Natus Vincere has officially made Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev their secondary AWPer after he took on the position during the team's ESL Pro League match against NiP on Sept. 15. Na`Vi's former second AWPer, Denis “seized” Kostin, has also been made the team's captain and in-game leader.

"Make no mistake, seized definitely did a great job, but changes had to be made, however, to continue to get stronger," the team said in a statement. "Just like seized, s1mple is a great AWP user and he proved that to everyone when he was playing under the Team Liquid banner."

s1mple has traditionally favored the AWP, he took on a flex role with Liquid, but while he still prefers the sniper rifle, he's no slouch with an AK either.

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Na`Vi have not had a dedicated captain since Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko left the starting roster to make room for the team's acquisition of s1mple in August. Zeus was a long-time member of Na`Vi, playing on both their CS:GO and CS 1.6 squads. The team's coach, Sergey "starix" Ischuk, had fulfilled IGL duties until Valve decided to ban in-game coaching at their Majors events.

"Now we are planning on making Alexander the second sniper, we think this will be easier for both Denis and Alexander," starix said in a statement. "We'll switch positions on a couple of maps, still have some work to do."

Na`Vi's next Pro League match is against mousesports on Sept. 20, followed by PENTA Sports on Sept. 21 and DreamHack Bucharest champs Virtus.pro on Sept. 22.

However, the true test of the players' new roles will be at ESL One New York 2016 on Oct. 1-2.

Sasha Erfanian is a news editor for theScore esports. Follow him on Twitter, it'll be great for his self-esteem.