rain to replace jcobbb for ESL Pro League

4-10-2025 17:21

FaZe have opted to drop jcobbb for the duration of their EPL run to comply with ESL's rulebook.

FaZe have announced that Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard will return to their active lineup for the remainder of ESL Pro League, with Jakub "⁠jcobbb⁠" Pietruszewski making way for the Norwegian's return.

rain will return to the bench following ESL Pro League, with jcobbb set to be reinstated ahead of FaZe's CS Asia Championships campaign.

FaZe forfeit ESL Pro League match against G2

The news comes in the wake of FaZe forfeiting their opening ESL Pro League match against G2 amidst a dispute with ESL over what lineup FaZe were allowed to field in the tournament.

The return of rain means FaZe's roster for the event includes the majority of players, three of the five, that were on lineup for the July 7 VRS update that garnered them the invite, bringing them in line with ESL's rules.

FaZe's roster for ESL Pro League will be:

Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen
David "⁠frozen⁠" Čerňanský
Russel "⁠Twistzz⁠" Van Dulken
Helvijs "⁠broky⁠" Saukants
Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard

Filip "⁠NEO⁠" Kubski

Cinema

2025-10-04 17:21

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WE ARE SO BACK

2025-10-04 17:24

PERFECT SWAN SONG FOR PRO LEAGUE CLAN

2025-10-04 17:25

"C" in faze Clan stays for cinema

2025-10-04 17:33

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I thought it stays for "Clowns", no?

2025-10-04 23:55

Coming up: Karrigan interview - this worked before with Broky, hopefully rain took this punishment well and is ready to comeback

2025-10-05 02:07

Yup im sure those 3 days broke the man

2025-10-05 10:03

just keep it this way pretty please nostalgia farming like it's 2022 again

2025-10-04 17:22

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this is actually sad for jcobbb he did well on the last tournament and people talking shit abouth him kinda sad

2025-10-04 18:07

ragebait. he only played well against 3dmax and pain, almost all other matches he was averaging less than 1.00 rating. polish nepotism comment.

2025-10-04 18:28

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And he won't be able to get any better cause he's the one getting dropped. Every game is very important for him, not sure what's the point in choosing to have him sit this one out over Twistzz.

2025-10-04 21:34

polish guys are deluded about him

2025-10-04 22:29

Bro this was his First tournament he only got one week to get in Tier 1. He is good bro and only of nostalgia of old good faze you Talking shit Lets watch how good gonna be Twistzz

2025-10-05 08:13

Twistzz's first 4 matches so far average 1.20 rating. can not say the same for the tier 2 jacobbb. Twistzz is good, jcobbb is not, thats why they chose Twistzz

2025-10-07 03:06

there's nothing sad about this article, actually its good news

2025-10-04 20:33

management masterclass

175

Another case of brovid 19 and they could have played with jcob.

2025-10-04 18:26

lmaoooo

Nice

EPL moment

how does this affect kyousukes legacy

legacy +kyousuke (C)

2025-10-04 20:02

Gigachad

faze gonna win epl with rain and tw0stzz and bench jcobbb instead

Only W move from Faze

2025-10-04 17:47

The last dance is real

lol what a bunch of clowns and clown ORG very unprofessional !!!

Signed, US President Donald J. Trump

2025-10-04 17:27

how does karrigan keep getting away with this

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because faze have no other choice in igl

2025-10-04 17:28

Rain

2025-10-04 19:41

Justice for jcobbb

this aint 2014 virtus pro. let the HLTV ratings speak for themselves

2025-10-04 18:33

finally

Damn

-Rain +Rain

2025-10-04 17:23

newest contender to -chrisJ + chrisJ

2025-10-04 17:26

If they do well with this temp roster that would be so fuckin funny

it rains it pours

Man wtf poor jcobb

Faze management

Feel bad for jcobb tbh

Jcobb still gets to play the major, rain doesn't so why feel bad lol

2025-10-04 17:40

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Still, they got new signing, his 1st EPL, bro probably was excited. And then hours before the game he's outta tournament

2025-10-04 17:44

It pretty much confrims his stint in t1 is already over. This was the last stacked event before the major. Hope he comes back to apogee and i hope his buyout is cheap.

2025-10-04 18:01

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they'll still play Chengdu, from top 10 only Aurora won't go there

2025-10-04 18:32

Unless they won't bench him till the end of the season if they do well here. I'm calling it now. It's over for Jcobbb.

2025-10-04 18:47

it's faze, can't ever doubt their incompetence. but IMO they've announced the roster for CAC especially to not give that hope to anyone inside or outside the team.

2025-10-04 19:02

hope they atleast now check which roster they sent to CAC and future events

they will be fine for CAC i think because the invite is based on their last CAC win with the core karrigan, broky, frozen and not of vrs. VP will be having that problem instead.

2025-10-04 17:32

according to striker it's based on 2023 cac so it's karrigan broky and twistzz as core

2025-10-04 17:42

yes faze will be fine. vp however.

tf? bro who writes these rules? VRS was not even a thing in 2023

2025-10-04 17:46

perfect world got permission from valve to do that wildcard move and invite previous winner if im not mistaken there wasn't cac in 2024.

2025-10-04 17:50

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Watch faze win proleague now

”You can’t win pro league like this!”

2025-10-05 20:08

wtf are these idiots at management doing lmao

Upgrade

peak clownery

pls replace forever

I really want faze to win EPL now. This would be an absolut cinema

#JusticeForJcobbb

How come they dont have to use rain for CAC either??? it also uses july vrs just because they are a "wildcard invite" and not invite through VRS @hltv

The wildcard invite uses the roster from 2 years ago Core of karrigan broky twistzz lol This is according to Striker

2025-10-04 19:01

How will this affect fishing season?

potential major winning lineup

bench yourself you bunch of clowns

Wildcard management giving Faze tips

Ahahahah

2025-10-04 17:54

Absolute Kino

maybe faze really wanted to sign simple...

Least clown org

Imagine they win the pro league now and this roster stays permanent xD

just keep this going on,ok

nice management KEKW and the problems are the players ah ah ah ah ah ah

2025-10-04 17:30

lmao

2025-10-04 17:31

jcobb back to t3, FINALLY

way to take one for the team jcobb. FAMILY! You'll be back after pro league.

feels bad for jcobbb

LAST DANCE ,LETS GO FAZE CLAN WITH RAIN!

Faze is broken or what?

2025-10-04 17:34

Please keep it permanently, I do not hate jacob but rain needs to stay

2025-10-04 17:36

Comon Rain show us that Faze magic once more man we miss it and we will probably never get it again soon

2025-10-04 17:37

HE'S BACK

I want a boxing showmatch between Faze and VP management crews

2025-10-04 17:38

bestia gm is the ref

2025-10-04 17:53

We are so back

what an wild day

2025-10-04 17:39

We can see with the an.

0/8, enmglish good i speak

Go to pasha london school!

This is a clown fiesta lmao

Falcons fan but I'd be rooting for Faze to win this one

embarrassing, removing from event jcobbb and not twistzz

way more epic tbh

can they stay this way please?

THIS IS THE LINEUP WE WANT GOING FORWARD =(((

-rain + rain ABSOLUTE CINEMA

hopefully they can permanently kick jcobbb and just get rain back

CINEMA

What a Gigachad

2025-10-04 17:45

This is the lineup I would like to see in FaZe Clan with the arrival of Twistzz. Well, isn't it a dream? It turns out to be a very tough composition

Hahahaha FaZe management most incompetent management OAT?

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss <3 FINALLY DREAM COME TRUE!!!!! -rain +buffed rain

omg this twats is killing this team. total chaos

0-3 inc

2025-10-04 17:48

Schrödingers FaZe-rain xDDDD

I get that it’s because it will be easier to slot twistzz in in jcobbbs roles for now, but a part of me thinks it would make more sense to keep jcobbb so he continues to get accustomed to being on this roster, even if it means the drop in performance here

2025-10-04 17:52

Nah, hope Jcobbb leaves Faze, Faze will be alright without him. Him sitting on the bench in the last serious tournament before the major is a bad thing. He won't be ready to face any t1 team so better to keep Rain and then sell Jcobbb to t2/3 team so he can grind and possibly have a chance to play in different t1 team in the future.

2025-10-04 18:05

okay, no need to be so reactionary. i don’t think jcobbb proved himself so much to be able to make a horizontal move in terms of roster quality rn. it’s a big disappointment for sure, but he still is in line to play the major and that’s gotta be massive

2025-10-04 18:50

Imagine if they kept this lineup but noo let's keep this super average jcobb instead lol

Faze managament on a whole other level

2025-10-04 17:56

:DDDDDDDDDD

jcobbb bullied

2025-10-04 18:08

This org might actually be worse than Astralis. Never would have thought it was possible

2025-10-04 18:10

Why jcobb? Surely the least experienced member should be prioritized to gain more ahead of the major. Would rather have seen karrigan stand back as the coach and overlook. Have twistzz and jcobb play what they are going to and have rain playing karrigans positions

2025-10-04 18:14

they have to play with karrigan, frozen and rain, that's the whole problem. it had to be one of twistz and jcobb to leave (since broky is awp)

2025-10-04 18:40

You're right, can't replace karrigan, my bad. Still, would rather have jcobb over twistzz for the same reason

2025-10-04 18:45

They finally win something and jcobb ain't the guy to win anything with

2025-10-04 19:46

Now watch Faze kick ass with this lineup and then say bye to rain again

2025-10-04 18:21

lmaooo

oh wow

2025-10-04 18:25

lol

jcobbb shit player, why even faze sign him?they are adding the unnecessary problem by signing him

hltv.org/team/6665/astralis

2025-10-04 18:48

Well that would be the case in the beginning

I would probably have replaced someone other than jcobbb, guy needs all the stage experience he can get ahead of the big events coming up before the end of the year

Already missing him in Apogee where they could build a decent polish team around both him and Hypex and now he was put in a horrible spot where there's just one more t1 event before major. Not only that, but if Faze will have a deep run here then there's a chance they will bench Jcobbb till the end of the season. Hoping that Apogee can bring him back.

2025-10-04 20:15

This is the lineup I was counting on after the news about twistzz's return

ok and now -frozen +ropz for the ultimate aura farm

2025-10-04 18:53

Keep this roster for the major!

2025-10-04 19:03

so this was the plan all along xDD

2025-10-04 19:07

Bro, just bring Olof back

2025-10-04 19:12

Will they be able to use Twistzz for major? They do not have 5 games with him by Oct 6, right?

2025-10-04 19:20

He is listed as sub for rain, and the core already changed.

2025-10-04 19:52

ah I see. They don’t need 5 matches with him as he is a sub. Thanks!

2025-10-04 19:55

But won't get sticker right

yes

2025-10-05 01:54

Is this the new -olof +olof??

2025-10-04 19:53

Yikes.

2025-10-04 20:29

Upgrade to downgrade later

Screams of unprofessionalism. #FREERAIN

2025-10-04 20:35

one last run lets go

2025-10-04 20:42

lmao what a joke faze management never fails to amaze me they don't even have pro teams in other esports what are they doing? they don't care anymore?

2025-10-04 20:44

This is so unprofessional from management of FaZe. They're not qualified to run this org. FaZe chaos should be in the server, not in management. Big L

2025-10-04 21:11

i know it wont happen but it would be legendary if they win now

2025-10-04 21:53

trust, they'll make the final

2025-10-05 00:25

FaZe hatewatch on hold

Of course he said yes.... probably to nice a guy to say no. Sad. Why help the fuckers that kicked you right before a major and TEN years in the team.

2025-10-05 01:08

he wants to play still, gives him a chance to show he still worth it, he's still friends with the guys on faze, and it wasn't the teammates' decision, but management, to kick him

2025-10-05 07:14