FaZe Clan have bounced back from the off-season and have picked up a fifth member of their roster along with a new coach, just in time for the 2019 season to kick off. After announcing that their former head coach Robert “RobbaN” Dahlstrom would be stepping down just yesterday, today the organization announced that they have signed both a new coach and another player to round out their roster.
OFFICIAL: @AdreNcs will stand-in as FaZe CS:GO's 5th player through the Major, & @YNk has signed on to coach the team ??
— FaZe Clan (@FaZeClan) January 6, 2019
Our first games with the new-look lineup will take place at the iBUYPOWER Masters in Los Angeles, California from January 19th-20th.
Welcome! #FaZeUp pic.twitter.com/k3wW2cwq3y
Dauren “AdreN” Kystaubayev and Janko “YNk” Paunovic will round out the team as they head towards IEM Katowice in February, where they will replace RobbaN and former in-game shot caller Finn “karrigan” Andersen. Thee changes will hopefully turn around the roster after a series of poor finishes, after an excellent start to 2018 that saw many consider them one of the top teams in the competition.
FaZe Clan were able to pick up massive victories in IEM Katowice 2018 and ESL One Belo Horizonte under the command of RobbaN, however the team seemed to lose traction as time went on, resulting in the benching of karrigan and the revelations that RobbaN would be stepping down. The first real test as a new team will come at IEM Katowice 2019, where the organization will hope to replicate their results from last year and kick off the new season with a bang.
