Millenium joined the Rainbow Six scene at the beginning of Year 2 of Pro League picking up the most successful French team, Yunktis, and has since been a staple of European Pro League. Most recently though, with the addition of Crapelle to the team as a coach as well as creating a newly remodelled roster of Joghurtzz, Renshiro, Liven, Hicks, risze and Sparxo (their analyst), Millenium has been able to push to be one of the best teams in the World once again by winning DreamHack Austin 2018 and almost defeating the World Champions, PENTA Sports, twice during the Pro League Season 7 online season.
Millenium’s coach, Crapelle, has been integral to the team’s many recent victories so we spoke to the man behind the players to see his and his team’s thoughts about the games:
Firstly, for those unaware of a coach's role in a team, can you explain what you do for the Millenium roster?
Last month your team won the first international title by a French team in 2 years; how did your team prepare for this event to win the DreamHack Austin title?
The Millenium team in their post-game interview after winning the DreamHack Austin title.
In the grand final of DreamHack Austin you played the probable favourites of Evil Geniuses whose coach, BKN, was unable to attend; how much of a difference do you think this made to the game itself?
After this victory and your performance at Atlantic City you went into the Coupe de France as one of the favourites, however, went out earlier than expected after losing to both DeathroW and Mock-it Esports. What factors led to these losses and do you think you’ve improved on them since?
Millenium’s route through the Coupe de France via Liquipedia
Your first Pro League game of Season 8 saw a draw against Orgless, the first draw of the European Season. What do you and your team think of this new match format?
Your next Pro League game will be against Chaos, a team which recently beat “i don’t know” in the OGA Pit tournament and drew against your regional rivals of Team Vitality in Pro League. How do you think this game will go?
Concerning “i don’t know” the team said prior to their OGA Pit match against ENCE eSports that they weren’t running strats; will Millenium be doing the same for your matches or can we expect some new and different strategies to be deployed?
Your first OGA matchup of the tournament will be against Vitality, the Coupe de France finalists, with a possible semi-final matchup against PENTA Sports, a team in which Millenium has never defeated. How confident are you going into these matchups?
Millenium’s Quarter and Semi Final matchups in the OGA Pit tournament via Liquipedia
Also coming up is the defence of your DreamHack title in DreamHack Valencia; are you doing any extra preparation for this event now that your group stage opponents have been confirmed?
Millenium’s DreamHack Valencia group stage opponents via Liquipedia
Finally, unlike many other teams Millenium has three members of staff in total; yourself as a coach, Tapis as a manager and Sparxo as an analyst. How much of an advantage do you think this gives your team over some of your counterparts?
You can watch Millenium next when they play Vitality this coming Wednesday in the OGA Pit quarter-finals or against Chaos during Pro League Season 8 this coming Thursday.