Team Liquid Releases siuhy Into CS2 Free Agency

Team Liquid's time with Kamil "siuhy" Szkaradek is officially over.

According to Dust2.us, the organisation has released the Polish player into free agency. That ends a 16-month tenure on Liquid's Counter-Strike 2 roster that never delivered what either side hoped for. It isn't exactly a surprise. Liquid had already benched him in July and handed the in-game leader role to Johnny "JT" Theodosiou. This week's news simply makes that separation formal.

What the release doesn't do is solve anything. The report names no replacement, so Liquid now has an empty seat in its lineup and, for the moment, no public plan to fill it.

A promising hire that never clicked

It helps to remember what Liquid thought it was getting. siuhy arrived in April 2025 on loan from MOUZ, where he had shown real promise. Liquid made him its IGL. That's the in-game leader, the player who calls strategies and makes mid-round decisions for the rest of the team. He followed earlier eras built around Casper "cadiaN" Møller and Russel "Twistzz" Van Dulken.

On paper, the logic held up. Liquid was bringing in a rising shot-caller from a respected European organisation and placing him in a team that, by Dust2.us' account, had several strong pieces around him. A smart leader and good players should add up to wins.

They didn't. Liquid struggled to turn that roster into consistent results, and siuhy never found a winning formula. The July leadership change was the clearest sign the organisation had run out of patience. The free agency announcement is the end of a process that began with that benching, not a new direction.

The numbers behind the exit

The stats from siuhy's Liquid run are blunt:

• Arrival: April 2025, on loan from MOUZ
• Benched: July 2026, replaced as IGL by JT
• Best result: top four at FISSURE Playground #2
• Majors: three contested, zero playoff appearances
• Record at CS2's biggest events: 5-11
• Individual rating: 0.87 across 185 maps

The Major record is the part that stings most. For an organisation of Liquid's size, Majors are the measuring stick. Missing the playoffs at all three over this period is hard to explain away. A 5-11 record in games at the scene's most important events points to a team that wasn't just unlucky but was regularly outclassed when it counted.

The individual number matters too. A 0.87 rating isn't damning on its own for an IGL, a role that often trades personal stats for the team's structure. But 185 maps is a big sample, and when that structure isn't producing wins either, the case for keeping a leader gets thin fast.

Part of a wider reshuffle

Liquid isn't the only organisation rebuilding right now. The report points to 100 Thieves reworking its Counter-Strike roster as another example of a team reshaping its lineup. It also flags the wider discussion around s1mple's move to BC.Game as a reminder that player availability can drive these decisions as much as performance does.

It's been a restless period for the business side of esports in general. This is a stretch that has seen Complexity shut down after 23 years and other organisations rethinking their place in the scene.

Liquid has also had to manage roster gaps outside Counter-Strike, including the midOne vacancy on its Dota 2 team. For CS2, though, the confirmed picture is narrow. siuhy is a free agent, Liquid has a spot to fill, and no next tournament commitment has been identified.

Our Take

This feels less like a single bad signing and more like the latest chapter in a longer search. cadiaN, Twistzz, siuhy and now JT: that's a lot of leadership turnover for a team that, by most accounts, has had talent on the roster. It suggests Liquid's problem may be about fit and identity rather than raw skill. Swapping the person making the calls hasn't fixed it so far.

For siuhy, the picture is more open. His MOUZ form is why Liquid wanted him in the first place, and a fresh start somewhere with a different setup could look very different. It is worth watching whether a team in the middle of its own rebuild, especially with so many lineups in flux after moves like the Brazilian betting crackdown that pushed LOUD and Keyd out of CS2, sees him as a leader worth betting on again.

For Liquid, the real test is who fills that open slot and whether JT's leadership finally turns a strong-looking roster into Major playoff results. Until then, the question hanging over this team is the same one it has faced for a while: what is this lineup actually built to be?