Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont interviewed Anyone’s Legend head coach Wong ‘Tabe’ Pak Kan live in Vancouver at MSI 2025. In a wide-ranging discussion with topics that ranged from draft discussions to managing player emotion, Tabe revealed his team’s relentless schedule and how EU LoL can recover from its competitive nadir.
Anyone’s Legend’s brutal practice schedule
Following discussion of AL’s MSI victory over CFO, Caedrel asked Anyone’s Legend’s practice schedule. Caedrel asked the Chinese coach, “In Europe, we do maybe one or two blocks a day of scrims, in China, how many blocks of scrims do you do?”
The AL head coach replied, “We are a very hard-working team. Two blocks is impossible, three blocks is common sense. For me, 2 PM, 7 PM and 10 PM, so our resting time is maybe 12 AM-1 PM, and after that we will play ranked from 3-4 PM.” The LPL number 1 seed coach clarified that the scrims are blocks of five matches.
“We’ll never eat breakfast because we wake up at 1:30 PM. 5-7 PM, we have dinner and one and a half hours to sleep.”
While it may be ‘all work and no play’ for AL, the coach revealed his pressure release mechanism: A nice walk and looking at the dogs.
“We never rest. Sometimes we will feel very tired and frustrated. I will take my team, go for a walk. In Vancouver, there are very nice views. We’ll go for a walk, look at the sea and look at the lovely pets. There are many doggies! Then I will say, ‘Now we are human.'”
AL Tabe advice to EU LoL: “If you’re lazy, you have no hope at all.”
The conversation seemed to only reiterate that EU have a mountain to climb simply to return to a competitive level. Certainly, Caedrel’s chat was not too optimistic when Tabe was reflecting on AL’s schedule, with chat spamming “EU washed” or variations of it in the face of being severely outcompeted by the LPL team’s work rate.
However, the Chinese coach did offer his advice to EU following questions from the British streamer and Los Ratones owner.
When asked, “What’s one piece of advice you would give to Europe?”, AL Tabe gave a mixture of analysis and general advice to the EU LoL rosters, hoping to recover from a disastrous MSI. EU failed to win a single series in the main event of MSI, with G2 barely squeaking through the play-ins against GAM.
“I think it is very unfortunate for G2 and MKOI. I think the most important thing is to dig into why they lost. Most of the time, they are not losing from the draft; maybe it is the in-game decision-making.”, the AL head coach reflected.
“Sometimes I think maybe the lanes are not tough enough. If you want to move to a higher level and beat the better teams, your landing phase and decision-making… for example, you have to be quicker, three or four seconds. The tempo is very important.”
The analysis lines up with questions of coordination and synergy existing within G2, especially. However, Tabe’s last advice was not to let the losses go without scrutiny, emphasising reflection and hard work.
“I think if EU players invest more time into thinking why they lost, they will improve, because, for example, my team, we really invest a lot of time. It is tiring, but if you invest time, you have hope. If you’re lazy, you have no hope at all.”
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Darragh Harbinson is an esports writer specialising in Counter-Strike. He has written for Esports News UK, Esports Insider, UKCSGO, Dexerto, and Rush B Media.
