Along with Team Empire's well wishes for the new year on their website, they have officially announced that long time standin ALOHADANCE is now a part of the Team Empire Dota2 squad.
Illia 'ALOHADANCE' Korobkin, the permanant standin for Alexey 'Solo' Berezin (who left Empire), is now officially a player for Team Empire. This was widely expected after a string of strong performances by Empire following his introduction to the team, their win rate this month is 89% - a big improvement in contrast to their 47% win rate from November without ALOHDANCE.
Official statements:
Sergei 'AnahRoniX' Bykovskiy, Team Empire's manager:
Illia has shown in the last month the willingness to play, progress and win with our team. We are all happy to accept him in the family of Team Empire. We will try our best with the new roster to win and delight our fans in the New Year!
Illia "ALOHADANCE" Korobkin:
I am very grateful to Team Empire for the opportunity to play in a team and grow with them. I will try to show my best to please the audience and the team's fans with our performanve. Happy New Year!
Team Empire's official Dota2 roster:
Ayrat 'Silent' Gaziev
Andrey 'ALWAYSWANNAFLY' Bondarenko
Roman 'Resolut1on' Fominok
Maxim 'yoky.' Kim
Illa 'ALOHADANCE' Korobkin
Source: team-empire.org