Russia - Russian powerhouse Virtus.Pro has decided to release their Ukrainian players Ioan 'Edward' Sukhariev, Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko and Mykhailo 'Kane' Blagin in order to return to an all Russian lineup, adding Dmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov, Ivan 'Xenitron' Totsky and Denis 'diNGo' Kolomn to the starting five for 2009.
This move comes a bit unexpected, as the team showed decent performances and solid results in the past months. Virtus.Pro was last seen at Rekrut.ru Championship 2008, finishing the tournament 2nd behind mTw and the ICC, where they won against Team Alternate.
Manager Konstantin 'groove' Pikiner underlined that this move was not caused by the team's recent results. "I want to stress that this decision is not related with the team's results," Pikiner told GotFrag. "Recently, the team demonstrated an outstanding and stable game."
Still the management came to the decision to return to an all Russian lineup, removing all Ukrainian players from the lineup while adding former Amazing Gaming member Dmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov and Ivan 'Xenitron' Totsky and Denis 'diNGo' Kolomn, who had been playing for EYEsports before, to the starting lineup.
It can be expected that one or even all of the Ukrainian free agents sign with the leading Ukrainian organisation Amazing Gaming soon. The next scheduled match for the new Virtus.Pro is the Extreme Masters match against Spanish team x6tence on Sunday, 21th December.
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2009 Virtus.Pro lineup
Denis 'diNGo' Kolomna
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