Do you remember a couple of weeks ago when we declared that MOUZ ‘might have been the real winners of the roster shuffle’?

We’d like to apologise to MOUZ for jinxing it, honestly.

When we booted up the tl;dr HQ PC at 7:30 PM on Wednesday night after a hard day at the ‘Infinite Chimps Typewriter’ factory, we were aghast. We rubbed our little eyes as hard as we could, but still, it did not disappear.

‘MOUZ bench siuhy ahead of Kato- blah blah blah’ or something. Honestly, we never read past the headline, and reading the whole headline is a stretch on long days.

We checked the date. Nope, not April Fools’. We checked the spelling — yep, it’s definitely siuhy, and definitely MOUZ, and it’s definitely that they benched him.

What the hell is going on?

We’re… no closer to knowing, actually.

siuhy’s statement and MOUZ’s statement, ironically, agreed that the issue was “clashing visions” on the team. Was siuhy asking them not to choke, and the rest of MOUZ went ‘nah’?

By the time we started to process the move, MOUZ had basically already signed a replacement, too, which makes us think it wasn’t all that sudden from their point of view. You don’t enter negotiations and leave them with a player like Spinx in a day or two.

So yes, Spinx has a team. It’s MOUZ. Who just lost their wunderkind IGL. Which, you will notice, Spinx is not.

Spinx is a wonderful player, but he’s both the oldest and not the IGL-est on the team. Obviously (read that as sarcastically as you like), Brollan is the new IGL of MOUZ.

We’re not joking, by the way. MOUZ actually benched siuhy for Spinx a week after player break ended. We get wanting Spinx — market opportunities like this don’t come around all that often, and sometimes you have to make an unpopular decision when the market allows.

But siuhy was the last person you’d want to bench.

Something tells us this break up wasn’t related to any in-server activities. Actually, that something was siuhy and MOUZ.

A whole host of IGLs just felt their sphincter tighten.