Spirit release kibaken

Team Spirit announced that Anton "kibaken" Kolesnikov was leaving their team. In his statement, team leader Ruslan Bugrin justified his decision "with the need for radical changes" after a series of mixed results.

Formerly known as Arcade, the team joined Spirit in June 2016 and enjoyed some success in the second half of the year, winning the 4th GOCL season and securing a place in the offline qualifications for ELTeam Spirit announced that Anton "kibaken" Kolesnikov was leaving their team. In his statement, team leader Ruslan Bugrin justified his decision "with the need for radical changes" after a series of mixed results.

Formerly known as Arcade, the team joined Spirit in June 2016 and enjoyed some success in the second half of the year, winning the 4th GOCL season and securing a place in the offline qualifications for ELeague Major, where they flew with three defeats to the series.

But in recent weeks the team was in bad shape, which led to the 32nd place in the European Open qualifier from DreamHack Austin after losing 3-16 against pikgiffeN.

In the coming days, Spirit will try different substitutions for kibaken, and Burgin added that the main goal of the team is to qualify for the upcoming Major in Krakow.

Now the composition of the team looks like this:
Vadim "DavCost" Vasilyev
Dmitriy "Dima" Bandurka
Dmitry "S0tF1k" Forostyanko
Pavel "COLDYY1" Veklenko