cptkurtka023

cptkurtka023 — Arseniy Derevinskiy

A documentary biography of the Ukrainian entry rifler whose route through B8 and kONO led to Inner Circle, built from HLTV profile data, HLTV news records and event results.

1. The Incas origins and the wartime Ukrainian circuit

Arseniy Derevinskiy is recorded on HLTV as Arseniy "cptkurtka023" Derevinskiy, a 27-year-old Ukrainian player under contract to Inner Circle, with $55,568 in career prize money and no Major titles or Top 20 placements. The profile lists four team affiliations, beginning with The Incas from September 2020 to October 2021. That starting date places his first recorded organisation in the online-era Ukrainian circuit, when domestic competition operated under the constraints of the pandemic season and, from February 2022 onward, under wartime conditions that displaced players, relocated bootcamps and moved LAN qualification online.

The FACEIT record attached to the profile gives a measure of sustained individual volume: 5,382 recorded matches, a 60.0% win rate, a 1.23 average KDR and a 58.0% headshot percentage, with a longest winning streak of 25. The historic FPL placements include CS2 Europe seasons with a 2nd place in Season 58 and 5th in Season 57, alongside earlier CSGO Europe and Challenger seasons. Those CS2 results — 8 matches with 75% wins in Season 58, 7 matches with 71% in Season 57 — show ladder competitiveness at the European level concurrent with team play, a pattern consistent with a player maintaining individual form through public matchmaking.

The Incas spell itself carries no headlines in the 22-item news index, which begins with 2022 RMR coverage. Its significance is chronological: thirteen months in a Ukrainian lineup before the move to B8 in October 2021. For a player then in his early twenties, that duration provided the first extended official-match sample and the basis for recruitment by a more established organisation. The attribute profile recorded later — Entrying 81 as the standout, Firepower 66, Opening 62, with Trading 25, Clutching 45, Utility 41 and Sniping 0 — describes an entry rifler whose function is first contact rather than support, a role that requires the kind of qualifier volume The Incas provided.

The wartime context cannot be separated from the competitive record. Ukrainian teams from 2022 onward played with relocated infrastructure, unreliable practice conditions and restricted LAN travel. Remaining in the circuit through those years, as the tenure sequence shows, is itself the relevant fact. The move to B8 in October 2021, just before the full-scale invasion, positioned Derevinskiy inside one of the Ukrainian organisations that would sustain operations through the war.

2. B8: three years from October 2021 to December 2024

The B8 tenure from October 2021 to December 2024 is the longest affiliation in the profile and the central chapter of the career. B8 in this period was a Ukrainian organisation built arounddevelopmental rosters, academy promotion and RMR qualification attempts, operating with the instability documented across the news index.

The early B8 items establish the competitive level. In August–October 2022, HLTV coverage records B8 securing Europe RMR spots for IEM Rio, joining the 1–1 pool in Malta alongside 1WIN, and the underdog preview framing for the Rio RMR. The April 2023 items cover EU RMR A Day 1 and the day-four and LCQ sequences. These are qualifier-bracket results — advancement through open and closed qualifiers into RMR contention — rather than LAN finals, and they define the team's ceiling in the CS:GO closing year.

The 2023–2024 items show roster construction around Derevinskiy. B8 signed npl in July 2023, benched amster in January 2024, and pursued headtr1ck — the future Inner Circle teammate — with the April 2024 item "headtr1ck set on B8 move." The November 2024 items "headtr1ck and npl seek to lift B8's RMR curse" and "B8 fail to lift RMR curse as Astralis come from behind to win 2–1" document the Shanghai Major RMR campaign that defined the end of the tenure. The "RMR curse" framing, used in HLTV's own headlines, refers to B8's repeated qualification failures at the final RMR hurdle. The Astralis series, a 2–1 loss from a winning position, was the specific elimination.

The endpoint is documented precisely: "B8 replace cptkurtka023 with kensizor" on 28 December 2024, followed by "cptkurtka023 joins kONO" in the short-news roundup on 29 December. The one-day interval between replacement and new signing shows a direct move rather than a free-agency gap. The June 2024 item "B8 tally third event win with CCT S2 EU Series 5" records the most significant trophy-adjacent result of the tenure — a CCT Series title, the tier of European online competition where B8 could convert. That win occurred six months before the replacement and indicates that the benching was a roster decision rather than a response to winless form.

Across three years and two months, the B8 spell produced RMR contention, CCT titles and sustained starting placement for an entry rifler. No Major qualifications, MVPs or EVPs attach to the period, and the prize-money total reflects tier-two online earnings. The longevity itself — through wartime conditions, multiple IGL and AWP changes, and the CS2 transition — is the substantive achievement.

The RMR campaigns deserve specific documentation because they define the competitive ceiling. The Shanghai Major EU RMR B in November 2024, covered across day-one and day-two items, ended with the Astralis 2–1 loss from a winning position — the "curse" result that confirmed a further year without Major qualification. The earlier EU RMR A Day 1 in April 2023 and the IEM Rio RMR sequences in 2022 show the same structure: advancement through open qualifiers into the RMR, then elimination in the deciding series. For an entry rifler, those deciding series are the highest-leverage fixtures of the career to that point — opening duels against opponents of equivalent or superior preparation, with Major qualification as the immediate stake. The repeated failure to convert, across three RMR cycles, is recorded without individual attribution in headlines, which is consistent with roster-level elimination rather than single-player cause. The June 2024 CCT S2 EU Series 5 title, the third event win tallied in the headline, shows the level at which conversion did occur: European online series below the RMR threshold, where B8's preparation advantages held.

3. kONO: December 2024 to January 2026 and the unpaid-wages rupture

The kONO tenure from December 2024 to January 2026 is documented as a thirteen-month affiliation but must be read with the March 2026 headline "birdfromsky and b0RUP leave kONO over unpaid wages." That item, published two months after Derevinskiy's own departure, indicates financial dysfunction at the organisation during his tenure. The June 2025 item naming Juve as new kONO coach and the August 2025 items recording the signing of the WildLotus core and the departure of amster show continued roster movement around him.

The kONO period contains no trophies, MVPs or LAN placements in the JSON, and no match results from the spell appear in the recent-matches list, which covers only Inner Circle fixtures from August 2026 onward. The competitive record for these thirteen months is therefore thin in verifiable terms. What can be stated is continuity: Derevinskiy remained in organised competition through 2025, a year when many Ukrainian tier-two players cycled through short-term mixes, and entered 2026 with an active contract that Inner Circle then acquired.

The January 2026 move to Inner Circle is documented as "Inner Circle add zeRRoFIX and cptkurtka023 as CEO confirms cairne's move to NIP" on 9 January 2026. The headline records a double signing — Derevinskiy alongside Eduard "zeRRoFIX" Petrovskyi — triggered in part by the departure of cairne to NIP, confirmed by the CEO in the same item. The NIP completion with cairne on 11 January and the BLAST Bounty elimination of 3DMAX on 15 January provide the immediate context: Inner Circle reshaped its roster at the start of the season and tested it within a week.

The thirteen-month kONO spell, ending in a move to a higher-ranked organisation, follows the established pattern of tier-two Ukrainian careers: sustained performance in underfunded conditions leading to recruitment by a team with Major-qualifying ambitions. The unpaid-wages report that followed his departure clarifies the conditions endured.

4. Inner Circle arrival: January 2026 and the TNL-core project

Inner Circle from January 2026 to present is the current affiliation and the first in a team contesting tier-one-adjacent qualification. The organisation's construction is documented across the shared Inner Circle news index: the September 2025 completion of the TNL roster signing, the October 2025 MongolZ and M8s results, the January 2026 double signing, the March 2026 benching of Flierax and signing of headtr1ck, and the mid-2026 qualification runs.

The January 2026 double signing must be understood alongside the TNL core. Inner Circle in September 2025 had signed the TNL roster — the lineup containing Dawy and onic, covered in their companion biographies — and the January additions of Derevinskiy and zeRRoFIX supplemented that core after cairne's exit. The result was a Ukrainian-majority roster combining TNL's qualifier success with B8, kONO and Passion UA experience. For Derevinskiy at 27, the move placed him as one of the older players in a group that included 19-year-olds, a veteran entry function alongside developing talent.

The March 2026 changes — benching Flierax on 8 March and signing headtr1ck on 14 March — completed the current five. The headtr1ck signing, covered in detail in the companion biography, added a NAVI-academy graduate and former NIP AWPer to a roster that already contained two entry-oriented riflers. The tactical balance of that five, with Derevinskiy's Entrying 81 alongside Dawy's Entrying 81 and headtr1ck's AWP presence, is addressed in the profile chapter below.

The early Inner Circle results in the news index show immediate impact. The 15 January elimination of 3DMAX from BLAST Bounty, six days after the double signing, is the first headline of the tenure. The August 2026 items — the Vitality lower-bracket result on 27 August, the MOUZ Porto-spot loss on 29 August and the FUT home elimination on 30 August — belong to the BLAST Open Porto 2026 cycle and are covered in the 2026 chapter.

5. BLAST Open Porto 2026: Vitality upset and the tier-one measure

The BLAST Open Porto 2026 cycle provides the most detailed competitive sample because each fixture carries a stats link and several carry headlines. The qualification was secured on 12 July 2026, reported as "Inner Circle qualify for BLAST Open Porto." The main-event sequence in late August shows the team's level against tier-one opposition.

On 27 August, Inner Circle sent a meziiless Vitality to the lower bracket, headlined as "Inner Circle send meziiless Vitality to BLAST Open Porto lower bracket." The qualifier "meziiless" is material: Vitality played without mezii, which affects the weight of the result without negating it — a win over a top organisation's roster, even depleted, remains the most significant headline of Derevinskiy's Inner Circle tenure. On 29 August, MOUZ beat Inner Circle to secure the Porto spot, headlined as "MOUZ smash Inner Circle to secure Porto spot." On 30 August, FUT eliminated Inner Circle 2–0, headlined through dem0n's dominance with the team sent home 9–12th.

"Inner Circle send meziiless Vitality to BLAST Open Porto lower bracket."

The recent-matches list confirms the 0–2 FUT elimination on 30 August and places it alongside the September qualifiers. The Porto cycle therefore reads as qualification, one notable upset, then elimination before the playoffs — the same pattern documented for Alliance in the same period, but achieved against stronger opposition. For a roster assembled in January and completed in March, reaching the Porto qualification and taking a map-phase result off Vitality within six months indicates functional defaults.

The three-month rating of 1.12 recorded in the profile covers this period and sits at the top of the Inner Circle sample alongside Dawy's 1.12 and headtr1ck's 1.13. For an entry rifler, a 1.12 across Porto qualification and subsequent events indicates positive duel conversion in the fixtures that mattered. The Entrying 81 and Opening 62 scores align with that output: first-contact attempts at high volume with above-average conversion.

6. September 2026: Bucharest qualifiers and Logitech G Play Connect

The September 2026 fixtures provide a second detailed sample. At the PGL Masters Bucharest 2026 Europe Closed Qualifier, Inner Circle finished 5–6th: a 0–2 loss to Nemiga on 10 September, a 2–1 win over Ninjas in Pyjamas on 10 September, and a 0–2 loss to B8 — Derevinskiy's former organisation — on 11 September. The NIP victory, a 2–1 win over a historic Swedish brand, is the standout result; the B8 loss, against the team that replaced him eighteen months earlier, carries personal context without altering its competitive meaning as a qualifier elimination.

At Logitech G Play Connect 2026, Inner Circle finished 3–4th across six fixtures on 18–23 September: wins over BBL (13–7), Liquid (13–6), 3DMAX (13–9) and INFINITE (13–10), a 10–13 loss to EYEBALLERS, and a 1–2 series loss to 3DMAX on 23 September. The 13–6 win over Liquid on 18 September is the most significant single-map result in the sampled period, placing Inner Circle above a North American tier-one brand in a direct fixture. The 3–4th finish represents the deepest run in the recent-matches list.

Taken together, September shows a team winning the majority of its fixtures (five wins against three losses across the two events) but exiting both before the final. The pattern matches the Porto cycle: qualification and group-stage wins followed by elimination in the deciding series. Derevinskiy's role in that pattern, as the entry rifler with the highest Entrying score on the roster, is to create the opening advantages that the 13–6 and 13–7 scorelines reflect. The 10–13 and 0–2 losses show the limits when openings are denied.

7. Mechanical profile: first contact at high volume

The seven-attribute set — Firepower 66, Entrying 81, Trading 25, Opening 62, Clutching 45, Sniping 0, Utility 41 — describes a specialist entry rifler with unusual clarity. Entrying 81 is the highest score on the page by a wide margin and confirms designated first-through-the-door function. Opening 62 shows that those entries include round-opening duels, not only site executes. Firepower 66 indicates solid conversion without star-level carry.

The low scores are equally diagnostic. Trading 25 is among the lowest in the Inner Circle sample and confirms that Derevinskiy is not the second-man re-fragger — teammates trade his deaths rather than the reverse. Clutching 45 and Utility 41 show limited late-round and grenade contributions, which is expected for a player whose rounds typically end in the first fifteen seconds, either with an opening kill or a death that teammates trade. Sniping 0 confirms no AWP function, a role held by headtr1ck.

The contrast with Dawy, who shares Entrying 81 but pairs it with Opening 79, Firepower 86 and Trading 63, is instructive. Both attempt entries at the same designated rate, but Dawy converts openings more frequently and trades more often, while Derevinskiy absorbs more untraded deaths. That distribution is normal for a two-entry system: one entry creates space at cost, the other converts the resulting advantages. The 1.12 three-month ratings for both show the system functioning — the cost and conversion balancing across the roster.

The FACEIT headshot rate of 58.0% across 5,382 matches supports the entry characterisation: high headshot conversion in first-contact duels. The 25-match winning streak on the platform shows ladder competitiveness concurrent with the B8 and kONO years.

8. Position, earnings and the veteran entry horizon

The aggregate record is concise. At 27, Derevinskiy has four team affiliations, $55,568 in prize money, zero Major qualifications, zero Top 20 placements and zero MVP or EVP awards. The three-month rating is 1.12. The deepest recent results are the Logitech G Play Connect 3–4th and the Porto qualification with the Vitality upset. The longest tenure is the B8 spell at three years and two months; the current Inner Circle spell, at nine months in the October 2026 record, is the second substantive affiliation.

The comparative frame is the Ukrainian entry pool. At 27, Derevinskiy is older than Dawy (19), zeRRoFIX (19) and onic (21) on the same roster, and older than the B8 academy graduates who replaced him. His continued starting placement indicates that Inner Circle values experienced first contact over developmental potential in at least one rifle position. The entry function is physically demanding and typically peaks early; maintaining a 1.12 rating and an 81 Entrying score at 27 suggests preserved mechanics and adapted timing.

The outstanding items are those of the roster: a first Major qualification, a first LAN final, and conversion of a 3–4th into a title. Whether the current five, assembled across September 2025 to March 2026, can achieve those conversions is not answerable from the data. What the record establishes is a thirteen-month Incas apprenticeship, a three-year B8 tenure through wartime competition and RMR near-misses, a thirteen-month kONO spell through financial dysfunction, and a nine-month Inner Circle tenure with tier-one scalps — a career of persistence whose current chapter offers the highest level of competition yet attained.

The September 2026 NIP and B8 fixtures add a final layer of context. The 2–1 win over Ninjas in Pyjamas on 10 September, in the Bucharest closed qualifier, placed Inner Circle above one of Sweden's historic brands in a direct qualification series — a result that carries institutional weight beyond its ranking points. The 0–2 loss to B8 the following day, against the organisation that replaced Derevinskiy with kensizor in December 2024, closed the qualifier with elimination by his former team. That sequence — beating NIP, losing to B8 — encapsulates the tier-two reality: results fluctuate series to series, former teams remain direct competitors, and qualification depends on converting consecutive days rather than single upsets. For a 27-year-old entry rifler, maintaining an 81 Entrying score and a 1.12 rating through that volatility is the measurable basis for continued selection.

Sources

• https://www.hltv.org/news/45420/dem0n-dominates-as-inner-circle-are-sent-home — BLAST Open Porto elimination, August 2026.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45414/mouz-smash-inner-circle-to-secure-porto-spot — MOUZ Porto-spot match, August 2026.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45400/inner-circle-send-meziiless-vitality-to-blast-open-porto-lower-bracket — Vitality upset, August 2026.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/43596/inner-circle-add-zerrofix-and-cptkurtka023-as-ceo-confirms-cairnes-move-to-nip — double signing, January 2026.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/43640/inner-circle-eliminate-3dmax-from-blast-bounty — BLAST Bounty elimination of 3DMAX, January 2026.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/40624/b8-replace-cptkurtka023-with-kensizor — B8 replacement, December 2024.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/40325/headtr1ck-and-npl-seek-to-lift-b8s-rmr-curse — RMR curse context, November 2024.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/44013/birdfromsky-and-b0rup-leave-kono-over-unpaid-wages — kONO wages report, March 2026.
• https://www.hltv.org/events/9266/logitech-g-play-connect-2026 — Logitech G Play Connect 2026 event page; 3–4th.
• https://www.hltv.org/events/8249/blast-open-porto-2026 — BLAST Open Porto 2026 event page; 9–12th.
• https://www.hltv.org/stats/matches/130890/inner-circle-vs-3dmax — Inner Circle vs 3DMAX stats, September 2026.
• https://www.hltv.org/stats/matches/130709/inner-circle-vs-liquid — Inner Circle vs Liquid stats, September 2026.
• HLTV player profile record (player ID 16147) — age, prize money, team tenure, attributes, FACEIT summary, recent matches, achievements and news index cited throughout.

Data source: HLTV player profile record. Generated: 2026-10-10.