. Are we mDuMmTm12 1/2 Frenchies in prem is definitely too manyis that more than brits?what about opti and ombrack?

oh shit you're right

[quote=3006][quote=Twiggy]so 12 frenchies + 1 francophone belgian. Are we m[quote=DuMmTm]12 1/2 Frenchies in prem is definitely too many[/quote]
is that more than brits?[/quote]
what about opti and ombrack?[/quote]
oh shit you're right

#18

nyk

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ama is gonna destroy on demo

#19

tua

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I live life on the edge so i finna translate
i won't translate word-for-word, just the gist
Corbac pretty much says that Nevo reached out to him to with the idea to start an all-french prem team and corbac was super pumped and excited about it; it seems corbac had a large say in who was gonna be on it. He says it'll be much easier to have a team 100% in french so everyone is always on the same page in terms of communication. Starting out, they sucked in scrims but corbac says he believes they can make playoffs after putting in work to improve their cohesion and instincts

#20

sheepy_dogs_hand

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An all french team (which I LOVE) like this is a great idea but I think a team with these players will need a season of playing together while spamming french binds before they can start getting results vs some of these prem teams. They very well may improve quickly enough over this season and do just fine and prove me completely wrong and laugh at me but I think this is the kind of team that could be really solid next season if they were to stick together.

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