Team Empire does not stand still and constantly continues to develop. Today we are announcing the beginning of cooperation with an eSports project called SwapGaming.

SwapGaming.com is a new gaming service that allows all players to share items with each other. Forget the crowded lists of friends in Steam, now you don't have to clean them himself, a fully automated system will do all the work for you.

Unexpected news came from the Dota 2 management of Team Empire. Unfortunately, the team refused to participate in the second season of DreamLeague where the team has won a slot in the CIS qualifications.

Now the organizers urgently need to search for replacement. Whether it will be Virtus.Pro, which took the 3rd place in the CIS qualifications or someone else, we will know soon.

Changes are inevitable, even in rosters that seem to be formed. That rule has even more sense when it comes to such disciplines as Dota 2. To stay at the top, sometimes, you have to make difficult decisions.

Today, we inform you that Andrew "Mag" Chipenko is leaving Empire family. This talented player joined us in late 2013 and soon became an integral part of the team. Andrew start playing under tag of Team Empire after iCCup. Together we have had a long and difficult path, which had both ups and downs.

Although it's very hard to write these lines, but today we have to inform you that Team Empire closes the direction from which the Empire began its ascent to the top of eSports Olympus. We are closing StarCraft II department, and saying goodbye to one of our oldtimers, the Emperor - Dmitriy "Happy" Kostin.

Happy was part of Empire during more than 3.5 years and at the moment Team Empire is the only team in his StarCraft II career. Few can boast being so stable. It's obvious that the main reason for this decision was low popularity of Starcraft in the CIS, and the general decrease of interest in this discipline.

As repeatedly have noticed many people the coming year will be a very eventful for Dota 2 teams. The transfer period is completed, teams are formed and we can focus on everything else.

In addition to the players line-up, Team Empire decided to strengthen its management team with a new manager. Dmitry "Ash" Ugarov joins our team as a Dota 2 manager.

We note that the current manager Sergey "AnahRoniX" Bykovskii also continue to work with Dota 2 squad.

After the management of Team Empire was clear that Vanskor will leave the team,we have begun an active search for a new player. The battle for the players was intense as ever, especially given the fact that there was not much good level players who could so quickly get into game style of a top team. 

Practically right after returning from vacation the team began to play with Solo on the role of support, and already yesterday won the European part of the qualification for MSI Beat It. Today's announcement is not a surprise, we are making only a fraction of formality, declaring that Aleksey "Solo" Berezin becomes a Team Empire player.

Every year after The International begins a period of changes in teams. In this off-season changes in CIS Dota 2 teams are especially interesting and will enter the history. 

Unfortunately, team changes has not avoided Team Empire. A lot of people were wondering what will happen, and how many guys will leave Empire. Players received offers from several organizations, but in the end we lost only one soldier.

After The International 2014 a professional Dota 2 scene has calmed down for a while. During this period, players traditionally go on a holiday, decide what to do next and transfer from one team to another. 

But tomorrow starts the main part of one of the largest European Championships - MSI Beat It 2014. Mostly teams from CIS are participating in this tournament. Our guys decided to take part in this tournament, and it will be the first for them after a short rest.

Europe will be represented in the tournament by four teams that participated in TI4 qualifier: Team Coast (they have shown excellent results by the way), new mix - Team Tinker, with  SingSing from  Cloud 9 as captain. Also we will see CIS titans:  Power Rangers and  Virtus.pro with their new rosters.

After not the most successful season for our League of Legends roster, it was decided to shoot from the hip and leave only one player from the previous composition, the newcomer -: ru: Fomko. This was done in order to once again rise from the ashes and reach new, unprecedented heights.

Offseason turned to be very successful and we managed to assemble a new roster of really strong players. Guys train hard and very soon, with the beginning of the new eSports season they will participate in various tournaments, and fight for the highest places.

On behalf of the Team Empire, I want to make an official statement regarding the situation with the delay in payment to streamer aido. As I mentioned in my tweet, we owe money and we have never denied this fact. Today I inspected what amount is involved.

So, for the last six months we owe him $75 revenue from the advertising on twitch.tv. That is small amount which I’m personally will pay to him today.

Since this payment was small, it was included in the payment of a centralized planned streamer project, and the transaction will be done in the beginning of August, after The International 4, and aido was informed about that fact.

He reacted with disbelief to our promises and appealed to the community - we understand this move. I apologize for the misunderstanding and suppose that this topic can be closed.