Natus Vincere’s CEO Yevhen Zolotarov has Made an Official Statement About the s1mple and flamie to SK Gaming Reports. The CEO Says that both s1mple and flamie will not be joining up with the SK trio.
Official: s1mple and flamie stay with Na`Vi
— Yevhen Zolotarov (@NAVIHarisPilton) March 23, 2018
The announcement comes as a surprise to many as less than 24 hours have passed since the news of negotiations initially broke, and even less time since SK’s Epitácio ‘TACO’ de Melo officially left the team.
For the first time, a possible transition of s1mple to SK was started on March 18: then the insider Don Haci wrote about it on Twitter.
Sorry @DonHaci 💛🖤
— Yevhen Zolotarov (@NAVIHarisPilton) March 23, 2018
On March 22, journalist Guillaume neL Canelo of Flickshot said that SK Gaming is close to agreeing with Na’Vi about the transfer of s1mple and flamie. It was assumed that they would replace as part of the Epitacio TACO de Melo and Ricardo boltz Prassa. In the evening of the same day, TACO officially left the Brazilian team.
ALSO READ: TACO steps down from SK Gaming
According to industry insiders, like Flickshot’s ‘neL’, SK Gaming considered a number of different options before settling on making an offer for s1mple.
neL states that s1mple then insisted on bringing flamie with him and this could have caused the contract difficulties. Or, perhaps Na`Vi’s CEO is just bending the truth a little.
Either :
– Negociations for flamie failed and s1mple maybe doesn't want to join alone.
– He's just lying or putting pressure in some way so SK hurry up in negociations.That's interesting, some more drama ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). https://t.co/1sSigeueym
— neL (@neLendirekt) March 23, 2018
However, according to ceh9, the amount of NaVi’s buy-back is about one million dollars.
Na`Vi roster looks like –
- [flag country=”ua”] John “Edward” Sukharev
- [flag country=”ru”] Egor “flamie” Vasiliev
- [flag country=”ua”] Alexander “s1mple” Kostylev
- [flag country=”ua”] Danil “Zeus” Teslenko
- [flag country=”ru”] Denis “electronic” Sharipov
