i think its clear that verno was trolling in that interview about "not playing the game outside of practice" when looking at tracker that's actually the complete opposite
verno has 50 hrs of ranked played this act
mada has 41
s0m has 13
ethan has 9
and FNS is unknown since he hasn't hit immortal yet and his tracker is private because of that
I personally think verno got kicked because of the constant solo plays he goes for that are just not needed, when they played KRU on defense he constantly pushed up A main and was punished by the kayo pop flash, I'm sure it was worse in scrims, I can understand that internal problems really can affect a team and hoping it just works out isn't the best decision they could make, if anything I wouldn't be surprised if NRG are just letting FNS have his last dance and plan to rebuild next year (I doubt s0m will play w/o FNS). Mada, Skuba, Verno, Ethan(if he chooses to continue playing) and a strong IGL could be a solid roster with Bonkar as a head coach, either way I think this is a good wakeup call for verno, he now knows his spot isn't secure just because he's insane and hopefully it leads to a better mentality going into the 2026 season for him