FACEIT announce London talent; daps to debut on desk
FACEIT have announced the on-air talent team for the upcoming FACEIT London Major. It includes the household names like Jason "moses" O'Toole and Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett, but also includes some lesser seen faces like Sean Gares and even Damian "daps" Steele.
Here is the full talent list:
- Alex "Machine" Richardson (Host)
- Freya Spiers (Interviewer)
- Pala Gilroy Sen (Interviewer)
- Daniel "ddk" Kapadia (Commentator)
- James Bardolph (Commentator)
- Anders Blume (Commentator)
- Jason "moses" O'Toole (Commentator)
- Henry "HenryG" Greer (Commentator)
- Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett (Commentator)
- Björn "THREAT" Pers (Analyst)
- Sean "seang@res" Gares (Analyst)
- Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill (Analyst)
- Damian "daps" Steele (Analyst)
- Jacob "Pimp" Winneche (Analyst)
By virtue of NRG being upset at the Americas Minor by eUnited, daps has been freed up to try his hand at some desk work, a first for him.
The event is set to begin on September 5th with the New Challengers stage, which will determine eight teams to move on to the next New Legends stage. Valve recently announced the two teams to exit last in the New Legends Stage would not receive spots in the New Challengers stage of IEM Katowice 2018 and would instead need to play through the Minors.