-bird noises-, recently promoted to Invite, has finalized their roster. They will maintain much of the same roster, only choosing to replace their former medic mattb with Invite veteran indust.

Vand, who joined the team last season, shared a little about the team's history and its future aspirations in the highest level of play:

I've been with -bird noises- for the past half year or so and can easily say we are all very eager to prove ourselves in Invite this season. The team itself was formed for Open Season 19, with Voll and train being the most prominent members of the team along with indust, who guided them through their first full season. After a fourth place finish, most of the team left, and Voll and train merged with the core of slowbr0 and picked up two players with decent IM experience to round out the roster. We went through this past season with relatively low expectations but a great approach towards practice, leading us to the first seed for playoffs. Unfortunately, some playoffs pressure got the best of us and we did not perform as well as we wanted leading to us being eliminated in the semifinals.

For this season, we parted ways with our medic and began looking for a new one, with the aim being to maintain our progress while having the same attitude towards spending time to practice. It is awesome to have indust join us and be able to truly be on the same page as us.

For this coming season of Invite, we are striving to learn from our mistakes and to continue our improvement from last season as much as possible. I feel we can pull numerous upsets and have a strong showing this season given our lineup and hope that we can stick together for the long run in order to keep trying to reach the top. Our mostly intact roster hopefully enables us to solidify our abilities and coordination as players to the level of Invite more effectively. Overall, we aim to learn a lot from this coming season and to be a fierce competitor in the playoff race for the season. Good luck to everyone!

The roster for -bird noises- is as follows:

• Scout: Vand
• Scout: train
• Roamer: Hellbent
• Pocket: Voll
• Demoman: sighguy
• Medic: indust