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This move is the result of nonsense decision making, imho
The only reason to go through Goldenglue bet at the start of the season, was because TL was trying an unconventional approach in building the roster.
Given how NA mid lane scene is import stacked, and that most of the mid lane imports end up having no real impact and not help teams having success because they lose to better imports anyway, they went for taking a below average but NA resident mid laner, betting on the fact that their imports in other positions could beat in a bigger fashion their NA competition than what enemy mid laners could beat GG.
GG wasn't even that terrible, so their idea could work, but their imports failed to do what TL management expected them to do for their approach to work. At that point, if you decide to return to a "traditional" approach and bench GG, it make 0 sense to switch Piglet to mid lane, you should rather bench him and get a proper mid lane import while finding a NA ADC replacement for him (Reignover wasn't good either, but he was better than Piglet at least)
Gonna just combine both my responses to this and to bakuryu's utter nonsense in the same post.
While the idea for this team could've worked (hence why I rated it so highly to start the season), it hinged on 1 giant factor which I think is the reason they're shirking 99% of the blame for their record onto goldenglue despite the fact that he didn't actually do that terribly, the giant factor being a hyper-aggressive midlane. Look at the past history of players like reignover/piglet, and it has sorta gone like this: have a hyper-aggressive midlaner who can force withstand ganks and do great (febi, fenix for the first year or so), have a slightly more passive mid-laner and do ok but not great (pobelter in summer). Although this team had quality pieces around them (I still think reignover could be a top-2 western jg if he was on the right team), their lack of an agro mid-lane forced the rest of the pieces to act reactively instead of proactively. I still don't get why exactly they're so fascinated with catering to piglet so much (he isn't like Tom Brady who can turn any team into a world champion), but hey, it's TL, we should be used to it by now.
To answer bakuryu's thing, I'll link an article below which should kinda tell you all you need to know about the rest of TL right now. To sum it up though, they had to replace a top-tier player that was on their team for a while a little over a week before a major tournament. Can't really blame the owner for not making a roster change prior to the iem break, can blame the rest of their NRG-esque management though.
http://www.thescoreesports.com/csgo/news/13109-hiko-leaves-team-liquid-will-stand-in-for-optic-gaming
