{"id":9391,"date":"2023-04-13T18:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/vituspro-withdraw-from-iem-rio-2023"},"modified":"2023-04-13T18:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:22:43","slug":"vituspro-withdraw-from-iem-rio-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/vituspro-withdraw-from-iem-rio-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtus.pro withdraw from IEM Rio 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian-Russian esports organization Virtus.pro has announced the decision to withdraw their CS:GO roster from Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2023.The decision comes after a disastrous showing for the reigning Major champions at the BLAST.tv Paris Major Europe RMR A, with the team failing to make CS:GO&#8217;\u0099s final Major after a 1-3 showing in the swiss stage.<\/p>\n<p>Virtus.pro&#8217;\u0099s run in the RMR included the much-criticized decision to sub in David &#8216;\u009cn0rb3r7&#8217;\u009d Daniyelyan in for Aleksandr &#8216;\u009cKaiR0N-&#8216;\u009d Anashkin ahead of the team&#8217;\u0099s match against MOUZ, despite the latter player&#8217;\u0099s performance in preceding matches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that in the current shape, participation in the tournament will not bring satisfaction to either the team or the fans. Therefore, we are committing to enhanced training,&#8221; noted Virtus.pro&#8217;\u0099s statement.<\/p>\n<p>In Virtus.pro&#8217;\u0099s stead, ESL have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IEM\/status\/1646529160674959372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced the decision<\/a> to invite hometown heroes Imperial Esports, with Imperial taking over VP&#8217;\u0099s spot in the bracket.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virtus.pro CS:GO squad is now:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aleksei &#8220;Qikert&#8221; Golubev<\/li>\n<li>Dzhami &#8220;Jame&#8221; Ali (in-game leader)<\/li>\n<li>Evgeniy &#8220;FL1T&#8221; Lebedev<\/li>\n<li>Aleksandr &#8220;KaiR0N-&#8221; Anashkin<\/li>\n<li>Dastan &#8220;dastan&#8221; Aqbaev (coach) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"_1VPbNXp6UZ1K-ChQg-UhsA==\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian-Russian esports organization Virtus.pro has announced the decision to withdraw their CS:GO roster from Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2023.The decision comes after a disastrous showing for the reigning Major champions at the BLAST.tv Paris Major Europe RMR A, with the team failing to make CS:GO&#8217;\u0099s final Major after a 1-3 showing in the swiss stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":9392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}