sdy has officially left NAVI; his place was taken by npl

The Ukrainian eSports organization NaVi has announced changes to its CS:GO roster, saying goodbye to sdy. The place of the 25-year-old Ukrainian player will go to npl, who joins the main team from NAVI Junior. It is reported that the team will perform in this line-up at IEM Katowice 2023 and the upcoming January championships.

By the end of 2022, the NAVI CS:GO team is approaching with changes. Viktor "sdy" Orudzhev leaves the roster today, at IEM Katowice 2023 he will be replaced by Andrey "npl" Kukharsky, player of the NAVI Junior team.

We wish sdy good luck in his future career and thank you for his professionalism, personal qualities and beautiful rounds. Victor is open to offers for the next season.

sdy joined the Born to Win last summer to replace Boombl4. Together with NAVI, the 25-year-old Ukrainian became the champion of BLAST Premier: Spring Finals 2022, BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2022 and Intel Extreme Masters Road to Rio 2022: European RMR B, and also reached the finals of Intel Extreme Masters XVII - Cologne.

In turn, npl comes from NAVI Junior. Together with the youth team of Born to Win, the young Ukrainian became the champion of ROG #StandWithUkraine Cup Summer 2022, and also took third place in the WePlay Academy League Season 6. At the same time, npl has already made his debut for the main NAVI team in the recent BLAST Premier World Final 2022, playing on the maps Inferno and Mirage in matches against Team Vitality, Heroic and Team Liquid.

The debut of the updated roster is planned as part of IEM Katowice 2023. However, NAVI will also take part in the next BLAST tournament, which will probably take place at the end of January.

Updated NAVI CS:GO roster:

• s1mple
• b1t
• electroNic
• perfecto
• npl
• B1ad3 (coach)
• Pradiggg (analyst)