Team Empire is happy to announce that Airat Silent Gaziev is back to our team! Russian player is joining our Dota 2 squad as a free agent and will play in carry position.

Silent is a legend of Team Empire. Airat holds the team record for both games played and games won. Moreover, when Silent left the organisation in December 2015 he was holding a record for most wins and most games across all Dota 2 professional players!





Silent helped Team Empire to win many trophies!

Team Empire has won many premier tournaments with the help of Silent. ESWC 2013, StarSeries Season 11, MLG Pro League Season One — the list of trophies is not limited to only these competitions and in every victory Airat played a major role. Huge highest level competetive experience should help Team Empire in achieving great results.



Alexandr StrangeR Solomonov, Team Empire esports director, spoke on the matter:

«For Team Empire Silent is not just a player — he is an important part of our history! History which remembers many huge victories. We are lucky enough that Airat was ready to play on a such responsible role when we needed new carry player. I was sure that someday Silent is going to return to Team Empire and I am really happy that it happened today.

Some will say it is very risky to invite player who hasn't played recently on a needed position. The truth is that the risk here is lower than we usually take. Fortunately, not everyone is able to assess risks properly.

As practice shows game experience is an important part of team success. From that point, Silent is definetely going to help us and good game form can be achieved by training. The beginning of the season was not successful for us but we always have rough autumns. This year we are planning to bounce back a little bit earlier.

Also I would like to thank Chappie for his contribution to Team Empire's success. I believe that we were right to choose him but circumstances played against us. Vladimir is a talanted and purposeful player, I wish him to move forward no matter what and best of luck».

Thus Team Empire.Dota consists of: