X3O Professional Gaming is proud welcome back Tarik "rockyte" Elkhatib to the Team x3o: Counter-Strike 1.6. Rockyte has a long history with x3o, having attended many events with former team members including this past Winter CPL Championships 2006.

Since leaving x3o in February, rockyte joined up with the New York power house Fear Factor. Fear Factor had recently dropped from Flow Gaming, and joined up with rSports. Again, they had trouble working with rSports so they left and joined up with eMg. Things were on the right track for them, placing second at the PNY March Madness 2007 event under Complexity. In the past two weeks though both jStone and evolution quit and the team was left to rebuild. Rockyte had this to say about his leaving eMg, "Steno and the guys were great to me. We had a lot of fun playing, however with two of our five players leaving it was just going to be to difficult to rebuild." "I decided to join x3o again for several reasons. I am local to the X3O Gaming Center and have played for them before. x3o is a very stable and supportive organization, and after practicing with the current line up I knew it was the right fit," stated rockyte when asked about joining x3o.

rockyte at Winter CPL 2006

Nick Fitz, Manager of x3o, said, "I am very excited about working with Tarik again. He is a very strong player and has in the past few months grown to be one of the best on the east coast."

The starting line up for the remainder of 2007 will be:

• Ryan "NineSpot" Bell
• James "Jame^s" O'Connor
• Ted "LuckeyTed" Weinrich
• Josh "PineKone" Springer
• Tarik "rockyte" Elkhatib

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