If rumours are to be believed, NIP are in search of a new IGL.

We have one question:

Why?

No, seriously, on what planet can they justify cutting Snappi? Sure, results haven’t been what they would have wanted, but look at what the poor bloke has had to put up with during his time there.

First off, they signed the two Portugeezers, who, without MUTiRiS - a f-cking miracle worker btw - holding their hand, were always going to be pretty pants. He also had r1nkle, who, if he doesn’t take his hands off his keyboard and mouse, is almost guaranteed to lose every 1v1 he’s ever in, and then they kept chopping and changing the lineup every couple of months to get past these mistakes.

It would take a miracle for prime karrigan to get these bums to play, ffs.

And now, after all that, they reportedly looked to replace him with LNZ, who is a decent IGL, sure, but it’s a replacement that stinks of the real problem with the team: Xizt.

Xizt, who has now done nothing to elevate HEROIC, overseen multiple underwhelming NIP projects, and… well, that’s it actually, which is quite the indictment of his coaching “career”.

Seriously, what kind of cronyism buff does this motherf-cker have? What will it take for NIP management to realise he’s the real terrorist behind their continued middling existence?

Will it be xKacpersky’s eventual step up? Will it be when Astralis decide stavn is a competent AWPer and sign him over phzy? When they miss the next three Majors?

What will it be? Because we don’t see how they can’t realise that the staff behind the team is the real problem, and not necessarily anyone inside of it.

Because genuinely, if you, like them, are sat there and looking at Snappi as the problem, you need to give your head a serious wobble. How close has this team been to making it as a legit tier one team? Given what tier two is like, that didn’t happen because they had a sh-t IGL.

They didn’t c-cktease us in Budapest because Snappi couldn’t make a call; they c-ckteased us because his players were useless, and their coach did nothing to fix the glaring problems in their game.

NIP is and always will be an org that gets absolutely what it deserves, and this is just the latest indication as to why.