TEAM TEAM, the team that qualified for MDL Disneyland Paris, now has only three members after Nico “Gunnar” Lopez and Jason “Newsham” Newsham were kicked from the team. Both of these players were on the roster for the Major qualifiers and won one of three Major spots in the North American region.
However, Jacky “EternaLEnVy” Mao, one of the new members of the team, decided these two were not part of the plan and kicked them out while the members were still playing ESL One Mumbai in India. . ESL One Mumbai was seen as a practice tournament for teams (with Keen Gaming winning the championship), including TEAM TEAM, but things soon turned into a battleground for the community.
According to Gunnar, he and Newsham partly predicted they would get kicked, but it was planned after the Major. He explained on the ESL One stream that they sat together after the qualifiers and everyone agreed they would both leave after the Major.
“We were threatened with getting kicked before the event. They said we would be playing at ESL One Mumbai and the Major, but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore,” Gunnar said, adding that he felt it was a “private” matter between him and EnVy. “EnVy doesn’t like me”, is what Gunnar said.
In the next episode of the show, Kyle Freedman talks about this incident and how he feels about EternaLEnVy.
Kyle said “it’s time for everyone to stop cheering for the villain” (meaning EE in kicking the members out). After his response, people in the community started sharing their opinions.
We start with EnVy in our defense. He said he “doesn’t hate Gunnar.”
I don’t dislike Gunnar
— EternaLEnVy (@EternaLEnVy1991) April 21, 2019
EG’s Tai “Fly” Aizik then agreed with Kyle’s words.
I enjoyed the whole protagonist analogy regarding the TT situation @keepingitKyle
Well said!
— Tal Aizik (@Fly_dota2) April 21, 2019
Samuel “Sammyboy” Anderson, who was replaced by EternaLEnVy a few weeks ago at TEAMTEAM, is also upset about this. He thinks Gunnar and Newsham deserved to be at the Major and asked Valve to intervene, and believes the drama will calm down after a week if people don’t take it seriously.
im so dissapointed in mike and brax, after all that talk… I get it it’s a business but @Gunnardota and @NewshamDota deserve to go to the major. Seriously fuck yourselves, valve needs to step in this ain’t right. They earned this…
— Samuel Anderson (@SammyboyGG) April 20, 2019
Watching people defend EE on reddit without realizing how scummy he is behind the public eye xD cool
— Samuel Anderson (@SammyboyGG) April 20, 2019
this tt kick actually makes my blood fucking boil, because nothing will be done and in 1 week it will be all fucking memes and they won’t get to play the major they qualified for and that’s the truth. like it’s so messed up, just like with Gambit before them and so on.
— Samuel Anderson (@SammyboyGG) April 21, 2019
Peter “ppd” Dager, former TI champion and former captain and CEO of Evil Geniuses, now competing in Europe, expressed his frustration about the drama. According to ppd, Mumbai was seen as a place for the team to practice more before the Paris Major, but in the end because of the bottom of the group, the two members of the team were not allowed to attend the Major anymore.
Hey team wanna go to Mumbai for some extra practice before the Paris Major???
Sounds like fun and a good idea. ?
*Last place* but at least we got some LAN experience! ?
You two aren’t going to Paris anymore. ?
— Peter Dager (@Peterpandam) April 21, 2019
Ben “Noxville” Steenhuisen pointed out Valve’s poor regulation of allowing situations like this to happen and sparking new controversies on Twitter.
Yet another truly shit situation which is only possible because a multi-billion dollar refuses to create and enforce rules for it’s professional circuit.
Disgusting.
— Ben Steenhuisen (@followNoxville) April 21, 2019
The problem is one effectively Valve can only fix – nobody else has the power to do so.
“most players actually want …” – sure, and there should be rules on how this works, how prize money is distributed in such circumstances.
— Ben Steenhuisen (@followNoxville) April 21, 2019
Damien “kpii” Chok also joked that, unless there is a billionaire who pays for that team to let him go to the Major with them, Valve will not change the DPC rule.
Maybe after some billionaire’s son pays some team to let him play at a major we will have clear dpc rules
— Damien Chok (@kpiidota) April 21, 2019
Jonathan “Loda” The legendary Berg also hopes the DPC regulation must be changed.
Wouldn’t it be great if teams that qualified for the Major had to go with the same lineup they qualified with?
The only case were standings should be allowed is due to health issues, VISA problems or mb a death in the family.
— Jonathan Berg (@LodaBerg) April 21, 2019
William “Blitz” Lee lamented Gunnar’s attempt to win the Major but ended up facing Drama instead of going to Paris.
Sad
— william (@Blitz_DotA) April 21, 2019
The final days of the ESL Mumbai tournament saw sad news. Here’s Gunnar’s latest pizza party, an EE meme from the Fnatic era.
The ordering is a bit weird but @Gunnardota got his pizza party after all. pic.twitter.com/hP6038TpZL
— Ben Steenhuisen (@followNoxville) April 21, 2019
Pizza party with @Gunnardota #ESLOneMumbai pic.twitter.com/icnpLHje9q
— Matt Joyce (@DanogDota) April 21, 2019
According to Vpesports
EternaLEnVy blames Valve for the lack of communication in the Ohaiyo case
Source link: Pizza Party 2: Community reacts to EternaLEnVy’s latest kick decision
– https://emergenceingames.com/
