"I believe in my people": Team Vitality co-owner Neo on expectations for 2023, current League of Legends roster, and more (Exclusive)

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Fabien Devide, popularly known as Neo, is the co-owner and founder of Team Vitality. The organization competes at the highest levels in games like League of Legends and CS:GO. Undoubtedly, Team Vitality is arguably one of the most successful and influential esports organizations in current times.

Unfortunately, Vitality's League of Legends roster did not have an excellent year back in 2022, prompting Neo and the rest of his team to put in even more effort and bounce back in 2023. In an exclusive with Sportskeeda, Neo opened up about the issues the League of Legends roster faced in 2022 and how the team worked to set up something more stable for 2023.

Neo: I’m Fabien “ Neo” Devide. I founded Team Vitality in 2013. I am a pure OG of esports, meaning I spent more than half of my life in the industry. I started when I was 12, grinding and building up esports in France while also building Team Vitality to be the leading French organization in esports worldwide.

After ten years of following my passion, I now have a job where I oversee all the strategy for mostly the esports side of Team Vitality. However, I am like a Swiss Knife, overseeing marketing and community engagement.

Currently, I actively focus on ensuring that everyone working on a project is passionate about where it's heading while also ensuring that there are the proper guidelines in place to ensure that we engage with the esports community constructively.

Neo: Firstly, it was essential to understand what we were lacking and have a proper mental reset. Because even if we have one of the best teams on paper, we couldn't deliver results. So the first thing was to ensure that everyone was aligned, still motivated, and possessed the appetite to continue to compete. When