After elimination in

The International 2016

regional qualification

Team Empire

decided to make roster change.

Roman

Scandal

Sadotenkov leaves the squad. The second coming of russian player lasted for "only" four months but during that time

Team Empire

achieved top-4 of

ESL One Manila 2016

and

WePlay League Season 3

as well as successfully passed the

Manila Major

qualifiers.

It is still unknown who is going to replace Roman. After

Virtus.Pro

have disbanded and

Polarity

have lost its financial support it is safe to assume that CIS free agents' market is rather full. We hope that

Team Empire

will come back stronger with new mid player as well as Roman will find his new team and perform greatly.

Current roster of Team Empire:

1. Roman

RAMZES666

Kushnarev (Russia)

2. Vasily

Afterlife

Shishkin (Russia)

3. Yaroslav

Miposhka

Naidenov (Russia)

4. Rinat

KingR

Abdullin (Russia)