Virtus.pro are coming back to League of Legends

Virtus.pro have opened a League of Legends division once again. The organization has revealed three starters and two stand-ins. The current roster will participate in the LCL Open Cup.

Three starters are the Mid laner Ivan “Paranoia” Tipukhov, Carry Daniel “Blasting Kudrin and Support Aleksandr “SaNTaS” Lifashin. The stand-ins are Top laner Rafael “Doxy” Adl Zarabi and Jungle “Jonatan “SezzeR” Villebro.

The first tournament the team will participate in will be the LCL Open Cup in Saint-Petersburg. It will occur on November 25–27. The prize pool amounts to 1,500,000 rubles.

The previous Virtus.pro League of Legends roster lasted since the middle of 2014 until the start of 2015. Before the roster disbanded, it had consisted of Oleg “PowerOfDreams” Bondarenko, Stuart “Tortoise” Rassell, Viktor "Piter Pokir" Pachkunov, Egor “VincentVega” Medvedev and Kirill “Likkrit” Malofeev. The team disbanded due to unsatisfying results at tournaments.