Sh1ro Criticizes Esports Awards 2021 for Excluding Groove From Esports Coach of the Year

Gambit Esports has slowly risen by means of the ranks of aggressive CS:GO (Counter Strike: World Offensive) for the reason that begin of 2021, proving themselves to be the most effective groups on this planet. They’ve received massive tournaments this 12 months like IEM Katowice 2021, EPIC CIS League Spring 2021, IEM Summer season 2021, and IEM Fall 2021: CIS. Whereas the gamers have been hailed for placing up prime notch performances and nice particular person prowess, Dmitry “sh1ro” Sokolov contributes this victory to their half time coach and CEO of Gambit Esports – Konstantin “groove” Pikiner.

That is the precise cause as to why he was upset when groove was not nominated beneath the class of ‘Esports Coach of the Yr’, which included the coach of Gambit’s Valorant roster Andrey “Engh” Sholokhov for main them to victory at VCT 2021: Stage 3 Masters – Berlin.

Sh1ro factors out why Gambit’s CEO groove deserved an ‘Esports Coach of the Yr’ nomination

The ace participant for Gambit Esports, sh1ro, who was just lately nominated for the Esports Awards 2021 beneath the class of ‘Esports PC Rookie of the Yr’, had a couple of factors to make about their part-time coach groove.

Groove who’s the CEO of Gambit Esports was additionally appearing because the coach of their CS:GO staff from September 2020 to October 2021, as Ivan “F_1N” Kochugov had been handed a 8.75 month ban by the ESIC for having exploited the coach spectator bug.

Throughout this time as identified by sh1ro, Gambit went on to succeed in the grand finals of 15 CS:GO tournaments, attaining a first-place end in 11 of them. Aside from this, the group had additionally managed to achieve rank one throughout HLTV, ESL World Rankings, CSPAA World Ranking, and BLAST Premier World Leaderboard, earlier than IEM Cologne 2021.

All this was achieved by a roster which constituted of 4 academy gamers, whereas groove alongside his teaching additionally needed to perform his administrative duties because the the group’s CEO.

Having identified all these information, sh1ro went on to ask the Esports Awards as to why he was not nominated beneath the class of ‘Esports Coach of the Yr’. He’s awaiting a response which has not been obtained, publicly a minimum of, on the time of writing this text.

Gambit’s Valorant coach Engh has nonetheless been nominated beneath this class for having pushed the staff to win VCT 2021: Stage 3 Masters – Berlin, routinely locking a slot for themselves within the upcoming Valorant Champions 2021.