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The Ukrainian squad ua Nam Vezet - Mi Igraem has joined forces with ru Virtus.Pro. From now on, Goblak, Scandal and their allies will represent the Russian organisation under the name Virtus.Pro Polar. Their first appearance as VP.Polar featured a clash against VP themselves in the group stage of StarLadder, a match recently finished. Goblak's history with VP
After he parted ways with Virtus.Pro in October 2013, Artur "Goblak" Kostenko is mostly known for leading RoX.KiS to victory in the European qualifiers of The International 4. Although they racked up wins during the group stage, they were brought down in the playoffs by Virtus.Pro, which caused RoX.KiS' unfortunate elimination. He ended up attending TI4 as a coach for Natus Vincere.In only a few weeks, NVMI has climbed their way to the top. With 27 victories, 2 draws and 11 losses in their last 40 encounters and the prestigious LAN-victory against ua Natus Vincere in the grand final of the Game Show Dota 2 League at DreamHack Moscow, just a few days ago. Virtus.Pro's announcement means that VP will now have two squads.


The manager of Virtus.Pro, il Sergei "Diver233" Pisotsky shared a few words about his newest project as well :

"We continue to conduct experiments, we do not dwell on one. At the moment, both compositions are promising and they already showed impressive results. Despite the fact that many of the comments will again write "VP.Illidan", what might be called an objective opinion, this team is very strong at the moment. After meeting Goblak at the last DreamHack and taking a look at his analysis of how their own matches and others' went - I have to admit that I"m a fan of this captain as he is a bright, charismatic, strong and determined person who could lead players to victory and prevent mistakes. Now I'm glad that all of us share the same mindset, and welcome, Virtus.pro Polar !"



Complete roster VP.Polar



ua Arthur "Goblak" Kostenko (Captain)
ru Ilya "Illidan" Pivcaev
ru Roman "Scandal" Sadotenkov
ru Ilya "Lil" Ilyuk
ua Alexander "Phobos" Kucheria


Their debut



Despite racking up early kills and 60% of all rares under their wings, Goblak and his team got crushed by the veteran squad of VP within 30 minutes. The Gyrocopter from Bzz demolished VP.Polar's line-up once he had a few core items. Meanwhile, VP is on a killing spree in the group stage of StarLadder with three consecutive victories.

An early Aegis was the first step to victory.



This article was written by be Tom Laeremans, joinDOTA's Writer. Tom finally made his way to Dota last year after two years of "training" in LoL. In his spare time after college, he spends most of his time behind the computer outside his football addiction.Location: Testelt, BelgiumFollow him on @Morantyx.

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