VERTEX sign hazr

13-2-2023 11:49

The 21-year-old rifler had been with Encore for eight months.

It has been announced that Jared "⁠hazr⁠" O'Bree has left Encore to sign for VERTEX. He replaces James "⁠SaVage⁠" Savage, who himself joined VERTEX from Encore in November 2022.

The move comes after VERTEX's failed attempt to qualify for the ESL Pro League Conference Season 17 Oceania in January, which serves as a qualifier for ESL Pro League. They lost in the final of the qualifier to Hello Kitten, a squad that was unranked at the time.

hazr boasts international LAN experience

hazr had been with Encore since May 2022, when the Looking For Org lineup was signed by the organisation ahead of their international LAN appearances at IEM Dallas and EPL Conference 16.

Encore finished both events in joint-last place and since that time have struggled to kick on and qualify for any further significant LAN opportunities, missing out on the IEM Road to Rio Asia RMR to ORDER, the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown to VERTEX, and the EPL Conference Oceania to Grayhound and Rooster.

VERTEX are now:

Toby "⁠BRACE⁠" Barnes
Jordan "⁠pz⁠" White
Liam "⁠malta⁠" Schembri
Christian "⁠ADDICT⁠" Pendleton
Jared "⁠hazr⁠" O'Bree

Peter "⁠BL1TZ⁠" Athanasatos (coach)

2023-02-13 11:50

cool

2023-02-13 11:51

aussie era incoming now

2023-02-13 11:54

Why didn't they keep savage and replace brace?

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brace is igl and savage is bad

2023-02-13 11:59

good pick

2023-02-13 11:56

au cs so alive

2023-02-13 11:57

who signed who?

2023-02-13 12:00

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Flag check? Flag check shows random flag indeed, nothing to see here folks probably a bot account.

2023-02-13 12:24

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lets go vertexcs !!!!!!!! top165 :D hahahaha even nigma galaxy is better than au cs

2023-02-13 13:05

respect nigma galaxy 2023 katowice impact champions

2023-02-13 18:33

What!! No forleks!?!?

2023-02-13 12:08

goodluck

2023-02-13 12:11

WHO???

rip encore

2023-02-13 12:15

Grat to encore

Good signing, I still think Sico should move to another team and be replaced by AZR but it won’t happen, would be good for some competition.

2023-02-13 12:25

At this point I feel like for any of these Aussies to have a big shot they need to move to EU and join one of the international rosters... Otherwise we're almost seeing an NA-effect of recycling the same players over and over. AUS doesn't have enough teams to really develop by itself

2023-02-13 12:33

So true and very sad indeed. As someone in the region there are so many young talents that have insane potential ceiling but are restricted and probably will never be unlocked because of lack of exposure to better environment.

2023-02-13 12:50

yep exactly

2023-02-13 12:58

GH need to stop snaking the latest young best player as hard as that is. We need to spread the talent evenly to create some kind of competitive atmosphere. As it stands GH are just going to stomp every team in every event 95% of the time, then when one of their players starts to underperform they will just take the next best youngster or friend. None of these teams are moving to Europe, if they were it would’ve been GH and they would’ve done it already. We need Rooster to start performing consistently, and Encore need to sort out a stable team, they should’ve kept Rickeh instead of dropping him for apoc, Grat is a good pick up tho. How they didn’t keep Rickeh is beyond me, that guy needs to be in a team.

2023-02-13 23:47