siuhy Leaves Liquid: 0.87 Rating Across 185 Maps, Zero Major Playoffs

185 maps, a 0.87 rating, three Majors, zero playoffs. Put those four numbers on one line and the message in the Counter-Strike 2 transfer market becomes clean: Kamil "siuhy" Szkaradek's Team Liquid chapter is over, and it is not a sudden accident — it is the final result of a long-running calculation. Liquid has released him as a free agent; no buyout, no transfer fee, only an empty roster slot and an unresolved IGL succession.

My habit from years of watching matches is to verify the scoreboard before the headline. I did exactly that here. The numbers say this is not an "unexpected departure"; it is the last step of a slow, pre-determined decline.

Context: From Loan to Bench, Bench to Free Agent

siuhy joined Liquid on loan from MOUZ in April 2026. The Polish player arrived with the tag of a "promising IGL" out of the tier-1 European circuit — his MOUZ stint was credible enough. But after sixteen months, what remains is a benching, a free-agent release, and an empty slot.

The loan arrangement itself is a signal. A tier-1 European organisation like MOUZ can lend surplus or rotational talent to a North American org — meaning Europe is the exporter and NA the importer in the talent hierarchy. Liquid is an NA-headquartered org whose CS2 roster is largely Europe-based, so an EU-to-NA import dependency is a structural feature there. Succeeding at MOUZ and failing at Liquid is therefore not just an individual skill story — it is friction in system adaptation.

Within these sixteen months, at least four figures sat in Liquid's shot-calling chair — Casper "cadiaN" Møller, Russel "Twistzz" Van Dulken, siuhy himself, and now Johnny "JT" Theodosiou. In a tactical FPS like CS2, the IGL is not merely a player; he is the team's entire strategic identity. Four IGLs mean four new systems, four new call-books, four new chemistries. That churn is itself a signal — the team cannot find its own identity.

From Liquid's side, the decision is neither cheap nor unwise. Releasing him as a free agent means zero asset recovery — no buyout, no fee. It means the org prioritised clearing the roster slot over monetising the contract. There is no sign of financial distress; this is a performance-driven call, not a budget collapse. Cutting an IGL mid-season carries sunk-cost write-downs — remaining salary, amortised signing bonus — that this report does not quantify.

Core Analysis: What the Numbers Say

Now to the real ledger. International Majors — CS2's most important, Valve-sanctioned stage — number three. Three appearances, zero playoffs. A 5-11 map record, a 31 percent win rate. For a Liquid-tier roster, that sits well below the "competitive" band.

The Major format matters here. The Swiss system pairs teams with identical win-loss records; early rounds carry maximum BO1 volatility. An unstable roster often drops out immediately — it never nears the playoffs. Zero playoffs across three Majors is therefore not sudden; it is the signature of structural failure.

The individual number is harsher still. A 0.87 rating across 185 maps — on the HLTV-style scale where 1.00 is the neutral baseline, 0.87 is clearly below average. It is low even for an IGL. And here is the real problem: siuhy failed to deliver two things at once — visible frags (rating) and invisible value (calling). A deficit on both sides means double fault.

One thing deserves separate attention. Dust2.us notes that siuhy had "several strong pieces" around him. That framing matters — it moves the failure away from a talent deficit and toward leadership and cohesion. Liquid's problem was an integration failure, not an absence of talent.

And here an old rule of mine applies. Transfer-market data models overrate youth potential and underrate dressing-room chemistry. In siuhy's case it played out exactly that way — on paper he was a "proven IGL," but the chemistry of the room he walked into never formed. After sixteen months, the team still did not click.

Notably, Liquid's best result was a top-4 at FISSURE Playground #2 — a tier-2/3 event. Exposed at tier-1, successful at mid-tier: a classic flat-track-bully pattern. The higher the stage, the clearer the failure.

Contrarian Angle: Correlation Is Not Causation

Now to the question everyone skirts. Is siuhy really solely to blame for Liquid's Major failures?

Look carefully. Zero playoffs in three Majors is undeniably a hard charge. But correlation is not causation. If siuhy were the sole cause, results under JT would have visibly improved after the benching. Instead, the replacement is still unnamed, and the empty slot is the biggest risk.

Another angle — rating. A 0.87 rating cannot measure an IGL's true value. An IGL's job is mid-round calling, strategic direction, keeping the team calm in unstable moments — none of which shows up in "rating." When I wrote about Jorginho's metronome, I understood: some players' value is invisible in statistics, hidden inside tempo control. So calling siuhy a "failure" on 0.87 alone is an incomplete analysis.

But — and here is the balance — in siuhy's case we find a deficit on both the visible and invisible sides. He delivered neither calling-driven team success nor individual frags. That is what separates him from the ordinary "failed IGL."

I do not chase narratives; I audit the residuals they leave behind. And the residual here says the root problem is not siuhy — the root problem is the IGL chain itself. From my Morocco analysis I learned that player quality and team results do not always move on one line — management, chemistry, and time sit in between.

Journalistic discipline requires one clarification. The report dates the benching to "July 2026," yet siuhy joined in April 2026 and a sixteen-month tenure is described. These points are in tension. The timeline must be verified before it is treated as settled. I never publish a claim without an uncertainty floor or sample caveat underneath it.

Takeaway: The Next-Round Signal

So what comes next?

First, Liquid's empty slot. No replacement has been announced, so the team enters the upcoming window with an open hole — a live competitive handicap until a new IGL arrives.

Second, siuhy himself. A 0.87 rating is a damaged résumé. But he is a no-fee free agent with MOUZ pedigree behind him. A budget-conscious org wanting experienced leadership can get him cheap — provided it accepts the form risk. Whether his next stop is tier-1, tier-2, or a non-IGL role will reveal whether he was "overrated."

Third, the whole market. 100 Thieves' rebuild, s1mple's move to BC.Game, and Liquid's midOne vacancy in Dota 2 — together they mark an active roster-reconstruction wave in CS2. It is a sellers' market for agents and an opportunity window for teams.

The market moves on deadlines, but my spreadsheet moves on probability. Here the probability is clear — siuhy's exit is not a mystery, it is a calculation. The real question is not about siuhy. It is whether Liquid falls into the same cycle a fifth time, or finally resets. If the shot-caller changes again, then the problem was never the person in the chair — it was the people who keep seating him.