Windigo to play ESL Pro League Relegation with blocker and v1c7or

Windigo have announced that they will play the upcoming ESL Pro League relegation process with their former lineup featuring Viktor "⁠v1c7oR⁠" Dyankov and Yanko "⁠blocker⁠" Panov.

The team is unable to use their two newest players, Ali "⁠hAdji⁠" Haïnouss and Buğra "⁠Calyx⁠" Arkın, brought in in July, as the league's rules prevent them from making changes to their roster during the season.

For that reason, Windigo will use their two former players, v1c7oR and blocker, with whom the Bulgarian side played the regular portion of ESL Pro League Season 9, placing fourth in Group C after close losses to Natus Vincere, G2, and fnatic.

v1c7or and blocker will step back into Windigo's roster for EPL relegation

The relegation process will begin on August 15 with the pre-relegation tournament, in which Windigo will face Heretics in the opening round, with Ninjas in Pyjamas and Turkey5 on the other side of the double-elimination bracket.

The winner will keep their spot in Pro League, while the second and third-placed teams will go up against Sprout and Spirit in a secondary double-elimination bracket for two more spots in the tenth season of the league.

Windigo will play the relegation process with the following five:

Bulgaria Kamen "⁠bubble⁠" Kostadinov
Bulgaria Valentin "⁠poizon⁠" Vasilev
Bulgaria Georgi "⁠SHiPZ⁠" Grigorov
Bulgaria Viktor "⁠v1c7oR⁠" Dyankov
Bulgaria Yanko "⁠blocker⁠" Panov

Bulgaria Yanko 'blocker' Panov
Yanko 'blocker' Panov
Age:
22
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.00
Maps played:
579
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.70
Bulgaria Georgi 'SHiPZ' Grigorov
Georgi 'SHiPZ' Grigorov
Age:
18
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
840
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.69
Bulgaria Kamen 'bubble' Kostadinov
Kamen 'bubble' Kostadinov
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
1495
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.63
France Ali 'hAdji' Haïnouss
Ali 'hAdji' Haïnouss
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
571
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.66
Bulgaria Viktor 'v1c7oR' Dyankov
Viktor 'v1c7oR' Dyankov
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
1488
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.67
Bulgaria Valentin 'poizon' Vasilev
Valentin 'poizon' Vasilev
Age:
20
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.16
Maps played:
617
KPR:
0.77
DPR:
0.63
Turkey Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın
Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.13
Maps played:
711
KPR:
0.76
DPR:
0.63
#1
adreN | 
Switzerland 2022
GOD
2019-08-13 22:22
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9 replies
#3
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Germany Landwirt
fak you lxxl
2019-08-13 22:22
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8 replies
#7
adreN | 
Switzerland 2022
My internet lagged for a second, so nice try, but you need to step up with your DDOS'ing.
2019-08-13 22:23
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7 replies
Who?
2019-08-13 22:25
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#11
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Germany Landwirt
I accidentally clicked an ad so I had a solid delay as well(((
2019-08-13 22:25
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5 replies
#12
adreN | 
Switzerland 2022
I just finished playing casual CS:GO and bottom fragging(((
2019-08-13 22:26
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4 replies
#15
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Germany Landwirt
imagine playing csgo in 2019 🤣🤣🤣
2019-08-13 22:27
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awww man dont end with a cliffhanger... Did you win or lose?
2019-08-13 22:30
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2 replies
#17
adreN | 
Switzerland 2022
I played a lot of casual games, and I think I lost most of them. My first games I was top fragging, but that anomaly stopped real quickly.
2019-08-13 22:32
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1 reply
Maybe you need a break men, tomorrow top fragger again
2019-08-13 22:34
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#2
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Germany Landwirt
cool
2019-08-13 22:22
0
good
2019-08-13 22:23
0
hope they make it out of relegation alive
2019-08-13 22:23
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#6
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Poland Blindilek
Nice move!
2019-08-13 22:23
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#8
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Netherlands NahT_
stupid rules imo
2019-08-13 22:24
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VACTOR is back
2019-08-13 22:25
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#13
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Sri Lanka kvezee
comeback them to main roster wtf
2019-08-13 22:26
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#14
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
MoMs | 
United States Virgin Islands zj2
they do this just to throw without being suspicious :)
2019-08-13 22:26
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"hey guys do you want to play this thing to stay in pro league next season" also "but you are not playing with us after that"
2019-08-13 22:39
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3 replies
#21
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Poland Kobel_
That's called being professional
2019-08-13 22:37
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2 replies
yeah bet on them lol
2019-08-13 22:40
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1 reply
#26
Faceit level 9  | 
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Poland Kobel_
Why would I? I'm just saying they're pro players and won't rage like kids because they got kicked from the team
2019-08-13 22:41
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i didn't even know these players were on windigo lol
2019-08-13 22:37
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1 reply
#22
Faceit level 9  | 
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Poland Kobel_
Windigo didn't play, well, anything since June, so no wonder
2019-08-13 22:38
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#23
BzOo | 
France JBzOo
Finally first .org who recognize his shit moove. RIP Sk RIP cloud 9 RIP fnatic I mean hadji and Calyx are really good but you break a chemistry when you moove 2 player
2019-08-13 22:41
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6 replies
#41
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France PowwneD
It's not like they are replaced by randoms, they played together for a very long time so they still have chemistry between them, also full bulgarian lineup instead of an international one so the communications will be very gud
2019-08-14 07:45
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5 replies
#42
BzOo | 
France JBzOo
And for you the communication have no link With the chemistry ? I said this cause this is the first org who step back. In fact here it’s probably the communication as sk got prob with stewie.
2019-08-14 09:31
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4 replies
#43
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France PowwneD
Just saying that's is more easy to get a chemistry between players with same nationalities and language instead of having an international lineup which is obviously less natural in the talks and the calls IG than their full bulgarian lineup
2019-08-14 09:52
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3 replies
#47
BzOo | 
France JBzOo
Ofc so we are agree since the start ... I don’t really like international line up also mousesport and faze look pretty good. But when you have fnatic against Astralis it’s look like Swedish against danish it’s more exciting !! Especially if they play on hometown
2019-08-14 10:31
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2 replies
#50
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France PowwneD
Though in your first statement that they broke the chemistry create between Calyx Hadji and the bulgarians by recreated the original lineup for EPL relegation
2019-08-14 11:10
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faze LUL
2019-08-15 13:43
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#25
Faceit level 9  | 
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Poland Kobel_
Kinda bs considering relegation tournament is so far apart from regular season. If anything it should be counted under season 10 roster rules
2019-08-13 22:40
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Lul , imagine their morale after being kicked and then should play with rats teammates to help them to stay alive at Pro League
2019-08-13 22:42
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1 reply
I'm sure they will try hard lelele
2019-08-14 00:52
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rip windigo
2019-08-13 22:42
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#29
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Hungary Glng
Say it with me: ROSTER LOCK IS FUCKING BULLSHIT
2019-08-13 22:42
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13L0(K3R
2019-08-13 22:49
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THAT's shit!!
2019-08-13 22:57
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#32
akez | 
Finland 0lter
awkward.... Also victor is the nicest guy in fpl so very cool
2019-08-13 23:08
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#33
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Netherlands davin
xD
2019-08-13 23:12
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This is too awkward
2019-08-13 23:35
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Good decision
2019-08-14 00:16
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What if they qualify for season x? They still have to play with victor and blocker? Cause if yes that means rip windigo
2019-08-14 00:23
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1 reply
#40
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Mongolia FoxOutOfGlocks
ofc not...
2019-08-14 05:27
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#44
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Bulgaria HLTVholic
v1c7oR and blocker deserve their place in the team. rest in peace bubble x v1c7oR bromance
2019-08-14 09:59
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Can someone tell me, why they even benched them? I mean, they got a good progress, making some playoffs also winning wesg. And after that? Why they switch lineup?
2019-08-14 10:02
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#48
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Germany NitczkaCS
I totally agree and what if they succeed would they bench them again? Not fair at all
2019-08-14 10:56
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#49
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Finland M0nzaa
Gonna be windithrow lmao :()
2019-08-14 10:59
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#51
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Other vortexible
typical -v1ctor +v1ctor -v1ctor
2019-08-14 11:48
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1 reply
lol so true poor v1ctor he is probably tired of getting benched and the unbencehed
2019-08-15 01:31
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#52
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Sweden ronkaball
Hehe victoor
2019-08-14 12:36
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