wasiNk steps down as 3DMAX coach: "We simply weren't fully aligned anymore"

21-6-2025 19:51

The French coach leaves the team just days after their Major run came to an end.

Damien "⁠wasiNk⁠" Dufour has announced that he has stepped down from his role as head coach of 3DMAX, ending his 14-month association with the French team.

wasiNk joined 3DMAX in March 2024, at a time when the team was ranked outside the top 40 in the world, and helped turn it into a regular presence among the elite at international events. He led the team to the Skyesports Championship title and appearances at the Shanghai and Austin Majors.

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3DMAX have struggled to make deep runs this season, only breaking the playoff barrier at PGL Bucharest. In Stage 3 of the Austin Major, they beat G2 but then lost to Natus Vincere, Vitality and paiN – three teams that reached the playoffs.

"We took games off the best, surprised people, and proved we belonged," wasiNk wrote in a statement posted to X. "It wasn’t always pretty, but it was real – and along the way, I grew a lot as a coach and as a person.

"Today, this chapter closes. We reached a point where we simply weren’t fully aligned anymore. It happens. No hard feelings, just respect for what we accomplished. I’m grateful for the trust, the grind, and all the people I got to share this journey with."

wasiNk is the second person to depart 3DMAX this week after Thomas "⁠Djoko⁠" Pavoni, who became a free agent on Thursday after four months on the bench.

In a statement on X, 3DMAX said they plan to provide more updates about the coaching staff "soon."

The team is now:

Alexandre "⁠bodyy⁠" Pianaro
Bryan "⁠Maka⁠" Canda
Lucas "⁠Lucky⁠" Chastang
Pierre "⁠Ex3rcice⁠" Bulinge
Filip "⁠Graviti⁠" Brankovic

???????????? why

2025-06-21 19:52

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3DMAX org owners caused this shit management

2025-06-21 19:56

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Source?

2025-06-21 20:49

source: twitter guy with 10 followers

2025-06-22 06:00

"We reached a point where we simply weren’t fully aligned anymore. It happens. No hard feelings, just respect for what we accomplished." hope this helps

Give me some more

2025-06-21 21:57

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kyousuke

2025-06-23 02:47

Tension between players, real shit not just in game stuff. If you speak french, look for what KRL revealed when he leaked that wasink was leaving.

2025-06-21 23:24

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Un lien ou un titre ?

2025-06-22 00:40

youtube.com/watch?v=pgIA3LLO-x4&t=271s

2025-06-22 02:05

I was talking about tha allegations about physical fight, the fact everyone krl has talked to gave a different version about what's not going well in the team + people literally arguing really hard to make wasink leave

2025-06-22 08:05

+taz

meds

2025-06-22 12:25

322max

2025-06-21 19:53

ktl

3DMAX have twice now refused to sign with better orgs than budget/bankrupt 3DMAX and they keep complaining about muh no bootcamps and shit like that. deserved downfall

2025-06-21 19:54

Source? Also the owners are the ones who decide no?

2025-06-21 22:17

Are you dumb? It's not the players that get to choose if the team gets sold or not.

2025-06-22 00:52

flair + wdym bankrupt when they always made into a tier 1 events by not paying their spot (qualifying from vrs or qualifier) + back2back major

2025-06-22 06:01

welcome to Liquid

His english is dog water

2025-06-21 22:20

it'll be fine, it's not like the coach has to call midround

2025-06-21 22:29

You have to get your point across your players, inspire them and be able to refocus them quickly during tac pause. Not that easy when your english is not that great

2025-06-21 22:31

Good for wasiNk i guess, the question is, where could he go?

2025-06-21 19:57

2025-06-21 20:02

fnatic, you have your new coach right here.

I think wasink has some potential as he took 3D from top 30 to top 15 I hope that the team will get a coach suited for their needs

2025-06-21 19:59

fax brother, now they just need -graviti for a french star rifler and adjust lucky playstyle to be more like graviti

2025-06-22 06:02

graviti does not match what is expected from him however there is simply no one to replace him even the brazilian from FURIA who have a larger scene had to go international and the 3D academy won't do magic

2025-06-22 14:48

apparently maka cant get along with anybody but i hope its not true

2025-06-21 20:04

he strangled staff member lul

2025-06-21 20:39

is this real?

2025-06-21 22:18

grabbed by his shirt apparently, but not much context

2025-06-21 22:24

LEAVE LAMBERT/KILLAZOO ALONE

2025-06-21 20:26

:( Reply needs to have actual content

Shit coach shit players (Maka and Graviti especially)

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Cry more

2025-06-21 20:50

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huh? I just think 3DMAX was overrated. For the amount of screaming Graviti and Maka did they achieved nothing noteworthy. And apparently, Maka can't get along with anyone

2025-06-21 20:51

They're good day merchants. On their good day they can beat almost anybody and on bad day they can lose to anybody. I really like Maka cuz he's a great IGL and their games are always great to watch both gamewise and banter.

2025-06-21 20:53

Well put

2025-06-21 23:55

It's just correct, I'm big fan of this team and I know it quite well. Their mental is total shit so after their loss to Navi I knew that this is over for this major

2025-06-22 07:00

I really hope a good team takes an interest in him, because he changed a lot of things when he arrived at 3DMax, and it paid off. And no one wears the shorts better than this man.

He wore shorts behind the players? I didn't notice

2025-06-22 01:40

I don't think he's ever done it since he's been a coach, it's a reference to when he was IGL at GenOne

2025-06-22 03:07

maLeK tba?

2025-06-21 20:54

good shout but i dont think he have coach any more team or i forgot.

2025-06-22 06:04

+Ozstrik3r

2025-06-21 21:01

If he goes from management role to coaching a couple months later, it's the most obvious inside job of all time to cause this mess

2025-06-21 22:58

there are few coaches out there that we can confidently say that are actually good and make a real impact on a team like ash, b1ad3 and sycrone, IMO wasiNk is definitely one of them (not saying he is on their level yet, but his impact is undeniable)

2025-06-21 21:09

I was wondering if 3DMAX will make some roster moves in this off-season, I mean, their roster is probably good enough to stay as a pretty dangerous underdog, but I can't see this 5-man lineup becoming like a consistent Tier1 team that sometimes makes playoffs, sometimes not but always is atleast close to that, I think some firepower upgrades would be needed, I don't know how much change of a coach can impact them, we will see, but I hope they do well because I'm overall a fan of having more and more national teams in Tier1, so GL boys!

2025-06-21 21:24

I think Graviti has been pretty inconsistent this season, maybe it's his roles but still

2025-06-21 22:11

I mean, Graviti has always been their lowest performer I feel like, it's true he has hard roles but it's one place you could look for a potential upgrade. I think what seems different is Maka, I mean, I know he is an IGL but he used to be also their star player, their best performer, and this season he is far from that form sooooo... I don't know what they should do, I don't also know what possible replacements there are in the French scene, so I'm really curious.

2025-06-21 22:41

im pretty sure maka isnt the only calling cause lucky once said he and bodyy also calls in midround if maka is awping and too focused on the game. so basically the team needs a star rifler more than maka going star awper because those 3 callers are actually good players even when theyre calling at the same time

2025-06-22 06:06

I mean, bodyy and Lucky are fine, but I've seen some missess from Maka that really look ugly, I mean, I think he is an underrated IGL, I think 3DMAX play great CS, the only thing that's between them and Tier1 is probably firepower for me, and they need to find it somewhere, whether it is in a new AWPer and moving Maka to rifle or in a new rifler, I don't know, hard to say what talent there is in French scene right now, you probably know that better than I do.

2025-06-22 21:48