An indistinct time was prevailed in team roccat lately, but it seems that it has come to an end as the former roccat-player  Samu 'plastE' Aalto once again returns to the team after sacking Tomi 'lurppis' Kovanen. A low output capacity and lack of performance has been seen by team roccat during the year of 2008, with results such as a 5th-8th position at KODE5 Global Finals.

Constant player exchanges have brought insufficient results, especially noticable was the Chatrix DTS-Cup 2008 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine - where roccat didn't even manage to make it through the group stage. As stated by roccat's marketing chief and manager, Shayan 'Shayan' Taleb, the release of lurppis was necessary for continuing teams' progress. According to lurppis himself, he considers his professional career as over and will probably not play on a competitive level anymore due to school attendance after the summer.

For naSu it was quite a hard decision to vote against his own brother, but any further complications didn't appear and therefore no hard feelings. Worth mentioning is the fact that naSu was completely unknown for the Finnish Counter-Strike scene until Tomi introduced him to the professional teams.

The new addition gives team roccat this line-up:

Niko 'naSu' Kovanen
Max 'ruuit' Aspe
Juuso 'contE' Sajakoski
Tino 'tihOp' Puumala
Samu 'plastE' Aalto

Source: roccat