Currently, the Worlds 2021 are taking place in League of Legends. The European LoL team Fnatic is not doing well since their German ADC Elias “Upset” Lipp had to leave unexpectedly. He cited a family emergency as the reason. However, a professional player doubts that.
This is the situation: The 21-year-old German Elias “Upset” Lipp has been the big winner in European LoL over the last few months. After his marriage, he reached his peak form in the LEC. It was referred to as the “Wife Buff”: Allegedly, married players develop magical abilities in LoL.
- In any case, Upset has played the best LoL of his life over the last few months and brought Fnatic to the Worlds 2021.
- But just before the World Championship started, the setback came. Upset had to leave his team due to “family issues”.
- Without Upset, Fnatic lost the first 3 games of the LoL Worlds 2021 and Fnatic is facing elimination.
“99% an excuse”
This rumor is causing trouble: A former Fnatic player, Slovenian midlaner Nemesis (22), has said in a chat: Although he doesn’t know what is going on at Fnatic, he doesn’t believe that there is really a family tragedy behind it.
He is 99% sure that this is just serving as a pretext.
Nemesis’s statement in a chat was posted on reddit and discussed by fans (via reddit).
“It has always been my dream to play at the Worlds”
This is what Upset says about it now: On Twitter, Upset has now addressed the situation (via twitter):
“Anyone who knows me knows that it has always been my dream to play at the Worlds. But there is always something that is more important, and that is to take care of family when there is grief. I felt very bad in such a difficult situation where I was needed, to be so far away from my family. That’s why it was the right decision for me.If people say anything else, it’s not true. I would never miss such an opportunity for trivial reasons, so please stop speculating and making things up when you don’t know about it, because it hurts my privacy and the people who are important to me.”
Elias “Upset” Lipp
This is how it’s discussed: Generally, hardly anyone can understand how Nemesis came to his statement that Upset supposedly left the LoL Worlds 2021 for some mysterious reasons.
Because hardly any LoL fan can imagine why someone would withdraw from the Worlds – except in such an exceptional case as Upset describes.
The mood towards Nemesis is very negative on reddit: people say it is the “most insensitive thing” they have ever heard. They have lost all respect for Nemesis after his statement.
A reddit user named “IwillmissNeme” (I will miss Nemesis) says he now regrets his username.
There was already an extraordinary incident at the LoL Worlds in the Play-Ins:
Riot Games bans 18-year-old from the LoL Worlds 2021 – won the game, lost everything
