Former coach tells how Resolut1on blackmailed the squad at TI7

Egor “Jotm” Surkov said that Romano “Resolut1on” Fominok put Team Empire at TI7 in a vulnerable position, because before the playoffs he gave the team an ultimatum that he would give up the game in favor of working on the coverage of the tournament if the share of prize money of Vladimir “Chappie” Kuzmenko, who was replaced by the cyber athlete, would not be distributed in his favor.

The former Team Empire coach shared his respective opinion in an interview on KD CAST's YouTube channel.

“Resolut1on was supposed to work in analytics. He started swinging rights: 'I could work...'” He was including an ultimatum before the first day of the playoffs, 'I'm going to go work in analytics now,' and we were already in a vulnerable position.”

Team Empire shared 7th - 8th place with OG at The International 2017. Team Empire's playoff performance started from the bottom set, where they won two matches against Cloud9 and Evil Geniuses, but exited the championship after losing to Team Liquid in the third round. It is worth noting that the opposing team further through the lower grid was able to reach the grand final, where they defeated Newbee with a score of 3 : 0.

Recall that earlier Egor “Jotm” Surkov commented on the situation with the ban of Alexei “Solo” Berezin for 322.