Bwipo quits LoL coaching role in LFL after one day

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 04/02/2026

Former Fnatic and FlyQuest League of Legends toplaner Gabriël ‘Bwipo’ Rau has quit a coaching job after just one day.

Bwipo had volunteered to help ZYB Esport, the team of fellow Belgian Yasin ‘Nisqy’ Dinçer, in the LFL Invitational.

ZYB was one of the invited teams in the 20-team LFL Invitational, a new format for the French league following Riot’s 2026 ERL changes.

However, after just one day of scrims and reviews, Nisqy revealed that Bwipo had decided to step away from the team.

It been mentioned previously that while Bwipo can understand French, he would handle drafts and reviews in English.

While this may have contributed to his decision, it seems the language barrier wasn’t the main reason why Biwipo left.

Speaking on stream, Nisqy explained the situation:

“I talked to him and, at first he was keen, but he didn’t think it’d take up so much of his time.

“He told me he prefers to do something else rather than doing this all week.

“I didn’t want to bust his balls on top of that, plus he was volunteering. Or maybe he just couldn’t handle it in the end, I don’t know, plus the English-French thing.”

Currently, without a team, it’s not known what Bwipo is planning on doing next.

He was going to compete in the LFL Invitational as a jungler for streamer Jean ‘TraYtoN’ Medzadourian’s French Flair team.

However, the league rules teams can only have two ‘veterans’ as described by Riot’s ERL rules as:

“A player who has participated in more than 50% of eligible matches in a professional league in at least three of the last five completed splits.”

And French Flair already had former Karmine Corp duo Adam ‘Adam’ Maanane and Raphaël ‘Targamas’ Crabbé.

Bwipo’s LoL career

Bwipo has had a fairly accomplished LoL esports career.

He started his professional career with Fnatic, subbing in for Paul ‘sOAZ’ Boyer and holding onto that top lane spot.

With Fnatic, he won multiple LEC and reached the finals of the LoL World Championships back in 2018.

He then spent the next phase of his career in North America, playing for Team Liquid and FlyQuest.

With the latter, he found massive success, winning multiple LTA titles and pushing Gen.G to five games in the Worlds 2024 Quarter-finals.

However, Bwipo’s career has been derailed after making sexist comments last year about women not playing LoL while on their periods.

These sexist remarks delayed the LoL Worlds 2025 song release to edit Bwipo out of the music video.

FlyQuest suspended Bwipo for a match and eventually let him go at the end of the 2025 season.

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

In my seven years of esports writing, I've introduced esports coverage to newspapers, interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, and driven viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I'm most proud of the latter.

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