The previous Outsiders star, Buster has discovered a brand new residence along with his previous CIS regional rivals.
Timur “buster” Tulepov has successfully changed Timofrey “interz” Yakushin on American clan Cloud9 forward of the 2023 CS:GO season. The 23-year-old from the CIS area will henceforth be C9’s supporting rifler whereas interz has been benched.
Cloud9, who aren’t collaborating in Blast Spring Teams and aren’t due for any aggressive fixtures for some time but, made the announcement forward of the beginning of the brand new CSGO season.
This transfer concludes C9’s month-long seek for a alternative for the Intel Excessive Masters Dallas winner earlier than selecting their newest addition. The group thought-about gamers similar to Sanjar “SANJI” Kuliev and Igor “Forester” Bezotecheskiy as potential candidates. After prolonged tryouts, the Kazakh has been welcomed to the Russian-majority squad.
buster is slated to make his debut as a part of the Cloud9 lineup on the IEM Katowice Play-In, the place they’ll have the prospect to earn a spot on the legendary occasion courtesy of their ESL World Rating.
Getting into 2023 season with a brand new line-up 🤩
Please welcome @bustercsgo as he replaces interz in our beginning line-up 👏 pic.twitter.com/LVsfpuI8rb
— Cloud9 CS:GO (@C9CSGO) January 17, 2023
The previous Outsiders rifler, who spent half of 2022 on the bench for his final group, informed HLTV.org in an October interview that his purpose was to steal a spot both in Natus Vincere, Cloud9 or Crew Spirit. buster was benched following Outsiders’ dismal 12-14th place end on the PGL Antwerp Main.
Throughout his time in Outsiders, the Kazakh’s notable win was at Flashpoint Season 2. He additionally managed to clinch a number of different items of silverware taking part in alongside his former chief Dzhami “Jame” Ali.
However, interz’s benching comes after months of underperforming. The Russian was a necessary a part of the quintet that got here from Gambit Gaming to C9, and he was one of many catalysts of their prolonged peak. The group ranked number one on the HLTV charts for 14 weeks straight between April and July 2021. In the identical 12 months, they gained BLAST Premier Spring Finals and IEM Katowice.
To be truthful to the remainder of C9, interz’s latest performances have been subpar at greatest. He has had a team-low 0.98 ranking over 78 maps and, with ESL Professional League Season 16 being his single green-level efficiency (1.08) in fairly some time. After virtually 4 years as part of Vladislav “nafany” Gorshkov’s system, throughout which period the vast majority of the group competed underneath the Gambit Children title, the Russian rifler is inactive in the meanwhile.
You may catch Cloud9’s new roster in motion as soon as IEM Katowice will get underway on January 31, and if they can discover a spot within the high 8, the Group Stage for a similar event begins on February 2.
Right here is Cloud9’s present lineup:
- Timur “buster” Tulepov
- Vladislav “nafany” Gorshkov
- Sergey “Ax1Le” Rykhtorov
- Dmitry “sh1ro” Sokolov
- Abay “HObbit” Khasenov
- Coach: Konstantin “groove” Pikinov
