Roster shakeups for U.S. Source teams in the merry month of May have the community buzzing. Jason Lake waived Justin “sunman” Summy to the Dallas Venom shortly before releasing Marcus “zet” Sundstrom and acquiring Corey “kaM” Hanes for Complexity. The Dallas Venom have now announced that Summy will be moved to the starting roster and Carson "Classified" Holt will be sent to the Dallas taxi team.

Summy is a long time Counter-Strike veteran and an alumni of the Complexity CS 1.6 team. He fired the two wall, awp "headshot heard around the world" at CPL 2002 and enjoyed success with the likes of zEx, Complexity, EFG, as a replacement player for World Champion Chicago Chimera in Season 1 and with x3o at the recent U.S. combine.


Justin “sunman” Summy with Complexity

Carson "Classified" Holt was acquired by Dallas during the 2008 draft to the surprise of some in the community. The former zomblerz went into the combine as a veteran Source player under the Check Six banner in a ramped up version of the Devastation lineup. Holt had come into the combine with far less attention than others who were chosen in the draft and it was surprising to many to see him chosen over the likes of Summy, Griffin "Shaguar" Benger and others thought to be shoe-ins.


Carson "Classified" Holt
Derek "exodus" Heidinger has been released by Dallas to the free agency pool to make room for Holt on the taxi team. Griffin "Shaguar" Benger has been called up to the Complexity taxi team to replace Summy.

Update: Dallas Venom General Manager Alex "Jax" Conroy spoke with GotFrag about the roster changes:

"Classified was a great player. As we played with him we noticed some areas where he lacked experience. After some deliberation with the team, we decided to try out some possible replacements. Sunman is a player whose history speaks for itself. He was on TSG with Dominator, and simply put, is a player that delivers results. He has been a solid role player on every team he has been on and is one of the most accomplished players in the game."

Conroy went on to say, " After speaking with Justin and realizing how driven he is, after performing so well in season 1 and not being re drafted, he was the clear choice for the position. His desire, work ethic, and experience earned him a spot with the 2008 Dallas Venom lineup.>

When asked about Summy having to get permission to play for Venom from Complexity, Conroy stated, "Jason (Lake) was very easy to work with on the acquisition of Justin. Granted, this move was before he decided to make changes to his own lineup. Justin is a former coL player and Jake is a very loyal guy, he was thrilled one of his former players was getting a shot with the big boys.

Dallas Venom Roster:

Justin “sunman” Summy
David "zid" Chin
Josh "Dominator" Sievers
Eric "Brawwr" Neer
Kyle "mustang" Cummings