AcilioN and chawzyyy leave Apeks

1-10-2022 19:15

The duo leaves the organization after spending more than three months on the bench.

Asger "⁠AcilioN⁠" Larsen and Hugo "⁠chawzyyy⁠" Günther are now free agents, Apeks announced on Twitter. The two players reached an agreement with the Norwegian organization to terminate their contracts.

Following the announcement, chawzyyy revealed his decision to take a break from professional play and focus on his studies, while AcilioN stated his intentions to compete, either in Europe or North America.

AcilioN leaves Apeks after spending 15 months with the organization

The two players were benched in late June, with the organization stating that the team's "wrong composition of players" was the reason behind the roster change. Apeks peaked at the No.28 spot in the HLTV world rankings after a runners-up finish at Pinnacle Winter Series 1 and a win at the Tipsport Bratislava Cup.

However, the European squad was never able to reach the next level and failed to qualify for PGL Major RMR, BLAST Premier Spring Showdown, and IEM Dallas. chawzyyy and AcilioN were replaced in the lineup by Justinas "⁠jL⁠" Lekavicius and Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon in August, but their performances have not improved as the team failed to reach its goal of qualifying for the upcoming IEM Road to Rio 2022 RMR.

Apeks made the decision in late September to withdraw their main roster from all upcoming competitions, including ESEA Advanced Season 42, due to the series of poor performances from the new roster.

Apeks withdraw from ESEA Advanced: "We need time to reflect and evaluate"

"As of today, my contract with Apeks has come to an end," read chawzyyy's statement. "The experience has developed me as a player and person. I have decided to take a break from playing professionally to focus on school for now," it continued.

"Even though we didn't get the results we would've liked, I learned a lot during this time and I'm sure I can bring that to the next team," added AcilioN on Twitter. "For now I'll stream, but don't hesitate to reach out. Open to offers in EU and NA."

Apeks now are:

Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon
Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk
Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad
Tim "⁠nawwk⁠" Jonasson
Justinas "⁠jL⁠" Lekavicius

Jakub "⁠kuben⁠" Gurczyński (coach)

Great now -shox

2022-10-01 19:15

4 replies

And +heap or +Thomas

2022-10-01 19:20

2 replies

bymas or plopski

2022-10-02 22:02

1 reply

Both fine as well

2022-10-03 02:16

2022-10-01 19:21

Therapist

2022-10-01 19:16

accilion is fralig's therapist?

2022-10-01 19:28

No farlig's girlfriend

2022-10-01 19:45

😖😖😖🤭🤭🤭lmao

2022-10-01 20:15

careful, mr jonathan might give u a 7 day vacation

2022-10-02 01:20

unluko for godcilion

you mean Therapist?

2022-10-01 20:18

The rapist? ehhh?

2022-10-01 20:35

nice

Already disbanded new lineup

2022-10-01 19:17

Hopefully new teams soon =)

i dont get why they didnt keep chawzy, the guy has huge potential, keeping shox over him is so weird

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Because he wants to focus on school? Literally says that in the article

2022-10-01 19:18

he literally said he's leaving to focus on studying

it wasn't a choice of him vs shox, it was a choice of him vs JL. jL plays the same roles as Chawwzy but he's one of the best performers in the team

I can imagine they wanted more commitment from him and he was not willing to give it - seeing that he wants to focus on studies now I guess he was also investing a decent amount of time in that while being on active roster. On the other hand: shoxi is also rumored to be not commited to training/prep at all. Strange.

2022-10-01 19:24

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lol what a loser focusing on school