Former OpTic Gaming member Kevin "HS" Tarn will play for HellRaisers at the StarSeries i-League Season 4 event, the CIS organisation has revealed.

The Estonian talent will fill in for Issa "⁠ISSAA⁠" Murad, who will miss the beginning of the Ukrainian event due to visa issues, with HellRaisers stating that they are doing their best to help the Jordanian player "join the team as soon as possible."

Kevin "⁠HS⁠" Tarn is currently a free agent after being released by OpTic, whom he had joined from PENTA in August. In 2017, he averaged a 1.06 rating on LAN, with his best performances coming at the PGL Major Krakow Qualifier (1.32 rating) and at the ESEA Season 24 MDL Global Challenge (1.15).

HS will step in for HellRaisers in Kiev until ISSAA gets his visa

HellRaisers have been drawn against Natus Vincere in the first Swiss round of StarSeries i-League Season 4, which will run from February 17-25 at the Kiev Cybersport Arena. This will be the first event that the team will attend since re-signing Vladyslav "⁠bondik⁠" Nechyporchuk, who replaced Kristjan "⁠fejtZ⁠" Allsaar on the roster.

This means that the European team will play at least their first match in Kiev with:

Kirill "⁠ANGE1⁠" Karasiow
Bence "⁠DeadFox⁠" Böröcz
Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker
Vladyslav "⁠bondik⁠" Nechyporchuk
Kevin "⁠HS⁠" Tarn (stand-in)

Issa 'ISSAA' Murad Age: 21 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 224 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.67 Kevin 'HS' Tarn Age: 21 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 415 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.69 Kirill 'ANGE1' Karasiow Age: 28 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 1299 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.70 Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk Age: 24 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 829 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.66 Natus Vincere #10 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov Kristjan 'fejtZ' Allsaar Age: 20 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 473 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.67 HellRaisers #19 Issa 'ISSAA' MuradKirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowVladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukÖzgür 'woxic' EkerBence 'DeadFox' Böröcz Bence 'DeadFox' Böröcz Age: 23 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 573 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.66 Özgür 'woxic' Eker Age: 19 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 376 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.62