Caliste Gunner is a very notable rookie at the First Stand 2025 tournament. The player born in 2006 has only appeared at LEC since the beginning of the 2025 season, previously played for Karmine Corp Blue, KC's youth team in the 2nd division of the EMEA area. However, Caliste and his teammates won the championship to attend the First Stand 2025 tournament.
At the first time playing at an international tournament, Caliste showed quite impressive. However, Karmine Corp still played unsuccessfully and lost to team Liquid (1-2) and CTBC Flying Oyster (0-2). After the match with the LCP representative, Caliste participated in the interview with Ithethao and shared the journey at First Stand to the present.
Commenting on the first time playing in an international tournament, Caliste commented that even though it was a little difficult, but in the end, everything returned to normal and the player felt quite confident when playing. The gunner also compared the place at LOL Park “more vibrant” than LEC Studio in Germany, and the team has received great support.
Talking about the match against CTBC Flying Oyster, Caliste confirmed that the team had played quite well in game 1, especially the road. However, the later mistakes made the team difficult and failed. However, the gunner born in 2006 still confirmed that the team did not only meet the right style and confidently could beat both teams before.
With the view that Karmine Corp was the weakest European team to attend the international tournament, Caliste was still confident that if the team was able to defeat other representatives in the region, certainly KC deserved to attend the First Stand 2025.
KC's young gunner also has views on the current meta, such as Fearless Draft, Caliste that the banned form of this choice is quite good and wishes to be applied in the future. Referring to the tactics of “changing the road”, this gunner confirmed that KC was not affected, because the team did not use this tactic. Finally, about the gunner that he felt “the most convenient”, Caliste revealed that he wanted to use the pressure champions on strong roads like Kalista or Draven, if there was a chance.
In the remaining two matches in the group stage, Caliste also praised both Top Esports and Hanwha Life Esports, rating these were the two “strongest” teams, though still confident that the team could win to look forward to the play-off round. Immediately after this match, Caliste and KC excellently won against the Top Esports 2-0 to raise hope to continue.
