Team Empire sign Rebels

31-1-2016 21:19

The famous Dota2 organization Team Empire have revealed that they will be venturing into the CS:GO scene by signing the CIS team known as Rebels.

The signing comes after a successful campaign by the squad in StarLadder Regional Minor Championship CIS where they had a chance to earn a spot at the MLG Columbus qualifer but came up short in the grand finals, losing to Gambit. However, they earned $15,000 as runner-ups and drew positive attention to themselves.

The team also had a successful run in Rising Stars CIS #1 but came up short in the finals once again, losing to Binary Dragons 2-1. The teams core has been together for somewhile and Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov was the latest addition to the roster, replacing Vladyslav "⁠arch⁠" Svistov.


CyberFocus & co. will compete in the EU/CIS MLG Last Chance tournament 

The teams biggest talents are Belarusian players Roman "⁠CyberFocus⁠" Dergach and Sergey "⁠spaz⁠" Skrypchik. They are joined by Alexander "⁠spiker⁠" Ivanov and electroNic from Russia and the Ukrainian Ilya "⁠fix⁠" Golovko rounds out their roster.

"It is a big honor to be a part of Team Empre. We need to do a ton of work to reach the goals we set ourselves but we believe that with the help of our new organization we can do it." Ivanov said in a statement.

"We were in talks with Team Empire before the CIS Minor. I believe that our players showed themselves well in the tournament and I'm glad that Team Empire thought like that as well and now we are a part of it" added the team manager Zalilov.

Team Empire's CS:GO roster is:

Belarus Roman "⁠CyberFocus⁠" Dergach
Belarus Sergey "⁠spaz⁠" Skrypchik
Russia Alexander "⁠spiker⁠" Ivanov
Russia Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov
Ukraine Ilya "⁠fix⁠" Golovko

Russia Maxim "nirvana_sf" Zalilov - Manager

CyberFocus & co will have another chance at earning a spot at the MLG Columbus qualifier, as they will be participating in EU/CIS MLG Last Chance tournament which will host teams from both Europe and CIS and will grant two spots for the qualifier.

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Ukraine Ilya 'fix' Golovko
Ilya 'fix' Golovko
Age:
18
Team:
Empire
Rating 1.0:
0.88
Maps played:
146
KPR:
0.61
DPR:
0.70
Russia Alexander 'spiker' Ivanov
Alexander 'spiker' Ivanov
Age:
21
Team:
Empire
Rating 1.0:
0.89
Maps played:
210
KPR:
0.62
DPR:
0.71
Russia Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov
Age:
17
Team:
Empire
Rating 1.0:
1.12
Maps played:
66
KPR:
0.81
DPR:
0.71
Ukraine Vladyslav 'arch' Svistov
Vladyslav 'arch' Svistov
Age:
19
Team:
YP
Rating 1.0:
0.93
Maps played:
136
KPR:
0.66
DPR:
0.72
Belarus Sergey 'spaz' Skrypchik
Sergey 'spaz' Skrypchik
Age:
24
Team:
Empire
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
167
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.69
Belarus Roman 'CyberFocus' Dergach
Roman 'CyberFocus' Dergach
Age:
21
Team:
Empire
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
187
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.70
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CF is good
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Cyberfocus is ok, not good.
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Good sign up i guess !
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who
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n1
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n1
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ez
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who are those unknown orgs, why ford/mercedes/bmw dont have their own team
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Empire is pretty known org in dota
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+1
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The Star Wars irony is strong with this one.
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+1
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botpire
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you can dream
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Latvian CS. What is it?
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Still better than Russian ;)
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who?
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hAZARD comeback please! ;)
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he is low
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is low? you mean he is still playing? :D
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OMG, WHY REBELS? GA > REBELS, COME ON EMPIRE R U KIDDINGUING MEEEE
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l0l
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who
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WHY NOT SIGN EX TITAN???? EMPIRE RETARDELELELELELELE?
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WTF?
2016-01-31 21:42
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Not bad.
2016-01-31 21:44
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s detstva za Empire !
2016-01-31 21:44
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Wasted money lel
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probably should pick up ex-Piter better cis teams already have orgs
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AYYYYYY LMAO
2016-01-31 21:51
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Team Empre. I'd kick them out right away xd anyway gl a new nice Name in CS:GO ;)
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322 team ujebki
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secret ex-Titan incoming?
2016-01-31 22:22
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Nirvana pjos
2016-01-31 22:34
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but wasn't it Rebels>Empire?
2016-01-31 22:38
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So the rebels are working for the empire now... Damn
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Holy shit... This is amazing :D For those who don't know, Empire is one of the best Dota 2 teams/organisations out there
2016-01-31 23:09
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gl pacani
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Famous Org picks up an unknown team WONDERFUL
2016-02-01 00:18
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spiker noob, drop him. The only russian who is good at cs go is elektronik. Others suck big cock.
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Spoilers for Star Wars 8.....
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rebels throwers ban them :/
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join the dark side
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Ez for XBOCT
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such a great and unexpected news! tolko ne zaznavaites bleat, a to prosrete vse.
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