Aleksei "Qikert" Golubev has joined Spirit Academy as the team's new coach, marking the end of a playing career that spanned nearly a decade and saw the Kazakh rifler become a Major champion with Outsiders at IEM Rio Major 2022.
The 27-year-old also reached the final of StarLadder Major Berlin with AVANGAR and attended seven Majors during his career, with his latest appearance coming at StarLadder Budapest Major with MIBR.
Qikert left MIBR at the start of the year and later joined 1win, with whom he won MPKBK CIS LAN Season 4 to add a 12th piece of silverware to his cabinet alongside more notable trophies like BLAST Pro Series Moscow 2019, ESL Challenger Rotterdam and ESL Challenger Katowice 2023.
The Kazakh brings a wealth of experience to Spirit's academy roster, which has proven to be a consistent pipeline of talent over the years with rosters that saw to the development of players like Danil "donk" Kryshkovets, Myroslav "zont1x" Plakhotia, Kirill "Magnojez" Rodnov, Timur "FL4MUS" Marev and Pavel "S1ren" Ogloblin.
Spirit Academy's previous skipper, Vladislav "Flash_1" Bykov, remains with the organization and will coach Spirit Academy White.
Spirit Academy now have:
Kirill "Kiryasoo" Solovkov
Nikita "s1nside" Besedin
Vitaly "VILBy" Zakharyuta
Kirill "k0gaSs" Emelyanov
David "Netrix" Kudziev
Aleksei "Qikert" Golubev (coach)
Timur 'FL4MUS' MarevPast 3 months
Kirill 'Magnojez' RodnovPast 3 months
Outsiders
Aleksei 'Qikert' Golubev
David 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali
Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev
Petr 'fame' Bolyshev
Myroslav 'zont1x' PlakhotiaPast 3 months
Pavel 'S1ren' OgloblinPast 3 months
Kirill 'Kiryasoo' SolovkovPast 3 months
Danil 'donk' KryshkovetsPast 3 months
Vladislav 'Flash_1' BykovPast 3 months
MIBR
Linus 'LNZ' Holtäng
Lucas 'nqz' Soares
Felipe 'insani' Yuji
Carlos 'venomzera' Eduardo
Tomas 'tomaszin' Corna
Nestor 'LETN1' Tanić
David 'Netrix' KudzievPast 3 months
Nikita 's1nside' BesedinPast 3 months
1win
Aleksei 'Qikert' Golubev
Vladislav 'lattykk' Vydrin
Nikita 'reyoz' Rolzing
Kirill 'cronuss' Savin
Alexandr 'oz1k' Sevastyanov
Ilnar 'cau' Galeev
Aleksei 'Qikert' Golubev
AVANGAR
Aleksei 'Qikert' Golubev
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali
Timur 'buster' Tulepov
Sanjar 'SANJI' Kuliev
Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev
Vitaly 'VILBy' ZakharyutaPast 3 months
Kirill 'k0gaSs' EmelyanovPast 3 months
Spirit
Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov
Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev
Andrey 'tN1R' Tatarinovich
Myroslav 'zont1x' Plakhotia
Danil 'donk' Kryshkovets
Sergey 'hally' Shavaev
Spirit Academy
Vitaly 'VILBy' Zakharyuta
Kirill 'Kiryasoo' Solovkov
David 'Netrix' Kudziev
Nikita 's1nside' Besedin
Kirill 'k0gaSs' Emelyanov
Aleksei 'Qikert' Golubev