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The Russian giant has decided to show hot-shot Viktor "Sally" Filimonchenko the exit door at the team in the wake of the team's subpar display at ASUS Spring 2008 Melee, where it didn't even pass the group stage.

Virtus.pro was reportedly unhappy with the 9th-12th place finish at the KODE5 2007 Global Finals and the 7th-8th place finish at Extreme Masters II Finals, and thus considered that roster changes were necessary for it to return to the European elite.

Filimonchenko's replacement comes in the form of Ukrainian veteran Mykhailo "kane" Blagin, former member of pro100 that represented csc.Arena at DTS-Cup 2008.

His experience extends beyond local tournaments, however, as he also picked up a 9th-16th WCG 2006 finish during his time at pro100.

Blagin is in line to make his official debut for Virtus.pro in a showmatch against fnatic on Friday, the 6th of June, in Moscow.

Virtus.pro has now the following team:

Russia

Alexey "LeX" Kolesnikov
Russia

Roman "ROMJkE" Makarov
Ukraine

Ioan "Edward" Sukhariev
Ukraine

Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko
Ukraine

Mykhailo "kane" Blagin

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The way I see it, the most important change here is that they have cut Sally. He is better and more well-known than kane. I think the header should reflect this.

It's interesting to see how forZe might just gather almost the entire of Virtus.Pro line-up. Last ASUS Cup, they played with Groove as a stand-in, and they could now make a line-up of Snoop, F_1N, HEL1, Groove and Sally. I doubt that Groove would become a permanent player with them, though, and he also has to play ESWC with Virtus.Pro.

It seems that Virtus.Pro is run very much like a business and seemingly professionally so. I don't think it's easy for the players, who had dropped off one by one. When I look at how their team initially started, I think they could have achieved much more. It's a bit sad for me to see so few Russians in Virtus.Pro since they seem to be the only team in Russia with decent support. I really cheer for the Russians, and now I have little more to cheer for than som great solo performances for LeX, since I'd prefer other Russian teams to win.

I must say that even though Kane seems like a decent player and has achieved good results with his teams, I haven't been impressed with him so far. I don't find him to be of Virtus.Pro calibre, even though I'm sure the team with get something good out of him.

This comment was edited at 06/02/2008 10:56 AM

kane was ingame leader in pro100 and his got alot of experience... So now Alexey K. won't be teamleading and would be jusy a player. Now Virtus.pro would have new tactics from kane... This guy can change team...

pro100 adds Lex,Romjke

should've stick with sally and remove zues instead...

zeus is bad should of got the 100kg awper guy

I knew it was sally before I opened it

"i rofl in your directions." Stupidity at its finest.

2 Russians
3 Ukrainians

Virtus.pro = Russian team O_o ???

Get water flavored water! Just add water!

+ undertaker - zeus

#5

It's 400kg

Best of luck to Virtus.Pro.

lawl

gl vp!

hEHE

sally =[

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They should have removed Zeus or ROMJkE and added groove instead, he's amazing.

And I still don't know how to pronounce "ROMJkE".

Ukraines got talent, Russians 'got' money. Fair enough.

P&P

#13
Zeus carried the team on their ct side vs fnatic, where fnatic's T side demolished virtus on nuke, it was Zeus making sure fnatic kept wasting all their money even on a 8 rounds lead.
Asking to remove romjke is very... well... senseless, since romjke is their current second best player. Romjke either takes nobody down, or brings a big 3-4 frags round to his team, you just havent watched him enough to know he's almost as good as LeX, though with a very different playing style

The one that had to go, sadly, truly had to be sally, if any changes were to be made. Sally was their weakest link, even though he kept getting the "easiest" jobs on the team on most rounds. Sally sometimes struggled even against weaker teams, he was great in 2004, but like Heaton, some players just arent that great anymore nowadays, CS has evolved, some players didnt evolve with it

#1 the reason most players left were internal arguments between the players, and when johan went, it was obvius that boris would leave too, since theyve played together for ages.

I dont think it was very smart of them to add kane though, Konstantin (groove) has truly stepped up quite a bit, and if he had the time to do it, he should be their permanent 5th, since he was the best in-game leader virtus ever had

mTw.dk = mortal Teamwork indeed.

#7 i know bugs me 2 lol

meh

Worst player transaction ever. There are better players than sally in Russia/Ukraine, kane just happens to not be one of them.

~ Y ~ o ~ U ~ r ~ E ~ ~ t ~ H ~ e ~ ~ S ~ h ~ E ~ p ~ H ~ e ~ R ~ d ~

So Virtus.Pro has been takin over by Ukrainians.

~♥*

#17 yeah, Im curious about that too, but hey, when they chose romjke, I just couldnt imagine romjke being a worldclass player, and he turned out to be :D

If there was no internal conflict, they should have sticked together. At least they all have tons of skills. Probably there was a quarrel

and blade?

who's that 400 kg guy !?

They wouldnt pick up kane if he wasnt good. Sally was very good at all, even with an awp. Zues isnt that great himself, but a little better than kane. gl, hope they can get a top3 with this lineup.

#zone6 (. .*)ittst

rofl @ kane

I can think of at least 10 Russian players off the top of my head who are more famous than him.

kane is not bad, but Ukrain has way more talented players

kane? who? Arent there some better players in Russia?

Sally was very inconsistent. Really Zeus is the worst on VP.

now go home and get your fucking shinebox!

GL. i dont know this kane guy though

id like to see dingo playing with this lineup. really.

w a f f l e s.

Konstantin "groove" p was really bad. He knew he was bad and stepped down. He only played because Sally got caught cheating online and they needed a fill in.

Zeus is terribblbee

nerdz...

so terminator, what are his settings..

most people probably talk about old times when they say that Sally is better than Zeus or ROMJkE, lately Sally was playing pretty mediocre, they needed that change to move up from mediocre.

groove wont be back into a fulltime position. Hes a decent backup player for them and i think hes their coach or something?

Kane already has lots of experience with half these players who obviously think highly of him as a player and a person so i think skill wise there wont be much difference since they still have LeX to awp. VP has changed so much since WEG3 its really sad. They were alot of peoples favourite team but its a new era now and newer players step up so gl to them anyway.

IM A KIXER FAN

#32 they kinda still are people's favorites, its just that kane isnt known enough, but hey
nobody knew romjke and he really revealed himself to be a great player

f that.. why dont they just get snoop back :(

i dont lan.

They probably can't get F1N HEL1 snoop or hooch back because of "internal problems" or whatever bullcarp. Was hoping for redman though.

btw Filimonchenko is like the coolest name ever

This comment was edited at 06/02/2008 9:02 PM

vp is looking worse as time goes by. it's not a russian team imo anymore.

One day, a legend will rise from the grave, and show us the way.

hot shot sally? can anybody explain why he is hot shot sally?
his behaviour is nothing sufficient to be called hot shot.
his skills are very good, if not being one the best awps in the world.

gl lads

jg4i - just go for it

#4 agree, drop zeus for kane, and keep sally would've been better I think, but the ukranians are taking over oh noes! xD

www.kaos-eu.com www.liquid-motion.nl

finally 3D kane is back.

GLORIOUS VICTORY!

QUOTE:
The way I see it, the most important change here is that they have cut Sally. He is better and more well-known than kane. I think the header should reflect this.

The reason i use GF is to achieve 4 nerd stars and look E-cool.

Virtus.pro must bet -> LeX, romjke, Edward, redman, hooch

№35 idiot, Filimonchenko is surname xD

#42 team.russia? :D
they should do
LeX, romjke, edward, johan and bORIS, but that will never happen =/

Very intresting step by Konstantin.
Btw Virtus`ll be qualify to ESWC in Ukraine. I think it will be much harder, than in Russia. But they given the way to other teams in Russia. Gl.

This comment was edited at 06/03/2008 3:16 PM

it was a good decision.kane is much better than Sally

#FIFTAR @ quakenet

#45 they can compete in russia with groove as a standin
btw, ukraine will have Hellraisers and that team hooch's in now, russia will have tp.usports and eyesports, so neither will be easy

#47 ukraine also got a-gaming and some other good teams :p but yeah the russian will certainly not be easy aswell

QUOTE:
42 ckN_
Virtus.pro must bet -> LeX, romjke, Edward, redman, hooch

nah xek > hooch imo
and why are you calling #35 an idiot in #43, he said it was a cool name. Who cares if its a surname or not? idiot!

hoooooochiemama come back to VP!!!!

Virtus going to Ukraine for playing on ESWC Qual Ukraine... damn shit.

In God we trust, but could we to trust anyone esle?

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