After Miracle-, Arteezy and recently Kaka, RAMZES666 becomes the fourth player to break the 9000 matchmaking rating barrier.?

This week, among all the roster shuffles preceding the Fall Major, a couple of players have yet again succeeding in crossing the 9k MMR mark, which seemed so alien when it was first done by Amer 'Miracle-' Al-Barkawi in May this year. These players include Hu 'Kaka' Liangzhi, the Chinese support player for Newbee, who was also the first player to do so in his region, and playing the support role almost exclusively. His faceoff was against iG Vitality's Zhang 'Yuno' Chengjun, as they both battled through the Chinese servers to be the first Chinese to achieve 9000 MMR.

Roman 'RAMZES666' Kushnarev's story was no different. As the seventeen year old prodigy raced through the European servers, Team Liquid's carry - Lasse 'MATUMBAMAN' Urpalainen - certainly gave him a run for his money. However, as both of them battled for the honour of being the fourth player to breach 9000 MMR, Ramzes seemed to come out on top. The youngster achieved the feat with a stomp, much like Kaka, the only difference being that Ramzes' game on Huskar only lasted for nineteen and a half minutes, which seemed enough to guarantee an exact rating of 9000, and the honour of being the first player from the CIS region to be part of the 9k club. Unfortunately, MATUMBAMAN fell just short, being only three wins away from being part of the same club, but his competition continues with Yuno, who is only two wins away from reaching 9k mmr.

Ramzes was a part of the Fall Reshuffle also, as he left Team Empire to be a part of the new Virtus Pro roster. Now, with his confident performances in ranked matches, Ramzes should definitely have high morale going into the qualifiers for the upcoming Fall Major with his newly formed team.