In mid-season rostermania this week, GamerLegion opted to place their in-game leader, Snax, on the bench. This comes after a fall season to forget, and with constant roster turmoil due to logistical and medical reasons, their chances of making the Singapore Major had largely faded after an elimination loss to EYEBALLERS just last week.

With this in mind, AN1MO was quite a downer on Snax’s second stint with the team when he wrote about the news on our brand-spanking-new website. However, new information has since come to light.

The Big Apple himself clarified the move on Twitter, explaining that he had himself initiated the move. With just two months left on his contract, he felt there was very little energy left in him to keep going, so asked his team to begin looking for a replacement about a month and a half prior to the move being made.

That’s actually a move we can respect quite a bit. It’s fair to assume Snax wouldn’t have been doing the team any favours if he stretched himself for the rest of the season, only to burn out hard doing so. What we don’t understand is how they landed on his replacement.

They mean to tell us that after a whopping 45 days of scouting, negotiating, testing and evaluating they landed on… shalfey? Look, the dude’s alright as a player, but from what we’ve seen and heard, he’s an aggressively mid in-game leader.

That being said, two of the bigger brothers to GL have recently managed to do the impossible, by turning a star rifler into a successful in-game leader. Replacing your traditional IGL, playing the tough, self-sacrificing roles to the benefit of their teammates, with a higher firepower rifler seems to have worked wonders for MOUZ and NIP.

If GL manage to do the same with their newest Russian signing… are we looking at a new meta developing? If we are, what does that mean for NAVI? For FURIA? For Falcons?