bodyy Explains Why He Left 3DMAX as OG Signs Him on Loan

Alexandre “bodyy” Pianaro has described his split from 3DMAX as the result of a deep strategic disconnect rather than one single roster problem. Speaking after his first event on loan with OG, the French veteran said the closing stretch of 2025 had been difficult inside the French lineup. In his account, the team had spent months trying to patch issues and make the system work around everyone’s strengths, but by the end both sides felt a reset was necessary. Bodyy said the disagreement was broader than roles or short-term form: he and the team were no longer aligned on how 3DMAX should move forward, especially with Major qualification framed as the key objective. 

That explanation carries extra weight because bodyy’s arrival in 3DMAX had originally been presented as an important experience play. He joined the team in February 2025 after Djoko was removed from the active roster. At the time, 3DMAX and Maka openly framed the move as a way to add a trusted secondary voice, more experience, and extra leadership without taking in-game leadership away from Maka. The transfer also reunited bodyy with Lucky and Ex3rcice, his former DBL PONEY teammates, and it looked like a natural move for a French squad that wanted to stabilize and build on its rise. 

For a while, that long-term plan appeared real. In March 2025, 3DMAX extended the contracts of its roster, keeping together the core that had returned the organization to Counter-Strike and helped it reach the Perfect World Shanghai Major in 2024. HLTV noted that with bodyy in the team, 3DMAX had narrowly missed playoffs at PGL Cluj-Napoca and ESL Pro League Season 21, while also moving toward a Stage 2 invite for the Austin Major. That context matters because the organization did not treat the lineup as a short-term experiment. It invested in continuity, which makes the eventual breakup with bodyy look more like a failed evolution than a quick panic move. 

The most revealing contrast comes from bodyy’s own comments earlier this year. In January 2026, before the split became official, he explained that 3DMAX were trying to add more structure to a side that had built its identity on chaos, confidence, and uncomfortable mid-round pressure. He acknowledged that the team’s old style could be effective, but argued it was hard to reproduce consistently from match to match. His goal then was clear: make 3DMAX look more reliable against lower-ranked teams and more capable of reaching playoffs on a regular basis. In hindsight, those comments now read like an early sign of the tension he later described. Bodyy was publicly talking about structure and consistency; by March, he was saying the team’s overall vision had diverged “from every perspective.” 

Results around that period help explain why pressure was building. Despite inconsistency, 3DMAX still had meaningful highs with this project. In October 2025, the team reached the CS Asia Championships final, beating Liquid in the semi-final during what HLTV called Graviti’s push toward a first trophy as in-game leader. That run showed the roster could still deliver at a strong level on LAN. But bodyy’s later remarks suggest those flashes were not enough to settle the deeper debate over how the team should play and develop. 

The break finally became official in late February 2026. First, reports linked 3DMAX with a wider reset built around GenOne figures, including misutaaa as bodyy’s replacement and staff changes involving NBK- and wasiNk. Soon after, 3DMAX confirmed the move: misutaaa took bodyy’s spot on the starting lineup, while YouKnow departed and the coaching staff was reshaped with the arrivals of wasiNk and NBK-. In other words, bodyy’s exit was not an isolated player swap. It was part of a broader competitive restructuring, which supports his version that the disagreement was fundamental and organizational, not merely personal. 

The next chapter developed quickly for both sides. On March 7, OG signed bodyy on loan from 3DMAX to replace FL4MUS on the active roster. HLTV reported that bodyy had averaged a 1.03 rating during his roughly year-long spell with 3DMAX, while OG were making the move in response to a sharp VRS decline. His debut event with the team was HyperX Roman Imperium Cup VI in Portugal. There, OG put together a strong run: according to HLTV’s event coverage, they went through groups with a 3-1 record, beat JiJieHao and Liquid in the playoffs, and reached the grand final, climbing 69 spots in the VRS to 51st. Match data from the event also showed bodyy producing standout numbers in the semi-final against Liquid on Dust2, where he finished with 47 kills and a 1.45 rating. 

OG’s side of the story also fits the broader theme of structural adjustment. CadiaN said recently that the team had struggled with “overall team play” and made clear that FL4MUS was not the only cause of those issues. That language is notable because it mirrors bodyy’s own explanation of why 3DMAX stopped working for him: both players described systems problems first, not individual blame. In that sense, bodyy may have landed in a team that needs exactly the qualities 3DMAX originally signed him for — experience, communication, and a stabilizing presence around a captain trying to make the project function. 

Meanwhile, 3DMAX have already started to write the next phase of their own rebuild. Shortly after the roster move, the reworked team advanced to Stage 2 of ESL Pro League Season 23 by beating Liquid 2-0, with misutaaa delivering a star performance. That does not prove the roster change was right or wrong on its own, but it does show that 3DMAX acted decisively and immediately got a positive result from the new version of the lineup. 

Taken together, the verified picture is clear: bodyy’s departure from 3DMAX was not simply the story of a player being benched after poor results. He joined as an experienced fix, stayed through a year in which the team chased higher consistency, and left only once the project reached a point where his preferred direction no longer matched the team’s. 3DMAX responded with a multi-part reset around misutaaa and a refreshed staff. OG, dealing with their own team-play issues, moved quickly to bring bodyy in on loan and were rewarded with an immediate rise at Roman Imperium Cup VI. Rather than a dramatic fallout built on one event, this was the end of a longer process in which two competitive visions slowly stopped fitting together.