Biggy - Coaching proposal.

To start off; I know that coming from OCE I would need to earn your full respect as a coach and I know that I have a bit to learn in order to catch up on the top region's metas/play. This doesn't worry me at all though and I know that I can compete as a coach at the top level. The time difference when it comes to scrims or SPL does not worry me at all either.
I've spent the last two years playing and coaching SMITE in OCE, but have always followed the NA and EU scenes closely with the intention of eventually breaking into them. Both times that I qualified for SWC I spent most of my time trying to learn all I could from the NA and EU pro's that I have met in order to take that knowledge home with me. I am really coaching right now, but I'm at the point where even though I feel like I have so much to offer, I just can't really learn or improve myself anymore by competing in a weaker region.

As a player and now a coach I love nothing more than just discussing the game, learning new interactions/builds, making micro and macro game plans, analysing both people's play and communication and improving upon it. This has always been my pet peeve when playing and coaching in OCE. A majority of the players here lack not only basic communication, but the drive and confidence to criticise themselves and their team mates, create strategy, enjoy studying the game and then improving as players and then a team. Despite my attempts with certain players the discussion about builds/relic usage, using your own and your enemies ult/relic cooldowns to an advantage, calling of relic/ult/mobility cooldowns, buff timers, using gods kits for combos/to their full potential, strategic warding, forcing rotations or just using rotations to invade, force an objective/objective fight or push lanes is largely non existent.

Whatever team I have played and shot called for or coached I have always been expected to tell them how to play the game, which I don't believe is how a SMITE team should operate, especially as a coach since I am non existent during the gameplay. I don't think a SMITE coach is there to baby people. I think a coach is there to motivate, give an opinion/feedback and help a player/team improve. Whether that player puts the work in and improves is their own responsibility. When we were scrimming eGr during bootcamp and they were continuously running lvl 1 strats on us, it always fell on me to tell my team how to counter them, with either picks and bans, relics, picking/forcing good fights or playing the map correctly. Eventually this put doubt in my own head about coaching SMITE and I felt like I should be playing because I knew that strategically I could be doing a lot better and winning us scrims. Which is not what I want to be doing, I want to be a coach.

After sitting with Zyrhoes during the SWC semi finals and discussing them with him, I tried as much as I could to throw in my opinion from time to time just to see if my thinking was close to that level, and it gave me a lot of confidence in my own coaching. Learning that much and just having someone to discuss the game with during that Bo5 was the most enjoyment I'd had in SMITE in a long time. It really motivated me to come home and play SMITE, grind and learn while my team wanted to take a break.

I would be grateful to be given the opportunity to coach you guys, or even just a trial. I also think that socially I would fit in well. I only haven't met Arkkyl as well as only briefly meeting Variety at the Worlds after party, but I am pretty easy to get a a long with. I want to win worlds, and I think this roster definitely could beat NRG and anybody else to win it.

Whether I end up coaching or not, there is no love lost, I think this roster will go far. Thanks and Good luck.