lmbt departs Monte

2-9-2024 19:28

DemQQ is now the only Ukrainian member of the squad.

lmbt has been Monte coach since January 2023

Sergey "⁠lmbt⁠" Bezhanov has parted ways with Monte, the Ukrainian organization has announced.

The move leaves Sergiy "⁠DemQQ⁠" Demchenko as the sole home-nation player Monte alongside four Poles and former 9INE coach Piotr "⁠nawrot⁠" Nawrocki as an assistant.

The mix, who primarily communicate in English as DemQQ learns Polish, narrowly missed out on a Shanghai RMR berth after losses to B8, ECLOT, and KOI.

Date	Matches
Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 EU RMR Closed Qualifier A
21/08/2024	Monte Finished 13:6 UNiTY	Match
21/08/2024	Monte Finished 9:13 KOI	Match
22/08/2024	Monte Finished 7:13 ECLOT	Match
23/08/2024	Monte Finished 2:1 ENCE	Match
23/08/2024	Monte Finished 0:2 B8	Match

"Well we had insanely bumpy road during this time in Monte," lmbt said on Twitter. "It was a nice rollercoaster, I’m thankful to every player I worked with here same as to every staff member. I truly believe this roster will grow to where it belongs. And I'll find a new job soon."

The veteran coach, who also stood behind MOUZ and HellRaisers before the pandemic, was Monte's head coach since January 2023 and guided them to first place at ESL Challenger Jönköping late that year.

He was not present, however, when Monte made the Paris Major playoffs due to war regulations in Ukraine.

Monte are now:

Paweł "⁠dycha⁠" Dycha
Olek "⁠hades⁠" Miskiewicz
Kamil "⁠KEi⁠" Pietkun
Sergiy "⁠DemQQ⁠" Demchenko
Szymon "⁠kRaSnaL⁠" Mrozek

sad

2024-09-02 19:28

3 replies

Welcome ence

2024-09-02 19:29

DRILLAS +lmbt

2024-09-02 19:32

1 reply

ohne coach + roster locks already in place

2024-09-03 05:55

monte kuben

5 replies

pls no

2024-09-02 19:52

If kuben joins Monte its GG as he is great in developing teams due to his strict strategy involvement but Monte needs someone else. Maybe nawrot will be promoted to head coach and that would be great imo as he has great cohesion with guys. Something kuben didnt have in ENCE

2024-09-02 20:00

Monte kuben hahaha what a joke

2024-09-02 20:44

might happen

2024-09-02 20:45

are you high? kuben does not have a good relationship with dycha and hades, and these two are certainly not going anywhere:)

2024-09-02 21:23

+kuben for sure, they won't even reach tier 2 with him

Nawrot will be the main coach

2024-09-02 22:47

<3 hopefully this is for the best ... good luck monte

F to LMBT

so sad

2024-09-02 19:30

kuben next?

2024-09-02 19:31

if kuben joins there... its gg disband even faster

ence lmbt

EZ4ENCE

I hope lmbt finds the right team for himself, this guy has proven in mouz and now in monte that he can make budget rosters work extremely well

2024-09-02 19:33

So Monte Kuben and Ence imbt

That's actually a huge W for ence and huge L for monte

2024-09-02 19:38

agreed, imbt is so much better than Kuben

2024-09-02 19:42

2024-09-02 21:25

demqq better escape to a better team

2024-09-02 19:37

4 replies

ENCE lmbt woro2k, demqq, kvem, sdy, npl

2024-09-02 19:57

2 replies

3 IGLs

2024-09-02 19:58

sdy doesnt really igl, and woro2k could just stop and just awp

2024-09-02 20:05

DemQQ should go to Favbet, reunite with his ex-Akuma teammate j3kie

2024-09-03 11:29

Okey monte now is just done. I think lmbt realised that this roster doesn't go anywhere and left them.Thanks to him monte was actually good at some point and now he's gone.

nah, he probably just has trouble with speaking polish and once kuben was available, it's a no-brainer. Judging by the fact Monte released a video where you can hear comms were they were switching between polish and English comms, demqq might get replaced soon too

2024-09-02 19:40

demqq is their best player, lol, but I hope you are right, he deserves much better

so it's a huge downgrade

2024-09-02 19:55

They're so done

2024-09-02 19:39

ENCE and Monte have already been swapping players so go ahead and swap coaches too ig

2024-09-02 19:41

welcome kuben

2024-09-02 19:45

Honestly monte should've not signed more poles

2024-09-02 19:47

Quite funny that most "patriotic" org gave most damage to ukrainian scene.

2024-09-02 19:50

6 replies

how did they damage ukrainian scene?

2024-09-02 21:42

By destroying ukrainian majority top10 team? Org decisions has lead to sdy in shitty ence roster, woro in sticker money farming roster, demqq stuck in weak roster, 2nd best ukrainian coach left the team to coach probably international again, that's all not damaging ukrainian scene? Even war done more positive to ukr scene that this greedy org.

2024-09-02 21:52

Before monte: - demqq wasn't heard of since his days in Akuma. His career was over. Thanks to Monte he got to play in Major playoffs (briefly) and now is a good prospect for any T2 team; - lmbt was without work, and without a proper team for two years. Probably would've been retired by now; - sdy and woro without a team, and not looking that great. sdy in Ence now and woro, well, woro is in the same spot he was before monte - playing in a mix-team. Sure, they could've handled things better, but they had a good run and ukrainian scene is better for it.

2024-09-02 22:07

Yeah, they had a good run but in the end it's 4 guys that could create a system for national scene just going into "different corners of the world".

2024-09-02 22:13

"don’t cry because it’s over, smile because they have been"

2024-09-02 22:20

lmbt was temporarily banned for coach bug, and after this period the best option for him was join team which didn't see a problem in DemQQ, joel and REDSTAR

2024-09-03 11:34

demqq to ence lets go

2024-09-02 19:53

@report_and_meds

2024-09-02 21:24

I don't fucking understand it. Monte spent so much time branding themselves as a Ukrainian org, had an amazing Ukrainian roster whose motivation aligned with the vision of the org and then... Benched half the team, brought in a Polish majority. For what? Losing your fanbase? Completely ruining your Identity as a Ukraininan organisation? You could've brought in a bunch of UA youngsters and that would've been a better PR move than this, even if they didn't win shit

2024-09-02 19:54

8 replies

agreed i have no clue where monte is trying to go with all these moves xd

I agree despite being obviously biased

2024-09-02 20:02

Never thought I will agree with flair + flag + name combination like this

2024-09-02 20:12

LOL, I've had the same flag + flair + name combo since late 2017/2018. Used to be pretty unusual back then

2024-09-02 20:54

You knew something))

2024-09-02 22:02

they even had a chance to get kvem when the main core was still intact but refused now kvem will compete at the rmr and monte won't

2024-09-02 20:53

they never had a chance to get kvem as he's too expensive. He's still contracted to ikla cuz he's stuck in contract jail, only loaned for the major

2024-09-02 21:05

someone from monte staff (don't remember if that was the ceo) once told that they indeed could buy him, but didn't cuz he lacked LAN experience. In their opinion he was too expensive for an unproven player, but they still could've and likely should've risked. Well, now we'll see how he performs on LAN

2024-09-02 21:12

WHAAT????????? WTF MONTE THIS IS STRAIGHT L ?????

probably initiated by lmbt himself

2024-09-03 08:09

Man .. to think this guy took Monte from CCT to Major quarter finals beating Furia, Fnatic, Navi ... sad for Monte, no future in sight

Isn’t CIS like the most loaded region? Why is a Ukrainian org filled with Polish players?

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Because CIS is mostly russian

2024-09-02 20:13

There’s gotta be some good Ukrainian talent/players out there as well cause they’re definitely good players.

2024-09-02 20:18

all the good Ukrainian players have a team, while these guys got picked from a bench Monte has always been cheap when it comes to roster management

2024-09-02 21:47

They are on teams b8, passion ua, na vi and drillas respectively

2024-09-02 22:00

Ukraine isn't part of CIS

2024-09-02 20:19

If it’s not, that’s new to me. Although I will admit that I don’t follow the geography of certain regions too closely. That’s my bad then.

2024-09-02 20:43

As organization, yeah, they don't. But in cs terms it's about region, not organization. But this guys always will get into every comment to say they are not cis.

2024-09-02 21:26