AZUWU — Monte: "I hope you guys will pay all of us the amounts we are due before you sign your new team"

Luminocity's Aleks "Rainwaker" Petrov, Oscar "AZUWU" Bell, and Aurélien "afro" Drapier supported their former teammate Aurimas "Bymas" Pipiras, who accused Monte of failing to meet financial obligations and systematically delaying payments.

Rainwaker wrote on his X social media account:

Totally agree with Bymas. It sucks that it had to become public, but same here, I still haven’t received any of the prize pool for my time with Monte.

AZUWU's comment reads as follows:

Sad that it came to this, but it is a relief for this to finally be brought to light, the hate from the community was seriously extreme, We had multiple delayed payments, our contracts were expiring and on top of that, I never even received a draft of a contract extension, only a verbal proposal to prolong until the end of year on the exact same terms as when i first joined Monte.

I hope you guys will pay all of us the amounts we are due before you sign your new team.

A huge thank you to Luminosity for believing in us and taking all of the hate from the community while we waited to see if Monte would pay up.

afro, in turn, accused his former club of disrespect:

I respect Monte for the time we spent in the org and the energy and the trust they gave to us.

Lately they’ve been very disrespectful and it’s sad because business is business and everyone in this ecosystem should be smart enough to understand our motivations and the reasons that made us take the decision to sign with LG.

Bymas's post appeared after Monte released a video in which the club's general director criticized Bymas, afro, and AZUWU, as well as their agents, for the three players departing the organization to join Luminosity.