In a recent edition of your favourite newsletter, we wrote about a roster move that left us feeling nothing at all. In this edition, we’ll talk about a roster rumour that has us absolutely baffled.

There’s been talks of Gentle Mates entering the CS scene recently, and if you don’t know who they are, they were founded as a VALORANT team in 2023. So they’ve finally decided to play a real game.

A French organisation, many expected them to enter CS by signing a French team, with at least a core of 3DMAX players being the most likely. And those expectations are seemingly being met.

However, this story isn’t as simple as five players going from one org to the other. Because it can’t be that easy, can it?

According to KRL, Gentle Mates will apparently be picking up Graviti, Lucky, and Ex3rcice from 3DMAX. Solid choices, even if we’re a little confused why they wouldn’t go for Maka, but that’s not the strange part.

The strange part is that the French trio will apparently be joined by ash, of GamerLegion fame, and wait for it… siuhy.

That’s right, after pushing GamerLegion to a Major final and MOUZ to number one in the world, siuhy is somehow going to end up on a team with a guy that wasn’t good enough for G2 in 2019. Right.

Look, there are some positives to this. We were a bit harsh on him then, but Lucky has now proved himself at a tier one level. Graviti might not have shown it yet, but he has potential to be a star, and ash and siuhy reuniting could be just as good as it was the first time.

But seriously? Is this the best siuhy can get after all he’s done in the past two years?

We’re not sure whether we’re the ones missing something, and maybe that MOUZ break up revealed some things behind the scenes that we’re not privy to, but how aren’t a number of elite teams offering the most promising IGL in the world a blank cheque?

How is this an opportunity they deem acceptable to miss out on?

Along with the fact that no one knows who the fifth player would be, and the fact that we have no obvious answers considering they would need to be an AWPer, we’re baffled by this rumour, and we kinda hope it stays as one.