Pretty much

I love s0m as a player but if he’s calling it after this year then a rebuild has to be considered, even if he stays they need an actual experienced IGL. Imo if he was confident in his ability to call, he would have been the one to step into the role after FNS retired rather than Ethan. Not a dig at either s0m or Ethan, just that neither of them have a solid history of being able to call as proper IGL

I’m not saying there’s a 0% chance they figure it out and do well, if anything it would be great if the 100T game was an outlier. But just looking at their upcoming matches and the level of competition in their group I’m struggling to see where they’ll confidently get a win. Not to mention they don’t have a roster that can run double duelist (which REALLY hurts them in this meta), unless Ethan plays smokes for those maps and Skuba plays sentinel

The IGL part is the biggest question mark since what English speaking IGLs in NA have really proved themselves as solid callers and fraggers, that already aren’t on Tier 1 rosters? I bring up P0PPIN and ENVY because they look by far the best VCL NA team rn, but there could be others out there

Looking at their group they’re likely going 0-5, 1-4 at the best unless something big changes meaning their year is basically over.

Considering the amount that the org is willing to spend, could they poach the age-eligible players from ENVY (P0PPIN, Eggster, Inspire) and keep Skuba and Mada? If I’m NRG management I’m at least somewhat tempted especially if ENVY don’t win Ascension and if Ethan and s0m call it after this season.

Not saying this as an NRG lover or hater, just another armchair take

Not saying he was a problem, but maybe MIBR thinks they can get an initiator who can have more impact with a different initiator player since he stopped calling after the 100T game? Any promising Brazilian talent that are cortezia/xenom caliber they can pick up?

Who’s playing flash and info initiator? On paper they have 2 senti/controller flex players (Flashback and freeing) and one dedicated controller (Mako).