at that point in time juicy was being paid BANK by bleed and also because the legacy rule was not clearly stated to be only applied to the first batch of franchising players (hence zekken was able to compete)
also juicy wanted to enlist into the army post-ascension but because singaporean government is weird when it comes to army he probably doesn’t have a definitive date to enlist yet, hence he’s competing in ascension since it’s the only option for him