Effect announced a roster for the season

Zaur «Cooman» Shakhmurzaev and Vasily «AfterLife» Shishkin could pass a trial period and received full contracts from Effect. In the team, Vasily will hold a position of a captain and play on a hard lane.

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The comment of Yuri Ermantraut, CEO of Effect:

«We assembled a combat roster that has strong individuals and a team play. it is important to me that a player has not only high gaming skills but complements the team spirit, supports an atmosphere inside the team, which we pay a lot of attention. Our newcomers do not have problems with neither.»

Players have been playing together for some time and already fought their way to ESL One Katowice 2018 and won a slot in the closed qualification to EPICENTER XL. The team will go at a bootcamp very soon, where it will play the qualifying stage to DAC 2018 and a week later, players will go to Poland to take part in the Major tournament.

The roster of Effect for the second part of the season:

Zaur «Cooman» ShakhmurzaevAndrey «Afoninje» AfoninVasily «AfterLife» ShishkinRinat «KingR» AbdullinIgor «Maden» ModenovArseniy «ArsZeeqq» Usov (coach)