mantuu on OG benching: It was weird for me; There was never a talk
The Polish AWPer has opened up about the recent demotion and how he experienced it.
Ten days ago OG announced the transfer of the profiled AWPer Abdul “degster” Gasanov after a successful BLAST Spring Final Lisbon campaign, where the 21-year-old Russian ended up as one of the top individual performers.
However, the thing with transfers is that there’s almost every time one person who comes out on the “losing side of things”. In this case, that person is Mateusz “mantuu” Wilczewski. In an interview with Luis Mira and Dexerto, mantuu opens up about the benching and how he has experienced a lack of communication between him and OG, despite having represented the team since 2019.
It was weird for me. We didn’t have a discussion about the situation. It wasn’t like, ‘Maybe in order to improve and get to the next level, we should change you up this way. Let’s try and risk going this way’.
There was never a talk. It was basically, ‘Boom, degster is better. Boom, he goes in’. And I’m out. I would at least think that the problems would be addressed and then I would switch up because if there was a problem within the team or anything, I would switch up.
In the interview, manutuu also touches on his own role on the server, while playing under the leadership of both Aleksib and nexa and how he wanted to “fix some things in himself” in order to fit in nexa’s playstyle.
After two and a half years of constantly getting close and not winning, I didn’t care about myself a lot. I only cared about winning. I would have done whatever it took to win, going aggressively and seeing if this style worked. We never had the opportunity to test if this style even worked again for me, which it had two years ago, when I joined OG.
After the player break, I wanted to fix some things in myself, I wanted to adapt to nexa’s playing style and the team’s aggressive playing style. But then I got the news.
You can read the entire interview right here.
