G2 Esports part ways with head coach Perkz after X statement

CEO Alban Dechelotte announced the decision on Thursday. Without naming Perkz, the organisation said some of the statements made by “the Head Coach of one of our teams” did not align with G2’s values, and apologised to the fans they had hurt. Dechelotte closed the statement with the outcome itself:

As a result, we have decided to terminate our collaboration with the individual. We will now focus on rebuilding our staff and roster for the next season and ask for your patience, as we will not be able to communicate any changes until free agency officially opens.

Perkz had described his post as his “first and last honest post” in a decade. He used it to revisit his ties to former G2 CEO Carlos “ocelote” Rodríguez and to deny any support for Andrew and Tristan Tate, before laying out his personal beliefs. The part that set the reaction off was a deeply regressive anti-abortion stance. Perkz called abortion murder, argued that life begins at conception and presented it as the one conviction he would never give up.

Perkz also turned on his employer. He wrote that G2 handled the announcement of his return poorly, leaving him feeling “thrown a bit under the bus”, and described the roster he inherited as broken and dysfunctional, “with a lot of trauma and trust issues”.

Perkz rejoined G2 as positional coach in early July and was promoted to head coach on 10 July, replacing Dylan Falco after the team’s MSI exit. His contract ran until the day after Worlds 2027. Under his watch, G2 failed to make it out of the Swiss Stage at Worlds.

G2 now head into the offseason without a head coach and, by G2’s own account, with nothing to announce until free agency opens.