BLAST rosters reveal multiple team changes

The BLAST Premier Fall Groups roster lock led to multiple teams having to confirm their player list for the event, which has revealed a host of new rosters, although the official announcement for most of these players haven't been made yet by the teams.

Evil Geniuses, OG and Natus Vincere (NAVI) have all submitted their teams, with all three of the organisations, fielding new rosters from that which were present at the BLAST.tv Paris Major and the BLAST Premier Spring Final, before the player break.

Evil Geniuses, who have been in the news for their plans of switching to a European-core, will be going ahead with their Blueprint project, which will have the youngsters from the EG Black team and the North American organisation will be moving away from the European-core goal. The roster includes youngsters like Jeorge, junior and HexT along with autimatic from the main roster while Brehze, wiz, neaLaN and refrezh will be leaving the team soon. RUSH will be standing-in as the substitute. EG also have Axed as their new coach after they benched Vorborg recently.

OG are another team, who are going into the season post the player-break with a new team, after they saw flameZ and niko leave the organisation, following their contracts running out and the organisation listed degster and NEOFRAG on the transfer list. OG are bringing in FASHR from fnatic, k1to from BIG and former Copenhagen Flames' AWPer regali. nexa is all set to return to the team after having taken a personal leave, which had seen niko return to lead the team in his absence.

The final team which will be fielding a new line-up is NAVI and with electroNic and Perfecto all set to leave the team and the team having benched npl, Apeks' jL along with GamerLegion's iM is all set to join s1mple and leading them will be recently benched in-game leader Aleksib, who was put on the bench after hampus returned to Ninjas in Pyjamas. With the new signings, NAVI will be going international for the first time in their organisation's history.

Following the changes, the rosters for the organisations will be as follows:

NAVI

• s1mple

• b1t

• Aleksib

• iM

• jL

• B1ad3 (coach)

Evil Geniuses

• autimatic

• Jeorge

• RUSH (substitute)

• HexT

• Walco

• junior

• Axed

OG

• F1KU

• nexa

• regali

• FASHR

• k1to

• ruggah (coach)

While Liquid, Astralis, Vitality, BIG and Complexity have officially announced their team changes, there isn't much there and it goes the same for the likes of G2, FaZe and Heroic.

The BLAST Premier Fall Groups will resume the tier-1 Counter-Strike scene when it gets underway on July 13, 2023.