Team Spirit has shocked the CS2 community after doubling down on its plans with the Academy rosters. Now, it will boast four teams to promote young talents from the CIS region and provide them with everything in an attempt to find the next Donk and Kyosuke.
In what is certainly the most promising CS2 academy in the world, Team Spirit is investing heavily in multiple academy rosters, giving the industry a whole new direction which emphasises developing top talents similar to what we have seen in football.
The rosters are as follows:
Spirit Academy Black
- Tikhon “tohru” Pyzhenkov – 20 years old
- Volodymyr “mazay” Iorhachov – 16 years old
- Kirill “kurosse” Marunchenko – 16 years old
- David “Netrix” Kudziev – 16 years old
- Daniil “s1zzi” Vinnyk – 15 years old
- Yury “kidofpain” Sokal – 15 years old
- Vladislav “Flash_1” Bykov (coach)
Spirit Academy White
- Artur “fernando_mag” Kaliuzhnyi – 17 years old
- Kirill “kiryasoo” Solovkov – 15 years old
- Kirill “k0gaSs” Emelyanov – 16 years old
- Nikita “s1nside” Besedin – 15 years old
- Oleksandr “kyonaji” Rodik – 16 years old
- Maxim “meterate” Kudryavtsev – 18 years old
- Tamerlan “k4sl-” Geraev (coach)
Spirit Academy Green
- Egor “dyhace” Sidorov – 15 years old
- Danylo “d3nks” Kurta – 15 years old
- Gleb “maun” Lukashev – 15 years old
- Daniil “keniqy” Hutsko – 15 years old
- Kirill “flytex” Skazhutin – 15 years old
- Artur “iffo” Vasilev – 15 years old
- Renat “hurtslxrd” Saparov (coach)
Six players, primarily between the ages of 15 and 16, make up each of them. They have little to no prior competitive experience and, depending on the division, average between 3,500 and 3,200 ELO on FACEIT.
Goes without saying that they are quite young and have been dominating FACEIT, which caught the attention of the recruiters, and now they will get the special treatment by learning at the feet of the best coaches and players of the world.
Only time can tell if this approach provides value to Team Spirit as an organisation, but history proves that investing in talent has proved its worth in gold for them.