A cybersports organization called 500 has signed a roster that includes former FATE and SKADE players. Roster, formerly playing under the ex-SKADE tag, is ranked 63rd in the world rankings and recently finished 9-16th at CCT South Europe Series 1, losing to Spirit.
Alex «Rainmaker» Petrov, Denislav «dennyslaw» Dimitrov and Georgi «SHiPZ» Grigorov have played for SKADE for nearly three years, achieving their best results in April 2022. They then climbed to No. 17 in the world rankings, having won the Elisa Invitational Winter 2021 and Pinncale Cup III shortly before, defeating Vitality, among others. However, they failed to stay at this level, and soon the organization disbanded the squad, having failed to agree with the players on contract extensions.
In addition, the 500 will include Nikolai «niki1» Pantaleev and Ivan «Patrick» Ivanov, who previously played for FATE. Unlike the aforementioned trio of cybersports players, they have not yet managed to achieve notable results during their career: in the last year and a half it has only occasionally made it into the top 100.
Now the team will try to break through to a higher level and make Bulgarian eSports more prominent on the world wall, aiming to change the fact that recently players from this country have not achieved significant success.