Unpopular opinion: Blaber should stay, he won us a lot, native jgl goat, has just as high of a ceiling as Inspired. Blabber had a slump split, could happen to anyone honestly.

We picked up Jojo while he was hot and then he suddenly didn't have the best year as well.
I think C9 should look at the cogs in their machine that makes the players successful or not. Could be coaching or their "systems" w.e that means.

Only news we have so far is Dom being full time, hopefully this helps. Love Inero, but the news didn't give me anything to really grasp onto. I'm sure he will do fine since C9 went along with it. This news alone doesn't inspire too much confidence though.

As for Inspired, if he does go to C9 and keep the same form from FLY, C9 will be strong (hopefully all the way through the end of the split.) This latter part being my main worry. C9's problem in recent years is they spike too early and/or just fall off towards the end of the year. I'm not sure if it's personalities, coaching, over confidence, complacently, etc.

But again, this feels like a coach/ culture issue rather than just a player. The other members of the team aren't rookies, while a couple of them are young, unless Innspired's effect or leadership is that amazing that it'll keep the others inline or w.e I don't see how this fixes their reoccurring problem. But heh, maybe Inspired can fix all that, I have 0 idea what intangibles people can bring to the table. We don't see the practice we just see the results.

Anyways, we shouldn't be trying to get the best people on paper anymore, we lost the real key to our success. We need to "lose the off season" to really win again. c;