Dane Søren “Bjergsen” Bjerg (26) is considered the tallest League of Legends player America has ever produced. From 2013 to 2019 he played for the US team SoloMid and became champion 6 times. Then he retired from LoL, worked as a coach for TSM. In November 2021 he returned and wanted to show off again with a super team. But the “Team Liquid” project has failed for the time being, the dream of the Worlds 2022 has not come true.
Who is Bjergsen?
Bjergsen is an absolute star in LoL in the West:
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Team Liquid buys Bjergsen a super team together
That was the plan: At the end of 2021 it became clear: the Dane wants to know again. But despite all the efforts of TSM boss Reginald, they could no longer keep him at Team SoloMid, Bjergsen was drawn to “Team Liquid”.
The individual players of the team won a lot.
There he supplanted his compatriot “Jensen” and a strong team was bought for him:
Bjergsen competes with the oldest team in the league – competition is 4 years younger
What did you notice? Team Liquid had 4 Europeans and 1 South Korean under contract, all experienced players with big names. No one on the team was born in North America, and by LoL standards, the team was pretty old:
It was clear: Team Liquid should play for the championship, maybe even save the USA’s honor at the Worlds.
The team was really not made for the future.
Team fails 2nd time to Evil Geniuses, a team 4 years younger
How did it go then?? At first everything went well. The team was able to clearly win the regular season of the LCS with 14-4 in the spring. But in the playoffs the worm was in there:
But that was just spring, which doesn’t really count in LoL. I’m sure things would get better in the summer, right? The opposite was the case.
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In the league it was only enough for 3rd place. The “young teams”, 100 Thieves and Evil Geniuses won the regular time.
The playoffs were just like spring:
Both times, the “super team” failed because of the same two teams. Bjergsen’s dream at Worlds 2022 is over for now.
One of the defining fights that sealed Team Liquid’s fate.
Good players, but difficult teamwork
What was it? The team lacked consistency from the start. Once they wiped out top teams of the LCS in passing, then again they messed up games against supposedly easy competitors.
In an interview with Dexerto, jungler Santorin explains that you felt how high the expectations of the super team were:
“You can definitely feel the pressure. You are expected to win the whole thing and be a super team and crush everyone. And I think those expectations put the team in a position where you meet the expectations or you don’t.”
According to Santorini, the individual players are extremely good, but it just doesn’t work well as a team.
Supporter CoreJJ said in an interview with Inven on August 9th that building teamwork would be difficult because all 5 players would have a different perspective on the game.
Bjergsen ended the season on Twitter with the words: “My fault. Disappointing year for us.”
That’s behind it: There really seems to be a lesson from the current season that “bought together” teams of star players don’t work in LoL, but that it’s hugely important that teams have a hierarchy and follow a shared vision of how they view LoL and want to play together.
Like Bjergsen in the US, star player in Europe Perkz has failed with the idea of assembling a “super team” around them:
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