forZe benches Dmitriy "⁠facecrack⁠" Alekseyev

ForZe officially announced that they have decided to put Dmitriy "⁠facecrack⁠" Alekseyev on the transfer list after the player has been missing their matches since DreamHack Open January and in Snow Sweet Snow 1. The Russian team has burnt through series of stand-in players so far already and will announce its decision regarding the future of AWPer, Bogdan "⁠xsepower⁠" Chernikov.

ForZe replaced the players with Volodymyr "⁠Woro2k⁠" Veletniuk and Igor "⁠Forester⁠" Bezotecheskiy in the European Development Championship but later decided to call back facecrack and Almaz "⁠almazer⁠" Asadullin for the last two tournaments and Vulcan Fight Series. ForZe's was struggling last year a team that once stood 13th placed and is now ranked on the brink of the top 30 and is forced to look internally to solve the issue.