VERTEX sign hazr

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:

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

Australia Peter "⁠BL1TZ⁠" Athanasatos (coach)

Australia Peter 'BL1TZ' Athanasatos
Peter 'BL1TZ' Athanasatos
Age:
30
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.09
Maps played:
740
KPR:
0.74
DPR:
0.66
Australia Toby 'BRACE' Barnes
Toby 'BRACE' Barnes
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.94
Maps played:
460
KPR:
0.64
DPR:
0.68
Australia Jordan 'pz' White
Jordan 'pz' White
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.08
Maps played:
494
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.63
Australia James 'SaVage' Savage
James 'SaVage' Savage
Age:
18
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
331
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.61
New Zealand Christian 'ADDICT' Pendleton
Christian 'ADDICT' Pendleton
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
342
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.64
Australia Jared 'hazr' O'Bree
Jared 'hazr' O'Bree
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.08
Maps played:
825
KPR:
0.74
DPR:
0.68
Australia Liam 'malta' Schembri
Liam 'malta' Schembri
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
1045
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.64
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World ruyy
Gg
2023-02-13 11:50
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cool
2023-02-13 11:51
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Latvia skramarks
aussie era incoming now
2023-02-13 11:54
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New Zealand Yuiaq
Why didn't they keep savage and replace brace?
2023-02-13 11:54
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Estonia btlvl1
brace is igl and savage is bad
2023-02-13 11:59
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good pick
2023-02-13 11:56
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Australia poppyxox
au cs so alive
2023-02-13 11:57
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who signed who?
2023-02-13 12:00
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Australia crewy
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
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Malaysia robouki
respect nigma galaxy 2023 katowice impact champions
2023-02-13 18:33
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Australia boblao
What!! No forleks!?!?
2023-02-13 12:08
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goodluck
2023-02-13 12:11
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Poland Xodiac
WHO???
2023-02-13 12:11
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rip encore
2023-02-13 12:15
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Australia crewy
Grat to encore
2023-02-13 12:24
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Australia crewy
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
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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
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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
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yep exactly
2023-02-13 12:58
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Australia crewy
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
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Where is azr?
2023-02-13 13:20
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Australia crewy
In Denmark, he won’t be playing for any AUS teams, his last stint showed he is still a class above and playing here is just wasting his time.
2023-02-13 23:39
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Is he playing in RMR qualifier?
2023-02-14 02:13
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Australia crewy
Nope
2023-02-14 07:38
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He is class above cs and playing here is just wasting his time
2023-02-14 16:58
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i think he is better than savage, so an upgrade for them
2023-02-13 15:20
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decent for AU team
2023-02-13 18:25
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He seems like a good egg, nice enough guy. I wish we'd sort out our next big roster though.
2023-02-13 19:11
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New Zealand z1co_18
lol already knew this has happening ages ago hltv always super late to ANZ roster updates
2023-02-13 21:04
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Australia crewy
Wasn’t official until last night.
2023-02-13 23:39
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#35
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New Zealand z1co_18
wasnt official yes. got word from heaps off fellas for days now
2023-02-14 01:37
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#39
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Australia crewy
So we reporting unofficial news now?
2023-02-14 07:38
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1 reply
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New Zealand z1co_18
obviously not. its just something to say man...
2023-02-14 09:12
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idk why they even report on this region we don't have any big events or teams anymore
2023-02-14 02:16
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who signed who?
2023-02-15 12:20
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