{"id":19706,"date":"2022-04-18T21:55:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T01:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=19706"},"modified":"2022-04-18T21:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T01:55:27","slug":"the-guard-star-denied-music-access-during-vct-masters-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/the-guard-star-denied-music-access-during-vct-masters-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guard star denied music access during VCT Masters loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guard suffered a loss to Paper Rex on Saturday at <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/valorant\/\" title=\"VALORANT esports betting\">VALORANT<\/a> Champions Tour 2022 Stage 1 Masters Reykjav\u00edk. The American-based team were swept by their Singapore counterparts, losing both maps.\u2028<\/p>\n<p>\u2028Coach Mathew &#8220;mCe&#8221; Elmore has ruled the loss as a result of the inability of the team&#8217;s rising star, Trent &#8220;trent&#8221; Cairns, to listen to music during the competition. While he has always been listening to music during his games prior to this time, he was prevented from doing so at the VCT Masters Reykjav\u00edk in Iceland. \u2028\u2028His go-to method of reducing edginess and retaining focus was apparently not allowed on LAN. <\/p>\n<p>With his ability to listen to music hampered, the 17-year old couldn&#8217;t perform at his best, thereby losing the game.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>His coach &#8211; a.k.a. &#8216;the Guard-father&#8217; &#8211; disclosed in an interview the difficulties the team have had to face adapting to LAN in Reykjavik, as compared to their boot camp in Texas. These differences he suggested would be addressed if the players learn to adapt to the &#8220;standard setups&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2028\u2028\u201cThe guys have got to get used to more standard setups,\u201d mCe suggested. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrent listens to music while he plays, and [he wasn\u2019t] allowed to listen to music here. It could be a nerves thing that helps him calm down, and these are things that we learned that were too late to try and switch.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our young team has learned a lot from our first international LAN tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VCT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VCT<\/a> journey is not over &#8211; today simply marks the start of our preparation for Stage 2. We&#39;ll see you all there!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StandGuard?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StandGuard<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WXPxoirrHD\">pic.twitter.com\/WXPxoirrHD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Guard (@TheGuard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGuard\/status\/1515452949945847812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>\u2028\u2028When trent found out he was not allowed to listen to music, he was shocked. So was mCe when he found out that his player had been beating the best of NA VALORANT with music blasting as his focus tool. The player&#8217;s talent was witnessed during the NA Challengers group stage and playoffs as he solidified himself as a rising star. \u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found out when we got here he was listening to music,\u201d mCe said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday mid-match he opened Spotify and realized that he was actually super nervous and uncomfortable. He asked the admin if he could play music, [but] the admin said \u2018no&#8217;.\u201d\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>The coach admitted that all his players, including Michael &#8220;neT&#8221; Bernet, Jacob &#8220;valyn&#8221; Batio, Jonah &#8220;JonahP&#8221; Pulice, and Ha &#8220;Sayaplayer&#8221; Jung-woo, were nervous, but trent had it worse with Masters Reykjavik being his first event on the big stage.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think [trent\u2019s level of play] was as bad as trent thought,\u201d mCe said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he didn\u2019t play up to his level and I think he got in his head because of it. Comments online are pretty brutal anytime you lose anything like this and I think it definitely got to the guys a little bit.\u201d\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>It was deduced that the young player&#8217;s playlist will likely include songs from Kanye West and Juice WRLD, but more especially those from Lil Uzi Vert. <\/p>\n<p>The Guard-father has resorted to having the players take a well-deserved break as they have been very active since January 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u2028<a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guard suffered a shock loss in Reykjavik at the weekend, with Trent &#8220;trent&#8221; Cairns not permitted to listen to music during the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":17472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,1902,1896,1903,1150,1904],"class_list":["post-19706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-mathew-mce-elmore","tag-the-guard","tag-trent-trent-cairns","tag-valorant","tag-vct-2022-stage-1-masters-reykjavik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19709,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19706\/revisions\/19709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}