Despite an early scare,
Team Heretics has bounced back with
a victory over GIANTX in the
2026 League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC) Versus. Although the team faced challenges in week one, they continue to show steady progress ahead of upcoming matches against Team Vitality, Los Ratones, and G2 Esports. In an exclusive interview, rookie toplaner
Sebastian "Tracyn" Wojtoń sits down with
Sheep Esports to discuss his debut in the LEC, adapting to the stage, and his personal goals.
How did you feel getting your first win in the LEC? What were your thoughts walking off the stage?
Sebastian "Tracyn" Wojtoń: "I'm feeling great—first win in the LEC, obviously feels insane. It was kind of a relief, you know? Starting 0-3 would have hurt me a bit. I want to treat this split as room to grow, since it's my first. Even though we lost our first two matches, I was completely fine with it since we can use it to improve, which I think we showed today. We played way calmer. The team performed well, and I think I did quite a good job.
Sheo said the team's rookies needed time to adapt to the stage and nerves. Do you agree? Were the first two days more difficult for you?
Tracyn: Well, since the technical check day, I've felt pretty confident playing on stage. Obviously, it’s different when there are people, but I really like the way I feel playing on stage. I honestly like the pressure. I love being in the studio. I love everything that’s around here.
I think there is a bit of truth in what he said. Obviously, the stage can impact your gameplay. It did with me a bit. For example, on mid waves with Rumble yesterday, I could have bought more space or done small things like that. But besides that, I felt confident on lane.
So yeah, mostly just small nerves that come into your mind during clutch moments. But besides that, I feel really happy playing on stage and really comfortable.
How has it been adapting to the stage and scrimming against LEC teams? What’s the biggest difference for you, especially coming from the ERLs?
Tracyn: People say there’s a gap between LEC and ERLs, and I think I agree with that. The best ERL teams cannot really contest LEC teams, I would say. At best, they can fight against the bottom LEC teams but, in the long run, there's no way. LEC teams can scrim with each other, play on stage every week, and improve way, way faster than in ERLs, which I can see for myself. I feel like I’ve improved the most throughout my whole career by being here and scrimming those people.
So yeah, playing on stage here is a big difference. At least I’m happy because I had some experience playing on stage in Paris for the EMEA Masters Finals, so that was a really good experience to prepare for my debut in the LEC. But here, it’s just different, it feels so good, and I definitely want to be here for sure.
With ERL teams like Los Ratones and KCB now in the LEC, do you think the gap you mentioned still applies? How do you expect their power level?
Tracyn: It obviously all depends. Last year, KCB’s team was Maynter (Volodymyr Sorokin), Yukino (Johnny Hoang Dang), SlowQ (Seo Ye-bit), 3XA (Thomas Foucou), and Piero (Kim Jung-hun). If they keep the same roster, I think they could probably have fought for playoffs. These players were really good throughout the whole year. We scrimmed them a lot and played them a lot in officials.
About Los Ratones, I’m not sure, because here people are way more aware of the mistakes they are actually making. I think there’s quite a lot. I don’t want to spoil too much since we haven’t played them yet, but yeah—teams in LEC are way sharper at abusing small mistakes, like snowballing through stacking drakes, or just snowballing off a small mistake to finish the game. It’s just way harder to make their style work in the LEC, and obviously the individual level is just higher.
You’ve been playing semi-competitively since you were fifteen. What’s your story of becoming a pro player, and how did you decide this was the career you wanted to pursue?
Tracyn: I always loved playing games, especially League, since I was like five or six years old. Maybe there were some short periods where I played FIFA or something, but I’m actually kind of addicted to League at this point. I really like it. I really love my job.
Since I was young, I remember watching EU LCS in 2014 (editorial note: Tracyn was eight years old at the time) because I randomly saw it on my TV, and I was like, I want to be there. So yeah, I just continued growing and playing the game. Some people didn’t believe that it could happen, but yeah, thankfully I’m here now. It was mostly inspiration from watching other players, and I wanted to live this life. I wanted to be there no matter what.
Were there any players you watched back then that you held as idols? Maybe some who still play today?
Tracyn: The first game I remember watching till this day was Giants playing, and their toplaner was Flaxxish (Olof Hagberg Medin). I still remember his name. Back in the day, I didn’t have a main role, so I just watched everyone. But I also remember a guy called Betsy (Felix Edling)—I liked him when he played. Besides that, I just followed Polish players like Jankos (Marcin Jankowski), obviously, and Vander (Oskar Mateusz Bogdan) when they played in LEC back in the day.
How was it with your family, especially convincing your parents to let you pursue a career in esports?
Tracyn: It was quite difficult because they didn’t really believe in it until they saw that I could actually make money from it. When I was around seventeen and I was about to go to the Prime League, my first time abroad outside of the Ultraliga, I asked them if I could do school online, because in Poland you can go to online school until you’re eighteen. But they needed to agree to that, and they didn’t.
So I had a very tough schedule. I woke up at 6 a.m., went to school, then came back and instantly went into scrims, then played solo queue. It was like a constant loop, and it was really tiring for me. Later on, they realized that it was probably a mistake not letting me grow as a player and not allowing me to go to online school. But it’s okay, I completely understand them.
They were always supporting me though. It wasn’t like they didn’t believe in me at all or that it was just school, school, school. I was doing fine in school—I always had okay grades without really studying—so as long as I didn’t have problems there, they were fine with me playing and supported me. They’re still watching now. They don’t know much about the game, but they always try to watch and find a way to see me play. So I’m really happy about that and I appreciate it a lot.
Since you played in the Prime League, you shouldn’t feel too far from home in Berlin, right? You have some experience in Germany.
Tracyn: I’ve been there, actually. My apartment is very close to the place where I had a bootcamp with GamerLegion back in the day. It was on a street called Kurfürstendamm, or something like that. I think it’s quite popular, and we lived close to it, so that was pretty cool. I remember a few places.
By the end of this year, what would you like people to remember you for? What’s your end goal?
Tracyn: I just want to do well for the people that believe in me, to become the best for them. There haven’t been many Polish toplaners who came to LEC, and made people go like, “Wow, this guy is actually good.” So I want to be someone who will be remembered by Polish fans, but also across Europe.
I think I have quite a big potential to become one of the best players in my position this year because I can improve the most by playing on stage and in scrims against LEC teams. So yeah, I just want to be the best version of myself. As a team, we will for sure grow. Our work ethic is quite good right now. We just need to get used to playing on stage, and we need to be calmer in-game. If we connect all of these things, I think throughout the year, by the end of the summer, we can probably contest the top spots."
