S0pp wanted to bring in echo—who plays sentinel—instead of yetujey, but couldn't pull it off because yetujey was more liked within the organization. When yetujey found out that s0pp tried to get him kicked, he got s0pp fired and brought in his old friend woot instead. Sociable was not seen as sufficient as an IGL and smoke player; batujnax was brought in as the new IGL, and hezacoil as the smoke. Since the new IGL batujnax and krostaly are both initiator players, and the game wasn't going to enter a double-initiator meta anytime soon, they parted ways with krostaly. With the remaining core of:
- Yetujey: Sentinel (some smoke)
- Woot: Flex entry
- Batujnax: Initiator / IGL
- Hezacoil: Smoke (flex senti)
They needed to add a powerhouse entry fragger to this four-player core.
- xeus hasn't succeeded for 2 years.
- s0pp got kicked.
- comeback rejected FUT at the beginning of last season and went to Heretics.
- kachoww went to Liquid.
- loversrock only plays well on Yoru.
- deadink isn't a player who can play as a primary entry.
- Aspas was available, and it would have been a move that would skyrocket viewership and merchandise sales within the organization."