Hear me out. So yay have pretty much said he is willing to play for the league minimum. In that case, wouldn't NA orgs that planned to do a budget rebuild like NRG,C9 and 100T would atleast try him out? But so far there's pretty much no rumour about him joining any NA teams.
It could be nothing, but i find it hard to believe a player of Yay's calibre would'nt atleast get try out, even after a disappointing year in tier 2. However a possible explanation is Yay did not go to Trials to NA teams because he is not in the US(all his streams are pre recorded to fool us). He is secretly travelling to Asia to trial for Bleed, Zeta(alongside Aspas) and GE.
Why else would Zeta put their entire roster on sale? They are trying to buy mr El Diablo himself. Also Bo Dorks's tweet put Bleed on the cooking tier for their transfer, and it they only get Egoist, it wouldn't make sense to put them there.