The two new players previously played with Boston Crab, where they spent two months competing. They earned some recognition following their match with Movistar Riders in the BLAST.tv Paris Europe RMR open qualifiers stage, where they handed the team an early exit.

RAiLWAY and El1an played for different lineups prior to their time with Boston Crab. While RAiLWAY was with Aurora between August and October 2022, El1an played with Entropiq for almost 18 months. He and the Russian lineup participated in competitions like the ESL Pro League Season 15, PGL Stockholm Major, and the IEM Katowice 2022 Play-In.

RAiLWAY helped Aurora qualify for the IEM Road to Rio Europe RMR; however, the team did not go far in the tournament, ultimately getting eliminated with a 0-3 record.

RAiLWAY and El1an’s signing comes with Jyo and iDISBALANCE’s departure from K23’s lineup. The players were with K23 for four months, joining in November 2022.

At the time, K23, who are currently at no.70 on the world rankings, placed 9-11th in the IEM Road to Rio Europe RMR with expectations to give a better performance. Instead, the Russian lineup failed to qualify for upcoming events like the BLAST.tv Paris Major, IEM Dallas, and ESL Challenger Melbourne in numerous open qualifier runs.

K23 are set to debut their two new players on Wednesday in the CCT Central Europe Series 5 playoffs in a match against Aurora. With Jyo and iDISBALANCE gone, K23’s current lineup includes Daniil “?X5G7V?” Maryshev, Kirill “?Magnojez?” Rodnov, Konstantin “?Raijin?” Trubarov, RAiLWAY and El1an with Aset “?Solaar?” Sembiyev as head coach.

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The current visa rules allow consulates to deprioritize non-essential travel visas. They also have the right to extend the visa decision from 15 to 45 days and ask for extra documents. This placed Russian citizens who wanted short-stay visas to a European location in trouble.? ?

Aurora, K23, and 1WIN were previously in peril because the ESL’s rule book for the event only allowed one substitute per team, and the substitute’s name was to be turned in before September 8, the roster lock date. All three franchises had three or more Russian players on their roster.? ?

K23’s lineup consists of five Russian players, while 1WIN and Aurora have four and three Russian team members, respectively. The three squads previously had issues, along with Benched Heroes, while they tried to acquire visas for their players.?

?Due to the difficulties, Benched Heroes ended up giving up their spot in the tournament, and Illuminar Gaming – as the next best team at the fourth open qualifier – took their place. BH’s Russian player, Eugene “?Aunkere?” Karyat, as well as Bu?ra “?Calyx?” Ark?n of Turkey, were unable to get their approved visas in time for the tournament.? ?

Due to the success of K23, 1WIN, and Aurora in bringing their lineup across, the teams will not have to forgo their chance to participate in the European RMR.? ?

Teams like Cloud9, Outsiders, Natus Vincere, G2, and Team Spirit – who have Russian players among their lineup – had ample time to go through the visa approval process and secure their passes to the Europe RMR. The above non-affected franchises previously attended ESL Pro League Season 16, which was held between August and September, and had to travel to Malta.? ?

The Russian esports team forZe arrived in Malta last week. Abdul “?degster?” Gasanov, a Russian player representing G2 Esports, also landed in time for the IEM Rio Major RMR events, which kicked off on October 4.

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?K23 enter the second season of the European Development Championship (EDC) as the reigning champions, having won the first season with a near-perfect 8-1 record. However, it’s important to note that this will be K23’s first official match in over a month.

On the flip side, Izako Boars have been fairly active since the turn of the year. They recently fought their way through the Snow Sweet Snow #1 Regional Group and Regional Swiss Stage with an 8-2 record, dropping games only against ENCE (0-2) and the ex-100 Thieves core playing under EXTREMUM (1-2).

K23 might be a stronger side, but they will enter this match a bit ring rusty. We are backing the in-form Izako Boars to take the win.

Movistar Riders recently parted ways with Sebastian “larsen” Larsen and replaced him with Owen “smooya” Butterfield, who has already played three fixtures with his new team in the ESEA Season 36: Advanced Division. The British AWPer looked fairly solid in those outings, so there should be no concerns about a possible lack of synergy heading into this match.

Sinners enter this match on a four-game winning streak, having beaten Pompa Team (16-8), CULT Esports (2-0), Sangal Esports (2-0) and Lyngby Vikings (2-0) across the last three days. That comes on the heels of a disappointing 1-6 run, so they have found their form at just the right time.

Movistar Riders are the reigning EDC finalists, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re much stronger than Sinners. Even though Movistar have an edge – largely due to the signing of smooya – the CS:GO betting odds on Sinners are big enough for us to take a shot with the outsiders.

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