Team 9Pandas | ID: 43132

9Pandas is a esports organization based in Serbia. 9Pandas entered the Dota 2 competition arena in April 2023; apart from this discipline, the company also has a CS:GO team. The organization, among other things, is a large and well-known advertising agency with a huge number of projects in the field of esports. 

On April 17, the entire former HellRaisers roster (captain Solo, RAMZES666, kiyotaka, MieRo, Antares, and a staff represented by coach Nofear, as well as staff members Jamba and Inverno) moved under the banner of 9 pandas to continue their very successful career, and especially to participate in ESL One Berlin Major 2023. This change of tag came about due to HellRaisers' unpreparedness for active cybersport activities. The only "new" member of the collective 9Pandas was the team's CEO - Krookie. 

Creating their own team from scratch in the middle of the season would have been a difficult venture, so the offer of 9Pandas for the ex-HellRaisers team was a real salvation and hope for a favorable and fruitful cooperation. Joining the organization was very positively perceived by both the members and the staff, for example, the strategic director of Inverno expressed the following: "Pandas are in charge of content and marketing, and we are in charge of esports. And it's a perfect match." 

In 2023, the team took 9-12th place at The International 2023 (TI12), after which hardliner Matvey Miero Vasyunin left the team, and according to rumors, the team was expecting much more significant changes. By the ESL One Kuala Lumpur tournament, the team has already approached the tournament with two replacements (albeit in the role of standins). Andrey Afoninje Afonin took the place of Alexey Solo Berezin as the 5th position support, and Alik V-Tune Vorobey took the position of carry.

• January 8, 2024 - 9Pandas unveiled the roster for the Open Qualifier to DreamLeague Season 22. Antares and Solo remained from the original roster, newcomers were Alberkaaa on offlane and DarkLord^ on carry. Ainkrad was in the mid, on loan from One Move.

The new 9Pandas roster was able to pass the first Open Qualifier for DreamLeague Season 22, but the team finished 5th-6th in the Closed Qualifier. 

• January 19, 2024 - 9Pandas officially announced Alberkaaa as the new offlaner. January 22 - An announcement was made about kiyotaka's return to mid. The organization thanked Ainkrad for a decent game at the qualifiers.

A little later the team took part in the qualifiers for ESL One Birmingham, Elite League 2024, DreamLeague Season 23 and PGL Wallachia Season 1. The guys were able to qualify for Elite League 2024, but they were the first to drop out, taking ten thousand dollars from the prize pool.

• On May 11, sayuw joined 9Pandas, and on May 28, MeTTpuM joined as the new coach.

With the renewed lineup, the team went to the open qualification for the upcoming Riyadh Masters 2024, and then participated in qualifying for The International 2024, but failed to qualify for any of the major tournaments. Also, a little later, the qualifying round for Elite League Season 2 started, which 9Pandas failed in 7th place.

• July 1, 2024 - 9pandas moved kiyotaka to the reserves.
• July 12, 2024 - Solo also went to the team's reserves.

As you can see, after a number of failures, there was a reshuffle in the team. Due to this, 9Pandas did not appear on stage for a long time.

• September 20, 2024 - kiyotaka has officially left 9Pandas.