Snax Addresses Benching by Mousesports: I Started to Get a Little Depressed
By Nicholas Barth ·
Veteran Counter Strike: Global Offensive player Snax recently took to social media to address his move to the bench from the active CS:GO roster of mousesports.
Monday, October 15th saw German esports organization mousesports announce that it had officially moved Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski from the active Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) roster to the bench and had brought back former mousesports player Martin "STYKO" Styk to be a member of the active CS:GO roster for mousesports.
.@STYKOcsgo returns to the starting lineup of mousesports and will replace Snax with immediate effect.
— mousesports (@mousesports) October 15, 2018
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While reports of mousesports potentially benching Snax had been making their way around the professional CS:GO scene, it was still a shocking announcement from mousesports considering that the organization had reportedly acquired Snax from his former team of Virtus.pro for $290,000.
After the announcement of his benching had been made official, Snax took to his Facebook page and responded to his benching from the active CS:GO roster of mousesports.
"As you already know, I'm on a bench in mousesports! Just like Chris said, our joint game couldn't go this way, at first I was happy what it looked like, but with the time we started adding tactics and different plans for the game, I started to get a little depressed. I was beginning to feel like a bream because my potential wasn't used in the right way. (if that's how he played styko it's great respect for this guy - he can play like that)," said Snax is his post regarding his benching from the CS:GO team of mousesports.
"During the tournament tournament in Ukraine, I showed the boys that I did not like it - so the decision was simple; the positions would not change because they are very used to them and they need someone who will play only under them or someone who would turn into these weakest roles," Snax continued. "I don't think they're experienced yet (they knew exactly what change they were doing) to put together a team in an equal way and make everyone happy.
After all, I wish them success - I have no personal problems with them, it just had to be because I couldn't play any more.
As for me right now, I don't know where I'm going to go. Pozdrówki from your boar."
The benching of Snax from the CS:GO roster of mousesports comes four months after he was acquired from Virtus.pro. During his stint with mousesports, Snax was able to help the CS:GO team reach the semifinals at the ELEAGUE Premiere and DreamHack Masters Stockholm while playing an integral role in the team securing the ESL One New York Championship.
However, Snax will now be looking for a new opportunity in the world of professional CS:GO and mousesports will be looking for STYKO to help the organization continue to keep its place as a top team in the esports scene for Valve's first person shooter title.
(cover photo courtesy of StarLadder)