PARIVISION sign HObbit and slaxejezzz after their 0-3 Cologne exit

Six days after their last match at the IEM Cologne Major, PARIVISION have a different starting five. On June 19, 2026, the team announced that nota had been moved to the bench and placed on the transfer list, and that slaxejezzz would take his place, HLTV reported that afternoon. Two days earlier, PARIVISION had signed the veteran HObbit to replace BELCHONOKK.

The two moves pull the roster in opposite directions. One brings in a 32-year-old veteran whose last spell in the top tier was with Cloud9 in 2024. The other brings in an 18-year-old who has so far played for small Russian teams. Between them, they replace two of the five players who left Cologne without a win.

HLTV reports of June 13, 17 and 19, 2026, and HLTV's world ranking of June 15, 2026.

A week of changes after Cologne

The sequence started on June 17. That afternoon PARIVISION benched Andrey "BELCHONOKK" Yasinskiy, 22, and put him on the transfer list, the list of players a team is willing to let go to another organization. He had joined in April 2024 and spent about two years with the team, in what HLTV describes as a supportive rifler's role, a player whose job is to set up his teammates rather than to take the first fights of a round.

"We are sincerely grateful to Andrey for everything he has done for our team," PARIVISION wrote on Telegram, as HLTV relayed it. Less than an hour later HLTV reported the name of his replacement.

That replacement is Abay "HObbit" Khassenov, 32, from Kazakhstan. HLTV called him a surprise choice. He left Cloud9 in 2024 and has been out of the top tier since, spending two years at 1win, a team 71st in HLTV's ranking of June 15, until April 2026.

Two days later came the second move. On June 19 PARIVISION benched Emil "nota" Moskvitin, 19, and transfer-listed him as well. His place goes to Vyacheslav "slaxejezzz" Vinokurov, 18, from Russia.

Why HObbit, and why now

PARIVISION gave their reason in a welcome statement, quoted by HLTV. The organization's chief executive said that at this stage of the team's development it was important to strengthen the roster with an experienced player, and that the team knew Abay's strengths well and understood the contribution he could make to it.

HLTV puts that in the context of a problem the team had named itself. A lack of experience among its riflers, the players who fight with rifles rather than the sniper's AWP, had come up again and again during the year, and both the captain, Dzhami "Jame" Ali, and the coach, Dastan "dastan" Akbayev, had pointed to it as a weakness.

There had also been an earlier warning. In Bucharest, dastan said changes were coming in the summer if the form did not improve, and that the Major was the reason he could not make them yet, according to HLTV's report on BELCHONOKK's benching. HLTV adds that teams had begun to adapt to Jame's calling, the way the in-game leader directs the team's tactics round by round, and that individual form had fallen.

HLTV said it had asked the team for comment, and no contract length has been published. HLTV reports no fee for either of the two arrivals. HLTV wrote that HObbit would make his debut as a stand-in at the XSE Pro League, a term for a player brought in to fill a place on a temporary basis. Its headline of June 17 calls the move a signing, and he is listed in the starting five in its report of June 19.

slaxejezzz: a prospect from the Russian lower tiers

slaxejezzz arrives with very different credentials. He has played for low-ranked Russian teams that have appeared on HLTV since February 2025, not in the top tier. HLTV places him 47th in the June 2026 update of its Prospects ranking, a list of young players who have not yet established themselves at the highest level.

His numbers over the last three months are the strongest on the new roster, though they come from a lower level of opposition. HLTV's report gives him a rating of 1.25 over that period on its Rating 3.0 scale, its overall measure of a player's impact, and its player card counts 136 maps, with 0.80 kills and 0.66 deaths per round. The table sets the two arrivals beside the two players they replace.

The two players who left the five had the two lowest ratings of the team over the period. BELCHONOKK's 0.90 was the lowest of all, and nota's 0.95 came next, both over the same 50 maps, with xiELO third at 0.97. HLTV notes, though, that BELCHONOKK had been given harder roles than xiELO and nota, whom it describes as aggressive space-takers, the players who push first to win ground on the map. The three who stay in the five are Jame, xiELO and zweih. HObbit, at 32, becomes the oldest player on the roster, ahead of Jame at 27. dastan, 32, stays on as coach.

A season that started at the top

The changes close a half-season that began very well. PARIVISION won BLAST Bounty at the start of the year, HLTV recalls. They then reached the final of PGL Cluj-Napoca, which they lost 3-0 to Team Vitality on February 22.

That final in Romania shows how much of the team has now changed. The five who faced Vitality on February 22 were Jame, BELCHONOKK, xiELO, nota and zweih, the line-up the team had used all week, according to HLTV's report of the final. On the way there they had beaten Falcons in the quarterfinals and MOUZ 2-0 in the semifinals. HLTV wrote at the time that it was PARIVISION's second final of the year, and described them as a young team with little experience of deciding matches before a large crowd. PARIVISION were sixth in HLTV's ranking of February 16, printed with that report. Four months later, two of those five are on the bench and the team has dropped to 11th.

The results turned in the spring. PARIVISION finished 12th to 14th at PGL Astana and seventh to eighth at the CS Asia Championships before the Major, HLTV recorded.

Those solid results in the first months of 2026 had earned PARIVISION a place in Stage 3 of the Major in Cologne, HLTV wrote, the last stage before the playoffs. That is where the run ended. PARIVISION lost 1-2 to 9z on June 11 and 1-2 to Monte on June 12. They then lost 0-2 to Legacy on June 13 and went out with B8, the second team to leave the stage in HLTV's words. Both maps of the last match went to overtime, the extra rounds played when a map is tied at the end of regulation: 14-16 on Inferno and 13-16 on Dust2, where Legacy had recovered from 5-10 down. After the defeat Jame described his side as a young team with young players and less experience on the map, HLTV reported. It was the team's second Major, and their second 0-3 exit in Stage 3 after the StarLadder Budapest Major.

First test in Guangzhou

The new five's first event is the XSE Pro League in Guangzhou, China, which runs from July 1 to 12 with a prize pool of US$1 million, according to HLTV. HLTV notes that the tournament falls during the player break.

The field has moved since it was first published. Earlier in June SINNERS had replaced MOUZ, who could not field a full roster, and on June 9 HLTV reported that Legacy and M80 had been forced out, which the organizer put down to passport issues and jury duty. TYLOO and Lynn Vision took the two places as the highest-ranked eligible Asian teams in the Valve Regional Standings, the ranking Valve publishes.

PARIVISION are already drawn. In the opening round HLTV published on June 9, after Legacy and M80 withdrew and TYLOO and Lynn Vision took their places, PARIVISION meet Alliance on July 1. The same round pairs FaZe with TYLOO, 3DMAX with Ninjas in Pyjamas, 9z with EYEBALLERS, Luminosity with Nemesis, BETBOOM with SINNERS, BIG with Lynn Vision and B8 with MIBR.

That leaves twelve days between the second signing and the first match of the new roster. For nota and BELCHONOKK, the transfer list means PARIVISION are open to offers for both; neither move has been followed by an announcement of where they will play next.

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