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Team Spirit to seek out 2 next season; bench Bzz and VANSKOR

Team Spirit have already made the first move in the upcoming TI roster shuffle benching Stanislav "633" Glushan and Ivan "VANSKOR" Skorokhod.

Slightly ahead of the curve, the CIS team has already officially made the announcement to seek out two new players - a carry and support player for the next Dota 2 season. The organization has indicated they would like to be ready to go when the new season rolls out.

For 7 months our Dota 2 team has performed with the same composition. Stability, however, does not always lead to success - sometimes changes are necessary to achieve the results. After an unsuccessful season, the team had decided to replace the two players

According to VANSKOR the change is not finalized as dropped - explaining the benched status. He reports on his VK page the two players are on reserve while the team looks for suitable replacements and results, and if none are to be found they may return. 

Team Spirit had just returned from Peru after taking third place at The Final Match 2017, and third place in the Russian esports Cup 2017 just prior to that.  The team had an impressive run through the TI7 CIS qualifiers, moving from the group phase into the playoff brackets to drop to Team Empire in the grand finals 3:0. With only one team being alloted a spot at TI7, Team Spirit were left on the sidelines, only a series short of reaching their dreams.

Previously in the season, the team participated in primarily minor and qualifier events with only minimal achievements to show for it.

Three days ago fellow CIS team, Effect also announced the parting of ways with two players - Aleksey "nongrata" Vasiliev, an offlane player, and Igor "Maden" Modenov, a carry player indicating the start of the shuffle period for notoriously unstable CIS region. In stark contrast however, Virtus.Pro has already announced they have no plans to change rosters and have extended their player contracts through to the end of 2018.

Team Spirit current roster:

Ukraine Bogdan 'Iceberg' Vasilenko
Ukraine Alexander 'DkPhobos' Kuchera
BelarusArtem 'fng' Barshak

 

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