Although Worlds has only just finished, the off-season drama is already in full swing. Most of the off-season drama we get each year stems from players leaving an organization and writing up a manifesto on why said organization sucks. Sometimes it’s former teammates trash-talking each other. However, this year’s drama has already begun, stemming from a few simple Tweets.
After Fnatic’s devastating loss in the Worlds Finals against Invictus Gaming, Fnatic’s head coach Youngbuck posted the following message on Twitter.
The team lived from hotel to hotel for 7-8 weeks and it took its toll on us in combination with a schedule filled with too much practice and too little time off. Lesson learned for the future. 2/2
— Joey Steltenpool (@JoeyYoungbuck) November 4, 2018
Although some fans responded by stating that this was simply an excuse, this statement is not really the start of all the drama The real drama stems of Wunder’s response to the statements. The G2 top laner said the following.
I think that FNC reached their goal or overreached and didn’t feel the hunger to win worlds
— Martin Hansen (@G2Wunder) November 3, 2018
Now to some fans, it might seem that this is an extremely disrespectful statement made by Wunder. However, it was actually Youngbuck that said this about G2 during an interview, following G2’s loss against IG. Youngbuck could’ve just ignored Wunder’s reaction and written it off as a joke or meme but his ego got the better of him. He escalated the entire situation by Tweeting back to Wunder with a pretty rude statement.
The difference between us and you is that your team was smiling, laughing, and joking around the moment you guys got backstage immediately after losing
— Joey Steltenpool (@JoeyYoungbuck) November 4, 2018
Obviously, such a statement should never be said by a head coach, especially one that’s part of such a respectable organization as Fnatic. Youngbuck is basically implying that G2 didn’t feel bad for losing on the Worlds stage while this is probably far from the truth. A few smiles while walking backstage does not at all mean that G2 was happy to lose the game.
Wunder did not try to de-escalate the situation either and responded by claiming that Fnatic’s players aren’t hungry to win either since they troll during scrims.
Very known way to cope with a loss? Maybe if you guys were THAT hungry to win you would control your players when they troll in scrims ?
— Martin Hansen (@G2Wunder) November 4, 2018
The juicy off-season drama did not stop there though as Sheepy, the head coach of former LCS organization Unicorns Of Love called out Youngbuck for the awful statement he made towards Wunder.
What a repulsive answer from one to be considered the greatest coach. Reminds me of when you called Csacsi, Xerxe, Exileh, Samux, Hyli lazy +not taking their craft seriously because we didn’t soloQ one day before finals.
That’s not elitism. That’s condescending and disrespectful.— Fabian Mallant (@SheepyLoL) November 4, 2018
Luckily Ocelote, the CEO of G2, stayed quite reasonable and responded with a respectful statement saying that it would be best to stay respectful towards each other.
With all due respect, Joey.. trying to keep good spirits right after a loss is a very common default mechanism versus defeat. All our players work so fucking hard and so do yours. Let’s not be ridiculous here!
You called him out on an interview and then you got memed. Thats all.
— Carlos – ocelote (@CarlosR) November 4, 2018
Hopefully, this marks the start of a new hate-fueled rivalry between the two teams and an off-season full of League of Legends drama and trash-talking.
