KC Yike: "It's very embarrassing to lose like this"

Heartbreak. have been eliminated from the 2026 LEC Summer Finals after being swept by in the semifinals. A match that was largely predicted to go in favor of the Blue Wall quickly turned into a nightmare, as the French organization were sent packing on home soil, leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of players, coaches, and fans alike.

In an exclusive interview with Sheep Esports, jungler sat down to recap the end of the team’s season and explain just what had been going on behind the scenes during that time. He finished by offering a silver lining and detailing the path forward towards finding a second wind ahead of Worlds 2026.

Martin "Yike" Sundelin: “I'm not really sure what happened. It's just a big disappointment. I'm not happy with how I played, and I think how we played as a team overall was just not it. We played very badly, and they played much better. I feel like they prepared better, and they did everything better than us today. It feels really bad to be here in Nice, playing in front of our fans, and just lose like this. It's very embarrassing to lose like this, and yeah, it just feels very bad.

Yike: I think it's a combination of them stepping up and us just underperforming these last few weeks overall. Also, in scrims and all, we haven't been doing as well as we did before, so I think it showed today that we still need to step up. We still need to improve a lot. Playing like this is not going to be good enough if we want to make the Main Stage at Worlds. We really need to lock in, and we need to understand what our problems are. We really just need to focus on that.

Yike: It's hard to know exactly what went wrong, but overall we just played worse as a team. It's like the easiest way to say it. We weren't as synced up as we usually are, we didn't find the good angles and creativity that we had before, and it's hard to know why. I can't really tell why. Those are questions we’ll need to find answers to: what actually went wrong this last week.

Obviously we won against and we qualified for Worlds, but it was already a bit shaky for us. We were playing against and we had some okay games, but we lost as well, and now we're playing against MKOI and still pretty bad games overall.

So our record lately has just been bad, and I think it's a combination of everything. The mood has been fine, though. Here in Nice it was all good and people were happy. We were just watching a lot of games, watching the LPL gauntlet and watching all other regional finals. We just watched a lot of games and played together, but I don't know, something was missing.

Yike: Yeah, I mean it's a great thing that we still have a second chance at Worlds, the most important international event of the year. We're going to have to really understand what we want to change and what we want to do differently.

I would never want to lose—it feels awful to lose—but it’s good to be able to find those issues so that we can learn from them and be as good as possible at Worlds.

Yike: I will always blame myself when we lose. I will always think of what I could have done better, what I did bad. It's a lot of negativity, right? I think of all the negative things. Maybe there were some good aspects, but yeah, obviously I'm not that happy with my performance today. I think I could have done more, I could have played better, I could have spoken up more about certain situations, so that's why I'm very disappointed.

Yike: I think the main thing is just to have a very good talk and set up a goal together as a team, like all five players, the coaches, and everyone on the staff. We just set up a goal, what we want to do for Worlds, what we did wrong for LEC Finals, and we go from there.

We take it step by step and we need to just figure things out together. It’s important we do all of that as a group. It has to start with us just talking, understanding each other, understanding what went wrong.

Yike: Yeah, I know it was a very bad day for us. This is not the team we are, this is not how we play, this is not us. This is just disappointing… showcasing a performance like this in this kind of match in front of our fans, it's just… it's unacceptable.

Yike: I’m just gonna make sure to watch, re-watch our games. We’ll do it all as a team. We're gonna talk right after this, and we're gonna have to understand what we want to do for Worlds.

We’ll probably bootcamp, and we're gonna take time to play a lot there. We’ll make sure that we understand the meta, make sure that we understand what every player wants to do, and make sure every player understands each other, as well as our coaches. And then we just play much better at Worlds than we did today.

Yike: Yeah, I mean… yeah, I'm just feeling… nothing, kind of. Just bad thoughts, negative thoughts obviously. I really wanted to win, I really wanted to win in France in front of everyone, but I didn't, so.

Yike: I'm really sorry for today, for these Summer playoffs as a whole. We didn't show what we wanted to show, we really didn't step up, and I'm very disappointed in myself, and in us as a team.

So we're gonna make sure to work as hard as we can going to Worlds. We don't want to make the same mistakes we did, like, at MSI. We're gonna make it a good international for us, so keep supporting us, my teammates, my coaches, everyone, and we will make you guys proud for Worlds.”