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After the end of the ESL Cologne 2016 Major, there was a picture floating around social media. It was a gathering of some of the strongest CIS players in a parking lot. The picture sparked the imagination, what were they talking about, was this the start of a potential CIS shuffle? Whatever the case may be, it is fact that Na`Vi had been eliminated by Liquid in the tournament and the star player of that team was one Olesandr “s1mple” Kostyliev. He had put on an incredible performance throughout the event to the point that Na`Vi had no choice but to look at him as a prospect. Soon after Daniil “Zeus” Teslenko was benched and s1mple came onto the roster. The CIS super team was born. It then quickly died. The initial plan was to have this …show more content…

Na`Vi tried bringing a coach on in Andrey “Andi” Prokhorov, but that didn’t work. They were in a slump with nowhere to go. They needed an in-game leader as the seized experiment had failed. They had gone an entire year without another title to their name and the team finally started to break apart. GuardiaN left the team to join FaZe and Na`Vi was left to rebuild the roster, this time with s1mple as the star. The initial rumors had the team try to get Krill “ANGE1” Karasiow and Denis “electronic” Sharipov. ANGE1 had been the in-game leader of HellRaisers and had done an incredible job with the team and was one of the stronger fragging in-game leaders in the world. Electronic had been the best player on Flipsid3 and was the biggest rising talent in the CIS scene. Both deals fell through as the cost was too high, but luckily for Na`Vi, Zeus had a falling out with Gambit over Mykhailo “kane” Blagin. Even though Gambit had won the Major with Zeus, the team still wanted to kick out kane as they didn’t believe in his coaching. For Zeus this was a deal breaker as he and kane were a package. Na`Vi capitalized on this chance and got Zeus to return to the former squad. The return sounded promising. Zeus had proved himself an invaluable leader for Gambit and his return meant seized could go back to his former role where he was one of the best players on the team from the supportive end. In reality, it never worked out that way. Zeus could not configure the new

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