zeek benched by Team Heretics

The changes in the different VALORANT organizations competing in the different regions of the world continue. However, this time, Team Heretics has decided to bench former 2021 World Champion Aleksander “zeek” Zygmunt.

This move comes after Team Heretics has had an extremely bad start in the VCT EMEA League, as they are currently at the bottom of the overall leaderboard with a 1-5 record. Therefore, for Team Heretics to qualify for the playoffs and win every game, they must hope for a miracle.

Team Heretics sends zeek to the bench

Through an official statement via social media, Team Heretics announced that zeek, former VALORANT Champions 2021 champion, is sent to the team’s bench.

This change is surprising for fans of the team and the league in general. Moreover, we should remember that the transfer window closed last March 26, so the team cannot add a new player to the starting lineup.

On the other hand, let’s remember that C9 made some changes in its lineup a few days before the start of the VCT Americas League. KCorp, however, has been suffering because some of their players left the team, and now, they will have to play with their coach until the end of the season, that is, until September.

Just like Karmine Corp, Team Heretics will now have to play with their second coach, Brandon “weber” Weber, until the end of the season. The team’s official statement has a somewhat strong statement surrounding the situation, as the team alleges “personality mismatches.”. In addition, they also point out that they know that weber does not have the same experience as zeek, but they are confident that he will be able to adapt to his new role and make the best of it.

Zeek impressed in 2021

Recall that zeek was one of the players who impressed the most when he played for Acend in 2021. The 21-year-old was one of the key pillars of the team to win the VALORANT Champions 2021 and also won the MVP of the tournament.

With all this uproar on social media, zeek has decided to stay on the sidelines and not make any comments or posts. However, he did use the same GIF that Jaccob “yay” Whiteaker used in a response when he was cut from Cloud9’s lineup. For those who don’t remember, the GIF is that of AS Roma’s Serie A TIM coach Jose Mourinho, where he says he can’t talk about his situation or he will get in trouble.

On the other hand, this is not the first time that zeek has been unexpectedly sent to the bench of an organization of the highest level. Recall that before joining Acend, the player was also inexplicably benched by G2 Esports. But, then, we all know the level increase he had in that season.

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