T1 Parts Ways with Zeus: Contract Termination Shakes E-Sports Community Amid Transfer Speculations

With the T1 system ‘Zeopeguke’ (Zeus, Owner, Faker, Kumayushi, Keria) who won this year’s game ‘League of Legends (LoL) World Championship’ (World Cup) coming to an end, Zeus (real name Choi Woo-je) ) draws the attention of e-sports fans.

On the night of the 19th, T1 announced the termination of its contract with Zeus through the official social network service (SNS) channel.

T1 said, “The contract with Zeus Choi Woo-jae has ended. We would like to express our gratitude to Zeus for being with us on our journey in the past, and we will support you on your journey in the future as well.”

T1 hired Choi “Doran” Hyun-jun, who played for Hanwha Life Esports, as their new chief surgeon.

Zeus graduated from T1 Academy, joined the first team in 2021, established himself as a starting main surgeon and performed well. T1 received praise for achieving major achievements, including winning not only the World Cup but also the League of Legends Korea (LCK) Champions League.

Before the end of this contract, T1 also proposed to renew the contract several times, but it is said that there were differences of opinion with Zeus. According to entertainment and sports media OSEN, T1 proposed three terms, and it was reported that the last amount proposed was a small increase compared to the previous contract, and the contract period was 3 + 1 year. As ‘Keria’ Ryu Min-seok and ‘Owner’ Moon Hyun-jun signed a two-year contract, and ‘Kumayushi’ Min-hyeong Lee signed a one-year contract, it was an unprecedented contract period. ever was, but they could not. their differences reduced the amount and were subject to market assessment. It is said that as soon as the transfer market opened, Zeus received a big offer.

The T1 secretariat planned to sit at the negotiation table with Zeus on the morning of the 19th, but the schedule was postponed due to the agent’s request to delay that day.

However, Zeus Agency The Play told the media, “We decided to contact you in the morning of the same day, but we did not confirm the schedule of the meeting. However, we did not close communication with T1 and contacted you on The phone. We delivered our final proposal to T1. “The situation continued without good results,” he said, expressing the difference in situation.

After that, the two sides continued to pursue non-adversarial negotiations, but it was reported that Zeus was sitting at the contract table with another club.

As the news of the termination of the contract with T1 was announced that night, a lot of speculation continued online about Zeus’ failure to renew his contract and his expected destination. Accordingly, the representative of Zeus said through the official channel, “False rumors regarding T1’s free agency (FA) are currently spreading, and we say clearly that they are not true To protect the players, we plan to release a statement after confirming the situation. ” reported.

As the number of users increases, the server of the official website of the agent is paralyzed.

▲(Source = Captured from The Play website)