Created by Aleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev in May after he stepped down from Liquid's active roster, Worst Players wowed the community at the SL i-League Invitational #1 as they knocked SK Gaming out of the tournament and forced a third map out of both Virtus.pro and GODSENT.

From the roster that competed in Kiev, only Ilya "⁠fix⁠" Golovko, Vladyslav "⁠arch⁠" Svistov and Igor "⁠crush⁠" Shevchenko remain as s1mple and Ivan "⁠AiyvaN⁠" Semenets have both departed the team, with the former having recently agreed to play for Liquid at their next two events.



CyberFocus joins Worst Players

Replacing the duo will be former PiTER member Savelii "⁠jmqa⁠" Bragin, who has left ANOX, and Roman "⁠CyberFocus⁠" Dergach, who exited Empire at the start of the week.

"After some not-so-bad performaces at the SLTV Invitational, we thought that everything was going to be good for us, but we failed in some online matches," Svistov told HLTV.org.

"F1L1N and s1mple left the team, so I decided that this time I was going to build a team with the same skill level, with a great spirit and where everyone respects each other.

"jmqa and I had wanted to play together for a long time, so he left ANOX after a series of bad results.

"I only needed one more guy, and after Empire released my old friend CyberFocus I knew that he was the guy we needed.

"We are going to play in all the qualifiers we can and we are preparing for the next Minor.

"We are in negotiations with some organisations, but if there is someone else out there who is interested in signing us, they can contact us via email - archiliciouzz@gmail.com."