Liquid have announced the signing of former Bravado, Cloud9, and Complexity in-game leader Johnny "JT" Theodosiou, confirming the June report from Dust2.us.
The South African in-game leader takes the place of Kamil "siuhy" Szkaradek, who was benched on Tuesday after a season in which Liquid averaged among the worst T side win-rates in the entire scene, and only reached the playoffs at BLAST Bounty Season 1 through the online group stage and ended the season with a 2-3 exit from Stage 1 of the IEM Cologne Major.
This move marks the second off-season change for Liquid after the signing of Georgi "Jorko" Mitev to take over the big green in place of Roland "ultimate" Tomkowiak, and reunites the in-game leader with his former Complexity teammate Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski.
During their time together in Complexity, EliGE and JT had several deep runs at notable events with a victory at ESL Challenger Jönköping 2024, a second-place finish at IEM Sydney 2023, and semi-final finishes at ESL Pro League Season 19 and BLAST Premier Fall Final 2023.
JT is set to make his debut during the online portion of BLAST Bounty Season 2 on Friday at 16:00 . As the 30th-seeded team in the tournament, Liquid picked Vitality as an opponent over the other two remaining teams: Falcons and Spirit.
Correction: Liquid will field their starting five at BLAST Bounty, with JT calling the shots and Jorko on the AWP.
Liquid is now:
Johnny "JT" Theodosiou Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski Keith "NAF" Markovic Mario "malbsMd" Samayoa Georgi "Jorko" Mitev
Viktor "flashie" Tamás Bea (coach)
Kamil "siuhy" Szkaradek (benched) Roland "ultimate" Tomkowiak (benched)
Viktor 'flashie' Tamás Bea
Mario 'malbsMd' Samayoa
Liquid
Keith 'NAF' Markovic
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Mario 'malbsMd' Samayoa
Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek
Roland 'ultimate' Tomkowiak
Viktor 'flashie' Tamás Bea
Liquid
Keith 'NAF' Markovic
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Mario 'malbsMd' Samayoa
Georgi 'Jorko' Mitev
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou
Viktor 'flashie' Tamás Bea
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Roland 'ultimate' Tomkowiak
Falcons
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
René 'TeSeS' Madsen
Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov
Maksim 'kyousuke' Lukin
Danny 'zonic' Sørensen
Keith 'NAF' Markovic
Complexity
Bravado
Daniel 'LaBishop' Thomas Hufton
Georgi 'Jorko' Mitev
Spirit
Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov
Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev
Andrey 'tN1R' Tatarinovich
Myroslav 'zont1x' Plakhotia
Danil 'donk' Kryshkovets
Sergey 'hally' Shavaev
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou
Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek
Liquid
Keith 'NAF' Markovic
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Mario 'malbsMd' Samayoa
Georgi 'Jorko' Mitev
Viktor 'flashie' Tamás Bea
Vitality
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Robin 'ropz' Kool
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut
Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan
William 'mezii' Merriman
Rémy 'XTQZZZ' Quoniam
Cloud9