The LoL pro Hong “Pyosik” Chang-heyong (20) is the last player of DRX, one of the best teams in the League of Legends. The team from South Korea was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the LoL Worlds 2020, and 4 of the players packed their bags afterward. Pyosik said he wanted to stop them.
This is how the DRX team fell apart: After being eliminated from the Worlds 2020, the contracts of 4 of the 5 players of the DRX team expired.
The last remaining player from DRX, jungler Pyosik, mentions in a live stream that Doran, Chovy, Deft, and Keria all left the LoL team together. Pyosik turns off the screen in the stream so that viewers cannot see him overwhelmed with emotions:
In the end, they all said that they were leaving. They started to pack their things. So I asked them if they would come back. They all said they would come back, but the vibe was that they would never return.
Pyosik says: The players went to their rooms, put their stuff in a box. He wanted to stop them from leaving. He turned off the light. He flipped the boxes and threw their clothes on the floor.
He called out: “Don’t go yet. Stay at least one more day!”
Pyosik says: His actions were half serious and half in jest. He thought that if he didn’t do that, it would just be too sad.
He regrets not having played stronger for his teammates.
Second best team in South Korea forms in a year
What kind of team is that? The team “DRX” was the second strongest team in South Korea in the summer of 2020. They played an outstanding season with 15-3. Only the later world champion DAMWON Gaming was stronger.
At the Worlds, DRX performed impressively and got through the group stage well, but in the quarter-finals, DAMWON Gaming was already waiting, and then it was over.
The special thing about DRX was that the team was assembled in a very short time. Because DRX had lost all players before 2020, except for the veteran Deft. The controversial coach cvMax joined the team in 2020 and rebuilt it from the ground up:
- Midlaner Chovy and Toplaner Doran moved together with cvMax from Team Griffin to DRX – they were already considered top talents in LoL before the move. They joined DRX because they followed their coach, who discovered them at Team Griffin and turned them into star players.
- Deft was the only one left from the old team.
- Jungler “Pyosik” was discovered by cvMax and became his new project: Pyosik was actually a streamer, but cvMax saw great potential in him to become a LoL pro. The jungler made it to the quarter-finals of the LoL Worlds 2020 as a rookie.
- The 18-year-old support player Keria also joined the team – he also has immense potential and has now signed a contract with T1, the legendary LoL team around Faker.
This is how fans react: The story of how the DRX team fell apart troubles some. Because the team saw great potential to achieve success in the coming years.
Some LoL fans are saying on Twitter that the story affects them deeply. Pyosik urgently needs someone to hold him tight now.
The disbanding of teams coached by cvMax has almost become a tradition: The 2019 team that cvMax coached also seemed to have an outstanding future until it completely fell apart.
The question is where such exceptional players like Chovy and Doran will play in 2021 and who cvMax will discover as a talent again.
One thing is already known: Support player Keria will move to T1, the team around Faker. They urgently need help.
The coach cvMax is considered a central figure in Korean LoL in recent years. He was involved in the rise and fall of two teams that made headlines. cvMax polarizes: Some of his players would go through fire for him, while others claim he insulted them and even assaulted them.
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