any thoughts? speculations?
i think that it's based on performance and results. rob moore paid a shit ton of money to build this team and in his mind this is a super team on paper. and was promised this by sykko himself. failing to put a good showing against the good teams made him think "i am paying millions for a mid table team" so sykko is done.
he was given freedom to sign players, then still ran into role issues. sacy on smokes, pancada on kj, just to make dephh call easier? why didnt he just sign a different igl then? why not sign players that can play their roles optimally from the start? why he stick with dephh so much?
from business perspective, sykko made a bad investment and simply paying the price for it, i guess. he surely aint spending millions for these results. especially when theres 4 ppl on the team that won trophy
While writing this, I just realized how much of a conspiracy this is, so get you tinfoil heads.
My guess would be that Sacy wasn't too fine with the role switches after all, and wanted to go back to initatior after that (truly) horrible Viper performance. That in turn would cause dephh to be the sentinel on most maps and pANcada moving back to smokes of cause, but maybe dephh wouldn't want that. That would leave the debate up to the coach, which of course having worked longer with dephh now, would lead him to agree with dephh more and thus, forcing something onto a player (that being Sacy), which he was obviously underperforming on and possibly hindering the team with.
Somehow Rob must have taken notice of that, and was like "I fucking get you 2 recent world champions, and you mess up the way they got on top? in favour of an igl that is outfragged by a diamond? get out of here asap"
That's something that I deem possible, but obv nobody apart from org & players know whether that's remotely close to being true or not, maybe Sacy is fine with the controller maybe he isn't.
Only thing that's certain is you can't really judge SEN as org, the team or staff knowing only that Sykko was dropped for A reason.
It could be that ceo trusted sykko to build a working roster and let him decide and sign who he wants. He brought over zekken and dephh as igl also want to sign sacy and pancada. The roster probably costed a lot cause both sacy and pancada would not leave loud unless it was a lot better deal. And finding mediciocre results.