Team Secret Whales opened MSI with a 3-0 loss to Hanwha Life, dropping the LCP's first seed into the lower bracket. RFT.GG sat down with TSW head coach Chen "WarHorse" Ju-Chih — a Worlds winner with FPX and a veteran of the Flash Wolves era — to talk about the gap to the world's best, the mentality he wants from his teenage roster, and where the Secret Whales project is headed.
What are your first thoughts after that opening series?
Right now, what's on my mind is that when we compete against other regions — the top teams — there's still a gap between us.
HLE came into this tournament as one of the favourites. Going 0-3, was it a gap of pure level, or more about specific things you can adjust for the rest of the bracket?
I feel the gap is in a lot of different areas — synergy, the individual level, the mechanics — especially because our players are very young, while our opponents are very successful, very experienced, with a lot of veterans. So at our current level there are difficulties here and there. But the most important part is whether we can show our style and our growth in the future.
