Esports Heaven in partnership with Afkgaming is proud to bring coverage from ESL One Mumbai 2019 to our viewers. We got a hold of Nico "Gunnar" Lopez where he sheds light on his unceremonious kick from Team Team. He also speaks about his future and what he plans to do next.

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Hi Gunnar, we’re sorry to hear what went down yesterday. Can you walk us through what happened? There was like a big talk I think, in the day. It was already decided, I don’t think that the talk changed any opinions. I wasn’t there for most of the talk. I mostly heard of the talk after, but the other four were there. It was kinda decided before, so I just walked in and they kinda just told me that, to cut it short, you’re being replaced. Unfortunately, this is the second time that you’re being removed from a team with Eternalenvy, is there some kind of a synergy issue? Or do you think the issue is something else? I don’t know if I’d say it was a synergy issue. I thought I would fit the way he’d like to play kind of. He likes to be the one to win the game. He likes to be this really strong hero, I am so strong that I am going to win this game. I felt the way I played, made it easy for him to play that way. But, I feel like he didn’t enjoy playing with me. I don’t know the reasoning. It wasn’t only his decision on either team, to my understanding. It was a full team decision. For this one, the remaining team also made the decision, to not play with me. So I don’t think that it should be fully blamed on him or he should get the only hate on the team or whatever. You kinda hinted on the panel, saying that you spoke about this before coming to the event. Would you like to elaborate on that? I don’t want to elaborate too much, but basically it was brought up to us that this roster shuffle was going to happen before coming to this event and then we ended up not doing it and we were kind of told that this wouldn’t happen until post-major. So we were kind of told, going into this, that it was all over. You guys are good. Read the full interview of Gunnar on AFKgaming.com.

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