Imagine if some day you're just chilling, playing some Dust II Deathmatch with full volume and using shift, so you can top frag - because we all know that's what you guys do on your free time - and suddenly you get dragged out of your house, taken to court and sentenced to jail while the police investigates the murder next door.

The entire world would scream bloody murder (haha, word puns)!

We've always based our justice on gathering evidence, assessing the facts and the timeline, and then making a judgement. But that's hard when the investigators have their hands full with plenty of more cases.

Australian CS player Roflko, victim of the 35-player match fixing ban carried out by ESIC earlier this year, has come out on Twitter to show that it has been over 70 days since the ban, and yet no evidence has been presented to him as of yet.

That's a little over what it took Liquid to win the Intel Grand Slam... As a result, he's decided to quit - not even move to VALORANT.

But we also understand that ESIC has one hell of a task ahead of them. We understand you might want to get mad at them, but there's more to it than just this. ESIC is understaffed and overworked, and they're under a lot of pressure to make the right choices. Sounds like every teen after High School.

For all we know, the evidence is there, and Roflko is trying to work social media to make his judge, jury, and executioner look bad. Either way, it's best to stay on the side line for this one, and watch the show unfold. Put down your pitchforks people.

Before we get too deep into NaVi's roster, you should know that it's, at least externally for now, only for RMR events, which gives us the perfect opportunity to tell you that FLASHPOINT is now an RMR event.

Why do we want to tell you that?

Because North were invited, along with all the other big teams. aizyesque still doesn't believe they've gone; he's hardstuck at the denial phase.

Anyway, on to the main story - flamie is out with B1t coming in, just as we all suspected. Quite literally. NaVi think they're being slick pretending this is a new development, and it's only for these events. Those of us who are enlightened knew this was coming a while ago.

It might be that they bring back flamie if things go wrong at the RMR events and DreamHack Masters Spring - but if things go wrong there, it might be proof that the decision is kinda moot. Maybe the issue lies deeper than just one player.

Only time will tell. Unless, of course, you're enlightened, and maybe wrote a newsletter a few weeks ago about that.

Astralis, so often, are described as machines. Machines designed to perfectly shut down everyone else, designed to play every map perfectly, and designed to win Counter-Strike matches.

What's the one thing that humans appreciate more than machines?

Er, not that one, you dirty minded freak. More fittingly, it's art. Or should we say, arT.

When Luke Skywalker destroyed the death star, it required a sheer disregard for one's own safety; bravery or stupidity, whichever you prefer. Similarly, to destroy the Astralis machine, it requires a man who has unbound the key to walk backwards.

arT never walks backwards, he just turns around and walks forward.

Online CS is weird, and for a lot of people Astralis' recent woes were just a product of that - but when FURIA completely annihilated them, something was clearly wrong. This is the team that shut down s1mple at his peak, but they can't stop the relentless aggression of arT?

Maybe there is something more happening underneath the surface, or maybe us suggesting Astralis are 'destroyed' might be a bit much. But with the players' contracts allegedly about to run out at the end of the year, internal strife might rise to the surface.

Nah, we're definitely overreacting, right?

It's not like their chairman is publicly disagreeing with the decisions of the team, or gla1ve is tweeting like he just watched Mean Girls to distract from the fact that Kjaerbye hasn't text back.

Oh.

• Richard Lewis shows once again that he knows how to: Argue about nothing and 2: Block people. If you want the TL;DR, find someone who cares more than us though.
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• Maybe you'll start winning now too? Was that too cynical?
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• Want to know how to win Inferno like a boss, or are you just a fan of Anders' voice? Either way, Double Scope's got your back.
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• Maybe if Flamie had focussed more on playing better and less on knowing factoids he would've stayed on NAVI? We'll never know...
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• Damn it's almost like the players don't always know what's best for a team...