WhereRU? Whoru benched by Lunatic-Hai

The last two APEX matches for Lunatic-Hai have been played without a familiar name for the squad: Whoru. Questions began flaring up as Lunatic-Hai suffered an early playoff loss to Kongdoo Panthera without their star Genji player. Lunatic-Hai has answered those questions, Whoru has been temporarily benched for violating team rules.

After his initial absence, rumors of Whoru being ill and unable to play immediately became the accepted answer to his disappearance. However, the rumor came into question when Whoru still wasn't playing in Lunatic-Hai's most recent match against Conbox Spirit. An official for Lunatic-Hai dispelled those rumors, as well as rumors of Whoru leaving the team, in a meeting with fans. The official would not give any more details, leaving fans to speculate at what Whoru could have done to prompt his benching.

Gido has been filling in for Whoru the past couple of matches for Lunatic-Hai. Their next match will be against LuxuryWatch Blue in the losers' finals of their group. The winner of that match will make it into the final playoffs for this season's APEX title. It is still unknown whether Whoru has served his time and will make a return or if Lunatic-Hai will continue running Gido for that match.

tamagao

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shoutouts to the people in the match threads who i ~~stole~~ borrowed the title pun from

CommanderX

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https://youtu.be/nntGTK2Fhb0

Admirable

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Under the bizarre standards that Korean pros are held to this could be anything.

Maybe he sighed on the mic after an EscA pulse bomb? :>

One_Punch_Man

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whoru let the fame get to his head, hence his name, now I guess he needs change his name to whereami?

arnyftw

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#freewhoru

remiska

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i giggled at tittle ;) good job, also nice read

Aznable

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#throw4whoru. in all seriousness kdp should take this as a sign that a religious deity wants them to win at apex

DouseTheGame

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Aznable [#7]

#throw4whoru. in all seriousness kdp should take this as a sign that a religious deity wants them to win at apex

KDP vs AFB finals :pray:

gobucks34

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Whoru seems like the kind of kid that would feel guilty if he told his parents he got an A and actually got an A-. I can't even fathom him breaking rules...

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Loco

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Did he look at a girl?

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gobucks34 [#9]

Whoru seems like the kind of kid that would feel guilty if he told his parents he got an A and actually got an A-. I can't even fathom him breaking rules...

Strange impression imo. Whenever you see his interactions (translated) with the team or with the coach, he is always talking quite flippantly towards the older players - at least when you take that in the context of Korean societal norms. He also mentioned a while back, I think at the end of APEX when they won, that he had been talking back to the coach or something and now realised how much he should respect him. I always got a vibe that he was a bit of a cheeky kid, at least in Korean terms. Could have been something totally different though!

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Loco [#10]

Did he look at a girl?

#look4whoru

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Sideshow [#11]

Strange impression imo. Whenever you see his interactions (translated) with the team or with the coach, he is always talking quite flippantly towards the older players - at least when you take that in the context of Korean societal norms. He also mentioned a while back, I think at the end of APEX when they won, that he had been talking back to the coach or something and now realised how much he should respect him. I always got a vibe that he was a bit of a cheeky kid, at least in Korean terms. Could have been something totally different though!

I think people have the impression that he's a meek little kid because of his small size and his somewhat tame disposition. At the very least that's the vibe I got from the small amount of exposure I got to him.

But yeah as you mentioned, whenever I'd see translated interactions I'd always be surprised at his demeaner and how he seemed to cinteract with older or "higher ranke" individuals in the context of their organization.

As a self proclaimed weeb he seems a bit at odds with what I know of Asian culture and their respect for societal hierachy.

In any case I hope he hasn't been suspended for the remainder of the tournament, they seem to have a very real chance of making the semi-finals and would really need him if they were to face AFB...