Evgeny “Norwi” Ermolin’s days at forZe have come to an end as the Russian organization confirm his departure on Twitter. The talented rifler is set to continue his career in the lower-ranked Aurora, where he will join the former Entropiq player Viktor “Lack1” Boldyrev.

Norwi were a part of forZe for just over 12 months after signing a contract with the profiled CIS team back in October 2021. The Andrey “Jerry” Mekhryakov-led squad never really hit the ground running together, which resulted in the organization benching both Norwi and Aleksandr “KENSI” Gurkin last month.

forZe hasn’t announced any official replacements yet.

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{cflag:RU} Aleksandr “zorte” Zagodyrenko 

{cflag:RU} Alexandr “shalfey” Marenov 

{cflag:RU} Andrey “Jerry” Mekhryakov 

{cflag:RU} Artem “Fierce” Ivanov (coach) 

{cflag:RU} Aleksandr “KENSI” Gurkin (benched)

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Evgeny “Norwi” Ermolin and Aleksandr “KENSI” Gurkin have been benched from forZe and will no longer be a part of the team, the organization announced on Sunday. The roster changes come following forZe’s failure to secure a Major ticket to Brasil, after suffering a tough loss to Bad News Eagles in the qualifying match.

The 20-year-old Russian has been on the roster for a year and eight months. During his time on the forZe roster, KENSi averaged a 1.06 rating and gained plenty of experience in both online and LAN tournaments. Just like the other benched member, Norwi, who has been on the roster for a year, averaging a 1.03. The 21-year-old also gained a lot of experience and shared in recent triumphs with the rest of the team, such as qualifying for the Major in Belgium (PGL Antwerp Major).

KENSI

Bad News Eagles and forZe went head-to-head in their second matchup of the day. After winning their first matches, the two teams were looking to take another step closer to the Legends Stage.

Inferno was the map of choice for the two teams, a pick that both teams could be happy with considering great win percentages in recent times.

"Norwi", who was unbelievable throughout the entire match, got his team off to a cozy 3-0 start, but "rigoN" quickly saw to it that the Eagles got back on an even keel. BNE were on their way to a great-looking T-side, but the "Norwi"-factor was too much for them to handle, meaning forZe led by 9-6 at the break.

After the break, the Russians did not slow down whatsoever. Instead, they extended their lead quickly and forcefully, and after only giving up a single second-half round they had secured the victory.

Bad News Eagles move to the 1-1 column while forZe could leave happy knowing that they were 2-0 after the first day of play.

forZe - Bad News Eagles 1-0 | PGL Major Antwerp Challengers Stage

16-7 (Inferno) | {cflag:RU} Evgeny "Norwi" Ermolin - 1.76 Rating / 30-13 K-D / 114.1 ADR

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Bad News Eagles

The first map was the pick of forZe and saw the Bo3-series start on Ancient. Despite being the pick of forZe, it was ENCE to start strongest on the map. With confident CT-sided play, Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi and Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer came clutch for ENCE and secured a 13-2 lead in the first half. In the second half, ENCE kept their momentum where Dycha got an ace in the pistol with the dualies. Even though forZe came out looking strong on the defense by stringing together five rounds in a row, it was not enough to threaten ENCE, who won the match with a 16-7.

The second map of the series was to be played on Nuke, picked by ENCE. Early in the first half, the Russians found their right footing, gaining a 2-6 lead on their CT side. forZe began to pull away, their defense slowly choking out ENCE keeping the Europeans on their toes, and continued to an 11-4 half. forZe opened the second half with a pistol win and follow-up round, no threatening by ENCE to make a comeback. ENCE began to add numbers to their tally and seemed to find their momentum. But forZe closed out the map before everything got too thrilling.

After their comeback on Nuke, forZe came into Mirage with momentum. The Russian squad converted a second-round force buy which kickstarted a dominant seven-round winning streak to secure a T half victory. ENCE's timeout seemed to turn things around for the Europeans as they brought five rounds to minimize the gap to 10-5 at halftime. Switching to the CT side sealed the deal for forZe, winning the pistol round before extending the lead and eliminating ENCE, 16-10 for a 2-1 series.

forZe – ENCE 2-1 | DreamHack November 2021

7-16 (Ancient) | {cflag:IL} Spinx – 1.75 Rating / 26-13 / 110.3 ADR

16-8 (Nuke) | {cflag:RU} Norwi – 1.52 Rating / 23-11 / 87.6 ADR

16-10 (Mirage) | {cflag:RU} Norwi – 1.52 Rating / 27-13 / 93.5 ADR

MVP: {cflag:RU} Evgeniy "Norwi" Ermolin – 1.20 Rating / 61-43 / 79.2 ADR

Spinx

ENCE

Singularity has signed a newly formed team mixing the experience of Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács and Denis "seized" Kostin alongside three young and motivated players in Evgeny "Norwi" Ermolin, Timur "clax" Sabirov, and Daniil “d1Ledez” Kustov with Artem "Fierce" Ivanov coaching.

Seized and GuardiaN has played together in NAVI from 2013 until 2017 before GuardiaN left to play for FaZe Clan, and Seized played for various teams. The two veterans have reunited since playing together in NAVI, but they were reconvened when GuardiaN was a stand-in for Trident back in June. Seized realized that he missed a great sniper, so he wrote to GuardiaN and he regained his motivation and decided to continue achieving goals in the CS:GO scene.

Team Singularity treading new waters in the CIS region after being committed to the Danish scene for about 1,5 years.

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