Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele, Vincent "⁠Brehze⁠" Cayonte, Jadan "⁠HexT⁠" Postma, Justin "⁠FaNg⁠" Coakley, and Josh "⁠oSee⁠" Ohm has been announced as the new roster for NRG Esports, who returns to the competitive scene after a four-year hiatus. 

NRG played their last matches in CS:GO in September 2019. Back then they had just finished 3-4th at the Berlin Major before the roster was acquired by Evil Geniuses. Vincent "Brehze" Cayonte is the only returning player from the last iteration of NRG. The new lineup is a mix of players, that have recently played for Team Liquid, Complexity, and Evil Geniuses. Damian "daps" Steele will return as a player after having coached Team Liquid since 2022.

The announcement of the new NA roster (three Canadians, and two Americans) comes as a pleasant surprise for the many fans of Counter-Strike in North America, who have been relying on Complexity to represent the continent in the past months. Team Liquid is supposedly also looking to return to the NA scene, which could ignite a new era for North America in Counter-Strike.

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There will be North American teams to support in the second half of 2023!

Complexity underlined their commitment to the NA scene Thursday night with the signing of Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski to the team. But what about Evil Geniuses? The Seattle-based organization had been linked with European players such as Audric "⁠JACKZ⁠" Jug, Aleksandr "⁠zorte⁠" Zagodyrenko, and Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov during the summer. But none of the above-mentioned players were part of the announcement Saturday evening, where EG made their intentions clear about the future.

The five now former EG Black players will be promoted to the main team, where only Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta survives from the original team. Vincent "⁠Brehze⁠" Cayonte, Jerric "⁠wiz⁠" Jiang, Ismail "⁠refrezh⁠" Ali, and Sanzhar "⁠neaLaN⁠" Iskhakov have all been benched and will be allowed to search for a new home.

Jadan "⁠HexT⁠" Postma, Colby "⁠Walco⁠" Walsh, Paytyn "⁠junior⁠" Johnson, and Jeorge "⁠Jeorge⁠" Endicott will replace the four players, while the last player from the old EG Black, William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba, will be a 6th player ready to stand-in.

EG also announced the departure of their Danish head coach Daniel "Vorborg" Vorborg, who will also be replaced by the coach of EG Black, Tommy "⁠Axed⁠" Ryan.

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After the departure of Stewie2k and RUSH, Evil Geniuses have finally announced their two new signings. The first signing is the young Sanjar "neaLaN" İshakov who just got announced as an Evil Geniuses player after 2 years with K23. The other signing is their in-house player Jadan "HexT" Postma.

Meanwhile, Evil Geniuses are switching out players from their active roster, they also replaced Damien "MaLeK" Marcel with the Danish head coach Daniel "Vorborg" Vorborg.

The new lineup is set to debut in the BLAST Premier Fall Groups, which will be taking place from August 19-28. 

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