After the split of Dignitas a month ago, their free agent players found new homes in varied places. For Ana and Zen aficionado Veineless, home will soon be in Bad Tölz, the German town playing host to Team expert’s gaming house.

Veineless joined the team a few weeks prior to the Contenders EU qualifiers, replacing former support Ruby, and helped Team expert claim their spot in Contenders Group A. Their journey through the qualifiers hit a speedbump in the form of a 1-2 loss against Movistar Riders on the first day, but that map win showed improved upset potential for expert whose previous tournament outing saw them get bullied in PIT.

On the second day of qualification, Team expert had a clean bracket through to the semifinals where they fell 0-2 to Cyclowns. While they have dodged both of those dive titans in Group A, Veineless and company still find themselves alongside eUnited and Bazooka Puppiez.

It is likely to be a hotly contested battle for second place, as eUnited look head and shoulders above the other three teams in the group. Speaking to expert Lucio support Talyz, he felt that his team had a strong chance of leaving the group in second place and spoke of his confidence in the new roster.

If Team expert make it through the Contenders group stage they may face NWA for a fiery head-to-head; currently sat in Group B, NWA are a rebuilt roster whose lineup previously included Veineless in late 2016. After the original NWA split apart, wat7, evokje, and Veineless joined Dignitas to give them a much-needed boost. Any battle after reuniting without Veineless will be an interesting showdown.

Group games begin for Contenders on June 17th.

Delays with renovating the Team expert gaming house left the players unable to move in as scheduled at the end of May, but Talyz reaffirmed their plans to move in together, hopefully at the end of June.

The new roster for Team expert is:

  • Greger ”Invision” Herland (DPS)
  • Joshua ”CRNKz” Santana (DPS)
  • Dominik ”NexX” Scheerer (Flex)
  • Jørgen ”Decod” Myrlund (Tank)
  • Marcel "Veineless" Lehmann (Support)
  • Marcel ”Talyz” Sieprath (Support)