Aussie singer recruits Love Island star & Olympic pro for esports team Australian Idol runner-up and national icon Shannon Noll has unveiled the new-look roster for his esports team \u2018Motley Squad,\u2019 including a Love Island starlet, an Olympic gold medalist, and a FaZe Clan gamer. It\u2019s been 16 years since Noll first appeared on Australian televisions as one of the favorites to take out the country\u2019s first Idol series. Though he lost to Guy Sebastian in the finale, the Orange-born star still secured a five-album deal with Sony. Now, nearly two decades later, the 44-year-old has turned his attention to competitive gaming, and is taking a star-studded roster into Australia\u2019s Legion of Champions Series IV this weekend, where they\u2019ll compete in CS:GO and PUBG. Alongside Noll \u2013 who will be competing under the gamer tag \u2018Nollsie\u2019 \u2013 the roster is composed of Love Island contestant-turned Instagram influencer Cassidy McGill, Sydney business socialite Roxy Jacenko, and Olympic medalist Steven Bradbury. Bradbury is best known for claiming gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics after all four of his rivals crashed in a last-corner pile-up, which has now become known as \u201cDoing a Bradbury\u201d in Australia folklore, but Noll said he was hoping the roster won\u2019t have to rely on something similar in their online qualifiers. According to the rock singer, he thought long and hard about how to get \u201cthe right team together\u201d to compete in the tournament, but admitted that they may be claiming the underdog tag as they fight for more than $22,000 in prize money. \u201cI think the Motley Squad has a great mix of skill sets that will help us survive in the game a bit longer than if we were going solo,\u201d he said. \u201cI searched through my contacts, and realized that by bringing together Roxy\u2019s drive, Cassidy\u2019s secret love of gaming, and Steve\u2019s winning underdog skills, we\u2019d be a team that competitors would regret underestimating.\u201d Love Island\u2019s McGill said that she was looking forward to being the team\u2019s \u201csecret weapon,\u201d especially considering many hadn\u2019t realized she was a gamer. \u201cAs a home gamer it\u2019s time for me to reveal my secret passion,\u201d she said during the roster announcement. \u201cWhen people look at me, they don\u2019t think \u201cgamer\u201d, but I\u2019m hoping to be the team\u2019s secret weapon and help lead us to success.\u201d The team will also have some gaming knowledge in their midst, with FaZe star Zac \u2018Hazz\u2019 Woodham joining the team as a coach, according to Kotaku, and is potentially being tipped as a playing member of the squad as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aussie singer recruits Love Island star & Olympic pro for esports team Australian Idol runner-up and national icon Shannon Noll has unveiled the new-look roster for his esports team \u2018Motley Squad,\u2019 including a Love Island starlet, an Olympic gold medalist, and a FaZe Clan gamer. It\u2019s been 16 years since Noll first appeared on Australian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}