{"id":876379,"date":"2025-10-09T00:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/faze-clan-puts-rain-back-on-active-roster-for-esl-pro-league-season-22\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:14:27","slug":"faze-clan-puts-rain-back-on-active-roster-for-esl-pro-league-season-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/faze-clan-puts-rain-back-on-active-roster-for-esl-pro-league-season-22\/","title":{"rendered":"FaZe Clan puts rain back on active roster for ESL Pro League Season 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><picture fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"><source type=\"image\/webp\"  ><img data-no-lazy fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/faze-clan-rain.jpg\" alt=\"faze clan rain\"  >\n<\/picture><figcaption>Image Credit: HLTV.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After benching<strong> Havard \u2018rain\u2019 Nygaard<\/strong> from its active lineup, <strong>FaZe Clan<\/strong> announced over the weekend that he\u2019s back on the squad for the remainder of <strong>ESL Pro League Season 22<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>rain is replacing Jakub \u2018jcobbb\u2019 Pietruszewski for this time period, sending jcobbb to the bench as a result of a requirement from ESL. <\/p>\n<p>On September 29th, <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/09\/faze-clan-rain-benching\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FaZe Clan announced<\/a> that Rain would be benched ahead of the ESL Pro League Season 22 after signing <strong>Russel \u2018Twistzz\u2018 Van Dulken<\/strong> from <strong>Team Liquid<\/strong>. This ended rain\u2019s nearly 10 years of competing alongside FaZe Clan, upsetting fans. <\/p>\n<p id=\"esi-heading-68e72e010a7ee\">\n<h2><span id=\"why_did_faze_clan_bring_rain_back_for_esl_pro_league_season_22\">Why Did FaZe Clan Bring rain Back For ESL Pro League Season 22?<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>FaZe Clan announced on Saturday, October 4th, that it was bringing rain back to its active roster for ESL Pro League Season 22, which started on September 28th and is running until October 12th, 2025. <\/p>\n<figure><picture decoding=\"async\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/faze-clan-rain-large.jpg.webp 1024w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/faze-clan-rain-medium.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/faze-clan-rain-medium_large.jpg.webp 768w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/faze-clan-rain-1536x1025.jpg.webp 1536w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/faze-clan-rain.jpg.webp 1800w\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"Image of Counter-Strike player Rain competing at BLAST Austin Major\"   data-old-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201024%20683'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/faze-clan-rain-large.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/faze-clan-rain-medium.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/faze-clan-rain-medium_large.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/faze-clan-rain-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/faze-clan-rain.jpg 1800w\" src=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/faze-clan-rain-large.jpg\">\n<\/picture><figcaption>Image credit: Michal Konkol, BLAST<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FaZe Clan\u2019s earlier a match against G2 Esports ended in a technical forfeit due to ESL\u2019s tournament regulations. According to ESL\u2019s rules, teams must compete with the same roster that it qualified for the tournament with. FaZe Clan was invited to the event in July, which means it needs to compete with the lineup it had as of that time: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finn \u2018karrigan\u2019 Andersen<\/li>\n<li>David \u2018frozen\u2019 \u010cer\u0148ansk\u00fd<\/li>\n<li>Russel \u2018Twistzz\u2019 Van Dulken<\/li>\n<li>Helvijs \u2018broky\u2019 Saukants<\/li>\n<li>rain<\/li>\n<li>Coach: Filip \u2018NEO\u2019 Kubski<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>rain\u2019s temporary return has been met with excitement from FaZe Clan\u2019s fanbase. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PogPredict\/status\/1974496429608468583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One fan<\/a> said that this is the roster that will win the entire tournament, while <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/xTREAMx22\/status\/1974499633637343530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">another said<\/a> rain should remain on the roster permanently. <\/p>\n<p>However, FaZe Clan clarified that rain will return to the bench after ESL Pro League Season 22 wraps up. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FaZeEsports\/status\/1974492456965099926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It said in its tweet<\/a>: \u201cFollowing EPL, rain will return to the bench, and we will attend CAC 2025 with a roster of karrigan, broky, Twistzz, frozen and jcobbb.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>rain plans to keep competing, even taking on an In-Game Leader role. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy journey in CS2 is far from over. I\u2019m not retiring,\u201d he said. \u201cI will keep competing and growing as a player. I\u2019m open to offers for any role, and while stepping into the IGL role would be a new challenge for me, it\u2019s one I\u2019m eager to embrace.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Olivia Richman <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/10\/faze-clan-rain-esl-pro-league-season-22\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credit: HLTV. After benching Havard \u2018rain\u2019 Nygaard from its active lineup, FaZe Clan announced over the weekend that he\u2019s back on the squad for the remainder of ESL Pro League Season 22. rain is replacing Jakub \u2018jcobbb\u2019 Pietruszewski for this time period, sending jcobbb to the bench as a result of a requirement from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24411,27926],"tags":[8590,10777],"class_list":{"0":"post-876379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-active","8":"category-roster","9":"tag-active","10":"tag-roster"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}