The T1 superstructure continuously has a controversial move on Smash instead of Gumayusi
In the recent “Telecommunications War”, not beyond the prediction of many people, T1 decided to push Gumayusi on the bench and replace Smash into competition. Of course, for a KT that is too weak at the present time and has poor performance, the victory for T1 is what has been predicted. However, the controversy then poured back to the upper floor T1 with actions such as “adding fire to fire”.
T1 announced SMASH to replace Gumayusi but did not make an appointment for this player.
First, is coach Kkoma. The head coach of T1 did not mention anything to Gumayusi in the first two matches of T1 at Regular Seasons 2025. However, he praised Smash: “He had a good performance today but we had to observe more carefully to understand his play.”
Coach Kkoma apologized to Gumayusi but it was probably too late.
Next, the audience also discovered that the coach, although apologizing to Gumayusi but in fact, he was silent since he started to bring the player on the bench at the LCK Cup until now, nearly 3 months. During that time, the discussions, controversy, even information from T1 that Gumayusi was not Scrim, he still kept silent.
According to many audiences, the apology of coach Kkoma at this time was no longer necessary, when Gumayusi the reserve was so familiar and (almost) everyone knew this player would be reserve after losing to genes.
Gumayusi has suffered too much attack over the past time.
Next, it is from the team's General Manager, Becker. He, in a new development, changed his YouTube channel to “from the perspective of Smash's father”. It can be said that this is a move to express Smash support from Becker. However, there has never been any precedent in previous T1 history with other players.
GM Becker also renamed the YouTube channel to support Smash.
The future of Gumayusi is a dark area
With the notice of T1, the possibility that Gumayusi plays in the future is very low. Even, even if T1 fails before the HLE, if T1's notice is correct, Gumayusi is difficult to return. But Regular Seasons is a seamless season. It should be understood, unless T1 is close to the possibility of being eliminated from international tournaments, fortunately Gumayusi can return.
The future of Gumayusi (right) is extremely uncertain.
But at that time, it was probably too late and Gumayusi itself, no one else, would suffer from the public opinion.