Extra Salt has announced that they would be removing Ian "motm" Hardy from active roster and bench him while giving a chance to Edgar "MarKE" Maldonado, former Chaos rifler a chance to shine. He would be making his debut when Extra Salt takes on Rise next. The player has been on the sidelines ever since the team disbanded at the start of the year and two of the core members, Erick "Xeppaa" Bach and Jonathan "Jonji" Carey switched to VALORANT, Cloud9 and Bad News Bears respectively.
Motm on the other hand had an average rating of 1.08 and qualified DreamHack Open in January this year but were eliminated by Rebirth his performance at Chaos was much the same with a 1.07 rating. Now MarKE gets the chance to prove his worth to the team when they would face Bad News Bears in ESEA Premier Season 36.