American analyst Mauisnake shared his views on Spirit's unexpected exit on his personal social media account.
“ Zont1x 's attitude in the pre-match interview gave the impression that Spirit was going to lose even before they started playing. What's wrong with this team?”
On August 11, Spirit was swept out of the IEM Cologne group stage loser's bracket by G2, scoring only four points across two maps.
There are even rumors of internal issues within Spirit. According to Tonya, the host of Natus Vincere club's content channel, someone in Spirit doesn't want to play together, indicating some internal problems.
“From my personal experience, when a team performs like Spirit did today, it feels like someone within the team doesn't want to play together, but this is just my personal guess. In my view, there are some internal issues, and either we will see the answer soon, or Spirit will invite a sports psychologist to intervene.”
