Chaos, who were short a player since the benching of Gage "⁠Infinite⁠" Green, have now announced the signing of former BIG AWPer Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield.

Chaos benched Infinite in a mutual decision by all players, according to the team, and he benched himself, according to a post he made on Twitter, at the beginning of the month, leaving Chaos down to four players. To replace him in their starting five moving forward will be British AWPer smooya.

smooya has joined the rest of the Chaos roster in Arizona

Chaos managed to beat FURIA in this year's first online closed qualifier for IEM Katowice 2020 with coach Alan "⁠Shakezullah⁠" Hardeman standing in, but ended up dropping out following losses to MIBR and Complexity.

Chaos will now hope to make waves and climb as a team to play the top leagues in the region and qualify for some international tournaments with the signing of former BIG AWPer smooya, who joins the outfit just days before the January 13th kick-off date for the 33rd season of ESEA's MDL.

Other than in-game leader Joshua "⁠steel⁠" Nissan, smooya will be joining North American FPL sensation Maxim "⁠wippie⁠" Shepelev and Cameron "⁠cam⁠" Kern, formerly known as hydrex, as well as Ben "⁠ben1337⁠" Smith, the team's namesake before Ben's Anime Team were picked up by Chaos.

With the addition of smooya, Chaos are now: