Was Stewie2k the one pulling the strings that made nitr0 leave Team Liquid

In the lineups with Jake “Stewie2k” Yip, if you don’t perform well, you will be the one to leave.

With Nick “nitr0” Canella leaving Team Liquid after five years with the organization, we can see that there are issues surrounding Stewie2k and his influence as the team’s leader.

The story begins 9 months ago, where Cloud9’s historic journey at the ELEAGUE Boston Major, when two longtime Cloud9 members were left out. Both Jordan “n0thing” Gilbert and Michael “shroud” Grzesiek were suddenly on the bench and were later replaced by Tarik “tarik” Celek and Will “RUSH” Weizerba.

This move helped them become the first North American team to win the CSGO Major, but the sudden elimination of the two most popular members of the team made fans confused. Rumors of nitr0 leaving Liquid have been around for quite some time, but have only been confirmed by nitr0 and Team Liquid owner Steve Arhancet. The exact reason why nitr0 was dropped is still a mystery.

Stewie2k is often compared to Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev in his desire for his teammates to be perfect. That creates rumors about the lineups led by Stewie: if teammates don’t perform well, they will be kicked. This may have happened again and is the cause of the departure of nitr0.

Stewie2k CSGO teams used to cut old members including Liquid

Nitr0 used to be an IGL, rifler and even AWPer, having played for Liquid for 1,989 days so far. This is a long time for a player, especially when they only play for one CSGO team. But during that time, nitr0 got married and aged, a signal that he gradually changed his life goals, as he already had many titles. It has been more than a year since Team Liquid was still in the top CSGO world. The team won the IEM Grand Slam title in record time, winning multiple tournaments in a row for a $1,000,000 USD prize pool. But since then, Team Liquid has not kept up the excellent form.

The difficulties of a team cannot be blamed on one person. Although Nitr0 has dropped in performance many times, other members, including Stewie2k himself, also had problems when CSGO 2020 changed to online competition. The difference in this ‘blood change’ from the previous ones is the secret surrounding the cause of nitr0’s elimination. On Twitter, Team Liquid’s CEO is tight-lipped about the “changes” taking place in the CSGO roster.

“It is very important to inform the community and fans of the players about the changes and why we are making them. But unfortunately, we can’t do that right now. We are working on the issue and information will be available soon,” said Team Liquid CEO.

We know the news today in cs has taken people by surprise, and we don’t want to leave anyone in the dark – but, we just need a little more time to make sure we do what’s right by our players and the community pic.twitter.com/b2ANuVPON3

— Steve Arhancet (@LiQuiD112) July 29, 2020

Liquid-like surprises have also taken place with Cloud9 after Stewie2k took over the role of IGL, and it seems this time is no different. Fans will need to wait a bit longer to see what Team Liquid has to say about this ‘change’, but it’s clear that Stewie’s ‘perfect teammate requirement’ played a part in that decision.

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