Alex "alexiiik" Hawlasek has been revealed as Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #24 ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky alexiiik Alex Hawlasek Ruxic Uğur Güç hiro Emirhan Kat 's newest duelist, taking the spot of Gianfranco "koalanoob" Potestio, who was officially released from the organization.

alexiiik is a long-time tier-two grinder, playing in VCL East since its inception in 2022. After a long time with Enterprise Esports Enterprise Esports Europe Rank #6 jas Jasiek Nieliwodzki Kiles Vlad Shvets zeek Aleksander Zygmunt starki Krzysztof Lewandrowski doma Domagoj Fancev , the duelist player hit his biggest stride in 2024 with GoNext Esports GoNext Esports Inactive demek Dawid Madrak Czester Nikolas Żarów Kozok Kamil Kozioł NeFi Filip Pawlak . The team swept the league for the year, winning both splits to earn the region's Ascension slot. GoNext started strong in Ascension, taking down the eventual winners of Apeks Apeks Europe Rank #33 penny Erik Penny OLIZERA Diogo Oliveira MOLSI Michał Łącki AvovA Auni Chahade batujnax Mehmet Batu Özaslan in the first round, but they eventually flamed out and were eliminated in the group stage. Most recently, he's been with Zero Tenacity Zero Tenacity Inactive pyrolll Artur Minin Prti Ivan Erak Grmekista Tilen Grmek msh Miłosz Szubański TajReX Patryk Hojoł , who's found mild success in VCL NORTH//EAST, reaching second place in the latest split.

NAVI as a team has started heating up as the year progresses. They went out in the bottom four at Kickoff, but started finding their wins come Stage 1. They elevated past Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #13 Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner UNFAKE Bartosz Bernacki KovaQ Blendi Kovaci Less Felipe de Loyola Basso and Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #9 saadhak Matias Delipetro Avez Hazem Khaled Elite Efe Teber SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin marteen Martin Pátek to reach the top six of EMEA. Aiming higher however, NAVI benched koalanoob shortly after their elimination from the EWC qualifier, leaving room for their newest duelist to come in.

alexiiik will play his first match with NAVI this Saturday, taking on Turkey's ULF Esports ULF Esports Europe Rank #11 audaz Soner Ekiz s0pp Efe Tur nekky Anıl Dağdeviren echo Ömür Serkan Şenol Favian Enes Yiğiter in the BtcTurk GameFest. He will then make his VCT debut in Stage 2 against Apeks on July 16.

Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #24 ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky alexiiik Alex Hawlasek Ruxic Uğur Güç hiro Emirhan Kat is now:

  • Kyrylo "ANGE1" Karasov
  • Andrey "Shao" Kiprsky
  • Alex "alexiiik" Hawlasek
  • Uğur "Ruxic" Güç
  • Emirhan "hiro" Kat
  • Vincent "Happy" Schopenhauer (Head coach)
  • Dmytro "chippy" Bychenko (Assistant coach)
  • Zuzanna "Zuzanna" Hejduk-Mostowy (Performance coach)
  • Urszula "Xirreth" Klimczak (Performance coach)