Team Liquid captain Spencer “Hiko” Martin could be joining OpTic Gaming, according to a report from Slingshot Esports' Jarek "DeKay" Lewis stating that the veteran player has been traded to OpTic for Peter “stanislaw” Jarguz.

Earlier today, stanislaw's OpTic teammate Will "RUSH" Wierzba spoke on-stream about the Canadian player suddenly signing with another team.

"We knew there were some talks going on but we thought that he would stay us because we talked to him about it," RUSH said. "[OpTic Gaming owner Hector Rodriguez] talked to him, and then I thought everything was cool. And now all of a sudden out of the blue this comes and, honestly, it hurts a lot."

Citing sources close to stanislaw, DeKay says the player's sudden departure from OpTic is a prelude to him going over to Liquid while Hiko comes to OpTic.

Hiko has played with Liquid since September 2015, helping the American roster become the first NA team to ever reach the Grand Final of a CS:GO Major at ESL One Cologne in July. However, they were unable to repeat the feat at the ELEAGUE Major in January, where they were came in 9-11th after getting eliminated in Round 5 of the Swiss by the tournament's eventual champions, Astralis.

stanislaw has played for Optic since January when the team acquired the former Conquest roster. While with OpTic, the roster made a splash in the latter quarter of 2016 with a big win at ELEAGUE Season 2 and a second-place finish in the ECS Season 2 Finals. However, the team under-performed at the ELEAGUE Major where they came in 12th-14th after getting eliminated by GODSENT in Round 4.

theScore esports have reached out to Team Liquid and Optic Gaming for comment.

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