The CIS team has completed their five-man roster with Igor "lollipop21k" Solodkov, a 21-year-old player who has been transferred from the Belarusian team Goodjob.

This marks an end to FlipSid3' long period of uncertainty as Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy and co. have been seen playing with various stand-ins during the course of the last ESEA MDL season. Players such as Ilya "⁠fix⁠" Golovko, Artyom "⁠malik⁠" Arhipov and Evgeny "⁠fenvicious⁠" Mitsik stepped in for the side, but none of them ended up earning a permanent place in the squad.

lollipop21k representing Goodjob at the P2L Cryptomasters (Photo courtesy of Zhenya Anisovich)

Claiming in the fifth spot on the team is Igor "⁠lollipop21k⁠" Solodkov, a 21-year-old who played HLTV.org matches for only one team in his career: GoodJob. He will now be leaving the Belarus-based team to join FlipSid3, in hopes of growing even more as a player:

"I am so thankful to Goodjob, who I spent more than a year with. I learned a lot in this time, and it's hard to leave Dynamo-Brest. While I enjoyed my time with them, its my time to move on to the next level of competition. I really want to grow my skills, and I think I can do that with FlipSid3. I look forward to what we can do together, and am excited for our upcoming matches." - lollipop21k

lollipop21k hasn't been playing against many high ranked teams, but he has been putting up impressive numbers, boasting a 1.17 rating over the past three months. With him coming in and the roster set, FlipSid3 hope to return to competitive form, their CEO stated in the announcement:

"We are very excited to have some young blood back on the roster. Igor is very motivated and has a real drive to win. We are happy to have him and look forward to getting back to competitive form now that we have a set 5" - Hector "FrosT" Rosario, FlipSid3 CEO

FlipSid3 now have the following roster: