Three North American teams have had changes to their rosters announced. Area 51 Gaming has picked up Garett 'Grt' Bambrough and Halston 'Tekn1kal' Bellintani. Ultimax Gaming US have added Bryan 'buskey' Buskey to replace the departed Dustin 'dizzaman' Dilyerd. The former Damage Inc squad who are organisationless and going by the name Fear factor, not to be confused with the Polish team, has lost Sean 'sgares' Gares.

Area 51 Gaming :
Armeen 'a2z' Toussi
Nick 'Lalonde' Lalonde
Jonathan 'n0swal' Lawson
Garett 'Grt' Bambrough
Halston 'Tekn1kal' Bellintani

Ultimax Gaming US:
Ricky 'sLip' Cohen
Kyle 'flowsicK' Mendez
Chris 'TRULS' Navratil
Ric 'iNERTiA' Bundy
Bryan 'buskey' Buskey

Fear Factor (former Damage Inc ):
Kevin 'aZn' Wang
Jason 'Jstone' Caposello
Paul 'pauLy' Guerboyan
Nazar 'steno' Vynnytsky
TBD

Grt rose to fame after helping 50.cal pugteam upset an All-Star Rival side at CPL Winter 2005 on inferno. He later went on to play with GB and Pandemic, helping the latter to a 4th place finish at the WSVG New York finals and a CEVO-p title. Grt's career was derailed when he was drafted by the Chicago Chimera and tried to cross the border to the USA illegally without proper papers to work in the US. As a result he is still prohibited from entering the country.

Tekn1kal is best known for his time in DeadZone and has since played for Area51 and Blight.

buskey was a member of the SLP (Stacked Like Pancakes) lineup which often took criticism for being online only after success in tournaments like CEVO-sp. Movie star pondfiller was also a member of that lineup.

sgares has been through a number of teams in the last few years including Loaded, Finesse and Ruins. His best place was 9th-16th at Arbalet Cup Dallas with Finesse, defeating the Norwegian Lions team 16:14 on dust2.

Sources: HLTV.org 1, 2, 3