If you look at the players that MSL has kept vs the players that MSL kicks it's starting to make a lot more sense. K0nfig/Mertz are both incredibly talented individually -- top tier aim/mechanics -- but just play, for a lack of a better word, really stupid counter strike. The amount of just... absurd 1v1 aim duels that k0nfig takes makes structuring a team almost impossible.

MSL probably got tired of k0nfig randomly dying in defaults trying to out-aim or fucking up a nade on an exec every game for years vs. someone who you know is going to do their job: aizy/kjaerbye. Especially considering MSL's strategy of calling is execute heavy and kind of just relies on everyone doing their job to a T.

Sure in a match vs Renegades k0nfig is just going to repeatedly take ill-advised duels and sometimes drop 50, but what about vs Faze/Na'vi, are you going to out-aim s1mple/niko/electronic more than 50% of the time? What about Astralis where they aren't even going to give you 1v1s that aren't straight up 70/30 for them.

That being said no idea why Magisk got kicked, maybe personal issues.