“It is the most embarrassing result”: Team Heretics coach after VALORANT Masters Toronto exit

After the powerful loss to Wolves Esports, Staff Heretics’ head coach, Neil ‘neilzinho’ Finlay, shared his disappointment, citing poor comms and group performs as the explanations behind the early exit.

Staff Heretics, the runner-ups of 2025 VCT EMEA Stage 1 and Champions 2024, are out of VALORANT Masters Toronto with no single map win.

“Each single considered one of these guys has the aptitude to be the very best, and I believe we simply aren’t taking part in as a group proper now, just like the comms aren’t ok, the group performs will not be ok,” neilzinho mentioned within the post-game press convention.

The group misplaced its elimination match in opposition to the Chinese language consultant Wolves Esports, which is taking part in in its first-ever worldwide VCT occasion.

neilzinho additionally expressed his frustration over the limited preparation time the group had after VCT EMEA Stage 1, particularly in comparison with groups from different areas. Nonetheless, he admitted that it doesn’t justify the poor efficiency and referred to as it ‘probably the most embarrassing consequence since they began the group.’

“Positive, it’s been exhausting with the time to prep, however that doesn’t make us play like now we have over the past couple of days and that’s the disappointing factor,” he added.

Nonetheless, as a coach, he’s optimistic that the group will bounce again within the upcoming tournaments.

“It’s an enormous humbling proper now. We bought one at Kickoff, that is even greater and we realized from the one at Kickoff. We’re gonna do the identical factor right here. We all know what to do, we all know how we have to do it, we simply aren’t doing it proper now to win video games once we’re on stage,” neilzinho assured.

For a full recap of the in the present day’s motion, check out Esports Insider’s article.

Staff Heretics will return to the stage on the Esports World Cup, scheduled to happen in July and followers will have the ability to catch them in motion on EWC’s official Twitch and YouTube channels.