DM Signs With Team Yandex as Noticed Heads to PARIVISION in Dota 2’s Swap of the Season

Everyone in the CIS Dota 2 scene knew this announcement was coming. The only mystery was when the orgs would stop pretending. On May 24, Team Yandex made it official: Dmitry “DM” Dorokhin joins the roster as a permanent offlaner, and Evgeniy “Noticed” Ignatenko moves to the inactive list. Across the aisle, PARIVISION has yet to confirm what insiders have whispered for months, but the writing covers every available wall: Noticed is their guy going forward.

What makes this particular Dota 2 roster swap so fascinating is not the names involved. It is the results. Both teams got measurably, demonstrably better the moment they swapped their position 3 players, and both won tier-1 championships to prove it.

From Stand-In to Starter: DM’s Road Back to Yandex

The timeline reads like a bureaucratic comedy with a happy ending. PARIVISION benched DM on January 31, announcing that the organization was open to offers. One day later, 19-year-old Valery “SSS” Lazarev arrived from 1w Team. No[o]ne acknowledged in a PGL Wallachia Season 7 interview that DM’s departure had nothing to do with gameplay. He hinted at internal friction without spelling it out, and DM himself later suggested he had lost understanding with the squad. The arrival of Clement “Puppey” Ivanov as head coach in late January added another variable. Whether Puppey influenced the decision remains a matter of community speculation, but the timing was conspicuous.

DM spent February teamless. Then Noticed ran into visa problems ahead of PGL Wallachia Season 7 in Bucharest, and Yandex needed an emergency replacement. The irony was thick: PARIVISION’s discarded offlaner suited up for their CIS rival and proceeded to help Team Yandex win the entire tournament. The squad opened with a rough 0-2 sweep against HEROIC, the kind of start that usually confirms stand-in skeptics. DM took a game or two to find his footing inside a system built around watson, CHIRA_JUNIOR, Malady, and Saksa. But once the gears caught, Yandex rattled off wins against MOUZ, Falcons, PARIVISION themselves, Aurora, and Team Liquid. They beat Liquid twice on the final Sunday, including a grueling 3-2 grand final where Liquid had already played over twelve hours of Dota before the series even began.

Watson and CHIRA_JUNIOR collected their first LAN trophies. DM collected proof that his career was far from finished. Yandex pocketed $300,000 and a second tier-1 title after their DreamLeague Season 27 win in December 2025.

Noticed Answers With a Championship of His Own

The parallel storyline ran at the same speed. When DM continued as Yandex’s offlaner through PGL Wallachia Season 8 and beyond, Noticed found himself in limbo. Still contracted to Yandex, he had no role to play while DM occupied his seat. The first signal came at 1win Essence I in early May, when PARI announced that Noticed would replace SSS for the tournament. No reason was given for SSS’s absence, and none of the parties offered clarification. PARI, already stacked with Satanic, No[o]ne, 9Class, Dukalis, and Puppey’s coaching, absorbed Noticed into the offlane and rolled through the bracket.

Then came DreamLeague Season 29, the real proving ground. Yandex had already dropped their slot (the team skipped the event to rest before BLAST SLAM VII, having secured their Esports World Cup berth via EPT points). Their spot went to Team Falcons. Noticed, still officially on Yandex’s books, continued as PARI’s stand-in for the entire tournament.

Sixteen teams. A $1,000,000 prize pool. And PARI went 6-1 in the group stage, their only blemish a loss to the unpredictable PlayTime from South America. The playoff run was surgical: three consecutive 2-1 upper bracket victories before a five-game grand final against Aurora Gaming that went the full distance. In the deciding Game 5, PARI closed it out with a Gyro-Io combination that felt like a callback to an older era of CIS Dota. Noticed himself put up a signature performance on Slardar in the series opener, finishing with 13 kills and 15 assists without a single death. Hotspawn ran a piece mid-tournament calling him one of the most mechanically gifted offlaners in the scene alongside Collapse. Watching him thread initiations for Satanic and No[o]ne, it was hard to disagree.

PARI claimed $290,000 and their fourth tier-1 title. Their second DreamLeague championship. Their first trophy of the 2025-2026 season after a slow start that, in retrospect, mapped onto the months they spent trying to develop SSS rather than fielding the player who clearly fit.

Why Both Teams Got Better

The instinct is to frame this as a simple upgrade narrative: Noticed is better than SSS, DM is better than Noticed for Yandex’s system. But the reality is more specific than that.

DM’s strengths match what Yandex needed from their pos 3. He is a stable, low-resource offlaner whose hero pool leans toward Venomancer, Beastmaster, and Doom. He creates space without demanding it. Yandex’s engine runs through watson’s carry farming patterns and CHIRA_JUNIOR’s mid-lane aggression. Their previous system with Noticed worked well enough to win DreamLeague Season 27 and finish runner-up at ESL One Birmingham, but the team’s 13-game winning streak in March, with DM, was their longest in history.

Noticed, by contrast, is a playmaker. His mechanical ceiling is higher. He wants resources, he wants kills, and he wants to be the one setting the pace of engagements. At PARI, he slots into a squad that already has a veteran mid (No[o]ne), a hyper-aggressive young carry (Satanic), and a coach who understands how to deploy aggression across the map. Puppey has spoken openly about teaching the team “how to smoke” and “what to control.” Noticed gives Puppey a third lane that can win on its own terms rather than survive.

The numbers tell the story. Yandex won PGL Wallachia Season 7 with DM. PARI won DreamLeague Season 29 with Noticed. Both of those were tier-1, million-dollar events. Both results came with the respective players in “stand-in” status, which is the sort of beautifully absurd detail that CIS Dota has always specialized in.

The Dominoes Fall Before EWC and TI

The timing of the official announcement, on the same day PARI won DreamLeague Season 29, was almost theatrical. Team Yandex posted to their Telegram channel: “For those who closely follow the professional Dota 2 scene, this is no longer news. But now we are happy to announce it officially.” The tone was knowing and slightly amused, as if Yandex’s social media team understood they were confirming what the entire community had treated as settled fact since April.

What remains officially unconfirmed is Noticed’s permanent move to PARIVISION. SSS is still listed as the contracted offlaner. Noticed is still labeled a stand-in on every roster page and stat tracker. But two tournaments, one championship, and a public benching from his parent org leave little room for alternative interpretations.

The Esports World Cup 2026 is scheduled for Paris in July, with both Team Yandex and PARIVISION holding direct invites through their EPT standings. The International 2026 follows in August. For Yandex, the current roster of watson, CHIRA_JUNIOR, DM, Malady, and Saksa will enter EWC as a unit that has played together across multiple events already. For PARI, formalizing Noticed’s signing before Paris becomes a practical necessity.

The CIS region has two teams in the top tier heading into the year’s biggest events, and both of them are stronger because they exchanged a single player. Dota 2 transfers rarely produce outcomes this clean. The swap benefited everyone involved except SSS, and even that story is incomplete: SSS is 19 years old. His chapter at PARI may be over, but the chapter after that has not been written.

What has been written, in championship trophies and in a team Telegram announcement with a slightly smug tone, is that DM belongs on Team Yandex and Noticed belongs on PARIVISION. The scene figured this out months ago. The paperwork is catching up.