Following nukkye's release, GIANTX GIANTX Europe Rank #17 purp0 Semyon Borchev Cloud Kirill Nehozhin have picked up Semyon "purp0" Borchev as his replacement. He is best known for his time as M3 Champions M3 Champions Inactive Jady Yaroslav Nikolaev purp0 Semyon Borchev Chronicle Timofey Khromov Redgar Igor Vlasov 's sixth player, but has remained one of the better performing players in tier 2 since 2021.
Between 2020 and 2021 he won a number of smaller, local events with CIS teams such as Team Empire and GMT Esports GMT Esports Inactive N A I S Alessandro Montanari AFoxx Fábio Veigas . In 2022, following the dissolution of VRL CIS, he went to MENA org XPLDZ XPLDZ Inactive . He was the highest rated player in VRL MENA, but the team did not qualify to the VRL Finals. During the year, he became a stand-in for Acend and sixth player for M3C, but only played a total of four maps in Challengers EMEA.
2023 was a less notable year, as he moved to Challengers Northern Europe with FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #21 hoody Aaro Peltokangas YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes Mistic James Orfila al0rante Felix Brandl xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon , where he began playing the flex role. The team finished in second after a loss to Apeks, and he was moved to the bench afterwards. KPI Gaming KPI Gaming Europe Rank #10 signed him in September as part of their rebuild. The payoff was instant, as KPI finished in the top four of the Crossfire Cup, with only two series lost throughout the event. purp0 was the second highest rated player overall, with a 1.24 rating and 1.38 K:D.
Recently, KPI finished the Challengers Spain regular season with a 13-1 record. Again, purp0 was the highest rated player, this time with a 1.36 rating and 1.66 K:D.
purp0 will debut for GIANTX GIANTX Europe Rank #17 purp0 Semyon Borchev Cloud Kirill Nehozhin in the opening series of the 2024 EMEA League: