After being locked into their roster for several months due to ELEAGUE, Splyce has recently taken the opportunity to revamp their team by changing two thirds of their players. Tank ShaneisGhost already left his temporary spot with Splyce due to work - now ninjanick, clockwork, and SycknesS are now no longer with the team, to be replaced by Adetonian, Moffitt, and Graceful on support, dps, and flex respectively. twidi will complete the roster on tank.
Splyce squeezed into the Overwatch Open through their accumulation of points in the qualifiers, locking their roster for nearly two months at a time when they were already missing a tank. They attended the tournament at Atlanta with stand-in tank ShaneisGhost, but the team was blown out of the water without taking a map against EnVyUs and NRG.
Without a major tournament to focus on, Splyce has taken the time to switch out over half of the roster it fielded for the Overwatch Open. They have also brought in three new players from Europe, forming yet another mixed-region team for Overwatch.
Two of the players, support Adetonian and tank twidi, previously played together on former European team OWKings. The team folded shortly before the Overwatch Open with the players sitting as talented free agents. Clown was picked up by LDLC while ryb was recently signed by Cloud9, after helping Misfits to hoist the trophy as a stand-in at the Overwatch Open.
Another two of the players, dps Moffitt and flex Graceful, played together in the North American team Team Solo Mitt. The resulting Splyce roster has kept only two of its former players, shrugger and captain PYYYOUR.
PYYYOUR spoke about the recent changes:
It has been a rough road since our in game caller decided to focus on his tennis career instead of dedicating an exorbitant amount of hours into a video game career. We are reaching a point where "ladder" players are truly catching up to the "known names" that have been playing since closed beta. Since Eleague we have had the opportunity to look at tons of players from Europe, Brazil, and even the remote area of le reddit. We will be parting ways with SycknesS, Ninjanick, and Shaneisghost for varying reasons and will be picking up Moffitt, Graceful, Twidi, and Adetonian. As for clockwork, you guys better strap in, cause some hotness is around the corner :)
The new Splyce roster is:
- Kevin “Moffitt” Moffitt (dps)
- Canaan Michael "Shrugger” Carman (dps)
- Martin “Graceful” Wongprom (flex)
- Jussi “twidi” Tiipiö (tank)
- Remy “ADETONIAN” Cabresin (support)
- Bradford "PYYYOUR" Ross (support)