Innovation's Numberguy (left) and Neirea (right) playing each other in BlizzCon EU qualifiers opening game. Photo: DreamHack
According to Numberguy's statement on the Turn 2 podcast, team Innovation is no more. The Dane, together with Beherit, Karlis and Theude as manager will be looking to get picked up together while Neirea and Cipher go their separate ways.
Featuring talents like Neirea, Numberguy and Beherit - the former two of which made their way to the BlizzCon European qualifier finals - Team Innovation was coloured as one of the up-and-coming teams to watch out for and take on the established organizations in Hearthstone. In an announcement on the Turn 2 podcast, however, Europe Qualifier winner Filip "Numberguy" Samuelsen revealed that the players have decided to part ways with each other, continuing their careers elsewhere.
Innovation's disbandment doesn't come out of nothing, though. Not ten days ago, former captain Tim "Theude" Bergmann told GosuGamers he's left the team together with Karlis and will be toning down his Hearthstone appearances due to health issues. In addition, Theude also said to be one of several Innovation players to be "bombarded with offers" and while nothing was set in stone coming into the BlizzCon offline qualifiers for Europe, Innovation's disbandment was not out of the question.
In Numberguy's words, two of his former team-mates in Yevgeniy "Neirea" Shumilin and Gareth "Cipher" Rouse have decided to go their separate ways. Being a VGVN #3 finalist, a top ladder player and ranked #5 in Europe, Neirea is likely to join an established organization while for Cipher this is, to quote Samuelsen, the "chance to escape Numberguy's and Neirea's shadow".
As for the other three players, Numberguy and Beherit will be reuniting with recently departed Karlis and Theude to form a team called Nova which will not be under any organization for the time being.
