We’ve got a really tough question for you this morning.

Who is the problem on G2?

It’s a tough question, for more than one reason. One, because pinning down a single ‘problem’ is a bit trite, two, because even if there was just one problem, it could be any of the four players not called m0NESY, and three because they’re still pretty good.

They were a lost clutch away from 2-0ing NAVI in the Major semi-final, and made playoffs in Chengdu, for example. They’re not even bad!

All that said, they could be much better. m0NESY is in god-tier form right now, just straight up untouchable. It’s him or donk for the best player in the world - thank god we don’t have national teams any more, eh - and he needs to be winning events.

Click here and look at m0NESY’s ratings in events this year, for crying out loud. He’s incredible, but it doesn’t seem to matter.

The usual suspects are taking aim at HooXi, and he’s not totally inculpable. He’s never been a great fragger - though he was rated higher than karrigan at this event - and to make up for it he has to be a leader like they are.

He has some excellent players, and isn’t winning. That’s not a good mix, and their game looks disjointed at times as it relies on individual brilliance.

Some of those excellent players, though, haven’t been excellent.

NiKo is still good, but not the 99 OVR superstar giga-fragger aggro-space-creator-cum-carry he was in GO, and huNter- has fallen off a cliff.

huNter- has quietly gone from a top 20 player to a player good enough for a top 20 team, and it’s killing G2. nexa is getting some flak too; he replaced a fan favourite and accomplished anchor and the team stopped winning as much.

It’s quite easy to blame nexa, but in truth, we feel a bit sorry for him. It’s not his fault NiKo and huNter- aren’t as good in CS2, and that he replaced a player everyone liked.

G2 aren’t a busted flush, but they’re also not quite there right now.

Someone save m0NESY. Team Spirit, fancy it?