In the aftermath of insomnia58, we have seen several teams chop, change and form new teams in the making. However we have some more exciting news in the form of a brand new team that has been formed for the upcoming Winter LAN season, and to see how things go after that.
Ashley “ashhh” Battye, was last season competing at insomnia58 with eBGaming_ who were part of the “Romanian Controversy” when they beat the Romanian team XPC.gg 16:12 to only lose on “default” because Ash had forgotten to record a POV during the game. That later got overturned as the Romanian’s went back to give the team a “rematch” on another map due to eBGaming_ having access to all five POVs from XPC.gg. It was a match they lost quite convincingly 16:3.
Ash had announced his retirement earlier this year after a disappointing set of results in the Team uFrag camp which saw them finish 9th – 12th at insomnia57 where Ash had primarily blamed himself. After that stint in Team uFrag, he had been doing a bit of coaching unofficially with Team exceL, who enjoyed some success at epic.EIGHTEEN in June.
Yoshi (third left) & ashhh (third right) reunited again in a lineup.
Chris “debaser” Flynn, had been apart of Perilous Gaming for an incredibly long time before he had called quits on his career in CS:GO shortly after the original Perilous Fury lineup had disbanded post insomnia57. Chris did have a few minor stints as a stand-in for a few teams throughout the previous ESL UK Premiership season, but nothing concrete ever came to fruition.
Tom “quiver” Griffiths also joins the team as someone who has mostly been off the radar in the UK Scene after his stint in Perilous Fury alongside Chris, where they had attended epic.SEVENTEEN in February and managed 5th – 6th there before heading to insomnia57 and reaching 9th – 12th. Tom has a great history within the scene, and famously got placed in a bin one iSeries event in the ever so drunken behaviour we have seen from him.
The final two recruitments were Harry “Yoshi” Witt who was formerly part of Team uFrag before moving over to Overwatch shortly after insomnia57 to try and compete in a new eSports title, whilst Joe “luster” Asquith also joins the roster. Joe was part of the former MINISTRY set up with Ash back in the early days of CS:GO.
The team which will be flying the flag as Dog gaming are currently looking for an organisation to represent at future LAN events, and can be contacted here at the following email address tomgfiffiths[at]live[dot]co[dot]uk. They will be next in action at epic.NINETEEN which is held at Kettering Conference Centre in October this year.
Dog Gaming’s following lineup looks like this:
Ashley “ashhh” Battye
Chris “debaser” Flynn
Tom “quiver” Griffiths
Joe “luster” Asquith
Harry “Yoshi” Witt
We will have more information on any potential moves that are coming up in the UK CS:GO Scene, so make sure you keep your eyes peeled on this website for future information. You can keep up to date with all the latest roster moves and coverage on the UK Scene, by liking us on Facebook & following us on Twitter.
