flamie, AdreN leave dAT

The news comes as a huge shock as dAT Team had just come out victorious at the MCS Open Season 1 Finals after beating ACES 2-0 in the grand final of the tournament.

Andrey "B1ad3" Gorodenskiy's men also gave a great account of themselves against CIS rivals HellRaisers in the G2A.com cup, losing 2-3 in a keenly-contested match.

Egor "flamie" Vasilyev, who is widely regarded as one of the biggest talents in CIS, had been part of dAT since July, when he joined the team as a stand-in for ESL One Cologne, while Dauren "AdreN" Kystaubayev was recruited in October following his departure from HellRaisers.

"We are very disappointed to be losing adren and flamie, who we treated as friends, more than teammates, especially Flamie," Andrey "B1ad3" Gorodenskiy told HLTV.org.

"These moves come as a hurtful shock and surprise to the rest of us.

"We have a lot of motivation to keep going, and in the near future we will find out how to fill in the spaces in our team."

The news will fuel speculation that more roster changes in the upper echelon of the CIS scene are on their way. Earlier today, HellRaisers' Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev took to Twitter to reveal that "sad news are incoming."

dAT Team currently have:

Andrey "B1ad3" Gorodenskiy
Vladyslav "bondik" Nechyporchuk
Georgi "WorldEdit" Yaskin