How valens Helped Cloud9 Make History on the Aimlabs Podcast!

Another new episode of the Aimlabs Podcast is now live! Wayne and Jimmy Lin chat with Soham “valens” Chowdhury, the former Cloud9 coach, data scientist, and all-around esports strategist, who now serves as the Head of Gaming & Data Science for Evil Geniuses. Explore his mischievous beginnings in gaming to becoming a pivotal figure behind C9’s historic CS:GO Major victory. This episode is packed with stories, coaching philosophies, and ranked tilt, it really has it all!

The episode kicks off Jimmy pressing valens on his early experiences with cheating in gaming, which is a fun listen, but it also provides a thoughtful perspective on integrity and the journey of improvement in esports. That leads the podcast to explore their respective origins with gaming and esports. So you can hear Wayne, Jimmy, and valens reflect on their beginnings in the gaming world, how their interests sparked, and the road bumps they hit along the way.

The guys also discuss coaching philosophy and data strategies, providing insights into valens’ approach to coaching and what contributed to that ELEAGUE Major win. They delve into the evolution of shooter games, discussing games like CS2, Call of Duty, VALORANT, and Marvel Rivals and their experiences with each over the years and more recently, and they dive into much more!

Head over to the Aimlabs Youtube channel to check out the full episode as well as previous episodes, such as Sentinels Coach kaplan’s appearance, or the first episode featuring VALORANT caster Vansilli!