There's room there to build a healthy and friendly rivalry – we'll see how things go. I didn't really find out any of this was happening from them there was a bit of miscommunication from the start. Rizzo posted his side of the situation on Reddit and said that he privately apologised to Kronovi for how it all went down Kronovi acknowledged it on his stream and said, "Rizzo's apologised for that, so I can forgive him." "Things aren't as good as they could be," Kronovi tells GINX about the situation with his past G2 teammates. I had to inquire a little bit and extend the first hand in communicating all of this, but I'm glad they were at least open enough with me to not just give me the cold shoulder and let G2 professionally give me the middle finger." Understandably, things are a bit awkward with his past teammates right now. "Respect to them for eventually talking to me about it. I'm just as competitive as they are I get it," he says.
"I'm not offended that somebody wants to be the best at a video game. His initial frustration stemmed more from hearing about the plans from a third party and then having to prod his past comrades for details before getting a satisfactory response. Kronovi says he's not upset about his former teammates' desire to try out a new third he understands the drive to be the best and make changes when it seems necessary. But the guys just thought, because the LANs didn't go amazingly in 2018, that something had to change." "It was something that I wanted to continue to work on because I thought we had the online thing down. Online, we were still monsters, and I'm very proud of that – we just didn't really translate it to LAN very well," he adds. "Everything else at LAN kind of sucked, to be honest. The only thing we had that was really good in 2018 was Leipzig at the very beginning of the year," says Kronovi, referring to their runner-up finish at DreamHack Leipzig. 2018 was not the best year for our LAN showings. "I think this World Championship definitely solidified some of the thoughts and feelings that the guys had. Even now, Kronovi says that his departure wasn't a matter of long-term personal frustrations or disagreements that swelled to the point of bursting, but rather that G2's lagging LAN performance last year was the likely culprit. "It was just that we just were not meshing together and something needed to change, and I was the odd man out."Įven with two huge streaming personalities in the mix with Kronovi and Rizzo, and JKnaps' admitted attempt to leave following their spotty first RLCS season together, G2's roster always stressed that they had a positive and constructive relationship together. "They really just kept feeling like something needed to change for the sake of change, not that it was necessarily anybody's fault," Kronovi continues. As things went on, I realised that it was probably better for everybody if they got to pick up somebody else and I looked around for some new teammates," he says, adding that he didn't get as much explanation or justification as he'd hoped to hear from Rizzo and JKnaps. "Over the offseason, I found out that the guys wanted to try something new. Kronovi first found out about it from another team's manager, rather than directly from his own teammates. As discussed on his Twitch stream this week and confirmed by Rizzo on Reddit, Kronovi's former G2 teammates began considering a new third player for the team following November's rough World Championship performance.
Before the news was a surprise to most Rocket League fans, it was a surprise to Kronovi, as well.