Preparation have announced their return to Counter-Strike with the signing of the Worst Players lineup.

The Ukrainian team was created at the start of May and raised eyebrows just weeks later as they knocked SK Gaming out of SL i-League Invitational #1 - to which had they received a last-minute invite - and took their matches against Virtus.pro and GODSENT to a third map.

At the end of June, Worst Players announced two changes to their roster, with Aleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev and Ivan "⁠AiyvaN⁠" Semenets being replaced by former Empire member Roman "⁠CyberFocus⁠" Dergach and ex-ANOX player Savelii "⁠jmqa⁠" Bragin.



Worst Players join Preparation

This is the second Counter-Strike team supported by Preparation, a Swedish organisation. Their previous roster, based in Scandinavia, ended up disbanding just two months into their stint with the organisation following the departures of John "⁠wenton⁠" Eriksson and Nicolai "⁠glace⁠" Jensen.

"We are really excited to represent Preparation because we have finally found a stable home for us, with which we are ready to show some good results," team member Vladislav "arch" Svistov said in a statement. "Our motivation is high and we will do our best to represent this organisation in the best way we can! "We would like to thank Team Preparation for their trust in us and of course our fans!"

Preparation's CS:GO squad consist of: