Dota 2 player under fire for kicking out teammate twice just before Disneyland Paris Major ESL, BeyondtheSummitUp-and-coming Dota 2 player Nico \u2018Gunnar\u2019 Lopez looked set to compete in the game\u2019s Disneyland Paris Major, but a fellow teammate may have squandered his chances \u2013 and a possible family trip. Gunnar was attending ESL One\u2019s Mumbai event when he was asked about his travel plans for the Paris Major, which he had already qualified for. Despite this fact, Gunnar claimed that he wouldn\u2019t be going \u2013 much to the incredulity of the tournament\u2019s hosts. \u201cI won\u2019t,\u201d Gunnar answered. \u201cMy family will. They\u2019re going to the Major without me.\u201d \u201cWait \u2013 let me get this straight,\u201d one caster replied. \u201cYour family bought tickets to go to Disneyland and watch you play? And now they\u2019re gonna be there and you\u2019re not?\u201d Why won\u2019t Gunnar be going to the Disneyland Paris Major? As it so happens, Gunnar had been a member of team \u2018FlyingPenguins\u2019 before getting reportedly booted from the org by teammate Jacky \u2018EternaLEnVy\u2019 Mao in favor of Eric \u2018Ryoya\u2019 Dong. Gunnar then joined team \u2018TEAM TEAM,\u2019 who later saw the addition of EternalEnvy after \u2018FlyingPenguins\u2019 disbanded, with the group going on to qualify for the Paris Major. After qualifying for the Major, EternalEnvy kicked Gunnar from \u2018TEAM TEAM\u2019 yet again \u2013 alongside player Jason Newsham. https:\/\/www.hotspawn.com\/interview-with-dota-2s-nico-gunnar-lopez-of-team-team\/Dota 2\u2019s community reacts to Gunnar\u2019s dismissal Analyst and Dota 2 pro Kyle Freedman called the situation \u201cmind-boggling,\u201d as stated in a heated segment during ESL One Mumbai. \u201cIt just feels like if his team isn\u2019t succeeding, it\u2019s anyone\u2019s but his fault,\u201d Kyle said of the debacle. \u201c\u2026I\u2019ve read a lot of fictional books too, but the hero of a story, they demonstrate qualities like loyalty, and honor, and faith in their friends. And I think it\u2019s about time that a lot of you at home stop rooting for the villain.\u201d Freedman\u2019s statement attracted ample attention within Dota 2\u2019s competitive scene, with commenters across the space vehemently decrying EternalEnvy\u2019s roster decisions and claiming that he\u2019d managed such a scheme before, after swapping Khoo \u2018Ohaiyo\u2019 Chong Xin out for Saahil \u2018Universe\u2019 Arora on team FNATIC in 2018. TEAM TEAM\u2019s roster change comes just ten days ahead of the Paris Major, in what Gunnar called a \u201cpersonal\u201d issue \u2013 stating that Envy \u201cdoesn\u2019t like\u201d him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dota 2 player under fire for kicking out teammate twice just before Disneyland Paris Major ESL, BeyondtheSummitUp-and-coming Dota 2 player Nico \u2018Gunnar\u2019 Lopez looked set to compete in the game\u2019s Disneyland Paris Major, but a fellow teammate may have squandered his chances \u2013 and a possible family trip. Gunnar was attending ESL One\u2019s Mumbai event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}