-Demon1 is clearly struggling in his personal life, isn't performing to his heights from last year and just seems sad and demoralized compared to last year's idgaf attitude
-Before their playoffs decider match, Marved jumped in a call with FNS to tell him how much he misses OpTic and how he wished he had signed with NRG back when franchising started, not sounding sober at all
-Ethan's tweet about being a bad team with good players
-Every time Chet gets on stage he looks like he doesn't want to be there
-Victor and crashies are known tilters and look frustrated asf every time they play
-The team just generally hasn't lived up to their expectations for themselves and seem to have no chemistry, cohesion or team identity
All signs are pointing to NRG imploding either before Stage 2 or after they inevitably don't qualify to Champions, because even after the time off they had during Madrid they came back looking even worse than they did in Kickoff