KENSI joins Aurora

The 21-year-old has found a new team after spending the last two months on FORZE's bench.

Aleksandr "⁠KENSI⁠" Gurkin has completed a transfer to Aurora and departed FORZE, ending a two-month stint sitting on the sidelines and reuniting with former teammate Evgeny "⁠Norwi⁠" Ermolin ahead of the 2023 season.

KENSI was benched from FORZE in October alongside Norwi following the team's failure to qualify for the IEM Rio Major, ending his 20-month tenure as a part of the active roster.

KENSi has joined Aurora ahead of 2023

During that time, he averaged a 1.06 rating and competed in a number of notable events, managing wins in a handful of online competitions but failing to make a mark in larger international appearances. Following his benching, KENSI revealed that the team had been suffering from a number of internal issues, stating that "a lot of annoying factors and conflicts" had escalated and not been fixed since PGL Major Antwerp.

KENSI added that there was no bad blood between him and the players on the team, saying he was happy to play with every team member since he joined, something that was further evidenced as he temporarily stepped in for one map in December in FORZE's CCT Central Europe Series 4 bid.

Aurora will hope that KENSI's addition can bring them better results heading into 2023. The team had managed to upset Astralis en route to qualifying for the IEM Road to Rio Europe RMR, but were ultimately unsuccessful in their own campaign to qualify for the IEM Rio Major and exited the RMR in last place. managing few other notable results as the year drew to an end.

Aurora's RMR exit was soon followed by the benching of Aleksandr "⁠KaiR0N-⁠" Anashkin, the team's highest-rated player, leaving them to reconfigure their roster as the start of the new year approaches.

Aurora now have:

Russia Evgeny "⁠delus1onn⁠" Plottsov
Kazakhstan Viktor "⁠Lack1⁠" Boldyrev
Russia Evgeny "⁠Norwi⁠" Ermolin
Russia Aleksandr "⁠KENSI⁠" Gurkin

Ukraine Sergey "⁠starix⁠" Ischuk (coach)

Russia Aleksandr "⁠KaiR0N-⁠" Anashkin (transfer listed)

Russia Aleksandr 'KaiR0N-' Anashkin
Aleksandr 'KaiR0N-' Anashkin
Age:
18
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
216
KPR:
0.76
DPR:
0.73
Russia Aleksandr 'KENSI' Gurkin
Aleksandr 'KENSI' Gurkin
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
589
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.63
Kazakhstan Viktor 'Lack1' Boldyrev
Viktor 'Lack1' Boldyrev
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.00
Maps played:
949
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.69
Russia Evgeny 'Norwi' Ermolin
Evgeny 'Norwi' Ermolin
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
457
KPR:
0.66
DPR:
0.65
Russia Evgeny 'delus1onn' Plottsov
Evgeny 'delus1onn' Plottsov
Age:
20
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
63
KPR:
0.65
DPR:
0.64
#1
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Poland realiry
Lets go KENSI
2022-12-25 23:25
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11 replies
#3
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Finland Cucumber))
KENSI is a really awesome player AnonymoEnjoyer
2022-12-25 23:25
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3 replies
#5
reck | 
Poland realiry
So true Cucumber!
2022-12-25 23:25
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2 replies
keep yourself safe oilleakscsgo
2022-12-30 08:28
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1 reply
when the shelf is krilled! 😳
2022-12-31 17:42
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+1 less go
2022-12-25 23:27
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you are so cool anonymo enjoyer
2022-12-25 23:30
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#20
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Yugoslavia Acceb
Did th y really just drop their best player? Lmao
2022-12-26 00:20
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1 reply
No they dropped him a while ago
2022-12-26 01:50
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wish starix all the worst
2022-12-26 01:38
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2 replies
why ?
2022-12-27 23:48
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1 reply
#58
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Belgium Koaluv
He is just russophobic, it’s ok
2022-12-31 10:04
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who ?
2022-12-25 23:25
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1 reply
AURORA
2022-12-25 23:41
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#4
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Portugal psychooo112
POG
2022-12-25 23:25
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JW >
2022-12-25 23:26
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1 reply
+1
2022-12-25 23:48
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Every new cis players once wished ur death on faceit for 45 minutes non stop while speaking Russian in the game vocal You know what u need to do to become pro 👉🏼😎
2022-12-25 23:27
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4 replies
#10
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Kazakhstan Ozymandius
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about
2022-12-25 23:28
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3 replies
cis players 🙏
2022-12-26 00:13
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2 replies
#21
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Yugoslavia Acceb
Cis prayers
2022-12-26 00:21
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I am an epic cis player 😎 (I'm from Angola)
2022-12-26 11:15
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Great news!
2022-12-25 23:28
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Don’t care just wanted to claim my spot
2022-12-25 23:44
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This is fine, he deserves a spot but KaiR0N is better
2022-12-25 23:49
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This list looks so powerful, I like it... I hope they do well idk why but, I would like to see 'mir' in this team, I think he is a good piece because he can bring his experience to the young talents.
2022-12-26 00:05
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4 replies
this is not the roster. It's gonna be ArtFr0st KENSI Lack1 BELCHONOKK Norwi
2022-12-26 00:35
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3 replies
#44
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Belarus Azy_421
What is the source bro
2022-12-26 10:03
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2 replies
Pop21k
2022-12-26 10:43
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I'm in some random telegram group but now overdrive tweeted that it's gonna be latt1k and sellter so I guess it was wrong xD
2022-12-26 13:26
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good signing
2022-12-26 00:06
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#18
Faceit premium user Faceit level 9  | 
steel | 
Armenia Imissexoptic
aurora is a org?
2022-12-26 00:09
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1 reply
#22
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Yugoslavia Acceb
Apparently
2022-12-26 00:22
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bro just bring kair0n back now and this roster is CRACKED
2022-12-26 00:45
0
Building a really solid team, nice
2022-12-26 01:17
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#27
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Barbados DustyBuck
Nice
2022-12-26 01:19
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+ seized And they can be a top10 team
2022-12-26 01:24
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#31
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Brazil m4tt_
He is so cute
2022-12-26 01:51
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#32
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Canada wanderofus
Merry Christmas
2022-12-26 02:07
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kair0n to betboom
2022-12-26 02:22
0
I kinda like this line up
2022-12-26 02:22
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GL
2022-12-26 02:27
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#36
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North America minte
KENSI Norwi back together pog
2022-12-26 03:34
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Upgrade for him
2022-12-26 05:53
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#38
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Albania eri1
aurora becoming a very strong roster ngl
2022-12-26 09:05
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latt1kk next
2022-12-26 09:16
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forze 2
2022-12-26 09:24
0
who to who?
2022-12-26 09:31
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2 replies
torzsi to irrelevant
2022-12-26 11:16
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1 reply
TRU should been already kicked that vac banned rat kid
2022-12-26 14:29
0
welcome
2022-12-26 09:58
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#46
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Russia mshkoda
Good luck. But Kairon, who i suppose to be prosperous, left.
2022-12-26 11:04
0
GL Kensi
2022-12-26 13:12
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#52
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Barbados DustyBuck
Good luck to him
2022-12-26 15:32
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isnt that dead team?
2022-12-26 18:04
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#54
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Latvia xWarriors
meanwhile in careland......
2022-12-26 21:05
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#55
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Pakistan yuhflowyuh
Yas
2022-12-27 07:07
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#59
Faceit plus user Faceit level 10  | 
emothug | 
United States wickenhauserr
great player
2022-12-31 10:21
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