that's hithere? Congrats dude it's a good read

c9 has kind of fucked itself recently on their pickup of stewie and freakazoid's outburst about s1mple. Honestly, their team did pretty well in the beginning, having placed highly in international tournaments. However, if you really look at the victories they had, most were over an envyus team that was surely dying. Ever since then their results have been lackluster. Unfortunately for them, that was fine until recently. c9 is a marketing campaign team; they have n0thing, beloved player, freakazoid who's a "cool dude on a cs pro team who sticks up for his friends" (something like that), shroud who's a huge stream presence, sean who was a c9 poster boy with n0thing, and skadoodle who is the "best NA awper." They were a team that would've retained a huge fanbase no matter the results. They're the "mighty ducks" sort of team who everyone would support, and when they'd lose all they needed to offer was an apology or an excuse that they would soon be rectifying (practice more, don't let jetlag get the better of us, take things seriously). But recently they've lost a lot of their support with freakazoid being the "community bully" and stewie being an all-around instigator and bad-mannered player (taco/s1mple situation).

I can almost guarantee you the manager of the csgo team and c9 in general has realized a lot of these things. As long as there were people supporting the n0thing/freakazoid crew, results hardly made a difference. But now with less community support of their players who are still underperforming, they might actually make a big roster change (not replacing a player who left).

It feels like with most of NA the drive to win just isn't there. Maybe it's because of the money as NA always seem to be paying more.

Like, you don't really see many EU teams make these kind of sketchy roster changes for their top teams. C9 feel like they just need marketable players.

yeah that's how most c9 teams work...

they needed to cut n0thing like a year ago, but instead the team left him behind
I fully expect ska to not renew his contract but with the signing bonus they gave him I have a feeling its a very lengthy one