Singapore Sword will be flying off to Wuhan, China as the defending champions in the second Championship Gaming Series Pan-Asia Final today with a new general manager and player in tow.

As GameSync reported earlier, former team member Aaron "Phenic" Aw is indeed Sword's new GM. In 2007, Phenic played Project Gotham Racing 3 for Sword. His taking up of the GM position marks the first time in CGS history that a frachise player has been made a manager.

Replacing Phenic as the team's racer will be Jeffery "Xos" Chan, who was talent spotted by Phenic at the recent Singapore Sword team selection event.

According to a Facebook message sent by Singapore Sword, apart from changes in the team's racers, Sword's roster returned unchanged from the previous year. The roster for this season is:

• GM Aaron "Phenic" Aw
• CS:S Randy "Randy" Lai
• CS:S Ghim "Squall" Toh
• CS:S Prasad "Stryker" Paramajothi
• CS:S De Wei "Kazuya" Chia
• CS:S Kenneth "Monster!" Yeo
• DOA M Wilson "Tetra" Chia
• DOA F Daphne "Perpetiel" Chow
• FM2 Jeffery "Xos" Chan
• FM2 Jonathan "Jonathan Takumi" Lee
• FIFA Mohamed "Xtr3me3" Phirkhan

Sword is going into this Pan-Asia Final with a strong console team once again, led by Tetra in Dead or Alive Male and Xtr3me3 in FIFA. With a Counter-Strike: Source team that can hold their own against the best in the Asia Pacific region, Sword's chances of defending their title are looking good.

However, having a new game, Forza Motorsports 2, and a new manager behind Sword adds in new factors of unpredictability to Sword's game.