Betera bench lollipop21k

A month after bringing in three new players, Betera are ready to make more changes.

Betera have announced the benching of Igor "⁠lollipop21k⁠" Solodkov. The Belarussian was one of the last two remaining founding members of the original squad the organization signed in August 2023.

"Igor has put a lot of effort into the development of the roster during these 10 months. His contribution cannot be overestimated. On behalf of the whole team we want to express our gratitude for everything you have done for us," the organization's statement reads.

Only Svyatoslav "⁠MaSvAl⁠" Masko now remains from the original Betera roster. lollipop21k's benching follows a plethora of changes dating back to April, which saw Dmytro "⁠nifee⁠" Tediashvili, Aleksandr "⁠sad⁠" Nizhnik, Dmitry "⁠d1maskin⁠" Proleichik and coach Dmytro "⁠jR⁠" Chervak removed in the aftermath of their 15th-16th placing in ESL Challenger League Season 47.

In May, the team brought in Mykhailo "⁠OWNER⁠" Lymar, Aleksei "⁠El1an⁠" Gusev and Maksim "⁠sh1nejezzz⁠" Vinogradov and have since only played in regional events without much success, placing 9th-11th in Regional Clash Arena CIS.

Betera's lineup now is:

Belarus Svyatoslav "⁠MaSvAl⁠" Masko
Russia Aleksei "⁠El1an⁠" Gusev
Ukraine Mykhailo "⁠OWNER⁠" Lymar
Russia Maksim "⁠sh1nejezzz⁠" Vinogradov

Russia Evgeny "⁠bullet⁠" Batkin (coach)

Belarus Igor "⁠lollipop21k⁠" Solodkov (benched)

Russia Aleksei 'El1an' Gusev
Aleksei 'El1an' Gusev
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.12
Maps played:
1450
KPR:
0.74
DPR:
0.61
Belarus Aleksandr 'sad' Nizhnik
Aleksandr 'sad' Nizhnik
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.91
Maps played:
265
KPR:
0.62
DPR:
0.68
Ukraine Dmytro 'jR' Chervak
Dmytro 'jR' Chervak
Age:
30
Team:
Belarus Svyatoslav 'MaSvAl' Masko
Svyatoslav 'MaSvAl' Masko
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.97
Maps played:
270
KPR:
0.65
DPR:
0.65
Ukraine Dmytro 'nifee' Tediashvili
Dmytro 'nifee' Tediashvili
Age:
20
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
0.93
Maps played:
166
KPR:
0.62
DPR:
0.66
Ukraine Mykhailo 'OWNER' Lymar
Mykhailo 'OWNER' Lymar
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.00
Maps played:
447
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.68
Russia Maksim 'sh1nejezzz' Vinogradov
Maksim 'sh1nejezzz' Vinogradov
Age:
18
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.94
Maps played:
104
KPR:
0.63
DPR:
0.66
Belarus Dmitry 'd1maskin' Proleichik
Dmitry 'd1maskin' Proleichik
Age:
31
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
0.41
Maps played:
1
KPR:
0.28
DPR:
0.84
Belarus Igor 'lollipop21k' Solodkov
Igor 'lollipop21k' Solodkov
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.08
Maps played:
1439
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.67
#1
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia strikebacK
who benched who
2024-06-24 13:39
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7 replies
+999
2024-06-24 14:31
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1 reply
how dare you!
2024-06-24 15:48
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my thoughts
2024-06-24 15:09
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#31
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Finland Hekee
+1
2024-06-24 15:13
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#43
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Denmark Andengommi
Who Why Where With Without?
2024-06-24 15:55
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#47
Faceit premium user Faceit level 10  | 
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Denmark Berry_ON_FIRE
Tier 5 team?
2024-06-24 16:10
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#79
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China RADNIKEY
Don't say that to the last of the Flipsid3rs >:(
2024-06-29 08:23
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GG
2024-06-24 13:38
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1 reply
now the team is worsera
2024-06-24 13:56
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#3
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Sweden ChiperoG
sad, I guess.
2024-06-24 13:39
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#4
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United Kingdom chrose
Whatever happened to this guy
2024-06-24 13:39
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5 replies
#10
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United States notawaffle
I KNOW dude, he used to be insane
2024-06-24 13:42
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4 replies
Still is, just wrong career and life choices
2024-06-24 16:08
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3 replies
Life choices?
2024-06-24 19:12
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2 replies
Yep. Pretty sure he has a plethora of decent offers, just decided to stick with questionable people
2024-06-24 19:21
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1 reply
Thats the poot career choices, but you specified there was other wrong life choices involved
2024-06-24 20:28
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#5
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Latvia riraie
bye bye
2024-06-24 13:41
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I remember when he was a great fantasy-pick with Nemiga in 2020
2024-06-24 13:41
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the state of rostermania news loooooooooooool
2024-06-24 13:42
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4 replies
lol, when is the news regarding TL coming out?
2024-06-24 14:15
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I am waiting every day for some banger roster moves. I get disappointed every day
2024-06-24 15:07
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2 replies
+1
2024-06-24 15:16
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until the 8th of july. people are on vacation
2024-06-24 16:45
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#8
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Slovakia Georgiii
poor lollipop21k
2024-06-24 13:42
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#9
Faceit level 10  | 
senka | 
Poland szlajmer
should be in short news
2024-06-24 13:42
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1 reply
Nah real shit lollipop a storied vet in the cis scene he deserves his flowers
2024-06-24 13:47
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#11
Faceit level 3  | 
STYKO | 
Spain aDr1mAt3s
Why?
2024-06-24 13:44
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#13
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Belarus depre$$ed
Sad. This guy used to be so decent and promising and he just wasted himself on Nemiga org for fake hopes to get major. :(
2024-06-24 13:54
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3 replies
He failed in Flipside. If I remember correctly, he came up with some bullshit like "we Belarusians have different mentality from Russians and Ukrainians, we like to play freestyle CS, we are not used to strict discipline" what a way to justify his unprofessionalism
2024-06-24 13:58
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"promising" like for 10 years
2024-06-24 15:05
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1 reply
Ever heard of MICHU? He has been promising for last 25 years
2024-06-24 19:11
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how this guy went from hero to zero is tragic
2024-06-24 13:54
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If there wasnt El1an on the team I would literally have absolutely no idea this was a cs team lol
2024-06-24 13:59
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Lets go!! BetEra starts today.
2024-06-24 14:14
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-lolipop21k +lolipopka32
2024-06-24 14:25
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#22
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United States AJR123123
didnt even know he still played
2024-06-24 14:26
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Sad to see this evolution
2024-06-24 14:35
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#25
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Belarus Azy_421
sad:(
2024-06-24 14:40
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Who and who? Whoception
2024-06-24 14:43
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#27
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Europe l1gerttoUP
"very sad"
2024-06-24 14:59
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#32
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Aleksib | 
Finland hoppanasoppa
why is this newsworthy? and not even a short?
2024-06-24 15:13
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cuz offseason is dead for news and you need to keep generating clicks somehow
2024-06-24 16:53
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#33
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Russia mshkoda
He used to be perspective, sad
2024-06-24 15:15
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#35
Jerry | 
Other prav
Well at least he bought a house
2024-06-24 15:29
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#36
donk | 
United States tkzx71
dude, really, why this update? who cares about it? omg
2024-06-24 15:31
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6 replies
I do.
2024-06-24 15:43
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5 replies
#62
donk | 
United States tkzx71
ur life sucks then
2024-06-24 18:32
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4 replies
This is honestly crazy coming from a Russian fake flagger.
2024-06-24 21:18
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3 replies
#74
donk | 
United States tkzx71
" russ fake flagger " what?
2024-06-24 21:59
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2 replies
Painfully obvious looking at the way you type.
2024-06-24 22:08
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1 reply
#76
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Israel mcnamaras_EEEdiots
i believe it
2024-06-25 00:14
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i dont understand the haters, he's been knownon the t2/t3 for years and was a good prospect, i hope he finds a new home. And he has a cool look i have to say, im sure he has a cool personalitie too.
2024-06-24 15:33
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1 reply
#44
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Slovakia GloryMole
He wasnt even that bad lol
2024-06-24 15:57
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unlucky , hes pretty good
2024-06-24 15:34
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sadge, he once had talent
2024-06-24 15:46
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Why?
2024-06-24 16:01
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He's going back to Linkin Park now
2024-06-24 16:16
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damn 28yo, career over at this point..
2024-06-24 16:27
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2 replies
dupreeh top 20 player rn & 31 year old talent. hard to believe your careers over that soon anymore.
2024-06-24 18:15
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1 reply
yeah but he had skilled builded up and was always good. i dont think betboom rly wanna sign lollipop2k if the lose a player or cloud9 for example.
2024-06-24 19:25
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#50
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
emokie | 
United States nguyen_CS
hopefully he finds his confidence again, stats dipped at the start of 2024
2024-06-24 16:35
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#51
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
France Sinj_Gracieux
He should have been the star player of this team. His career makes me think that he might not have had the discipline to evolve from "talented" to "great". Might be over for him now.
2024-06-24 16:39
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who
2024-06-24 16:41
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#53
Faceit level 3  | 
United States vlasts
Slow news day?
2024-06-24 16:43
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#56
Faceit level 9  | 
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Slovenia NotFluffy
tier 6 gameplay
2024-06-24 16:53
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Lollipop had to ask for this, anything else is just dumb
2024-06-24 16:55
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1 reply
#77
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
he paid HLTV to write this article to generate some buzz around him. hoping a tier 4 org signs him
2024-06-25 03:25
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#58
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Denmark Wolfztar
This guy used to be pretty good
2024-06-24 17:39
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rostermania hits hard!
2024-06-24 17:47
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#60
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Russia veloxman
one of the players of all time
2024-06-24 17:49
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Enough 322 for him
2024-06-24 18:54
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SOOO.... a team we never heard of benched a player we never heard of and this is news worthy ? gg HLTV.org
2024-06-24 19:18
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could've been a top 20 player easily
2024-06-24 20:20
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#73
Faceit premium user Faceit level 10  | 
mazay | 
Japan makermeetsu
Hasn't found himself in CS2. Unlucky.
2024-06-24 21:30
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#78
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Canada kr1ska7a
who
2024-06-25 12:46
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