Millenium have issued a statement to condemn Steeve "Ozstrik3r" Flavigni's removal from the team.

Flavigni confirmed on Tuesday he had departed Millenium following his team-mates' wish to have a more skilled player replace him.

After a year-and-a-half with Millenium, the terms of Flavigni's departure came as a blow to the organisation's chiefs, who have now condemned the remaining players for making this decision themselves.

"In recent months, Ozstrik3r had even regularly spoken about his retirement, his skill being inferior to his team-mates', but specially about his limited availability because of real-life issues," read a Millenium statement.

"Our goal is to always make our teams as powerful as possible and we also believed that the team needed a change to make it successful internationally. Therefore, we already have some ideas on the profile of a possible replacement.

"However, we never imagined to kick Ozstrik3r so that he could be replaced by a top player. His experience, his lead and his competitive spirit are better (in our opinion) than his ingame level, which was sometimes lower than his mates'. But they [his mates] were more "intolerant" and wished to stop playing with him, feeling this change as indispensable to reach a high level in the international scene.

"We understand the heart of the problem, but we condemn the form which for us was disrespectful for the work made by Ozstrik3r. We were, therefore, in a situation we did not wish. On the one hand, we had a charismatic leader who had given a lot for the structure and, on the other hand, we had players who had shown their quality and who wished to work hard to make this a great team.

"We are already working to put an end to this situation the best possible way, and give Millenium a Counter-Strike team who can take our colors as high as possible."

Millenium currently have the following quartet:

Christophe "SIXER" Xia
Engin "MAJ3R" Kupeli
Guillaume "Geno" Ntep
Mahé "Yoshi" Martin