Natus Vincere announced Tuesday that several players previously listed on its youth roster are now up for transfer. Kirill «Gospadarov» Gospadarov, Ivan «kapacho» Koplenko and Alexey «Topa» Topchienko will leave the NAVI Junior lineup. These three players participated on the youth team starting in 2019. It was largely thanks to them that NAVI Junior were able to perform successfully against Gambit Youngsters in August 2020 at the Eden Arena Malta Vives Cup.
Team coach Amiran «aMi» Rehviashvili said in a statement on the team's official website that the participants have been through a lot together over the past year and a half, and during this time they have noticeably grown both as players and as individuals. He noted that for its part NAVI will make every effort to help cyber athletes find a new team.
In the starting lineup of the youth team will appear players of both rosters - NAVI Youth and NAVI Junior. One of the team leaders, Alexei «xaoc» Kucherov, mentioned that the cyber sports organization will be accepting applications from young players looking to join one of these teams throughout the year. A separate website will be launched soon for this purpose. The NAVI Academy currently has seven cyber athletes from Russia and Ukraine.