In a shock July 7 announcement, long-time League of Legends player-turned-coach Bae “Bengi” Seong-woong has resigned from his publish at T1 and can depart the group on the finish of the present LCK Summer season Season.
The announcement got here by way of Twitter and was signed by T1’s basic supervisor Becker Jung, who thanked Bengi for a “exceptional” journey with the group as each group jungler and head coach. “His dedication, dedication, and provoking legacy have left an indelible mark on T1,” Jung stated.
Within the interim, Im “Tom” Jae-hyeon will stand in because the group’s head coach for the rest of the 2023 season, together with each the present LCK cut up and any of the group’s worldwide commitments—together with Oct. 2023’s World Championships in South Korea ought to T1 qualify.
Bengi joined T1 in Feb. 2013, then generally known as SK Telecom T1, because the group’s beginning jungler. Alongside Faker, he would play a large half within the group’s legendary run from 2013 to 2017, which included three Worlds titles and a fourth grand remaining look.
He departed to hitch Vici Gaming earlier than retiring as a participant and returning to T1 as a coach in 2018. After one cut up as coach he stepped away, solely to resurface in late 2020, as soon as once more taking the reigns for T1’s Challenger facet.
Bengi would coach the squad to a dominant title win within the 2021 LCK CL Spring Season, earlier than crumbling to tenth within the Summer season. Bengi would return to T1’s main head coach role in Sep. 2022, changing Polt only a month out from Worlds.
Collectively, Bengi and T1 would obtain yet one more Worlds grand remaining end, falling quick to DRX within the grand remaining. His efforts secured him the head coach position for 2023, and all indicators have been optimistic regardless of a second-place end in LCK Spring 2023 and a third-place end at MSI 2023.
Nonetheless, between a less-than-inspired begin to the LCK Summer season Season, a swathe of fan criticism following defeats, and a hand injury to Faker ruling the star mid-laner out indefinitely, Bengi’s departure caps off a horrid month for the group.
New interim head coach Tom and T1 are set to take to the Rift later at the moment towards LCK ladder leaders Gen.G at 1am CT.
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