Well, that didn’t take long.

On Friday morning we wrote all about how NIP were awful. It was a story full of schadenfreude, and we’d like to see we’re a little bit ashamed of how much we enjoyed it, but we’re really not.

It turns out that re-adding es3tag wasn’t the solution to their firepower problems — quelle surprise — and he has been reportedly re-benched. Some lessons one has to learn twice, as anyone who has ever gone back to an ex will tell you.

It never ends well.

k0nfig and headtr1ck, reportedly, will join es3tag on NIP’s bench, alongside coach djL. This will come as no surprise to anyone who watched them at the RMR, as neither player looked anywhere near their best, and NIP need a change.

Quite who they will get is up in the air, and with most good players still in the Major cycle, it mightn’t be ‘til post-Copenhagen that we find out what the new look NIP team will be.

It will have alex and REZ in it, supposedly. alex was handed a poisoned chalice, and will get another chance to build a team that he can succeed with, while REZ has a long contract and has Swedish brand value, in the most diplomatic way we can say “he doesn’t offer much else”.

If NIP are to be ‘on the top by January 2025’, as THREAT was quoted as saying they have to be, then this is a good first step towards that goal.

As long as they replace them with better players, anyway.

NIP now have:

🇪🇸 alex

🇸🇪 REZ