but puppey and kuro need to go, puppey's drafts are so bad!!!! and kuro can't speak russian that's why the team is losing!!
Puppey and Xboct deserved to get kicked from Na'Vi. They played like hot asshole juice. The fact that they're playing better now may speak as much to a change of scenery as it does to a move away from the push-heavy patches, which Xboct and Puppey seemed to never get a grasp on.
I don't really see any argument that suggests Puppey was anything but hot, smoldering shit all TI4. But he wasn't alone. Perhaps it would have been better to just give him the benefit of the doubt and more time rather than booting people immediately...
...but that push patch was just not good for that iteration of Na'Vi. Maybe it was lack of practice and unity, and maybe a lot of that falls on the captain. We aren't privy their internal, day to day workings as a group. Maybe their players simply adapted poorly. Sometimes in real sports, good players need new surroundings to revitalize themselves and return to past form. Maybe Puppey would still be playing and drafting poorly if not for the team switch. Who knows.
I still think Xboct was and continues to be the weakest player on the team. That is to say the least consistent, the most risk-taking. He would have been the first I booted and I would have fought to get Black^ to come back to Europe.