Today, Belarusian insider harumi reported in his Telegram channel that Natus Vincere player Andrey "npl" Kukharsky was spotted practicing with the Ukrainian organization B8.
harumi:
npl really played practices for B8
However, no evidence or refutations have been provided by harumi or anyone else. As we know for the entire period of this transfer window, only 7% of harumi's insiders were fake. So it is most likely true.
NAVI organization itself did not make any statements about the player's kick, but has already applied for the next tournament with a completely new roster, without npl.
It was previously known that the NAVI team is making a series of changes in its CS:GO main lineup. The team has lost three players in the face of Denis "electroNic" Sharipov, Ilya "Perfecto" Zalutskiy and Andrey "npl" Kukharsky.
By the way, according to insiders, electroNic and Perfecto moved to Cloud9, and the cost of their buyout was $2,000,000.
Who could npl come in place of?
Starting with the fact that at the moment there are only 4 players in the lineup, and one of them has been moved to the bench. The current line-up of the organization looks as follows:
Previously, after unsatisfactory results at the last CS:GO major - BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023, the B8 team decided to remove alex666. This was announced on April 20, 2023.
So one vacant spot in the team definitely remains. Also, according to insiders, some European teams were interested in the team's sniper r1nkle, but all negotiations seemed to have been unsuccessful.
However, npl will not be able to replace r1nkle in the team, as Andrey plays with rifles and he is a support, and Artem is a sniper, who runs around the map killing everyone.
The date of the next tournament for B8 is not known yet, but it will certainly be, as always, small championships or leagues from CCT. After all, the season is just beginning and soon we will be able to see CS2 - it will be interesting.
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