It should come as no surprise that NAVI are making some changes – we haven’t seen vibes that bad since one of us wore a branded TLDR hoodie on a first date and had to explain what a FlyQuest was.

This team has been nowhere near their peak this season, and the snippets we’ve seen from inside their comms have been… ugly. And we’re not talking about B1ad3’s scary face.

Rumours spread of friction between team members, which is probably the easiest rumour to ever spread. You try spending every day with the same four people and playing Counter-Strike with them, and see how quickly you end up hating them.

We’ve ruined many a friendship by baiting.

In a sort of American game show-style twist, though, NAVI have announced the player who is joining, but not who is leaving. makazze is the one joining, but in terms of the departing player, we’re hoping they do some sort of fight to the death. Metaphorically. In game.

Imagine the views they could get streaming some sort of tournament between the players to decide who has to leave; we’re in need of some post-season content here, lads.

1v1s (quickscope no scopes only on Rust anyone?), chess boxing, eating challenges, hell, an episode of Impractical Jokers. A penalty shootout. A game of Horse on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. A Random Battle on Pokemon Showdown.

Anything will do, just have a competition to see who gets replaced. Please.

Sadly, it’s likely that iM will be replaced by makazze from the Junior team, while the rest of the kids are set free into the esports wilderness. This is because - and try not to fall asleep here - of ‘makazze’s hyper-aggressiveness’ and ‘shar[ing] most of his positions with iM’.

Aren’t you glad you have us bleating on about Impractical Jokers instead of reading HLTV?

iM hasn’t been the absolute smash hit that perhaps we all expected post-Paris Major, but he’s been an integral part of a NAVI team that blew through their expected ceiling and was for a while the best team in the world. He’s still good, just not the superstar we’d hoped for.

makazze, on the other hand, is lightning-in-a-bottle. Really fun, really dangerous, might fade into nothing or might cause a forest to burn down. Odd analogy. Good player, though - he sits at a similar level numbers-wise to b1t on the academy team.

Not a bad player to be compared to as a rookie.