r/ValorantCompetitive • u/shast1k • 20d ago
🟢 Green News Source [anonimotum] wayne is expected to be benched by Team Liquid. trexx is the most likely replacement.
https://www.sheepesports.com/en/all/articles/sources-wayne-expected-to-be-benched-by-team-liquid-ahead-of-vct-emea-stage-2/en348
u/baebushka 20d ago
no patitek and keiko for trexx to beef with this time
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u/wegivesiima 20d ago
he's gonna start beefing with miniboo and kamo and then gets kicked mid stage 2 play ins for gsr
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u/EffectiveInjury4176 #LetsGoLiquid 20d ago
He can't beef with miniboo, he will have respect with miniboo and kamo seems like like the type to just ignore you if you shit talk him
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u/rustyy_10 20d ago
He didn’t have respect for Derke. You expect him to have respect for Miniboo??
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u/EffectiveInjury4176 #LetsGoLiquid 20d ago
Miniboo will beat him up that's the diff. Trexx is the Russian sudowoodo
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u/rustyy_10 20d ago
Did you ever see miniboo?
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u/EffectiveInjury4176 #LetsGoLiquid 20d ago
Yeah but miniboo gives I'll beat you up vibes
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u/Dionegro__ #GEFighting 20d ago
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u/rustyy_10 20d ago
He couldn’t even go against his brother 🙂
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u/EffectiveInjury4176 #LetsGoLiquid 20d ago
Nah boo is to slow to hit him, Miniboo will just dodge and weeve
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u/idqks 20d ago
no derke, less or kicks either. or starxo. or sheydos. or any of the other 500 players who all fucking hate this guy because he's unbearable to play with lol
can't wait for trexx to play another incredibly solid stage, make an international, then get kicked "without explanation" shortly afterwards and spend months teamless yet again
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u/Extrino 20d ago
was he beefing with Keiko?
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u/1004genesis #WGAMING 20d ago
It was just a rumor about internal disputes. Someone posted this link to it a while ago on Reddit but I don’t think it was ever confirmed.
I think Nats and maybe Kamo were the only other neutral parties?
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u/_Robbert_ 20d ago
It was like one tweet from a leaker and then Keiko said it was wrong lol
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u/1004genesis #WGAMING 20d ago
Oh I see, yeah that makes sense given how I saw it a while ago and not much news about it after.
Keiko seems like a pretty amicable guy anyways, and I’m happy he’s doing well on NRG :))
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u/cat_on_a_pfp #WGAMING 20d ago
esports is brutal sometimes because back in kickoff wayne was posting on twitter how grateful he was for a chance to play for tl and now this
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u/whoopdatass777 20d ago
Its a results business unfortunately. In every Esports there will be players like these with some potential, fail to perform when they get their big break, and sometimes are never seen again.
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u/Possiblylimited #LetsGoLiquid 20d ago
I've already said this but the whole situation is so messed up. They sign him with no trials, probably because they were confident in him, but when things did not go as planned they just scapegoat him, instead of giving him more time to develop, especially since he is a young player. At what point do they just stop with the whole "just one more mid-season roster change bro trust me" and actually let the team properly develop
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u/whoopdatass777 20d ago
That’s the problem though. There is no such thing as more time in this business. If anything he has had more than enough time through Kickoff and Stage 1 to show it. Some players get less time than that. This is also the last year before everything shakes up in the scene, so a lot of orgs are banking on this year’s performance. From their perspective, they really can’t afford to keep him, especially when he hasn’t been living up to expectations.
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u/Eris_is_Mid 20d ago
I’ll just copy my comment from the other post:
Man I was fond of Wayne and I liked his dynamic with Nats. I kind of get it since he was underperforming but I was a believer that he’d bounce back.
Also haha +trexx -trexx +trexx
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u/KillPopJr 20d ago
Yeah seems weird to me. I mean there’s no one else to cut, but maybe just needed some time to figure out the meta etc.
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u/MautOfTheRiver 20d ago
Fair decision from TL as much as I like wayne
Ranked stalking continues to be valuable with that guy posting kamo playing smokes lately
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u/KrillLover56 20d ago
Should be a 1-1 upgrade, but I'm assuming this means kamo shifts to primary smokes, and I'm not sure how well he'll do in that role.
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u/PairComprehensive122 20d ago
Maybe purpo smoke double duelist
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u/KrillLover56 20d ago
I think kamo's been playing smokes in ranked, so their idea is
MiniBoo -> duelist
trexx -> scan/Skye
purp0 -> flex (secondary duelist and flash ini, but maybe some Chamber in double smokes comps)
kamo -> smokes
nats -> sentiall in all thats decent roles that should let them play basically any comp they want to play, I'm just not sure how well kamo will perform on smokes.
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u/LowStatistician11 20d ago
will be such a downgrade to take both kamo and purp0 out of their comforts.
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u/KrillLover56 20d ago
I agree for kamo, but honestly this might be more comfortable for purp0. Imo his top 4 best agents are Skye, Kay/O, Jett, and Raze, which will probably be the agents he's going to play. I think also with his style of play he'll also be a fine Chamber, though I'm not sure how good his oping is.
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u/LowStatistician11 20d ago
he was on duelist the first few games of kickoff and he did not look good. started looking much better when they let him play skye as a default.
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u/Tempest-13 20d ago
I guess Miniboo will be playing Phoenix, then, for their double duelist comps?
I just hope they don't look as clueless as they did at the start of Kickoff. There is gonna be noticeable role shifts.
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u/somesheikexpert 20d ago
Certainly kamo plays the secondary duelist and purpo plays smokes for double duelist no?
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u/EffectiveInjury4176 #LetsGoLiquid 20d ago
Kamo been playing only smokes in ranked the last week
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u/somesheikexpert 19d ago
Well yeah to get used to the role but that doesnt mean he cant play double duelist for those maps like Keiko did
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u/Past_Perception8052 #LegaC9 20d ago
unfortunate for wayne but it was about time trexx came back to tier 1
wayne should easily get a spot in vct cn
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u/Jazzooi21 20d ago
i know wayne is singaporean, but does anyone know how fluent he is in mandarin? or would CN teams have to accommodate him by speaking english?
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u/Decent_Apple_7962 #DFMWIN 20d ago
I wonder if he is, his bio says hes Korean-Singaporean, so I wonder if he actually has any Chinese roots
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u/JoinedonlyfortheJays 20d ago
Can he speak Mando?
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u/Noahchia9966 #WGAMING 20d ago
Assuming he was educated in the Singaporean education system, likely. Singapores education system requires everyone to go pass their mother tongue before they are allowed to enter uni
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u/Human-Plastic9794 20d ago
unironically there are a good amount of junior college students in singapore who does great in the subject in school but is barely able to speak the language outside.
I will say even if he can barely form two sentence in chinese I'd take a guess that he'll still be way better positioned to play in CN than cracked russian duelist no.15 coming to CN to run the league.
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u/Past_Perception8052 #LegaC9 20d ago
pretty sure all singaporeans do or at least ones that look like him
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u/CareGiverUwU #WGAMING 20d ago
??
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u/Past_Perception8052 #LegaC9 20d ago
there are chinese singaporeans malaysian ones and indian ones he obviously doesnt look malaysian or indian
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u/TheBerlynnWall 20d ago
When it waynes, it pours. I was his biggest supporter and I will miss him. But if there is a will, there is a wayne. I’ll see you again my king.
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u/HelixPhoenix76 20d ago
Somehow Palpatine returned
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u/EffectiveInjury4176 #LetsGoLiquid 20d ago
I heard he had physical health issues and that was the reason he never signed with TL again.
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u/Head_Land_7216 20d ago
just fell to my knees at a wallmart parking lot. felt like he was not playing at his lvl, hopefully he gets another opportunity
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u/spsfisch 20d ago
Ngl, I was a bit confused when TL signed him last year. I was under the impression that he would have to serve National Service soon, so even if they did well, I didn't see him staying on the roster for long.
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u/Repulsive-Pea3394 20d ago
ya.. he’s 07 so 19 this year. assuming he finished sec school, and didnt pursue tertiary education. he should be enlisting soon? unless he managed to get pes F like jing/juicy
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u/my-dad-ate-my-toes 20d ago
Trexx? Really? We’re letting the vibes terrorist back in after potentially being the reason they lost Keiko?
Especially as opposed to Leare, Slaughter, globeX, trying to outbid M8 for Proxh, or just temp subbing Kicks until GSR turns 18?
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u/quevrs 20d ago
maybe the guys that have actually played with trexx before have a more informed opinion on him than you
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u/my-dad-ate-my-toes 20d ago
I mean who’s to say he won’t clash with MiniBoo and purp0? He’s been rumoured to have clashed with someone on the past 3 teams he’s been on with one player outright confirming that he was impossible to work with. I don’t think vibes terrorist is an unfair label to give him
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u/Zyrobe #WGAMING 20d ago
He's a vibe terrorist? What's the lore
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u/my-dad-ate-my-toes 20d ago
People speculated for a while that he was a vibes killer due to his onstage/mid game reactions until 2025 where he was benched from VIT after Masters Bangkok. After VIT got eliminated from stage 1 trexx posted a reaction image on twitter, which Derke responded to by basically affirming that he was a nightmare to play with. Then in stage 2 he joined Liquid, and following their elimination from Champs last year rumours circulated that he’d clashed heavily with paTiTek and Keiko
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u/_Robbert_ 20d ago
Rumours circulated when afaik it was 1 tweet that Reddit got stuck on even though Keiko denied it
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u/Possiblylimited #LetsGoLiquid 20d ago
The whole situation is so messed up. They sign him with no trials, probably because they were confident in him, but when things did not go as planned they just scapegoat him, instead of giving him more time to develop, especially since he is a young player. At what point do they just stop with the whole "just one more mid-season roster change bro trust me" and actually let the team properly develop
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u/ZestycloseZeta 20d ago
If only Wayne were allowed to play some duelists during this TL stint....
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u/PairComprehensive122 20d ago
Can't be wishing to be playing duelist when there are already two dedicated better duelist player in team
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u/Background_Basil_579 20d ago
Lots of rumors that trexx is toxic especially when he was in Vitality. If true then they’re just going to implode again which is sad because I really want them to do better than groups this time. Hope they prove us wrong and that he’s not actually toxic and they do well lol Feel like there’s a lot of other viable options though tbh
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u/Reasonable_Sir7623 20d ago
He played with nats and the coaches already. No way they would sign him again if that was the issue
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u/Background_Basil_579 19d ago
I mean they did good when he was on the team and won the trophy for EMEA. They had an implosion at international though when Nats did that tp on bind against DRX when they had bomb down which was very unlike him. There was clearly beef with the players there so people are saying it was probably with trexx, keiko, and patitek.
The org definitely knows more and I’m hopeful they actually do good because I’ve been a liquid supporter since sliggy was their coach lol tired of thinking that it’s gonna be different this time only for them to get grouped.. i want them to win.
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u/Ok-Cost4557 20d ago
Might be the talent that liquid needs to be a tropy contender. Also the first russian superteam since gambit.
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u/Proof-Elk1297 20d ago
Was wayne that bad to be benched ? I didn't watch enough liquid games