Team Empire announce temporary roster for the LAN playoffs of Dota Pit Season 4.
Team Empire recently parted ways with Alexander 'XBOCT' Dashkevich and player Gleb 'Funn1ik' Lipatnikov will miss the Dota Pit Season 4 LAN finals In Split, Croatia, due to personal reasons. To fix this replacements are brought in as an "experimental squad" is build. This will feature three stand-ins:
Andrey 'Ghostik' Kadyk will be playing in the offlane.
Maxim 'yoky' Kim, who will take on the position one carry role.
Rostislav 'fn' Lozovoi will be the position two solo mid.
To compensate for this lineup Empire player Ilya 'ALOHADANCE' Korobkin will be moving temporarily to the position four support role. Alexsander 'NoFear' Churochkin will retain his position five support role.
Contrary to rumors after XBOCT's leaving the team, player Funn1k will stay with Empire, announced via a tweet from the team manager, who is also pleased with the changes in attitude of Fn (Source: Interview with Alexander 'StrangerR' Solomonov in Russian)
Further information will be given after the end of the Dota Pit Finals. The team's performance will also determine if any of the stand-ins will stay with the team.
Source: Team Empire Official Page
