You guys must be saying it's a bad move for EDG to bench S1Mon, well, that's what I thought earlier too, but now, hear his 4 past teammates out:
Nobody: "At the beginning, when fans were demanding an explanation from the club, the club still tried to hold back — they wanted to protect the player.
They didn’t want to publicly criticize anyone, thinking maybe there was still room to work things out, that it hadn’t reached that point yet.
But what did that lead to? Indulgence — and public opinion spiraling out of control.
Now fans are being used as weapons, attacking us and the coaches indiscriminately.
Everyone came back from Masters feeling regret, but during scrims and matches, the things we talked about couldn’t be remembered.
Every time we played, it was always questions like, “Where do I stand? How do I play this?”
During reviews, you wouldn’t speak. You had no ideas to share.
Even utility had to be arranged by teammates or coaches.
Your performance at Champs was undoubtedly good — but how much did the others put in?
This path has been two years in the making.
Everyone built up momentum over two years, everyone went all out.
It was a fight we all gave our everything for.
But at Champs, we had to constantly coddle you just to get through it — fine, we let it go.
But at Kickoff and Bangkok too? Still needed coddling?
No matter if we won or lost, if your stats weren’t good, you'd say “I don’t want to play anymore, just replace me.”
That’s exactly what you said, right?
No one initially planned to bench you.
We talked it through — if you worked hard, you'd definitely have a chance to play again.
But the very first day you were moved down, you asked, “Does that mean I don’t have to wake up for practice tomorrow?”
During scrims, you’d just play on your phone.
You didn’t participate in reviews.
You didn’t say a word to the coaches.
You didn’t even show up at the venue during matches.
You were the one who gave up on yourself — and that’s what led to the situation we’re in now."
ZmjjKK: "So during streams, you suddenly don’t have a hard time expressing yourself like you do in scrims?
If you spoke even one-fifth as much in training as you do on stream, none of us would’ve wanted you to leave.
So really, who’s the one that made you become like this?
On stream, you make it look like we’re isolating you, but during practice when everyone’s discussing and chatting, you don’t engage with us at all.
Do you still remember the game against G2?
After the match, everyone was comforting you — you sat below the stage complaining that you “couldn’t shoot.”
When we went back on stage, I tried to cheer you up, and you gave me attitude.
Even during the match, you only said one sentence to everyone:
“I can’t shoot.”
Then you didn’t care about anything else.
We can’t keep playing matches by constantly coddling someone.
We all once hoped to fight side by side until retirement — otherwise I wouldn’t have said, “I want to win the Grand Slam with all the bros there.”
Let me say the same thing again — I said it to you before, and I’ll say it again now:
There are plenty of talented people out there, but only those who seize the opportunity can go further.
'How many people die at 20 and regret it for the rest of their lives?'"
CHICHOO: "Work is not a joke — results are our top priority. But the premise is that everyone has to be united.
If there really wasn’t a problem, why change people? Is it that we don’t want to win?
When there’s no communication during scrims and matches, have you ever thought about how much others want to achieve good results?
Also, don’t spread false rumors about the coaching staff and Tuanzi (EDG's manager)— they all have families to support and their own pressures to bear. Everyone is doing this to make a living, so how could they be careless about it?
Wishing everyone the best — see you on the stage!"
Smoggy: "First of all, what I’m curious about is — why are people saying that Xu (Nobody) and I don’t practice aim?
Everyone has their own way of aim training. Ever since we got back from Bangkok, Xu (Nobody) and I have been practicing almost exactly the same way as Qiu (CHICHOO). Whatever Qiu (CHICHOO) trains, we train the same.
Before, I never practiced using external tools, like shooting small balls or clicking on numbers.
But Qiu (CHICHOO)’s performance in Bangkok made me realize that maybe I was wrong — maybe I do need to make use of external tools to get stronger.
Secondly, we don’t just keep grinding aim endlessly. Xu (Nobody) watches matches every day now. As an in-game leader, he’s already doing a lot. I’ve also started watching matches to improve my macro game.
I won’t aim-train just for the sake of aim-training — that kind of thing is meaningless to me.
The second point: When you first came to EDG, you should remember how KK treated you — how all of us treated you — you know this deep down.
But now, in scrims, KK talks to you and it’s always one-way — you basically don’t respond to his calls.
After scrims when we’re getting ready to stream, we’re the only ones who ask you to join us.
Have you ever once asked us to play together?
In the later stages, it’s always me taking the initiative to invite you — have you ever done the same for me?
After you became a sub, in the team room you basically don’t say a word.
If no one takes the initiative to talk to you, you really won’t say a single word.
But once the livestream starts, you instantly switch to “second form.”
Don’t you think this kind of behavior looks strange to the rest of us?
And now during your streams, you seem to subtly hint at things, express certain feelings.
Your fans pick up on that and massively amplify it, overanalyze it.
As someone directly involved, as part of the team, you haven’t taken any action to stop this.
You’ve just let fans or people who are here to stir up drama go wild with it — putting the club and the rest of us on the grill.
People change — I do too. After winning a championship, I’ve changed even faster.
But aren’t we all supposed to stick to our original goals and finish writing our story the right way?"
*Translated from ChatGPT from their original Sina Weibo posts, original link right here:
Nobody: https://weibo.com/u/6562486850text
ZmjjKK: https://weibo.com/u/5931630841text
CHICHOO: https://weibo.com/u/2664970293text
Smoggy: https://weibo.com/u/6604513523text
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