Sephy On Scouting DPS Talent Like Sinatraa & Dafran, Coaching The Shock, And More | GGRecon Podcast
50Brad “Sephy” Rajani has been around esports and specifically Overwatch for a while. Starting his career as a semi-professional in various games in the 90s and the 2000s, he switched to coaching and created the organisation Selfless, a name the seasoned Overwatch fan might recognise as one of the most iconic teams of early Overwatch esports. Catching players at the spawn door of their career, Brad has built several cradles for some of North America’s finest talents especially for the DPS role, scouting names like Dafran, Sinatraa, Kevster, and more. While also managing to persuade elite players in the role to join his teams every season.
In this first part of the interview with GGRecon, the DPS whisperer talked to us about how he found his way into esports, creating Selfless and building out the roster, what toxicity means to him, his coaching philosophy, the importance of ranked play and the grind, his time on the Shock, getting with the Reign and their first season, and the experiences he had with coaching Dafran.
Part 2 - https://youtu.be/QG0kg6_Fv10
0:00 - Intro
Brad’s Life-Long Passion
2:17 - How did Brad get to esports?
3:47 - Brad’s way to coaching
5:33 - How much Overwatch Brad plays
6:04 - Is Brad interested in other games right now?
Selfless - Finding Dafran and Sinatraa
8:01 - Scouting Selfless including Sinatraa and Dafran
The Ideal Player and Team Environment
16:09 - What’s a “toxic” player?
21:23 - What’s a productive environment in an esports team like?
24:35 - Getting Carpe to Selfless
27:50 - What would have happened with Selfless in Korea?
30:23 - Scouting and Helping Kevster
34:27 - Sugarfree
36:37 - Similarities between his DPS star players
39:07 - Building the Shock
41:37 - Bringing on Super
Did Brad lay the Foundation for the Shock’s Success?
44:07 - Scouting ChoiHyoBin and Architect
49:12 - Moth as the ultimate support
51:42 - Are aggressive main supports the way to go?
53:00 - Being let go for the Shock
Last Night’s Leftovers
55:47 - Silence, Mentalist, and LegitRC
Atlanta Reign in Season 2
58:59 - How did Brad land the job at the Reign?
1:04:12 - Did Brad believe GOATs had staying power?
1:07:22 - Could Dragon’s triple DPS be beaten by GOATs?
1:12:57 - Dogman’s smack-talk
Dafran’s Magic
1:15:02 - Dafran wanting to quit pre-season 2
1:17:37 - Dafran’s time on the Reign
1:21:17 - Replacing Dafran
1:22:32 - Babybay compared to Dafran
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