s1mple reportedly replaced on NAVI CS2 team by young AWPer amid residency issues Helena Kristiansson\/ESL Gaming via ESPATNAVI is reportedly set to sign a replacement for Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyljev as the player is taking a break amid residency issues and change to CS2. NAVI star s1mple has revealed that he is taking a break from esports competition. The player cited needing to fix his documents, but also said he would be interested in seeing offers from other teams to play as a rifler. His announcement comes on the heels of news that NAVI is set to sign a replacement for the sniper. The Ukrainian pro was not able to attend IEM Sydney this past month due to issues around his European residency papers. NAVI\u2019s coach, Andrij \u2018B1ad3\u2019 Ghorodensjkyj, filled in for s1mple at the event. s1mple has also shown some discomfort with the new Valve title and has not seemed to click with CS2\u2019s new mechanics. \u201cSo what\u2019s next, time to take break as I wanted but that\u2019s only half of story. Need to fix documents and take care of other people in my life,\u201d the star player said. s1mple to take a break from CS2 competition NAVI are signing Sprout sniper Ihor \u2018w0nderful\u2019 Zhdanov to replace s1mple for the time being, according to HLTV. Because of his absence from IEM Sydney, and NAVI\u2019s exploration of a replacement, some have linked s1mple with a move to other top teams. However, s1mple has denied those rumors in his post, but he did say he was interested in seeing what was out there. \u201cIt but would be interesting to see offers, maybe on rifle since AWP a bit not impactful in new game,\u201d he said. The star still has two years left on his contract with NAVI, however, with CS2\u2019s release, teams seem more willing to bet on younger players than rely on CS:GO veterans. Team Vitality made a change with that in mind earlier this year by benching CS:GO veteran Peter \u2018dupreeh\u2019 Rasmussen in favor of the 20-year-old Shahar \u2018flameZ\u2019 Shushan. NAVI\u2019s roster isn\u2019t the only one in turmoil. Between Heroic\u2019s roster drama dumpster fire and star players like Twistzz rumored to be swapping teams, there\u2019s no telling what roster moves will happen next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
s1mple reportedly replaced on NAVI CS2 team by young AWPer amid residency issues Helena Kristiansson\/ESL Gaming via ESPATNAVI is reportedly set to sign a replacement for Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyljev as the player is taking a break amid residency issues and change to CS2. NAVI star s1mple has revealed that he is taking a break from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}