B8 replace cptkurtka023 with kensizor

28-12-2024 19:09

The Ukrainian team heads into the new year with a modified lineup.

B8 has bid farewell to Arseniy "⁠cptkurtka023⁠" Derevinskiy and announced the addition of Artem "⁠kensizor⁠" Kapran in his place.

The 18-year-old rifler joins the Ukrainian organization from kONO, with whom he averaged a 1.22 rating, 1.15 KPRW, and 119 DPRW over 143 maps in 2024. He recorded a 1.40 rating at his sole LAN with the team in 2024, IESF World Championship, where they went out in groups with a 2-3 round-robin record.

The change is the first to B8's lineup since the organization added Alexey "⁠alex666⁠" Yarmoshchuk and Daniil "⁠headtr1ck⁠" Valitov in April, and comes after the team failed to qualify for the Perfect World Shanghai Major through the Europe RMR.

The Ukrainian lineup experienced an upswing in 2024 spurred on by the addition of headtr1ck, finishing as runners-up at ESL Challenger Katowice, semifinalists at Elisa Masters Espoo, and winning a handful of online CCT events.

However, their failure to break their RMR curse has seemingly brought about a change ahead of the team's BLAST Bounty Season 1 campaign, where the team will debut its new lineup in the online tournament stage from January 13-18.

B8's new lineup is:

Andrii "⁠npl⁠" Kukharskyi
Dmytro "⁠esenthial⁠" Tsvir
Daniil "⁠headtr1ck⁠" Valitov
Alexey "⁠alex666⁠" Yarmoshchuk
Artem "⁠kensizor⁠" Kapran

Ivan "⁠maddened⁠" Iordanidi (coach)

noway

2024-12-28 19:09

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Noway plays for imperial eSports Hope this helps Regards

2024-12-28 19:10

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expected

cptkurtka023 welcome to Falcons

falcons new roster Magisk cptkurtka emi Maden some hesburger employee

2024-12-28 20:32

GL young gun!!

rip best nickname career

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Trucklover still here

2024-12-28 19:13

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"nut nut" and "disco doplan" are also still here

2024-12-29 09:35

So... What about Crazy_Gamer?

2024-12-29 13:06

nipple still there

2024-12-28 21:16

hltv.org/player/21601/crazy-gamer

2024-12-28 21:30

long live the craziest gamer <3

2024-12-28 22:17

DickStacy is up there too

2024-12-29 19:31

Literally who replaced with literally who in a top 50 team, worthy of news.

fan of Jame bro they play in same tier teams

2024-12-28 19:17

Unluko

2024-12-28 19:12

0/8

This team is lowkey cracked now.

2024-12-28 19:14

So essentially B8 has all the best 20 year old and under ukrainians not already in tier 1. The team has all the potential, it comes down to develop that potential into good players that can go up the ranks and start proving themselves on LAN. If B8 can do what EndPoint does and develops these players to be ready for LAN, they'll make a major this year.

2024-12-28 19:15

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do they? Passion looks stronger at the moment

2024-12-28 19:31

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B8 are top 5 in terms of online tournaments last year. They actually won a lot and headtrick and npl have a lot more potential in my opinion, however, they are older than most of that passion squad. Right this moment, B8 is the better UA team, based on actual wins this year. Passion mightve qualified for the Major, but didnt even win a CCT this year, unlike B8.

2024-12-28 20:03

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Jambo>headtrick, also that 17yo passion ua guy with crazy aim impressed during major more than anyone from B8

2024-12-29 02:08

Jackasmo is elite Kenz is a really good pickup though. A ton of firepower

2024-12-29 09:27

passion have a crazy rifling core of jackasmo s-chilla and zerrofix + jambo as their best player, they have more potential atm. On the other side with B8 addition of kenz, it makes them alot more competetive in terms of firepower

2024-12-29 17:45

i guess the big qustion is whether Passion will be able to keep their players

2024-12-28 20:44

You just follow narratives. Hltv beeen trying to hype these guys up for 1 year They even released a long article about how headtrick and npl going to carry these guys with their experience to the major Only for them to go 0-3 at the rmr They are overrated but get so much attention and now hltv users think b8 is the next big thing

2024-12-29 00:59

hltv.org/events/7700/elisa-invitational-.. hltv.org/events/7795/cct-season-2-europe.. hltv.org/events/7852/cct-season-2-europe.. hltv.org/events/8011/cct-season-2-europe.. hltv.org/events/8020/cct-season-2-europe.. hltv.org/events/7603/esl-challenger-kato.. Ah yes B8 did nothing this year, they even made a LAN final, beating out EF and Pain, only losing to SAW in the Final. Meanwhile, looking at Passion, heres their list of finals. hltv.org/events/7843/european-pro-league.. hltv.org/events/7950/res-regional-series.. hltv.org/events/7941/european-pro-league.. hltv.org/events/8099/european-pro-league.. hltv.org/events/8086/cct-season-2-europe.. Passion made many finals of their own, but in smaller league tournaments like European Pro League rather than in CCT. When it comes to head to head this year, the maps are 3-0 in favour of B8, they only faced off twice. Passion made it through the RMR and managed to qualify for the Major, but the only other LANs they participated in this tournament hltv.org/events/8131/rtv-euro-agd-game-z.. B8 has ESL Challenger Katowice, and Eilsa Masters Espoo, which both they made deep playoff runs. Their RMR curse is rough, but is no indication of how well they played this year. They fully deserve the hype they have around them, and with 2025, they will have their LAN chances thanks to their high VRS ranking.

2024-12-29 03:07