Spirit release kibaken

30/3/2017 - 15:25

Team Spirit have announced that they have parted ways with Anton "kibaken" Kolesnikov with immediate effect.

In a statement, team manager Ruslan Bugrin justified the decision with the "need for drastic changes" following a series of mixed results.

Formerly known as Arcade, the team joined Spirit in June 2016 and enjoyed some success during the second half of the year, winning GOCL Season 4 and securing a spot at the offline qualifier for the ELEAGUE Major, where they would be sent packing with three straight defeats.

kibaken is no longer part of Spirit

But the team have had a poor of form in recent weeks, which culminated with a shock Round of 32 exit in the DreamHack Austin European Open qualifier following a 3-16 defeat against pikgiffeN.

In the coming days, Spirit will be trying out potential replacements for Anton "⁠tonyblack⁠" Kolesnikov, with Bugrin adding that the team's main goal is to qualify for the upcoming Major, in Krakow.

With tonyblack's departure, Spirit currently have:

Vadim "⁠DavCost⁠" Vasilyev
Dmitriy "⁠Dima⁠" Bandurka
Dmitry "⁠S0tF1k⁠" Forostyanko
Pavel "⁠COLDYY1⁠" Veklenko

2017-03-30 15:25

2 replies

Ez Na'Vi Kibaken

2017-03-30 15:26

1 reply

New champions !! It's very good!

2017-04-01 16:15

to bad he got kicked :(

They still have 2 Dimitry !!!;

2017-03-30 15:46

Whay so sad??

2017-04-01 16:17

2017-04-01 18:23

:( sobaken

starix inc

wow good prediction

2017-05-10 17:07

lul

sad :c

wow that;s shocking

finally

+starix, spirit ez major

3 replies

2017-03-30 15:28

+ ez

2017-03-30 15:30

ez.

2017-03-30 15:47

GOOD

gl to kibaken

I was waiting for so long for this news

Starix in

Starix coming?

Lol it took this long.

expected

finally!

+Hooch?

Nope

2017-03-30 15:29

Yep

2017-03-30 15:27

+krecker LISIY IS BACK

good move

Ez team YP

+s1mple

OMG FINALLY!!!!11

good choice

Sad

FeelsKibadkenMan

+Flarich

2017-03-30 15:32

he used to play in Na'Vi xD

2017-03-30 15:33

+Flarich or Starix

2017-03-30 15:34

Starix incoming? We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2017-03-30 15:35

pretty hard to believe that kibaken once played in Na'Vi

2017-03-30 15:37

Bot kibaken lmaoo

Finally kicked tonyBOT

RIPaken

2017-03-30 15:40

-s1mple +kibaken #MakeNAVIGREATAGAIN

2017-03-30 15:42

+starix

2017-03-30 15:44

20% +spaze

2017-03-30 15:53

finally +liTTle

+starix?

Flarich more likely starix to form team with arch i think

2017-03-30 15:57

new CIS trash team? no thx

2017-03-30 16:06

those are roumors only nothing official

2017-03-30 16:18

good move tbh

2017-03-30 16:00

kibaken to NaVi!

2017-03-30 16:02

i lost all respect i had for Spirit, bring ceh9 back so we can laugh at him playing

2017-03-30 16:04

anton - gandon hahah

2017-03-30 16:14

So sad :( gl kibaken

2017-03-30 16:19

-noob finally :) kibaken been overrated for many years

2017-03-30 16:21

kibaken have experience, bad move

starix :O :O legend come back ? ? facebook.com/KronoxTR/posts/149038082099..

2017-03-30 16:27

Not starix. inside by davcost

was it aim BOTZ

2017-03-30 16:29

ez some1 from flipsid3 or starix

2017-03-30 16:34

gyus +Dosia 100 %

2017-03-30 16:46

they will add hooch for sure

2017-03-30 17:03

they already have good captain

2017-03-30 19:10

+krecker :)

2017-03-30 17:18

+hooch/nickelback/spaze

2017-03-30 17:34

bb kebabken

2017-03-30 18:22

- B1ad3 + kibaken PLS

2017-03-30 19:21

welcome krecker :)

2017-03-30 20:02

Id tap dat

2017-03-30 23:00

damnn,finally he is so bad

2017-03-31 02:33

kibaken was terrible

2017-03-31 11:43

soon - davcost + starix .

2017-03-31 11:49