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:

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

*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.

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United Kingdom Rory 'dephh' Jackson
Rory 'dephh' Jackson
Age:
24
Team:
Complexity
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
111
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.75
Canada Bradley 'ANDROID' Fodor
Bradley 'ANDROID' Fodor
Age:
22
Team:
Complexity
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
112
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.69
Canada Cory 'APE' Bate
Cory 'APE' Bate
Age:
24
Team:
Complexity
Rating 1.0:
0.97
Maps played:
125
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.68
United States Danny 'fRoD' Montaner
Danny 'fRoD' Montaner
Age:
30
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
0.78
Maps played:
28
KPR:
0.56
DPR:
0.75
Switzerland Mathieu 'Maniac' Quiquerez
Mathieu 'Maniac' Quiquerez
Age:
26
Team:
Rogue
Rating 1.0:
0.96
Maps played:
506
KPR:
0.65
DPR:
0.67
United Kingdom Kia 'Surreal' Man
Kia 'Surreal' Man
Age:
20
Team:
Complexity
Rating 1.0:
0.93
Maps played:
71
KPR:
0.64
DPR:
0.69
United States Shawn 'witmer' Taylor
Shawn 'witmer' Taylor
Age:
20
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
0.90
Maps played:
119
KPR:
0.63
DPR:
0.72
Canada Michael 'Uber' Stapells
Michael 'Uber' Stapells
Age:
19
Team:
Complexity
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
251
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.69
#4
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RIPablo Escobar | 
United States p!perS
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
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2 replies
#39
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Belgium mooghar
twitter.com/witmerCSGO/status/7736987782..
2016-09-08 09:52
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#53
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United States stotte
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
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#6
navy | 
United States woodSteppa
witmer to tsm
2016-09-08 04:31
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#7
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sapphire | 
Italy Sapphirey0
good team Kappa
2016-09-08 04:30
0
#8
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s1mple | 
Israel hltvdetective
LUL
2016-09-08 04:31
0
#10
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Canada CounterLogicGaming
Ez for mclovin
2016-09-08 04:33
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#11
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f0rest | 
United States Hollis
APEAPEAPEAPEAPE
2016-09-08 04:33
0
#12
Canada jerryd00d
expected
2016-09-08 04:33
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#13
United States InfiniteYT
Makes sense, they had there first decent result in the almost 2 years with APE instead of witmer
2016-09-08 04:33
0
2 replies
#20
Indonesia TarjaTurunen
dosent mean they will have, it was short journey
2016-09-08 05:04
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1 reply
#21
United States InfiniteYT
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
0
#14
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OCEAN | 
Jordan KKona
so expected
2016-09-08 04:35
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#16
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Canada JermainWilliamson
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
0
3 replies
#45
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United Kingdom HaZZardCS
I like you :)
2016-09-08 12:13
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#54
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United States stotte
This message was approved by Justin Trudeau
2016-09-08 19:24
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#55
smooya | 
United Kingdom GH05T_979
Fakeflagger?
2016-09-08 23:47
0
#17
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Costa Rica Gomezio
You know your career is going nowhere when you get replaced by APE.
2016-09-08 04:40
0
#18
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Habbo Hotel | 
North America MusicalEclipse
Sad to see witmer go, but damn he just wasn't performing in coL. gl to APE
2016-09-08 04:47
0
#19
New Zealand WagaNZ
APEAPEAPEAPEAPEAPE BEST PLAYER WORLD
2016-09-08 05:02
0
2 replies
#23
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Czech Republic tomsb
Statutory APE
2016-09-08 05:09
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1 reply
#26
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Brazil Benny98
YEASSSSSSSSS!! STATUTORY_APE
2016-09-08 06:02
0
#24
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
shox | 
United Kingdom dezmondo
lol
2016-09-08 05:19
0
#25
World ydjj
who the hell are these people...
2016-09-08 06:02
0
#27
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World Reformative
witmer needed to go, that's for sure
2016-09-08 06:05
0
#28
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Sweden HANSoooo
nice shitmer bb
2016-09-08 06:07
0
#29
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ropz | 
Romania SimonaHalep
lmao
2016-09-08 06:14
0
#30
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Brazil hugoooo
UK/CA flag plz
2016-09-08 06:38
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#31
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Brazil BuddyINSANE
Actually he is better than witmer, expect better days to complexity now! Good luck boys!
2016-09-08 06:50
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#32
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Slovakia TatKo
Not a big change tbh
2016-09-08 06:51
0
#33
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Russia shoken
roca roca roca
2016-09-08 07:06
0
#34
United States RightWingSJW
Is this ape statutory ape?
2016-09-08 07:43
0
2 replies
#35
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s1mple | 
Azerbaijan MetalFace
No that is a different player entirely.
2016-09-08 08:15
0
#49
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North America spankP
Yes it is
2016-09-08 13:35
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#36
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United States y0rk
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
0
1 reply
#47
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United States bomberNTC
nifty is a much better awper
2016-09-08 13:05
0
#37
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United States ferdog
expected. witmer doesn't belong on an epl team
2016-09-08 08:58
0
#38
HUNDEN | 
Nepal FlagChecker
WHO?
2016-09-08 09:02
0
#40
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
World namotrip
Empathy on HLTV? Nah.....
2016-09-08 10:54
0
#44
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
s1mple | 
Sweden wtf are you want dude?
"Bradley "androidx23" Fodor" Hodors brother?
2016-09-08 11:18
0
#46
United States The_Stranger44
Just when I thought coL couldn't get any worse...
2016-09-08 12:19
0
#48
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
i am | 
Andorra lagcats
"ape" dat nickname tho
2016-09-08 13:11
0
1 reply
#50
United States RightWingSJW
I think he used to be called statutory ape. Pretty funny name imo.
2016-09-08 13:42
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#51
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Mongolia Schweinepriester
Teamhouse in colorado so they can smoke weed. Ez life
2016-09-08 14:58
0
#52
Australia Wikipedia_Official
Ez 4 HARAMBE the APE
2016-09-08 15:41
0
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