Team Empire have lost two members of their CS:GO roster: Roman "CyberFocus" Dergach and Alexander "spiker" Ivanov. The team announced the decision Friday.

Empire's roster change follows their failure to qualify for the upcoming ESL One Cologne 2016 Major. They were eliminated from the offline qualifier 0-3, losing 12-16 to Cloud9 on Cobble, 13-16 to Team Dignitas on Nuke and 7-16 to Immortals on Cobble.

Although nothing has been announced about the three remaining Empire players, Sergey "spaz" Skrypchik, Denis "electronic" Sharipov and Emil "kUcheR" Akhundov, they appear to have registered for ESEA with another team, named ANOXmix, along with two players from FLuffy Gangsters, Anatoliy "liTTle" Yashin and Leonid "chopper" Vishnyakov. liTTle posted about the new team on Russian social media site VK, naming himself "ANOX liTTle," but it remains unconfirmed whether spaz, electronic and kUcheR have left Empire.

Reached for comment, Empire confirmed that CyberFocus and spiker were out, but would not comment on the situation with their other players.

Team Empire, better known for their Dota 2 squad, first forayed into CS:GO by acquiring Rebels on Jan. 31. Rebels were part of Arcade eSports before that.

As part of Empire, the team have not able to qualify for any premier tournament, but had a breakthrough at the CIS Minor Championship for ESL One Cologne 2016. They defeated Digital Wave 16-6 on Mirage and Arcade eSports 16-14 on Nuke, then met Digital Wave again in the decider and defeated them 2-0 to make it through the group.

In the playoffs, they defeated both Worst Players and FLuffy Gangsters 2-1 to qualify for the Major qualifier. But in the Grand Finals, which counted towards higher seeding in the Major qualifier and additional prize money, FLG swept Empire 2-0.