The ETF2L Season 22 champion team led by kaidus, formerly playing under the banner of Reason Gaming, have decided over the past few days to bid their previous org goodbye and play for nerdRage. The team was with Reason Gaming for over a year and represented them in three ETF2L seasons, a variety of independent tournaments including the Challengers Cup and ZOWIE 16, and at i55 and DreamHack Winter 2015. The team has decided to make the change with a view towards the future, looking ahead towards Gamers Assembly, DreamHack Summer and i58.

nerdRage sponsored a team during Season 21 and i55, and the team made it to the Grand Finals through the Upper Bracket after knocking down froyotech in a historical game. Since the team disbanded shortly afterwards, nerdRage have been looking for a new roster to repeat that success.

nerdRage spoke on their decision to pick up the top European team:

We are happy to finally bare our colours in the TF2 competitive scene again, picking up a great line-up who together will be able to achieve a lot under our growing brand. The team have really shown their skill and passion for the game and we're looking forward to supporting them!

kaidus competing at DreamHack Winter with his team

ex-Reason Gaming have been at the top of the scene for over a year now, rising from their initial 3rd place result in early 2015 to finish 1st in the next two consecutive seasons of ETF2L. At i55 the team started slowly, with group stage games lost to nerdRage, TLR, and froyotech. They finished the first day with a BO1 win over Ascent however, and over the next two days they knocked Ascent out of the tournament and were 1 round away from knocking out LAN legends froyotech after a victory on badlands. They finished 3rd at i55, but since then have been the best team in Europe, walking over #tf2center in the Season 22 Grand Finals despite an earlier loss to them in the Challengers Cup. The team finished first at the DreamHack Winter 2015 tournament and is currently top of the ETF2L table alongside Full Tilt.

kaidus, kaptain and Hafficool have formed the core of the team since creation in January 2015 when they were originally paired up with skeej, zoob and wltrs. The team has swapped out the medic and flank wholesale twice in that time; in Season 21 the team brought in KnOxXx, Mike, and Forsak3n until i55, after which the team brought in Permzilla and i55 nerdRage scout Stark. The team also recently settled on Drackk in the roamer role.

The roster for nerdRage is now:

• Scout: Stark
• Scout: Hafficool
• Roamer: Drackk
• Pocket: kaptain
• Demoman: kaidus
• Medic: Permzilla