As it turns out not only the Europeans are living in a period of upheaval, our American friends are experiencing some changes as well. With the departure of several keyplayers, Pandemic had to fill in the blanks and came up with a completely new team.

The new roster will be put to a hard test when facing TLR in the first EMS Playoffs match on Sunday, 25.05.08 22:00 CET.

Departing players

axe (Soldier)
dummy (Demoman)
dion (Medic)
jmitchell (Scout)
perfekt (Soldier)

New roster

syckness (Scout - former Devastation)
alexwut (Demoman - former 20id)
REP (Soldier - former Atomic)
TheFragile (Medic - former Pure)
Reptile- (Soldier)
newby (Soldier/Sniper)
oPlaid (Scout)

Statement from Reptile, one of the very first Pandemic members

Having dion, dummy, and axe leaving and with jmitchell and perfekt going inactive we had to make some quick choices for recruiting. The people we picked up were alex, TheFragile, REP and scknesS. We are in every way happy and excited to be playing with these new members. A lot of these changes had to be made due to a loss of interest in TF2.

The EMS seems quite promising for close and action packed matches. Pandemic will not be effected by our roster changes, if anything it makes us stronger - we look forward to testing our lineup in EMS matches :)

I expect more competition coming into the scene with the announcement CGS has made; Pandemic looks forward to the competition.