So, the moment of so awaited announcement came. Name of the last player of Empire.dota2 is revealed. During last games, we've being playing with different players and were really accurate in choosing a person that will take the last place in our roster. 

That won't be a surprise for people who follow  Team Empire,  Andrey "ALWAYSWANNAFLY" Bondarenko becomes the fifth player of our Dota 2 roster. It's choice of both management and team. We would also like to remind you that Andrey participated for Empire in 2012.

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Most of you guessed the name of our new player: Andrey "Mag" Chipenko will be new offlaner of Team Empire.

Andrey is a sufficiently experienced dota player and participated for such teams as Darer, iCCup. With his previous team that has already used 'TTD' as a tag, he won Techlabs Kiev on Saturday. After that he officially became a free agent.

There are moments when u should make hard, but necessary decisions. Today we part with on of oldies of our Dota 2 lineup - Vladislav "Blowyourbrain" Morozyuk.  

Vlad was an important part of our team, there were a lot of victories gained, but it's time move forward. Our ways should part. We won't stop on details and reasons of such decision. Only time will show if it was correct or not. We wish Vlad a good luck in search of a new, worthy team. 

Many of you were correct in thoughts about fourth player in lineup of Empire.dota2 and now it's official:  Ivan "Vanskor" Skorohod joins our team!

Ivan is a young player from Moscow, became known in dota 2 community after EMS finals  in Poland, where with his last team - RoX.KIS finished on second place. 

Congratulations to Ivan joining our team and wish him further big victories! 

After a long period without any news about roster of Empire.Dota2, we are starting to announce so long awaited new roster.

There was a long conversation with an happy end and now we a glad to inform that  Airat "Silent" Gaziev returns to Team Empire!

So, Airat becomes third player of our lineup, joining Scandal and Blowyourbrain.

From 21 to 25 August, the gamer community meets again in the halls of the Cologne Trade Fair. Seagate, one of the world's leading hard drive manufacturers will be present at this year's Gamescom and show its current SSD and SSHD storage solutions at the booth of its partner XMG (Schenker Technologies) in hall 8.1 at booth B010.

Special highlight: Seagate sends the pro-gamers of Team Empire on stage for a match against the e-sports professionals team of Mousesports which takes place on Saturday 24.08. 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The game will be played for a cash prize of € 1,250. Moreover, Gamescom visitors will have the chance to play against the professional teams on Friday and Saturday and to win € 250.

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By reason of recent decision of Siw'a to finish hie esports career, our lineup for team leagues had a gap once more. Young teammates of elfi are still too inexperienced to get a permanent spot in the team, so we had to look for other options.

It didn't take long to find a solution. Once again you will be able to watch Pavel Kuznecov playing for our team in official league games. As an old friend, Brat_OK agreed to help us and we quickly came to an arrangement. Pavel doesn't have any contract with other team at the moment, so, the road to joint victories is open. 

First match we'll play today against Copenhagen Wolwes in Euro Series Summer 2013. Game starts at 20:00 (CET), don't miss it!

Nearly on the eve of  WCS Challenger Europe Season 2 matches, we should inform community not really good news. After long thinking, Vladimir "Siw" Syzranov decided to finish his entire esports career. 

In the end of 2011 Siw also announced his retirement from Starcraft II, but that decision was caused by emotional outburst, so, next year Vladimir had already returned and was actively training.   

In January 2013, Siw returns to Team Empire and demonstrates great level of performance at online tournaments. Later, in HoTS Siw passes to the group stage of WCS Premier League Season 1. But, during last two weeks player took pause, analyzed situation and made his decision. Statement of the player is below.

01.08.13 - Moscow, Russia. Team Empire and Ence e-Sports are glad to announce start of partnership within StarCraft II discipline. Ence e-Sports is the leading e-Sport organization in Finland and from now on, their star player - elfi will participate for Empire at team leagues.

Since Empire had parted with terr: Brat_OK and Beastyqt, roster didn't have enough players to take part in team leagues. In the last few weeks we were actively looking for new players.