Former Team Liquid Alex "Xpecial" Chu is officially a free agent, the support plater announced on his vlog on Thursday.

Xpecial was removed from Team Liquid's starting roster in late September, and was ultimately replaced by Andy "Smoothie" Ta. Over the course of the 2015 NA LCS Summer Split and Playoffs, Xpecial earned a 4.22 KDA, finding most of his success playing Janna and Annie.

"This is the first time I've been a free agency since the beginning of my career," Xpecial said in the vlog. "I'm a little scared, but at the same time I'm pretty confident that experience and I think my play still is good enough for a decent team."

Xpecial also provided some details on his recent activities, which involve playing alongside some challenger squads in preparation for an upcoming tournament.

Although he initially scrimmed with Liquid's Challenger team to work on his shot calling, Xpecial received an offer from Cloud9 to practice alongside the William "Meteos" Hartman led C9 Challenger. Xpecial stated that due to poor results and frustrations within the team, the team decided to not remain together and has gone their separate ways.

"None of the players really wanted to play in the Challenger scene, and because of that combined with I'd say not the best performance, that I think this ended."

Finally, Xpecial laid out his plans for the near future, which involve becoming a part of a new team and playing out what he believes might be the final year of his career.

"Where do I want to go - LCS, Challenger - I'm honestly not too sure. I want to join the best team possible, not the biggest name...I really want to come back strong."

Nic Doucet is a News Editor for theScore eSports. You can follow him on Twitter.