2025 has been a troublesome 12 months for FaZe Clan. Now, the struggling staff is hoping to sort out their woes by benching Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski and changing him with Jakub “jcobbb” Pietruszewski.
EliGE is seen as one of many best gamers in North American Counter-Strike historical past, but his time with FaZe solely lasted seven months. He arrived on the staff in January after departing Complexity. Though EliGE’s particular person kind was first rate on FaZe, it didn’t match the identical stage of star high quality that he had delivered to Complexity, and there have been fixed questions raised over function clashes with Havard “rain” Nygaard that prevented each gamers from reaching their peak ranges.
Throughout EliGE’s time with FaZe, the staff positioned fourth at PGL Cluj-Napoca, third at PGL Bucharest, and inside the highest eight on the BLAST.television Austin Main. A poor return given the expectations positioned upon FaZe in CS2, they’d beforehand made roster strikes to try to sort out the problems with Helvjis “broky” Saukants being benched for Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev and subsequently returning to the roster after s1mple’s mortgage expired.
There was loads of hypothesis over EliGE’s future, with HLTV’s Striker stating that stipulations throughout the VRS rulebook prevented FaZe from making an extra change to their roster earlier.
As rumours continued to swirl, it had been recommended that EliGE could be a part of a swap deal with Liquid that might see EliGE and Russel “Twistzz” van Dulken commerce locations, returning to the 2 groups they’d loved probably the most profitable durations of their careers with within the course of. Nevertheless, that deal has but to return to fruition, and FaZe has as an alternative changed the American with 21 12 months outdated Polish participant, jcobbb.
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Who’s jcobbb?
Most not too long ago seen enjoying with Betclic Apogee, jcobbb is an aggressive participant that comes with a excessive repute from his time spent in tier two Counter-Strike.
A well-recognized face to FaZe provided that they performed in opposition to him earlier within the 12 months at PGL Bucharest, jcobbb struggled in that recreation however impressed through the occasion as he put up robust performances in opposition to each Astralis and The MongolZ.
A shock signing for FaZe, he represents a shift in signing technique for the NA organisation, who’ve most popular to go for established expertise lately after beforehand bringing within the likes of broky and Aurimas “bymas” Pipiras through the COVID period.
Followers received’t have to attend lengthy to see jcobbb debut for FaZe, their subsequent recreation is about to be their opener in BLAST Open Season 2, which shall be performed in opposition to Danish staff ECSTATIC on August twenty seventh.
