bumping !

hiya
pls change my tftv to "heks" & my twitch to https://www.twitch.tv/hexxerin

thank u!

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Brutally honest opinion/feedback of Mario; read all of this or read none of it.

I've played on pre-season teams with Mario about three times now, while he played diff classes, so I think I have a voice to judge
Mario isn't a bad player by any means, I think he has a lot of passion about the ideas of improvement, and he wants something to show off. I don't think this is an uncommon goal from most players, so I think he should be able to find a team with similar ideals & he can match up with.

I want to start off by saying, I don't think Mario is ready for anything above low-Main. Is there potential for that to change? Sure. But I think Mario oversteps a lot of his own expectations because "I've been playing the game so long", which, in my opinion, isn't necessarily true or even important. I think patience is his biggest weakness, and mostly patience for himself.
His DM is fine, but I find that when he even has a bad moment in a game, it can skew his self-perception if his team is not winning. Winning is priority above all, not necessarily improvement all the time.
I think his maincalling capability is there, but I think he needs to demo review more often. I know a lot of times he'll make jokes about having an ego, but sometimes I feel like it's questionable just how true of a joke that is. He'll have moments, or talk about teams, in that tonality, which, is something that can be improved upon just by surrounding & embracing a new environment change (not to blame -rep, but some of y'all def do not help his perception LOL)

Tl;Dr of this bit, he's a capable player but doesn't work his hardest always to achieve his goal, and sometimes gets skewed off-path because he's too focused on the end result rather than the now moments.

But on the bright side of things,
I find Mario to be a generally fun dude to be around, mainly when we're outside of competitive environments, which already indicates to me that he is capable of improvement inside that environment.
He has a competitive drive, so I think that if he wants to be deserving of playing on a playoffs-Main or any advanced team, he is visibly capable. It's just a matter of having an environment patient enough for him, and him being patient enough for himself.

In conclusion,
As a former TL of Mario, and as someone who's played on one of his theory-teams, do I believe he deserves to be Advanced? Not yet. Do I think he should be Main? Maybe, but expect him to improve throughout the season, not going in as a main player, but coming out as one.
He's not a bad pickup, by any means, but make sure he is working as hard as you expect him to, and be patient with his progression, as long as he shows he's working his best.

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