Following a surprisingly short and disastrous debut season in the LEC, NAVI players have taken to social media and post-match interviews to voice their sharp criticism of the Summer Split 2025’s condensed schedule, blaming it for crippling their ability to gel as a new roster.
“We barely played any officials, only four best-of-threes over the group stage. This format is really bad for newer rosters like ours. We have a really new roster with three changes from last Split. We needed experience to get better, but this format did not give us the time we needed,” Hans SamD said in an interview with Sheep Esports. “Our [League] roster in itself is fine, we just didn’t get to play together for a long time, contrary to many teams here. We had about two or three weeks of scrims and were thrown into officials,” the ADC added.
Other NAVI players, like long-time mid laner Larssen, said on X (formerly Twitter) that the team’s Split ended prematurely just after three best-of-three series, without having the opportunity to play the tiebreakers. Thayger, the team’s rookie jungler, also expressed disappointment with the team’s quick exit from the tournament without having the necessary time to rectify their mistakes.
After taking Rogue’s place in the LEC, NAVI retained core players such as Adam, Larssen, and Malrang while adding fresh talent in hopes of improving results. Although that turnaround didn’t materialize this Split, it’s not definitive evidence of failure, as the team had only four matches on stage to prove themselves with new members.
Fans were also confused about LEC’s schedule. The developer might look into the schedule next year if it causes problems for fans and new teams to settle down in the season.
While NAVI still has one match to play against GIANTX to wrap up their first LEC Split, with playoff hopes already gone, the team faces bigger questions to consider heading into next year.
Published: Aug 22, 2025 03:06 am