NAVI ownership allegedly changed hands behind closed doors 2 years ago and no one knew

The Ukrainian Esports organization Natus Vincere (NAVI) has changed palms in an allegedly below-the-table negotiation that draws far more inquiries than it responses.

The organization’s new owner, Maksym Krippa, has a history certainly worthy of searching into. 

NAVI’s Counter-Strike esports crew laid the groundwork for the org to inevitably propel by itself into the large it is today. The accomplishment of their CS teams pushed them to department out into distinctive video games and exciting titles, like their latest introduction into the VALORANT expert scene.

Since 2012, the NAVI corporation has built $18.7 million in prize dollars throughout a variety of online video-activity titles and has stars like Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, an case in point of the caliber of players they host.

Oleksandr Kokhanovsky was the founder and operator of the CIS corporation. Nevertheless, he registered the business enterprise lawfully through the British Virgin Islands and only in July 2022 was it uncovered to have altered palms. 

According to reports from Forbes Ukraine, an undisclosed transfer of possession took place in 2020 to Ukrainian businessman Maksym Krippa, leaving issues as to why the transform was hidden for so extended. 

Who is Maksym Krippa?

Krippa is a character, to say the the very least. He has been a element of and even started numerous companies involving promoting, program output, rental of machinery and equipment, and buying and selling.

Weirdly, he’s an professional in volcanoes, with a diploma from the Institute of Volcanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He allegedly has previous business connections to Maksym Polyakov, a gentleman whose portfolio ranges from missiles to adult internet sites.

Krippa is also linked with on the net casinos. His known associations involve organizations like GG.Wager and Vulkan Bets, betting websites commonly recognised among the esports local community. GG.Guess is also sponsoring the

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As college football aims to curtail flopping, officials continue throwing up their hands in frustration

A three-person committee quietly reviews what amounts to the biggest in-game ethics violation plaguing college football after each week of the season. They watch film of players pulling muscles, breaking bones and suffering concussions.

Then they must decide whether what they just saw was real or not.

The little-known group was assembled by the NCAA Football Rules Committee in the offseason as the next evolution in the fight against flopping. The term refers to the practice of faking injuries, usually on the part of a defense with the hopes of slowing down an opposing offense.

The tactic been around for years. It is wrong, distasteful and against the rules.

Just don’t try to convince yourself — or anyone else — you’ve actually seen flopping.

“It’s just hard to prove with any degree of certainty,” said Stanford coach David Shaw, a current board member of the American Football Coaches Association.

That lasting uncertainty is bugging the spit out of the game. It’s incredibly difficult to accurately measure flopping intent. Forget about counting violations like they’re penalties on a stat sheet.

Then there is the ethics of flopping. Some coaches like Shaw wouldn’t practice the piece of gamesmanship if their buyout depended on it. Others obviously relish the tactic, installing it in secret then breaking out a refined version to trick opponents and officials on Saturdays.

The game’s overseers are literally throwing up their hands in frustration over what to do.

“I say this and I mean it,” said Steve Shaw, national officiating coordinator and NCAA secretary-editor of the rules committee. “If you’re lying in bed tonight and come up with the perfect solution, call me — because we’re looking for it.”

Flopping is an accepted subterfuge in soccer. Defenders in basketball are rewarded for drawing sometimes-embellished charging fouls, though that sport

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