The former Spirit and Liquid player earns the spot after winning a title as a stand-in, while F0R3VER moves to the inactive roster for health reasons.
Virtus.pro have signed Robert “Patsi” Isyanov on a permanent basis, the club announced on Tuesday 10 November. The 23-year-old Russian takes the place of Dias “F0R3VER” Kutubay, who moves to the inactive roster due to health reasons, as HLTV also reported.
In its statement, the club said that “Robert has already been playing for the team as a stand-in, and his cooperation with Virtus.pro will now continue on a permanent basis.” It gave no further detail on F0R3VER’s condition.
We wish Dias a speedy recovery and hope to see him return to competitive play in the future.
A trial that ended with a trophy
F0R3VER has not played for VP since 22 September, when they lost 2-0 to both BBL and Johnny Speeds. On 9 October the club pulled out of the Thunderpick World Championship in Malta, an event it had qualified for, after F0R3VER stepped away for health reasons and AquaRS ran into visa problems. Ninjas in Pyjamas took the place instead.
Patsi was announced as the stand-in on 17 October for the WINLINE MPKBK CIS LAN Season 9, and VP won the event without dropping a series. They beat XMETA, Black Phoenix, UPGRADE and K27 2-0 each, then edged Nemesis 3-2 in the final. Over those 13 maps, Patsi went 196-152 in K-D with 86.9 ADR and 77.6% KAST, by HLTV’s numbers.
Across all his matches in the past three months, HLTV has Patsi at 1,049-1,043 in K-D over 69 maps, with 78.8 ADR and 70.5% KAST. F0R3VER went 466-516 over 35 maps in the same period, with 68.2 ADR and 69.1% KAST.
F0R3VER joined the academy side VP.Prodigy in March 2025 and was promoted to the main team with AquaRS on 12 March 2026, a year later. The club said then that the two had earned the step with their results for the academy, and that playing next to an experienced captain in mir would help them reach their potential.
From a Major semi-final to the open market
Patsi has been at the top before. He came through Team Spirit‘s academy, made the main team in November 2021 and reached the semi-finals of the PGL Major Antwerp in 2022, finishing 3rd-4th. Later that year he played the quarter-finals of the IEM Rio Major.
His career since has moved quickly:
- Team Spirit: main team from November 2021, Major semi-final in Antwerp 2022
- Team Liquid: signed in June 2023 in place of EliGE, about five months
- PARIVISION: signed in January 2024, until December 2024
- Aurora: December 2024 to April 2025
- Astrum: about three months in 2025
- Sangal: joined in July 2025, won Urban Riga Open Season 4 in April 2026, put up for transfer on 24 May 2026
- Since then: short spells with illwill, BETBOOM, RUSTEC, Color and BET-M, the last of them with BET-M from 14 to 18 October, days before his first match for VP
No Major, so no lock to worry about
The timing raises an obvious question with the PGL Major Singapore two weeks away, but it does not affect VP. They are not among the 32 teams invited from the 2 November Valve Regional Standings, and the rosters PGL locked on Monday 9 November only cover those teams. A week before the cut-off, HLTV’s invite simulator gave VP a 1.1% chance of a place.
VP are 31st in the global VRS. Patsi’s first event as a full member is expected to be CCT 2026 EU Series 13.
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