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Tanner "Damonte", former Mid laner of Clutch Gaming and current Performance Coach of FlyQuest, is the star of the 410th Episode of 'Reflections'. This is episode two of two about Damonte's career.
Damonte for much of his career had to earn a starting spot over a more established Mid laner. In Echo Fox that meant playing instead of EU legend Froggen and the next year Korean Fenix. That changed in Clutch Gaming and Damonte arguably had the best period of his career, fondly remembered for his Qiyana prowess and qualifying to Worlds in S9.
Despite that year he ended up having to fight for a starting spot again and that led him to Golden Guardians where he and his team-mates would defeat Bjergsen's TSM in an upper bracket sweep in S10 Summer play-offs and almost repeated the feat in the lower bracket before being reverse swept.
Later years were wasted in Dignitas and playing Academy. It wouldn't be until Damonte took up coaching he again got to have a meaningful impact. He position coached Palafox in NRG and the team famously won S13 Summer and made top eight at Worlds. He has since moved on to FlyQuest as their Performance coach and they made it to the final of the LCS last split.
In part two, Damonte talks about his time on 100T, being typecast as a player, pivoting to coaching, NRG's LCS championship and Worlds run, moving to FlyQuest and coaching Jensen.
This interview was recorded on the 1st of July, 2024.
► Time-line of topics discussed:
00:00 100T
03:38 Typecast
05:31 CLG
08:58 Palafox
12:49 NRG winning LCS
18:30 Winnig LCS as a coach
20:11 S13 Worlds and beating G2
24:33 WBG Ro8
25:53 Mentality competing vs. elite Asians
30:03 FlyQuest
34:12 Did NRG miss him?
35:40 Coaching Jensen
36:47 Argumentative style in Fly
39:05 LCS finalists
42:14 Working with Mind Body Esports
47:25 Future
48:57 Working in other games
50:23 Final words
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