Roster shifts in dignitas.oce
The roster of dig's Oceania team will be going through changes. Several weeks ago, Support player Matthew 'Littleubergiant' Uebergang informed his teammates and management that he will attend an AFL event and consequently, miss the Winter Regionals. Given the player's athlete career, dignitas management decided to let Matthew compete.
As the squad needs a new Support, Bradley 'Tgun' Seymour is to step in and fill the gap. Tgun is no stranger to competitive gaming as he was previously a StarCraft 2 pro. In addition to that change, a jungler swap will also occur as Nathan 'Rippii' Mott will step down and Challenger player Man Jung 'Senpai' Kim will join as the new starter.
The full roster of Dignitas.OCE is:
Top: Justin 'JKSmithy' Smith
Jungler: Man Jung 'Senpai' Kim
Mid: Samuel 'Kenste' Richards
AD Carry: David 'UberGiantsBro' Uebergang
Support: Bradley 'Tgun' Seymour
Below you can find a statement from top laner and captain, Justin 'JKSmithy' Smith regarding the roster change and the future of the line-up.
Shortly after the Autumn regional concluded our support Matthew ‘Littleubergiant’ Uebergang informed the team that he would be unable to play in the upcoming Winter regional due to a clash with an important AFL game of his. For those that don’t know, Matthew is an aspiring AFL professional and games like this are telling in his pursuit to be drafted into the AFL at the end of this year. After learning that a very important part of the Team Dignitas OCE team will not be with us on our path to worlds, the rest of the team held multiple in depth discussions regarding what we will do to better our result from Autumn.
While finding a new support was obvious, there was a general consensus that simply replacing arguably one the most important parts of the team would not garner us a better result at the upcoming regional. After multiple ideas were thrown around it was decided we would trial the at the time rank 1 on the Oceanic Challenger Ladder for jungle; ‘AKG Senpai’. Senpai’s mechanical skill and style of jungle we think would suit the competitive environment more and thus means that Rippii will be moved from the starting lineup.
At the same time as well we trialled multiple supports before deciding on ex-starcraft professional ‘Tgun’, whose enthusiasm and experience in a professional scene we believe to be a valuable resource to the team and a worthy replacement for Littleubergiant. I can say with confidence that I believe the current team will have a good chance of taking the regional and hopefully representing the region at the Wildcard event later in the year.
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