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Dan “apEX” Madesclaire, two time major champion and the in-game leader of Team Vitality, is the star of the 275th Episode of ‘Reflections’.
A source player, apEX’s big break came in CS:GO. From pulling off upsets with Clan-Mystik and LDLC, apEX established himself as a world class entry player. Joining Titan and later Team EnVyUs his biggest career accomplishment came winning the Dreamhack Cluj-Napoca major with the team as the number one ranked side in the game.
Later years were more fallow but the G2 super-team would win ESL ProLeague S5 Finals and Dreamhack Masters Malmo in 2017. 2018 was a wash, even being benched for an experimental line-up, but forming what became Team Vitality, around prodigy ZywOo, was apEX’s ticket back to the top. In 2018 the team won cs_summit 4, ECS S5 and EPICENTER.
Taking over leadership duties as IGL of Vitality, apEX led the team to battle Astralis for the best team of 2020 – the online era. They reached a number of finals before eventually winning IEM Beijing Europe and BLAST Fall. 2021 was rough online but the arrival of LANs later in the year saw Vitality become a top three team and culminated with them winning IEM Winter.
2022 was rough, as the Astralis-infused international Vitality line-up only managed two finals and made no impact on the majors. Gaining Spinx allowed them to win ESL ProLeague S16 but then there were struggles before the team ticked over recently and won IEM Rio, the BLAST Paris major and finished second at BLAST Sring Finals.
In part two, apEX dicusses becoming an IGL, his relationship with XTQZZZ, the LAN line-up of 2021, zonic’s apporach to finding success in Vitality, why international teams need to play fast and the consistency of Magisk.
This interview was recorded on the 29th of May, 2023.
► Time-line of topics discussed:
00:00 Becoming an IGL
03:57 Vitality the best team of 2020?
11:23 XTQZZZ
17:31 Turning it around on LAN in 2021
22:15 Should they have kept the 2021 line-up?
23:55 Early struggles with the ex-Astralis players
29:38 zonic and his changing approach
38:23 Style in an international team
43:55 apEX is one of the best IGLs in the world?
50:15 Winning in France being like a movie
51:37 Magisk
59:24 Getting the best out of stars
1:06:01 Final words
Part one:
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