EPG part ways with spaze

24/1/2018 - 17:37

Ivan "spaze" Obrezhan is no longer a part of EPG, the organization has announced today.

EPG, the Russian team led by Dmitry "⁠hooch⁠" Bogdanov, is currently in the 77th place of our world ranking, with their regional standing not looking too hot either, sitting in the 12th spot on our CIS list. In an attempt to turn things around, EPG have decided for a roster change.

krii will replace spaze for the time being

Leaving the active lineup is Ivan "⁠spaze⁠" Obrezhan, who was a part of Gambit in 2016 alongside his EPG teammate hooch. The Russian player is most likely removed due to his in-game performances—with a 0.97 rating over the last three months, during which EPG mostly played lower tier opposition, spaze is one of the worst rated players on the team.

A full-time replacement for spaze hasn't been announced yet. However, starting with EPG's match against Spirit in the QIWI TEAM PLAY WINTER 2018 and continuing in their game against Heroic in the IEM Katowice 2018 Qualifier, the team will play with Kristaps "⁠krii⁠" Bricis, formerly of Preparation and NokSuKao.

EPG are now:

Dmitry "⁠hooch⁠" Bogdanov
Aleksey "⁠NickelBack⁠" Trofimov
Aleksey "⁠El1an⁠" Gusev
Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis
Kristaps "⁠krii⁠" Bricis (standin)

why

2018-01-24 17:38

1 reply

Probably he's going to join Flipsid3. xD

2018-01-24 17:43

+kibaken pls

2018-01-24 17:39

2 replies

lol kstati mojno on vrode znaet hooch'a

2018-01-24 21:15

lol naher tam nujen etot zatupok?

2018-01-25 09:31

Okay.

expected

Spaze for f3, sorry for inside, btw fister than isniders <3

Who and who and why do you write about this?

2018-01-24 17:40

3 replies

Same reason they wrote about chrisj when he was an unknown random that happened to get a pistol ace vs the golden 5. Brings eyes on new talent, no need to be a fkn pleb about it.

2018-01-24 22:54

Nah nah chrisj was born a legend, not the same

2018-01-24 23:44

spaze played Cologne 2016 (a major) along with hooch for gambit and made playoffs. He might be shit but he is hardly an unknown.. playing at a pretty recent major (and even getting out of groups) is something lots of much better known players haven't done, even if they might be better than him.

2018-01-25 02:25

gl actually

2018-01-24 17:41

krii? HOLY SHIT

Kristaps? Nice

2018-01-24 17:44

ewww

2018-01-24 17:46

Whoa, this guy's still alive.

2018-01-24 17:47

Alexey "NickelBack" Trofimov the fuck?

2018-01-24 17:48

HAHA I thought the same. He likes the good music :palmface:

2018-01-24 19:00

why does this need to be reported on HLTV tho? This team has no achievements, they're irrelevant.

2018-01-24 17:53

So why they made news about fejtz joining denial?

2018-01-24 18:43

Because hooch is in the team they get news probably. Most of the time an old 1.6/css pro joins a team or has a roster change in their team it makes news

2018-01-24 19:39