After the 2-1 victory of Team Liquid against the Esports gram at the 1-2 round of Swiss, the UM player “Umti” Sung-hyeon of the Liquid team participated in the interview. At that time, the jungler of Team Liquid replied to translate: “It is fun to be able to 'punch into the mouth' Levi '.
Shortly thereafter, the Vietnamese online community and many Levi fans on social networking platforms spoke out to protect the jungler of Vietnam. Even the famous MC Sjokz also posted on X: “Suffering Levi, he is about to retire and Umti talks about him like that on stage.”
Recently, after nearly a week, Umti officially apologized. This player published the verbatim on X: “I would like to apologize to the Levi player, the Esports GAM team and all Esports Vietnam fans may have been hurt by my disrespectful interview after the match against the Esports GAM at the last world championship.”
Hello, I'm Umti of Team Liquid Honda. I would like to apologize to the Levi player, the Esports Gam team and all Esports Vietnam fans may have been hurt by my disrespectful interview after the match against the Esports …
– TL Honda Umti (@umti0602) October 17, 2024
Besides, this player also posted an article that claimed that he did not use chatgpt and this was his sincere apology. The player also promised himself to be more careful in words in the future. Under the comments, many fans shared with Umti and accepted the apology of this player.
Team Liquid has just been eliminated from the Swiss round of the World Championship 2024 after a 1-2 defeat against Flyquest at the 2-2 branch. Earlier, the representative of North America defeated GAM ESPORTS 2-1 at branch 1-2 and directly the Vietnamese representative. Currently, the World Championship 2024 has entered the play -off phase with matches in the quarterfinals, with the match at 19h will be Hanwha Life Esports – Bilibili Gaming.
