So I just change my mindset to just having fun so even if I lose it’s okay.” If I try hard and lose, then I get tilted. “I just realized that NA Solo Queue - I just need to enjoy it. Ruin continues, “It’s just fun, you know.” He cuts the wave at level 1 like a proper Singed player. “I played Singed only so I lost many games…” I sit down with Ruin and Stixxay for lunch and ask how they’ve been using that time. THE TUESDAY BEFORE Rift Rivals, CLG is enjoying the second of their first two days off this split. We don’t talk anymore like we used to do. So then and there - in a transport shuttle on the other side of the world - they sing for the first time, “We don’t talk anymore, we don’t talk anymore. It will become a sort of anthem for Counter Logic Gaming. He doesn’t know that three years later, he’ll be the oldest member of the team.īut the team starts to sing the song together, which they will continue to sing and hum for the coming weeks at MSI and for the months after. At the time, he is the newest addition to the CLG lineup, having replaced the departed face of the franchise, Doublelift. It is, according to Stixxay, the first time they’d heard that song. Selena Gomez) called “We Don’t Talk Anymore,” and it will come to accumulate over two billion views on YouTube. It is a brand new single by Charlie Puth (Ft. They don’t even know the song that starts to play. They don’t know this will be the height of their run, and they don’t know that Counter Logic Gaming will slowly fall apart over the next three years. They don’t know that Stixxay will earn a euphemistic nickname for his daring play. They don’t know they’re going to finish 2nd in the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational’s Group Stage and then make it to the Finals where they will lose to SK telecom T1. IT’S 2016 and on a shuttle from the Shanghai Pudong International Airport to their hotel, Counter Logic Gaming doesn’t know yet that they’re about to make history. Counter Logic Gaming is tied for first after snapping their 1,176 day losing drought to TSM, but they’ll need to do more than that to win the LCS again.

Song long road to ruin