Cloud9 issued a statement tonight that Ilya "Perfecto" Zalutskiy and Abay "HObbit" Khassenov have been removed from the first team.
This reduced the Russian team representing the American esports organization to only two active players, namely captain Kirill "Boombl4" Mikhailov and Sergey "Ax1Le" Rykhtorov. What is most important for the fans is that the owner of C9 Jack Etienne stated that the organization is not withdrawing from CS2 esports, but that a reorganization of the composition is underway, which will be rebuilt around the two remaining players.
Such extreme changes in the team are somewhat surprising when you consider that Cloud9 is in the top 10 teams in the world, but it is obvious that the American organization has bigger ambitions for its CS2 team.
HObbit says goodbye to the team he played in when they performed under the name Gambit, and of which he was a member from the first day when Gambit took over.
According to unofficial information, Perfecto himself asked to leave the first team, and he spent nine months in the team, coming as a big reinforcement from Na'Vi.
Along with the players, C9 said goodbye to assistant coach Ivan "F_1N" Kochugov.
Cloud9, who withdrew from the ESL Pro League, will have a break of almost a month, before arriving in the capital of Serbia at BetBoom Dacha Belgrade, when we will see the LAN debut of their new team in Belgrade.
