Solo revealed the real reason behind Lil’s kick

Alexei “Solo” Berezin said that Ilya “Lil” Ilyuk was kicked out of the Virtus.pro Gold roster because he stopped training on his heroes, which led to poor results at tournaments.

The cybersportsman reported this during a stream on Twitch.

“Ilyukha at some point thought that he was too strong a player to keep practicing on his heroes. And he was pub peaking, you know... Arc Warden, Dark Willow, which weren't in Captain's Mode. Tiny, Luna, Chaos Knight. And he stopped practicing his heroes altogether. And we're here for the tour, ESL One Genting in Malaysia...

No, he stopped practicing for six months. For six months I went to him and said: “Ilyuh, maybe it's time to get smart?”. The guys were starting to piss on Ilyuha - I had been defiling him for six months.

At some point we came to the ESL One Genting tournament. Ilyuha was playing Earth Spirit, and in a teamfight he missed four buttons. I'm not kidding. If anyone wants to, look for Virtus.pro's ESL One Genting replay. What year is that? 2017? And there was a teamfight where Ilyuha missed with four buttons for Earth Spirit - the old one. And it was hard to take it in the team. Me and the guys talked and came to the conclusion that it was time. That's just the way it was”

According to Solo, he defended Lil for six months, but the situation did not improve. Eventually, the cyber athlete noted, the team came to the conclusion that it couldn't go on like this. At one of the tournaments Lil missed all four buttons in a teamfight, which was probably the last straw.

Recall that earlier Egor “Nightfall” Grigorenko admitted why he actually moved to Aurora.