It seems for now the news has settled so here we go
(For TLDR Read number 5, 12, 14):
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Muggle said this during EDG champs run: “S1mon deserves a lot of credit, because he is someone who, when he first joined, before throwing every utility he would comm it to you, like he said, he’d keep flashing his teammates, but that actually, makes the team deliberately wait for the utility, or in other words, if you ignore my comm, you will get flashed and after that feedback happens enough, everyone naturally knows that at this moment they need to wait for utility before pushing out”
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EDG win champs
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EDG struggle in bangkok and stage 1
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S1Mon is then randomly subbed out of EDG for Jieni7
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S1Mon starts shit talking (through implications) EDG saying that the team environment is so toxic, that they threw him under the bus blaming him, that they exclude him from everything, leaking wechat messages to fans
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S1Mon fans start question EDG and flame the players and especially the coaches
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S1Mon then doesnt go to the VCT Arena and dodges all promotional content regarding EDG
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Aqua (EDG Manager), does a live stream addressing the situation and says that S1Mon made this decision, and that he is still officially the 6th man of EDG, he continues on saying that Jieni will replace s1mon uptill toronto because S1Mon is not working hard, while the jieni is out there hard grinding.
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Jieni (who I can back up as a hard worker, and supported by many popular streamers), was a duelist main but is praccing as other roles in order to help the team (which is what s1mon actually did for EDG intially, but he doesnt seem to want to do that anymore)
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S1Mon then goes and messages EDG managment, throwing the rest of EDG under the bus (especially calling out smoggy and nobody) saying they dont practice aim that much but its okay for them? But not okay for me? (These messages will be brought up again)
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Kangkang, smoggy and chichoo throughout the whole thing is defending or in agreeance with Aqua, and said that they prefered playing with Jieni (nobody was sleeping)
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EDG players then release full statements about the situation (TLDR: S1Mon is consistely fooling around in practice (on his phone), asking what he should do, being lost, not comming at all, not interacting with the team unless being asked to)
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S1Mon fans start doxxing Smoggy
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S1Mon goes on stream, defending himself, and pulls out all the wechat messages (confirming the wechat messages by aqua to be true) basically blaming smoggy again for doing the same lack of practice and that its unfair (conversations about proofs and camera pop up, and its pretty much confirmed that s1mon will leave EDG by toronto and either go back to taiwan or a different team)
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Haodong says that EDG must adjust their mental, and that he still wants to go to toronto with his brothers, saying what is there to explode about? That he has been with his 4 brothers for a long time without upsetting them
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TYL Sword9 (prev EDG sub) shows supporting for kangkang and says that if you are with the core 4 of EDG you are really blessed with an opportunity, why waste it?
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BLG Whzy says that besides fighting with nobody (as a joke) all the EDG players are super chill and havent done anything wrong
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Danking says that EDG are all fellow world champions, there shouldnt be a reason to fight like this online
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Zmjjkk Aurafarms by saying that he wants to win even if he quits in a few years, he wants to stop the hate coming his way and enjoy his time
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EDG has made an offical statement about the doxxing of players and is now taking legal actions (Smoggy also asked for people not to knock at his door apologising) and put out a bounty for anyone to catch the person for cash reward
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Whole chat with aqua and s1mon got leaked, basically saying: "You did not practice" "ah but I did" "I told you to go practice x" "nuh uh" "I did practice x" "I looked at the footage buddy, u didnt "reply to me" "I did" "you didnt"
Overview: The general consensus is that all the past chinese pros and coaches who have interacted and worked with EDG said there has been 0 problems and the fact EDG members are being this serious means something very irregular (implying S1Mon is at fault), S1Mon from what I see doesnt really have anyone backing him besides small percentage of fans, no big names.
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