You have no clue how good he could be if he came to CS2. But you're 100% right he is a cancer to any team he is on and a solo player in a team game. Beyond that though, it really was nice to watch him play that way and do well. Like fuck the meta full send 24/7 is pretty exciting CS, maybe not the highest IQ, but sometimes apeing through a smoke works and he made it work often enough to justify it.

that'll likely wait until mid 2024 or when 2025 looms closer since that'll be when everything goes back to open circuit. And I'd rather not have NA have old names returning. I'm not interested in NA to go the Brazil way and consistently recycle the same old pros instead of going for new talent coming out or current talent improving even if they're mid. Europe consistently pumps out new names every time and since late 2022 to the beginning of 2023, even Asia is starting to have a new generation showing up and attempting to take on the world, especially EU opposition. Why tf does NA have to try to resort to old names to try put ourselves on the map again.

NA will probably do exactly what they did before. Trash money hungry orgs will split the talent pool so deeply that they have zero shot of winning, meanwhile massively overpaying plays who will coast off that easy contract money until the scene shrinks and 1-2 finals teams emerge and perhaps make a run of things. Brazil will do something similar but get their shit together far sooner than NA. And EU/Eastern EU/Russia will crush it. Old pros will come back and grind and be solid, current pros will still go hard AF, and the new talent is going to follow their footsteps. EU will probably dominate the scene again and solid orgs will snipe anyone from a lesser team and create super solid 5 man all star stacks. There will be a really deep talent pool in EU where even their "T2" talent is still far better than the rest of the world. And hopefully with all of that we get to watch high level CS from the RO8 or even sooner all the way to the finals in all events. But honestly the worst part is the orgs and how they enter the NA space. They throw money at these kids and there are grinders and those who when they secure the bag take their foot off the gas. There are teams that rely on a "celebrity" player and cheap out on the rest of the team to attempt to maximize ROI. I just don't think the orgs ever put themselves in a viable position, but I'd be happy to be wrong cuz I just like rooting for good CS.