Illidan will play for Team Empire until the end of the DPC season

Streamer and professional Dota 2 player Ilya 'Illidan' Pivtsaev will play for Team Empire until the end of the current Dota Pro Circuit season. He spoke about this in his Telegram channel.

In the roster, he took the place of Arslan 'Retrograde' Shadzhanov's team carry. As part of the ongoing Winline Insight, the team has already made its debut with the new player in the fight against SQreen's Squad. The match ended 2-0 in favor of Empire.

Updated roster of Team Empire

• Illidan
• squad1x
• Shachlo
• jAM3S
• 633

The last changes in Empire took place quite recently. On May 29, Ilya 'squad1x' Kuvaldin, Maxim 'Shachlo' Abramovskikh and Jamshid 'jAM3S' Abdurashitov joined the team.

Ilya 'Illidan' Pivtsaev is one of the most famous veterans of the CIS scene. He started his career as a professional player in 2012 under the Virtus.pro tag. Later, Ilya managed to play in such teams as Team Spirit, Fantastic Five, Elements Pro Gaming, Old but Gold, Quincy Crew, Chaos Esports Club and others. The most significant achievement in Pivtsaev's career is undoubtedly his performance at The International 2015. There he and his teammates from Virtus.pro took 5th-6th place and received a cash reward of $1,197,925 with the team. Later, he fought as part of the same VP at The Frankfurt Major 2015 and, having taken 7-8th place there, received $105,000 with the team. Majori Edut na Minor was the last band in which Illidan performed, not counting Team Empire. There he played with GGwpLanaya, LastHero, j4 and Dukalis. On February 18, it was disbanded and esportsmen continued their careers in different teams.