Stapells, who had just been released by compLexity Gaming, stepped in to replace yam temporarily. Renegades later announced the transfer of Noah "Nifty" Francis from Selfess Gaming and added Nemanja "nexa" Isaković from Serbia to complete its roster. Matthew "no_one" Congdon stepped down from the Selfless Gaming active roster as his team reported that he desired to take a break. Chris "cJ-dA-K1nG" Jones was moved up from the substitute role into the active roster. Later, Selfess Gaming owner Steve "Ryu" Rattacasa released his roster. The team played under the name The Foundation. The team brought in various other players, including former teammate of Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo and Fernando "fer" Alvarenga of SK Gaming Caio "zqk" Fonseca from Brazil. Peter "stanislaw" Jarguz left OpTic Gaming as its in game leader and signed with Team Liquid. Team Liquid then released Spencer "Hiko" Martin and OpTic took in the American veteran as a temporary substitute while also signing Luis "peacemaker" Tadeu as the coach. However, Hiko soon announced that he would not stay with OpTic and peacemaker left OpTic. Once Hiko left, former Cloud9 rifler and current Echo Fox player Ryan "fREAKAZOiD" Abadir stepped in as a temporary substitute. The team then announced that former Splyce player-turned-streamer Jason "jasonR" Ruchelski would be the temporary fifth and in-game leader after standing in for compLexity Gaming and then later stood in for OpTic Gaming. Samuel "SileNt" Portillo replaced Daniel "virtus" Carrillo and Adam "aKis" Kisseberth replaced Matt "Pollo" Wilson on Rush. Derrick "LILMAN" Boyne left RUSH to go replace Omar "MarkE" Jimenez on NRG Esports and Steven "rooRoooo" Herrell took LILMAN's spot. Winterfox withdrew from the EPL Season 5 North American division and its spot was transferred to its players. However, just over a week later, the players, now under the banner Animal Squad, forfeit the rest of their matches and were disqualified by ESL. NRG Esports brought it former Splyce member Andrew "Professor_Chaos" Heintz as a coach. Team Liquid brings in the 17 year old Russel "Twistzz" VanDulken from Misfits. Misfits also benched Skyler "Relyks" Weaver and acquired two Frenchmen, and François "AmaNEk" Delaunay. Immortals bench due to internal problems within the team and replace him with . will most likely leave Immortals and join his CS 1.6 teammate . North America Scores Europe Broadcast Talent Desk Hosts Jason "moses" O'Toole Alex "Machine" Richardson Commentators Hugo Byron Dan Gaskin Henry "HenryG" Greer Mitch "Uber"