“Magtitimpla Kami ng Lason”: Coach Bon Chan Plots Twisted Minds’ Playoff Gambit
Twisted Minds Philippines had clinched a lower bracket slot for the Playoffs—a lifeline in a brutal league. But if anyone thought this team would enter the postseason as lambs to the slaughter, they hadn’t spoken to its tactician.
After suffering a 0-2 defeat in the hands of defending world champions ONIC Philippines, Twisted Minds’ Coach Bon Chan stood with a quiet fire in his eyes as he spoke to ALL-STAR.
“After ng regular season, syempre ayaw kong pumasok kami ng Playoffs nang wala kaming baon. Ayaw kong lumaban kami nang patas—gusto ko pagpasok namin ng playoffs, may nakahanda kami,” Coach Bon Chan declared. “After ng regular season, magtitimpla kami ng lason.”
(After the regular season, of course I don’t want us entering the Playoffs empty-handed. I don’t want us fighting fair—I want us to have poison ready once we step into the Playoffs. After the regular season, we’ll be brewing poison.)
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t’s the same cunning that once led Blacklist International to a world title. Now, he is distilling that venom into Twisted Minds, a squad that began the season as outsiders, underestimated by fans and analysts alike.
“Kailangan mas lalo silang ma-motivate dahil bago nagsimula ang season na ito, sobrang hindi ganoon kaganda ang tingin sa kanila ng mga fans,” he said.
(They need to be even more motivated because before this season started, the fans didn’t think much of them.)
“Kailangan, regardless kung ano yung mga napatunayan nila, kung sino sila, at kung saan sila nanggaling, makakapalag at makakapalag sila pagdating ng tamang oras.”
(Regardless of what they’ve proven, who they are, and where they came from, they should be able to fight back when the time is right.)
And the time is fast approaching. The MPL PH Season 15 Playoffs run from May 28 to June 1. The format is unforgiving—one mistake in the lower bracket could mean elimination. But Coach Bon Chan thrives in pressure cookers. For him, the underdog narrative is not a curse but camouflage.
When asked whether the public’s low expectations of Twisted Minds could be an advantage, he answered with calculated realism.
“Sana. Pero sa tingin ko, hindi magiging off-guard yung mga teams dahil kapag tinignan nila yung history namin like last season, ganoon din yung kalagayan namin, nakabawi pa kami. Paghahandaan nila kami.”
(Hopefully. But I don’t think the other teams will be caught off guard because if they look at our history like last season, we were in the same situation and still managed a comeback. They’ll prepare for us.)
This isn’t just gamesmanship. It’s psychological warfare, and Coach Bon Chan is drawing the blueprints. While others might count stats and scrim logs, he brews poison—carefully, quietly, lethally.
Twisted Minds may have just made it through the backdoor of the Playoffs, but with Bon Chan at the helm, that door could swing wide open to something far more sinister.
