watching cs made me realise how much talent is being wasted because we have no CIS teams in valo, no chance for gambit 2.0
A lot of the CIS talent is now spread out across the VRL and VCT leagues instead of being consolidated in one team / leagues.
Losing the CIS league really hurt the future prospects opportunities, however a few of them have managed to find success in other leagues.
For example anq & dos9 in South Asia or Vitie in Polaris.
Interestingly , Russia is actually the only nation is have a player representing them in each VCT league:
Americas: Wippie
EMEA: Chronicle, Redgar, Cloud, Sheydos, Nats, trexx
Pacific: Jemkin, Something
China: Vo0kashu.
there are still a ton of talented CIS players out there but yeah unfortunately no home region to compete in. notably though, many have tried their luck in APAC with players such as something, Jemkin, Kr1stal, and Vici all achieving really good results. i'd keep my eyes on Anq on Reckoning Esports, dos9 on Revenant Esports, Lumo on SCARZ, and dream3r on NTPOJA as the next big CIS players in APAC. and ofc so many more in EMEA and beyond... KPI winning Ascension fr