Bwipo leaves ZYB after one day of review

It is already the end of the story between ZYB and Gabriël “Bwipo” Rau after just one day as a coach in the LFL Invitational. The organization’s CEO and midlaner, Yasin “Nisqy” Dinçer, announced it on stream on Tuesday: “We already don’t have a coach anymore guys, we had a coach for one day.” Nisqy added that Bwipo did not expect it to take that much time and that he prefers to focus on something else.

He also added that drafts will be handled by himself and Arnaud “Riippp” Mesmin, while reviews will be taken care of by himself and Jean “Jezu” Massol. The chat then suggested bringing in a French coach to avoid the language barrier the team had with Bwipo, to which Nisqy replied that he does not think a French coach would be a good fit for the team.

At the start of the year, Bwipo was set to join Jean “Trayton” Medzadourian’s team, French Flair, as their jungler. However, the roster was not complying with ERL rules. Article 3.1.5 indeed states that an ERL starting lineup may include no more than two such veterans — a player who has participated in more than 50% of eligible matches in a professional league (LEC, LCS, LPL, LCK, etc.) in at least three of the last five completed splits, and FF was already featuring Adam “Adam” Maanane and Raphaël “Targamas” Crabbé.

As a result, Bwipo had to relinquish his spot, which was later filled by Isak “NattyNatt” Elgh. As a reminder, after completing his two years with FlyQuest, Bwipo was open to offers both as a jungler and a toplaner, in North America as well as a potential return to Europe. So far, the 2018 Worlds finalist has no plans for 2026, and he has therefore turned to coaching, which he has already done to some extent individually in the past with İbrahim "Gakgos" Samet Bulut, Diego "Brance" Amaral, and Vladimiros "Vladi" Kourtidis.