compLexity sign APE, release witmer

8-9-2016 04:30

compLexity have officially signed Cory 'APE' Bate, formerly of Kaliber and a stand-in for compLexity at Northern Arena this past weekend, while also releasing Shawn 'witmer' Taylor from the lineup.

The first sign of changes in the compLexity lineup arose before Northern Arena, when it was revealed that the team's American player Shawn "⁠witmer⁠" Taylor would be unable to attend the event because of personal issues and that the team would bring Cory "⁠APE⁠" Bate of Kaliber as a stand-in instead.

This compLexity lineup surprised many by managing to defeat Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez's Rogue in the Group C decider match and by also taking Echo Fox to a close 2-1 series in the quarter-finals of the $100,000 event.

APE joins compLexity in a somewhat suspected move

After the event, rumours began to swirl that APE was not just a stand-in for Northern Arena but that the 24-year-old Canadian would officially join the roster and replace 20-year-old witmer, who has been with the team since early March after he replaced Danny "⁠fRoD⁠" Montaner on the lineup.

compLexity have now confirmed this roster move and also stated that APE will be on his way to coL's new team house in Denver, Colorado shortly.

compLexity's lineup has now lost its American flavour and looks as follows:

Rory "⁠dephh⁠" Jackson
Kia "⁠Surreal⁠" Man
Bradley "⁠ANDROID⁠" Fodor
Michael "⁠Uber⁠" Stapells
Cory "⁠APE⁠" Bate

Today we are announcing changes to #coLcs https://t.co/hCEF9EDS13 pic.twitter.com/S55iB88M77
— compLexity Gaming (@compLexityLive) September 8, 2016

*Update: witmer has released a statement on Twitter where he mentions personal issues, including his father's health, impacting his gameplay lately; in addition, he is a free agent for the future.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

LOL RIP WITMER HE EVEN SAID ON STREAM IT WOULDNT HAPPEN AND THEY WOULD TELL HIM IF IT WOULD LUL

2016-09-08 04:31

2 replies

twitter.com/witmerCSGO/status/7736987782..

2016-09-08 09:52

Yeah. His mods were getting all hot and bothered everytime someone put it up. Boom, he gets dropped. I really like his attitude going about it though. As someone as confident as he was that he wasn't getting dropped, he handled it well. Hope to see him pick up some consistency.

2016-09-08 19:23

witmer to tsm

good team Kappa

2016-09-08 04:30

LUL

Ez for mclovin

2016-09-08 04:33

APEAPEAPEAPEAPE

expected

Makes sense, they had there first decent result in the almost 2 years with APE instead of witmer

dosent mean they will have, it was short journey

2016-09-08 05:04

1 reply

The only direction this team can go it up, they are already rock bottom Might as well build off the one good result instead of the multiple bad ones

2016-09-08 05:05

so expected

2016-09-08 04:35

Two Brits. Three Canadians. ... THE COMMONWEALTH-PLEXITY. Edit: Petition to have coL's HLTV flag changed to the Commonwealth flag, pls. God Save the Queen.

2016-09-08 04:39

3 replies

I like you :)

2016-09-08 12:13

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2016-09-08 19:24

Fakeflagger?

2016-09-08 23:47

You know your career is going nowhere when you get replaced by APE.

2016-09-08 04:40

Sad to see witmer go, but damn he just wasn't performing in coL. gl to APE

2016-09-08 04:47

APEAPEAPEAPEAPEAPE BEST PLAYER WORLD

2016-09-08 05:02

Statutory APE

2016-09-08 05:09

YEASSSSSSSSS!! STATUTORY_APE

2016-09-08 06:02

lol

2016-09-08 05:19

who the hell are these people...

witmer needed to go, that's for sure

2016-09-08 06:05

nice shitmer bb

2016-09-08 06:07

lmao

2016-09-08 06:14

UK/CA flag plz

2016-09-08 06:38

Actually he is better than witmer, expect better days to complexity now! Good luck boys!

2016-09-08 06:50

Not a big change tbh

2016-09-08 06:51

roca roca roca

2016-09-08 07:06

Is this ape statutory ape?

2016-09-08 07:43

No that is a different player entirely.

2016-09-08 08:15

Yes it is

2016-09-08 13:35

As soon as I saw coL performing better without him that this move would happen. Hopefully Witmer can find a better fit somewhere else. Perhaps Selfless?

2016-09-08 08:41