Cloud9 has announced the signing of former Virtus Pro player Timur “buster” Tulepov. The 23-year-old rifler will join Cloud9 on a permanent deal going into the 2023 season. With buster coming in as an active player Timofey “interz” Yakushin will be put on the beach going forward.
After three years playing under the Outsiders and Virtus pro banner buster moves on to bring back his life inside the CS community. During the last 8-9 months buster has been on the Outsiders bench. According to an interview with HLTV Cloud9 was just one of three different teams that he could sign for, the other teams are Natus Vincere and Spirit.
Meanwhile, buster takes the spot on the active lineup as interz is moved to the inactive roster after playing under Vladislav “nafany” Gorshkov for almost four years. The 22-year-old Russian has throughout 2022 been averaging 0.99 Rating / 0.74 Impact / 60.4 ADR / 0.56 KPR. interz in recent months has struggled on the server since the team became Cloud9 back in early 2022. The Russian rifler found it hard to compete against the world’s best since the return to the LAN environment.
Cloud9´s new rifle Timur “buster” Tulepov is set to make its debut at the IEM Katowice 2023.
Going forward into 2023, Cloud9´s roster will look as follows:
{cflag:RU} Sergey “Ax1Le” Rykhtorov
{cflag:RU} Dmitry “sh1ro” Sokolov
{cflag:RU} Vladislav “nafany” Gorshkov
{cflag:KZ} Abay “HObbit” Khasenov
{cflag:KZ} Timur “buster” Tulepov
{cflag:RU} Konstantin “groove” Pikiner (coach)
{cflag:RU} Timofey “interz” Yakushin (inactive)
