A day after Team EnVyUs replaced Timothée "DEVIL" Démolon with Christophe "SIXER" Xia, the team's star player and AWPer, Kenny "kennyS" Schrub, spoke about the reasoning behind the roster move in a statement given to theScore esports Friday.

In his statement, kennyS noted the difficulties around dropping a teammate — especially after a strong finish after they won the Gfinity Invitational on Sept. 25 — but said that issues stemmed as far back as when DEVIL first joined the roster as an entry fragger.

"Since we added DEVIL we had many shaky performances despite the fact that we won the GFINITY lately," kennyS said in his statement. "Our first mistake was to pick him as an entry-fragger (at least in the attack group). We knew it wasn’t his main role, but we thought he would be more versatile and able to adapt to a new role.

"Despite the DEVIL’s qualities his mentality didn’t fit in the team at all, I would say. He wasn’t really here to learn from us, or he didn’t do it in the best way possible, which was pretty frustrating for us"

kennyS expanded on DEVIL's mentality and his unwillingness to learn, which in turn meant that his progression within in the team was too slow.

"Also DEVIL made some crucial mistakes during the important moments and he used to repeat them," kennyS said. "His progression was pretty slow and even if at the end of the adventure he’s better than he used to be at the beginning, we’ve been through too many things; we needed that change."

Despite his criticisms, kennyS did not blame DEVIL for the situation, as he came into the team during one of the roster's lower points.

"Of course no one is blaming him, when the choice to kick him has been taken, it’s obviously not only his fault," kennyS said. "DEVIL is a newcomer and he arrived in a really bad atmosphere because at this moment we started being in a slump."

Since SIXER replaced DEVIL, the team has won three out of four maps played in ESL Pro League and have gone undefeated in their group at the WESG European Finals.

DEVIL averaged a 0.95 HLTV rating from the past three months, tied with SIXER in the same time period, but in the eight maps SIXER played since joining nV, his rating has dropped slightly to 0.94.