Imperial have handed trials to Eimantas "⁠pounh⁠" Lazickas and Nikola "⁠Lobanjica⁠" Mijomanović, team coach Neil "⁠NeiL_M⁠" Murphy has revealed.

The duo will be replacing Kevin "⁠kRYSTAL⁠" Amend and Jesper "⁠TENZKI⁠" Plougmann, who have been moved to the bench, according to a tweet from Imperial.

pounh, who has played for teams such as Playing Ducks, 1337HUANIA and Refuse in the past, will link up with fellow Lithuanian players Žygimantas "⁠nukkye⁠" Chmieliauskas and Rokas "⁠EspiranTo⁠" Milasauskas, the latter of whom appears to be back on the team after being benched following a feud with kRYSTAL.

pounh will play for Imperial in the StarSeries qualifier

Lobanjica, 28, is a longtime FPL player and represented his country, Montenegro, in the European online qualifiers for the World Championships 2016. He will take over from kRYSTAL as the team's in-game leader in what will be his biggest challenge to date.

Imperial will make their first appearance with the duo on Thursday, against Epsilon, in the European qualifier for StarSeries i-League Season 6.

According to NeiL_M, a statement on the future of the team will be issued "in the next day or two." Imperial's roster for the StarSeries qualifier looks as follows: