Dallas Fuel release KyKy and Rascal

The Dallas Fuel have announced the departures of head coach KyKy and DPS Rascal from the team. Assistant coach Peak will act as interim head coach while the team interviews candidates for the now vacant position.

Coach Kyle Souder and DPS Player Dong-jun "Rascal" Kim have been released from the Dallas Fuel:https://t.co/SzLWUlXHZC
— Dallas Fuel (@DallasFuel) April 16, 2018

Rascal, who initially transferred from from the London Spitfire, competed with Taimou, Seagull, and aKm for playtime alongside Tracer specialist EFFECT.

KyKy began his tenure on the Fuel back in the team's days as EnVyUs. He initially joined EnVyUs as a coach after his stint as a professional player under Cloud9.

hastr0, the team's owner and CEO, provided his thoughts in a tweet:

These decisions were not easy and ones that our team did not want to have to make, but both releases were necessary and collectively decided on by our active team. Both KyKy and Rascal are both amazing talents. We wish them the best.

The Dallas Fuel struggled in the later stages of Stage 2 following a brief streak of wins against the Shanghai Dragons and Los Angeles Gladiators in Week 1. The Fuel did not find another victory against a team until their rematch against the Shanghai Dragons in Week 1 of Stage 3.

In addition to these recent departures, the team has announced the addition of former Meta Gaming coach Vol'Jin as one of the team's new assistant coaches, with his arrival to the Overwatch League campus in Burbank expected within a few weeks, pending visa approval.

The Dallas Fuel is now:

Kim "EFFECT" Hyeon (DPS)
Timo "Taimou" Kettunen (DPS)
Dylan "aKm" Bignet (DPS)
Pongphop "Mickie" Rattanasangohod (Flex)
Brandon "Seagull" Larned (Flex)
Christian "cocco" Jonsson (Tank)
Son "OGE" Min-seok (손민석) (Tank)
Sebastian "chipshajen" Widlund (Support)
Benjamin "uNKOE" Chevasson (Support)
Jonathan "HarryHook" Tejedor Rua (Support)
Emanuel "Peak" Uzoni (Interim Head Coach)
Kang "Vol'Jin" Min-Gyu (강민규) (Assistant Coach)
Dong-hwan "Violet" Kim (Life Coach/Player Manager)

Well Reddit got what they wanted.

It is a little fucked to drop a coach and a player mid-stage after the team had starting to see improving results, and in Rascal's case the signing window is closed so he's out of the league til season 2. While I understand the decision to drop Kyky and, yes, Rascal too, I think this is another case of Dallas management's and hastro's sledgehammer approach to fixing problems. I also think that Kyky got a bad rep due as a coach because of his dumb twitter tirades and internal problems that were sometimes out of his control. It's pretty clear the management wasnt giving him or the team the needed resources to work with, as well as intruding in his work. That said I dont think the head coach role was fitting for him and theres definitely an argument to be made of his bad coaching decisions and general attitude. Add: However his impact in causing the problems within Dallas were largely overblown and I believe he can still do good coaching work in the future, provided his image isnt permadamaged now.