Team Spirit is adding two players in advance of next week’s DreamHack Open November, which already was set to be the swan song for the current Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster.
Team Spirit announced over the weekend that it would be parting ways with the entire roster after the upcoming tournament. On Thursday, the team announced Leonid “chopper” Vishnyakov and Nikolay “mir” Bityukov had been benched and transfer listed.
The 24-year-old chopper joined Spirit in March 2019 and had served as the in-game leader. The 25-year-old mir, a rifler, had been with Spirit since September 2019.
They are being replaced for the tournament by academy team captain Robert “Patsi” Isyanov and 17-year-old Aleksandr “KaiR0N-” Anashkin.
Patsi and KaiR0N- will join the lineup of Viktor “somedieyoung” Orudzhev, Abdul “degster” Gasanov and Boris “magixx” Vorobyev for the $100,000 DreamHack event that runs from Nov. 10-14.
After that, the roster will be disbanded and Team Spirit will enter a rebuilding phase.
“Our CS:GO project that lasted for 2.5 years will come to an end after DreamHack Open November,” Spirit’s CEO Nikita “Cheshir” Chukalin said in a statement posted to Twitter on Sunday. “It is safe to say that its potential wasn’t fully achieved. We have an understanding of the reasons behind it, but I am not prepared to share them just yet.”
–Field Level Media
