2025 has been a tricky yr for FaZe Clan. Now, the struggling workforce is hoping to deal with their woes by benching Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski and changing him with Jakub “jcobbb” Pietruszewski.
EliGE is seen as one of many biggest gamers in North American Counter-Strike historical past, but his time with FaZe solely lasted seven months. He arrived on the workforce in January after departing Complexity. Though EliGE’s particular person kind was first rate on FaZe, it did not match the identical degree of star high quality that he had dropped at Complexity, and there have been fixed questions raised over function clashes with Havard “rain” Nygaard that prevented each gamers from reaching their peak ranges.
Throughout EliGE’s time with FaZe, the workforce positioned fourth at PGL Cluj-Napoca, third at PGL Bucharest, and inside the highest eight on the BLAST.television Austin Main. A poor return given the expectations positioned upon FaZe in CS2, that they had beforehand made roster strikes to attempt to deal with the problems with Helvjis “broky” Saukants being benched for Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev and subsequently returning to the roster after s1mple’s mortgage expired.
There was loads of hypothesis over EliGE’s future, with HLTV’s Striker stating that stipulations throughout the VRS rulebook prevented FaZe from making an extra change to their roster earlier.
As rumours continued to swirl, it had been urged that EliGE could be a part of a swap deal with Liquid that may see EliGE and Russel “Twistzz” van Dulken commerce locations, returning to the 2 groups that they had loved probably the most profitable durations of their careers with within the course of. Nonetheless, that deal has but to return to fruition, and FaZe has as a substitute changed the American with 21 yr outdated Polish participant, jcobbb.
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Who’s jcobbb?
Most lately seen taking part in with Betclic Apogee, jcobbb is an aggressive participant that comes with a excessive fame from his time spent in tier two Counter-Strike.
A well-recognized face to FaZe on condition that they performed towards him earlier within the yr at PGL Bucharest, jcobbb struggled in that sport however impressed through the occasion as he put up sturdy performances towards each Astralis and The MongolZ.
A shock signing for FaZe, he represents a shift in signing technique for the NA organisation, who’ve most well-liked to go for established expertise lately after beforehand bringing within the likes of broky and Aurimas “bymas” Pipiras through the COVID period.
Followers gained’t have to attend lengthy to see jcobbb debut for FaZe, their subsequent sport is ready to be their opener in BLAST Open Season 2, which will likely be performed towards Danish workforce ECSTATIC on August twenty seventh.
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