HLTV Prospects spotlight: xeedo, kashl1d and qw1nk1
The Prospects spotlight is back with a triple edition featuring interviews with the young core of K27 : Aleksey "xeedo" Mikulich (#3 HLTV Prospects), Danila "kashl1d" Dronov (#7), and Daniil "qw1nk1" Kabilov (#11).
HLTV3 Nov 2026 · 1 min read
xeedo was born and raised in the Belarusian town of Vitebsk, the hometown of modernist painter Marc Chagall.
It's where he played his first LANs and where he still lives to this day, although with all of the traveling brought on by a flourishing Counter-Strike career, he is rarely home.
K27 's Opener and highest-ranked player on the prospects list in October, xeedo , doesn't remember the specifics of how he got into Counter-Strike.
He was playing all sorts of games by the age of six, and CS was among them, although it wouldn't be until his teenage years that he would take it more seriously, starting to play FACEIT in 2021.
Two years later, in 2023, he competed at his first LANs with friends. "There, a Belarusian scout with the nickname dstr noticed me," he recalls.
"He invited me to play a LAN in Minsk, where I then played several LANs." He played his first LAN in Minsk on a team with Svyatoslav "MaSvAl" Masko , another Belarusian player starting to make a name for himself with magic .
