Bogdan “xsepower” Chernikov who was one of the key components of forZe’s impressive rise throughout 2018 and 2019, has announced that he will be moving into free agency.

The 23-year-old had spent around seven months on forZe’s bench alongside Dmitry “facecrack” Alekseyev after the organization decided to replace them with Aleksandr “zorte” Zagodyrenko and Aleksandr “KENSI” Gurkin.

Since then, xsepower and facecrack has been playing under the bankaPEPSI banner with former HellRaisers core Nikita “JlaYM” Panyushkin, Nikolaj “kalinka” Rysakov, and Dmitriy “ProbLeM” Martinov. Most recently the mixed team failed to advance through the Funspark ULTI Europe Ragional Qualifier event.

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forZe have just announced that their player Dmitriy "facecrack" Alekseyev has been benched and placed on the transfer list. The fact that "facecrack" has been benched and transfer-listed is not a surprise, as forZe for quite some time have utilized stand-ins as a replacement for the 26-year-old Russian. 

The organization has stated that in addition to the news regarding "facecrack", they will be announcing more changes to their roster in the near future. The roster changes will likely concern the team's AWP'er Bogdan "xsepower" Chernikov, as he too has been replaced by stand-ins in the team's previous tournament appearances. 

Both "facecrack" and "xsepower" are currently replaced by stand-ins Aleksandr "zorte" Zagodyrenko and Aleksandr "Kiro" Sherov as the team participates in the Snow Sweet Snow 1 event. Earlier today forZe managed to beat Sinners in their opening round of the event without fielding "facecrack" and "xsepower" in their roster line-up. 

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Forze and HellRaisers bested their opponents in the closed qualifier and can now look forward to the Dreamhack Open January Europe tournament. The Russian roster of Forze was the standout team at the closed qualifier as they won both their games 2-0. Forze seems more than ready for the new season and even managed their results with two of their star players in Bogdan "xsepower" Chernikov and Dmitriy "facecrack" Alekseyev missing.

The tournament will take place from January 27-31 and features eight competitors fighting for the $70.000 prize pool. The best team participating in the tournament is, according to the official HLTV world rankings, the BIG roster. BIG is currently placed 4th. in the world after their impressive performance in an otherwise tumultuous year of Counter-Strike. 

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