On Wednesday Nikolai “Hunden” Petersen issued a press release in which he said that he did not plan to renew his contract with Heroic, where he served as a coach. He mentioned that he had been in talks with team management over the past few months, but ultimately decided that he wanted to start a new chapter in his career. He is probably already less actively involved in the team's work: in July he did not go with the players to Germany for IEM Cologne, although the reasons for this remained unknown. Troels “robl” took his place during the championship. Coble, the team's mental health and performance coach.
In addition, HUNDEN was recently accused of sharing Heroic's strategic developments with third parties. In his statement, he categorically denies this, claiming that he would never do anything to harm the team. Petersen also mentioned that he did share materials with colleagues from other teams, but it was only about the tactics of his opponents, and not Heroic itself.
HUNDEN worked with Heroic for over a year as a coach and also an analyst (during the period when he was unable to compete due to accusations of using a “coach bug”). Largely thanks to his efforts, the Danish team won several major victories, including first places at ESL One Cologne and DreamHack Open Fall in 2020.
