Become The Champion Of The Samsung Galaxy Gaming Academy, The GRD Team Will Participate In The 2023 Esports President's Cup

Photo : Team GRD Esports (photo: Dinda Buana/VOI)

JAKARTA - After successfully defeating Pat's Esports with a final score of 3-1, the GRD esports team was finally officially named the winner of the Samsung Galaxy Gaming Academy playoffs, organized by Samsung Indonesia and KINCIR.

The Samsung Galaxy Gaming Academy is a search for the Mobile Legends esports team: Bang Bang who bridged the dreams of casual players and gave them the opportunity to practice and compete like Pro Players.

As winners, the teams containing five players, namely Hanifan Octoza Al Fadli (SkyyZAa), Edvan Marcellino (LeoVan), Muhammad Daffa Ramadhan (Belovaz), Muhammad Miftah Hidayat (Dayyzee) and Fauzan Khotib (Myuuzasanqt) are entitled to an exclusive contract as the Galaxy Team.

Amazingly, the team, which initially met in one Depok community, was also entitled to a wildcard at the 2023 Esports President's Cup tournament to immediately show off their skills.

Ahead of its inaugural big match, the GRD team will be directly guided by Yosua Sanger or who is familiarly called Coach Tezet as the Galaxy Coach, for mental preparation and effective strategy to fight the pro players later.

"Surely we will do very intensive training, with the facilities that have been provided," said Coach Tezet during a press conference on Saturday, August 5.

Selain itu, Rangga Danu selaku CEO KINCIR juga menegaskan bahwa mereka akan menyiapkan seluruh fasilitas yang mapu, guna mendukung proses latihan tim GRD menjelang Piala Presiden Esports 2023.

"We will provide qualified facilities. This opportunity must be utilized as well as possible. Because not everyone can get a presidential trophy wild card in 2023," said Rangga further.

The GRD team also admitted that they would take advantage of this opportunity as much as possible to be ready to compete with the pro players later.

"We usually before the tournament become a Galaxy team, we practice ourselves, mentally, the bonding itself too. Now we happen to get coach, so we maximize it to enter the President's Cup later," said Fauzan.

The most anticipated pro team in the 2023 Esports President's Cup

When asked about the pro players team that was most anticipated to compete together, Fauzan admitted that ONIC Esports.

"ONIC, because it's still strong, right. Well, the hope is that we can provide our best gameplay. We will let you know that the community team can also develop, you can want esports teams in league one, namely MPL," he concluded.