sh1ro and sunpayus leave Cloud9 and ENCE

Cloud9 is parting ways with its player sh1ro and sunpayus has left ENCE. The Russian player is rumored to join Team Spirit soon, but there is no official information yet.

The CS transfer carousel is spinning and this time Team Falcons ins building their superteam.

sh1ro parts ways with Cloud9

The esports organization Cloud9 has announced that they are parting ways with Russian player Dmitry “sh1ro” Sokolov. The 22-year-old has been on the Cloud9 bench for almost 3 months, but is now leaving the organization completely.

It was recently reported that Team Spirit had reached an agreement to sign sh1ro as a replacement for Artem “ArtFr0st” Kharitonov, but no public statement has yet been made.

sh1ro is best known for his time with the Gambit Youngsters, he was later promoted to the main team. In spring 2022, he left the team and moved to the CS lineup of Cloud9.

He had a successful time with Cloud9, including winning IEM Dallas 2022 and reaching the quarterfinals of the IEM Rio Major. In 2022, he was named the third best player. Cloud9 has now signed Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhailov, the former IGL of NAVI.

Cloud9 now has the following players:

• Abay “HObbit” Khassenov
• Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhailov
• Ilya “Perfecto” Zalutskiy
• Denis “electroNic” Sharipov
• Sergey “Ax1Le” Rykhtorov

In his farewell video, sh1ro thanked his team, all his colleagues and analyst Ivan “F_1N” Kochugov. He also apologized to his two colleagues Denis “electroNic” Sharipov and Ilya “Perfecto” Zalutskiy for his departure. “I apologize for leaving so early. You guys believed in this lineup and I hope you make the right decisions to move this team, this day, forward and succeed.”

Sunpayus and maden are no longer with ENCE

ENCE is down not one, but two players and has said goodbye to Alvaro “SunPayus” Garcia and Pavle “Maden” Bošković. Both have already moved on to Falcons. ENCE had announced shortly before the departure of the two players that the core of the CS team had last played together at the BLAST World Final.

Maden joined ENCE early last year and helped the team to success at the PGL Major Antwerp and IEM Dallas 2022, among others.

Thanks to SunPayus, a top-notch player, ENCE was able to perform consistently and made it to the playoffs of tournaments time and time again. SunPayus was voted Most Valuable Player when he helped his team win the trophy at IEM Dallas 2023.

ENCE now has only three players and one coach. What remains are:

• Paweł “Dycha” Dycha
• Lukas “gla1ve” RossanderGuy “NertZ” Iluz
• Jakub “kuben” Gurczynski (coach)

Both maden and SunPayus are now with team Falcons, who are eager to build a CS Superteam.

The Falcons now have the following players:

• Mohammad “BOROS” Malhas
• Emil “Magisk” Reif
• Alvaro “SunPayus” Garcia
• Pavle “Maden” Bošković
• Marco “Snappi” Pfeiffer
• Danny “zonic” Sørensen (Coach)

 

covercredit: Twitter @ENCE