Unbelievable
Mere days after a disappointing loss to BetBoom in Blast Bounty and Katowice coming up in a couple of weeks, Mouz bench their IGL, Siuhy, move Brollan into IGL and the rumor is they will be singing Spinx into the opening spot.
The move comes after apparent “disagreements” in the direction of the team between Siuhy and management. Additionally, this comes after Mouz resign anchor of the year candidate Jimphaat, after he was rumored to be going to falcons with Monesy.
I predicted that Mouz would get completely decimated in the offseason. I thought Jimphaat, Siuhy and Xertion were going to be big ticket free-agent signings for the likes of Vitality, G2 or Faze. Mouz did an excellent job keeping their core together, there wasn’t even a peep about Xertion or Siuhy moving teams.
The disagreement
I have no inside sources. This is a mere prediction of the disagreement:
Siuhy wanted to begin to win consistent tournaments with the lineup and perhaps wanted to upgrade Brollan with a big free agent signing, and Mouz in their infinite poorness said no. That caused a fracture between IGL and organization, so they benched Siuhy. Mouz’ hand might’ve been forced if news of this got to Brollan.
For a top 5 team and one of the most consistent in the pool, this is a remarkable upset to an organization who’s history is remarkably solid and sound.
New Brollan
Brollan moves into the IGL role. I want to take some time here to reflect on this man.
Brollan started his career with some breakout performances in Godsent, then spent some time lamenting in the constant turmoil of Fnatic.
After some up and down performances at Fnatic, he moves into NIP: we all know that your time in NIP does not count.
After the departure of Frozen, he comes into Mouz and has some amazing performances. However, recently, he hasn’t had the same impact, and unlike Xertion and Jimphaat, his role is super undefined and washy.
We must remember that this guy is still young: only 22 years old. I’m predicting the move to IGL will help him to solidify his role. I’m unsure wether the tactics will translate, however, in CS2 having an above average fragging IGL puts you in good contention for tournaments. CS2 is swing heavy and it’s moved away from the tactical style of 2019 to late CSGO. We are still waiting for a team to develop a true tactical style for the game (Also the map pool was no help, go train).
The Spinx Angle
With his departure from Vitality due to personal problems with teammates: I thought this guy would be at the top of the list for teams like G2 and Faze. However, as can be seen, no one is willing to pick this guy up. Leaving him wanting for a team, just for Mouz to come in at the last and get him for cheap.
Again Mouz with such shrewd operating.
Spinx is a banger of a player and his addition to this lineup is going to be amazing.
Xertion banging heads off in the entry, Brollan on cleanup. Torzi has turned himself into an extremely capable teir 1 AWPer. Now you’ve got effective late lurks from Spinx and Jimphaat just wins every clutch.
Katowice last year was Donk’s awakening. Blast is always the warmup for teams. From a disappointing loss to BetBoom in Blast; if Mouz pull off a deep playoff run in Katowice, I’ll literally have no choice but to say this is the best run organization in CS. To pivot this quickly off a core piece of your team and still return excellent results is just an amazing achievement to the staff and GM over there at Mouz.
Bring on Kato.