Virtus.Pro launched their second CS:GO team. It is called VP.Prodigy and will be an academy for young and promising players. She will compete alongside the main roster, which is currently ranked twenty-ninth in the world. Thus, Virtus.Pro follows the example of other top teams from the CIS: back in 2019, NAVI and Gambit Esports formed their youth squads. Their lineups are known as NAVI Junior and Gambit Youngsters, respectively.
The head of Virtus.Pro Sergei Glamazda said that the success of the second DOTA2 team pushed him to such a decision. Now the esports organization has decided to extend the practice of coexistence between the youth and main teams to CS:GO. Glamazda commented on the prospects of the youth team as follows: “Now there are many competitions in which the second roster can take part without competing with the first. The ecosystem is such that two teams can successfully coexist in it.” The leader and coach of the team will be Vladislav “Flash_1” Bykov. Mikhail Artemyev, head of the CS: GO department at Virtus.Pro, notes that the team’s task – find not just promising players, but those who can work together. It included cybersportsmen aged 18-20 who have not yet accumulated much experience.
