Derrek: "I now understand why EG won Champs with Potter"

Today we chat to Derrek about his career! Having spent a good amount of time with Derrek during his 100T days, it was a lot of fun to catch up and see how things are going at EG.
00:00 Intro
02:00 Derrek's career pre-100t
09:10 The pressure of being a 100t player
12:00 Sean Gares as coach
20:00 First 4 opening style
24:00 Developing 100t 2022
30:00 Epic LCQ 2022 Run
35:00 Will & 100t style
48:00 Champions Istanbul 2022
1:06:30 Red Bull Homegrounds Manchester Win
1:08:43 LOCK//IN tournament
1:19:10 Performance struggles in 2023
1:31:30 Derrek's pre-performance routines
1:38:30 Evil Geniuses
1:54:00 Final words
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[@6jeewon]

If Derrek has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Derrek has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Derrek has only one fan then that is me. If Derrek has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Derrek, then I am against the world.

[@zowui]

I'm glad my boy Will is getting a lot of talk here. I really think that his removal from 100T impacted so much of how their performance was going. They had their own identity similar to LOUD now with Qck. Happy to see Derrek on a team that treats him well. Always been a big fan of him.

[@virtyyyy]

Derrek deserves everything good in life

[@shananguyen]

i’m so glad derrek is confident again 😁 he really deserves it he’s very humble and talented. wishing him the best of luck on EG!!

[@phenomenal9782]

Would love to see potter on here, derrek was great, good interview

[@alexanderk.9252]

Hype for this one 🎉🎉🎉

[@Maiko253]

Awesome to get some of the stories and background from these players! It makes you appreciate them so much more! Good stuff ddk

[@jimmcgrath1108]

2 of my favorite humans. Wish nothing but the best for both of these two!

[@floodyNumb]

ure the goat ddk, love ur dedication & content! never stop doing what u love please :D

[@ElBiebs]

Absolutely love the podcast. Got me nostalgic of the streams you'd do just before 100t played and derrick would pop in

[@Quadratics123]

Interesting hearing Derrek talk about the online commentary and how that adversely affected him. Such a consistent theme with many Valorant pros, Zekken literally just spoke about this and his struggles. These pro's are so young when they start and are exposed to something they might not be equipped to deal with. You would hope the teams/orgs behind them provide adequate support to deal with this kind of stuff.

[@spongebobsquarepants7388]

I'm just listening to Derrek talking about Apoth. I remember hearing Babybay talk about his own try-out for sentinel role on EG and Potter was telling him to get aggressive as fuck and take every timing and boy oh boy she hit the jackpot with Apoth. I remember watching him and just thinking this guy plays with absolutely zero fear. He looked extremely promising for a player new to tier 1, I'm interested to see how this EG team develops. Also, I'm a sentinel player who definitely suffers from being too passive, so I suppose I needed to see a guy playing like this 😅

[@tylink99]

goats

[@jojojojo2097]

dude.. duuude derrek is nasty

[@SirCarmelli]

Great video! They should have kept will

[@misterme1134]

Honestly it felt like Derrek was 1v5'ing against Loud on Sunset. If the rest of the other players were also playing atleast decently good it might have been an actually close map and thus a match. This man when surrounded by good players and an AMAZING Coach is sooooo good

[@jaguar5281]

Hey Daniel, pst, Potter when?

[@FeintMotion]

premium gaming content

[@sanders2strong]

elige in val would be NUTS

[@anixben]

Wild we almost got EliGe in Valorant

[@mcnub7379]

Never been earlier

[@markcioffi8903]

Scripting the first 4 rounds sounds sick tbh, i bet more teams will start using it after they hear about it

[@Terrell206]

I think MCE would script plays like derrek said

[@shananguyen]

i didn’t realize how fked champs was because of covid so unfortunate 😭

[@gamist8166]

I miss da aim content. I play valorant sometimes but less tac shooters more aim training/overwatch, its interesting to learn of val tourney life though. I jus got the maya and atlantis mini and actually preferred the atlantis mini. Big step 4 me cause I was on an hsk pro for over a year b4 this

[@markcioffi8903]

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