Sidste sæsons 3’er i Eurocup’en, svenske QPO, har på samme måde som danske w6 haft lidt mandefald i spillertruppen. Årsagen til at desp har valgt at forlade QPO, er egentlig den samme, som lå bag Anubis’ afgang fra w6. Omend tonen i denne situation er noget mere positiv.
QPO har kommenteret sagen på deres hjemmeside:

After some month in QPO Desp has decided to leave us.

This has nothing to do with us not comming along or anything, it’s just that he lives in a diffrent city (Jönköping) about 30 miles from Stockholm. This creates some problems; we wan’t to learn to communicate only verbaly in the same room and leave the teamsays behind us, and playing with desp in a remote location wasn’t really a step forward in the tactics. Due to this he wasn’t allowed to play any official matches from home, but welcome as often as he wanted to Stockholm and play from here.

As we wanted to improve our tactics not only in the official games we played almost all the practice clanwars with the ‘regulars’ from nine, leaving desp not much of an option. He could stay in QPO beeing more less an observer since he couldn’t get up to Stockholm very often, or join another clan and take care of his skill. This is what he has done, and we don’t blame him for this at all. We just wan’t to thank him for his time in QPO and wish him the best with the other _really_ nice guys in eyeballers – now with even a more cruel team!

Some words from desp: “I wan’t to thank for my really great time here in QPO and it so far been the best time in my gaming carrer. I leave you with my best of luck and good luck in the future! Cya doods!”

Som det fremgår har desp valgt at forlade QPO pga. manglende spilletid. Det er en situation som opstår i mange klaner, idet man som regel har et 1. hold, og det hold spiller alle vigtige kampe. På det niveau som QPO befinder sig, spilles der stort set ikke kampe som ikke er vigtige (læs: træning er også “seriøst” på det plan).

Der er behov for et toptunet teamplay og fuld udnyttelse af de kommunikationsmuligheder man har til rådighed. Forståeligt at desp vælger at forlade QPO og det er jo heller ikke just en tilfældig klan, som han har valgt at joine i stedet for. QPO’s udtalelse bør nok få det til at løbe koldt ned ad ryggen på de øvrige EC V deltagere, de virker meget seriøse og tændte, så jeg håber satme at Vikings har fået slebet økserne!

Bemærk i øvrigt at QPO udmærker sig ved stort set altid at udtale sig i positive vendinger uanset om det er gået dem godt eller skidt. En ting som mange af os nok kunne lære lidt af.