Following nukkye's release,
GIANTX
GIANTX
Europe
Rank #154
purp0
Semyon Borchev
Cloud
Kirill Nehozhin
runneR
Emil Trajkovski
westside
Miłosz Duda
tomaszy
Tomás Machado
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 #16
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 #229
zeddy
Nikolai Lapko
l0udly
Marius Žilinskas
7ssk7
Artur Kurshin
Destrian
Tomas Linikas
golack
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 #154
purp0
Semyon Borchev
Cloud
Kirill Nehozhin
runneR
Emil Trajkovski
westside
Miłosz Duda
tomaszy
Tomás Machado
in the opening series of the 2024 EMEA League: