Team Liquid has filled their vacant roster spots with warrior Oskar "Jowe" Halamus and flex Daniel "Shad" González.

Christoph "Cris" Gowitzke made the announcement Wednesday evening on Town Hall Heroes while he was a guest on the weekly show.

"We had two players in mind in the beginning, but they were both contracted to a team. That was where the problems started, we just couldn't buy them out, it was way too much," Cris explained on the show.

The team then held tryouts to find replacements and ended up selecting Jowe and Shad, who will play with Liquid in the first preliminary tournament, at least. The top two teams from each of the four preliminaries will qualify for the EU regional event at Katowice.

"These are our two new players for now, for the qualifier. We'll see how it goes, and see if that's going to be our new roster," Cris said on THH.

Team Liquid had shown promising early results after rebuilding the team with Raoul "Gerdamherd" Saurbier, Joaquim "Lowell" Fitas and Cris. But on Jan. 13, brothers Juan "VortiX" Moreno Durán and Pedro "LucifroN" Moreno Durán announced that they would be leaving Liquid — the former to return to StarCraft 2, and the latter to return to his studies.

"Our team morale and communication and all that stuff was pretty good, so we were sad about it," Cris said of their departure.

Jowe was a member of the G2 Esports squad that disbanded Jan.9. That team was together for months, and during recent play, they failed to achieve a strong finish at a major tournament. With teams that stick together for extended periods of time, it's difficult to predict how the players will adjust — and coming in for LucifroN is no small task.

Shad was previously a try-out on Fnatic, where he helped them win the DreamHack All-Stars 2015 Winter Clash. During that tournament he played strong meta picks, like Falstad and Sonya, showing proficiency on both.

The new Team Liquid now has no players remaining from the team that terrorized the EU scene before and during the Road to BlizzCon. The post-BlizzCon additions have done well so far, and they'll have their first shot on Jan. 23, at the first EU preliminary tournament, to show the scene what they can do.

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