The COGnitive Gaming roster plans to re-sign with the organization despite previous intentions to look for a new sponsor, the team's manager confirmed.

Dylan "Dylux" Walker said that while the deal hasn't yet been finalized, the roster is looking forward to renewing their agreement with COGnitive.

"While we have not yet re-signed officially with COGnitive we have reached an agreement with the ownership to retain us. We had no idea what the new ownership coming in would bring to the table, but we were pleasantly surprised to hear their plans," he explained. "As it turns out both my team and the organization as a whole will be an entirely different animal [in 2016] and we are all very excited for the future."

After parting ways with Mike "Glaurung" Fisk and Joey "Hospital" Gavlas, the only remaining players on the roster from the North America June Open are warrior Donald "Scylol" Dobbin and support Jeffrey "iakona" Dolan.

The team's roster for the upcoming Heroes Rising event includes Forrest "Syracuse" Holland, who took over for Aaron "iVSlime" Prentice after the Americas Championship. But it also adds Ben "Cattlepillar" Bunk, formerly of compLexity Gaming, and John "KilicK" Gelou, who was playing with eLevate.

"I am very excited to have Cattle and KilicK join us for the event. They are both the main shotcallers from their teams and I believe that kind of knowledge and game sense is the kind of characteristic that is the hardest to teach and learn," Dylux said.

Having met Cattlepillar in person in the past, Dylux called the decision to bring him in for the event "an easy choice." A primary warrior player in the past, the current plan is for Cattle to play melee flex during the event.

Meanwhile, he says that KilicK "was recognized by my team as a strong up and coming player with a good head on his shoulders and the kind of team oriented attitude we're looking for at the moment."

It's unclear if KilicK and Cattlepillar will be joining the roster permanently, but Dylux says that the team will look to re-sign a full roster of players "in the weeks following Heroes Rising."

They won't be the only team to showcase their new team at the event: Bob Ross Fan Club recently added Fan "Fan" Yang, Tempo Storm is trying out several players, and Cloud9 has just added Taylor "Arthelon" Eder.

Josh Bury wields the peppermint runeblade known as Frostingmourne. You can find him on Twitter.