When the coach for C9 says "Role clash" How can there be a role clash? Yay clearly plays the Duelist Role. When they signed him did they not think this through or what?
there is a role clash, there always was. When C9 picked Yay everyone was talking about the role clash, C9 said they would make it work and I think in one of their videos Vanity said they working around it. But apparently, not so true. They didn't do well at the Red Bull tourney and didn't do well at Lock In.
Pretty weird they drop 2022s top player over a role issue. Surely Yay is the last person you would want to drop.
Edit: Xeppa, Leaf and Vanity have been the C9 core for quite a while so I am assuming they didn't want to break that. Zellsis is flex so doesn't directly have a role clash with Yay.
Then again, it could be completely different and related to money. C9 lost quite a lot of sponsors last year I believe, they dropped their Apex roster too.