FaZe Clan puts rain back on active roster for ESL Pro League Season 22

After benching Havard ‘rain’ Nygaard from its energetic lineup, FaZe Clan introduced over the weekend that he’s again on the squad for the rest of ESL Professional League Season 22.

rain is changing Jakub ‘jcobbb’ Pietruszewski for this time interval, sending jcobbb to the bench because of a requirement from ESL.

On September twenty ninth, FaZe Clan announced that Rain could be benched forward of the ESL Professional League Season 22 after signing Russel ‘Twistzz‘ Van Dulken from Workforce Liquid. This ended rain’s almost 10 years of competing alongside FaZe Clan, upsetting followers.

FaZe Clan introduced on Saturday, October 4th, that it was bringing rain again to its energetic roster for ESL Professional League Season 22, which began on September twenty eighth and is operating till October twelfth, 2025.

FaZe Clan’s earlier a match in opposition to G2 Esports resulted in a technical forfeit as a consequence of ESL’s event rules. In keeping with ESL’s guidelines, groups should compete with the identical roster that it certified for the event with. FaZe Clan was invited to the occasion in July, which suggests it must compete with the lineup it had as of that point:

rain’s non permanent return has been met with pleasure from FaZe Clan’s fanbase. One fan mentioned that that is the roster that can win your entire event, whereas another said rain ought to stay on the roster completely.

Nonetheless, FaZe Clan clarified that rain will return to the bench after ESL Professional League Season 22 wraps up. It said in its tweet: “Following EPL, rain will return to the bench, and we’ll attend CAC 2025 with a roster of karrigan, broky, Twistzz, frozen and jcobbb.”

rain plans to maintain competing, even taking over an In-Sport Chief function.

“My journey in CS2 is way from over. I’m not retiring,” he mentioned. “I’ll maintain competing and rising as a participant. I’m open to gives for any function, and whereas getting into the IGL function could be a brand new problem for me, it’s one I’m desirous to embrace.”