primmie aka primey

Let's gooo!

Oh yeah, he does. Didn't know he was that young as well.

Honestly, I love Milan - and with the 3 int. grand finals appearances in 2025 and consistently strong results etc., he has proven that his playstyle works. However, I believe that Fnatic is doing the right thing. Sometimes you simply need a fresh perspective and so many players have said that Desmo is someone who understands the game really, really well. He even delivered a great performance while playing as a sub.

So yeah, let's go. Milan will find a job no matter what, too (maybe PCF should sign him).

And I think another extremely good decision was the hiring of Szed as a Performance Coach. Since then, the vibes at FNC seem to be even (!) better. After G2 signed their own PC, jawgemo f.i. praised the general work of PCs, noting that he has been able to focus better on matches ever since; because the PC helped him address issues in his personal life that he previously couldn't solve so easily on his own.

So happy for the guys of EP! Worked so hard. kozzy... the craziest 2010 born fella in Valorant.

2 most entertaining T2 teams beside of Besiktas in EMEA.

Teams like GIANTX, Pacific, KC, Gentle Mates and possibly even Fnatic are def. already scouting.

Of course you can. I just wondered why... not a big deal. I just muted everything then.

That guy is only yapping 24/7 and has the game literally muted. Why are you even streaming the match then?

2 super inconsistent teams. I still hope KC wins because if SUYGETSU.

Yeah, it's just always the adrenaline when I'm watching or just watched a match.

Boaster is a genius. Ultimately, he is the one who executes the pre-planned strategies live and under pressure. Under Boasters leadership, good players turn into world-class players and I believe that Kaajak being awarded wih "Rookie of the Year" and 3 more personal awards in 2025 was (at least in some small part) due to Boaster. His IGLing basically ensured that Fnatic reached 3 grand finals, even after all their roster troubles. And sure, we're finally seeing Vitality perform now, but Chronicle under Boaster was on a whole other level - SIGNIFICANTLY more impressive than the Chronicle we see on VIT (at least for now).

That's why I think Sayonara could have become a player close to maybe even Leo, had he played under Boaster. Perhaps he'll turn out just as magnificent regardless, but under Boaster - and alongside Alfa, Kaajak and Chron - he undoubtedly would have been in the absolute best hands. It's a shame that team could never be fully realized in VCT.

Dude... PCF should probably just rebuild around al0rante... xD He is the only player who is performing well on a regular basis.

d3ffo is currently doing great self-promotion. I hope either BOOM will make it back to Tier 1 or somebody picks him up for VCT in 2027... maybe another Team Secret rebuild or another rebuild in EMEA / Americas.

Such an amazing match. Neon vs. erde was crazy!

Btw.: "erde" means "earth" in German.

2023 was the year with the b2b majors.
Then... Leo (the best rated player in the world) has to stop competing because of long-COVID.
Last year: 3 grand finals and no trophies
Then... Chronicle leaves for Vitality.
After Kickoff the team finally looks good again with Veqaj.
Then... Veqaj becomes ill and takes a break.
And now? Everything is bamboozled, Kaajak and Alfa both try to carry but 2 players can't carry a 5v5 game for their team. Alfajers view says everything.

It's def. sad and frustrating.

Alfa and Kaajak, both. You can see how frustrated both are. Kaajak last year with Chron and crashies giving his plays structure and Alfa having his back was Duelist perfection. :(

I honestly hope Fnatic will rebuild around Kaajak and Alfa next season with Boaster taking over a coaching role beside of Milan somewhere.

Crazy to see how many players have left or taken a break over the last 2 seasons, for reasons totally outside of Fnatics control. Hopefully the rest of the year will be better. A partial restructuring in 2027 seems logical; at some point you gotta tackle that "long-term project."

GGs to Heretics, wish you guys all the best in London.

Btw.: Seeing Alfa heartbroken like that... nah, that's not what he deserves.

It just sucks when your roster changes every 2nd week. And what happens at Stage 2? Veqaj returns and needs time to acclimatize just 1 match after FNC with CyvOph starts to work perfectly. I already see it coming.

But on the other hand I'm happy for benjy, RieNs etc. that they feel it again. If they win today, I wish them all the best for the rest of Playoffs.

Hard times for Fnatic supporters.

nAts talking like a Jedi master.

Derke, Chronicle, Sayonara -> former Fnatic players
Scuttt -> former Fnatic Assistant coach

More former BBL players? Jamppi, PROFEK

And yes, Fnatic replaced Derke with Kaajak because their ideas about meta, strats etc. was drifting apart (Derke talked about that in an stream and how quick living esports is on stream... the VOD is still on YT). Chronicle also said that Kaajak is the more talented Duelist than Derke and that Kaajak is 100% the best mechanical Duelist when it comes to pure aim (which is also backed by the detailed numbers of 2025), but all that doesn't matter when a team struggles with heavy issues.

Fnatic always had roster issues when it mattered a lot. The best rated VCT player of all time (Leo) had to stop playing due to health reasons, Kaajak was sick during his first major, Alfajer was sick during the last major and had to be replaced for the match vs. PRX with Doma (they still won), Veqaj had to replace Chronicle as a quick solution because Vitality didn't inform Fnatic about the transfer (there is a Twitter post of Cojo about that) and now Veqaj is ill and they needed to replace him (CyvOph was the quickest possible option). Also FNC had money issues in recent years while Vitality has literally endless money.

So yeah, I absolutely dislike the idea how Vitalitys managment is handling business.

But I will always love Derke and Chronicle who archived their greatest performances with Fnatic (major b2b) and even though Sayonara is sadly not continuing his career with Kaajak, Boaster etc., at leats is he still playing with Chronicle. That matters. Nobody knows how team rosters will look alike in 2027 or 2028.

What? Karma? First of all: Where, when the stats overall are still positive for FNC?! Second: FNC lost Leo, signed Kaajak and got Sayonara for the offseason with the idea of continue to work with him. Vitality then quickly signed him afterwards and also talked with Chronicle behind Fnatics back, offering him way more money than FNC ever could and didn't respect the code of honor there and just announcing the contract without letting Cojo and FNC know. Rat behavior by the org. They did the same with signing of Scuttt - during a very critical phase of Fnatics work. PAL and the managment treated Less kinda weird in terms of respect and they cutted him off after he just sorted everything out to get his dad to Berlin as well - again not letting someone know and just saying "bye bye" (Less talked about that recently and PAL even said it was his idea).

Nobody talks bad about the players. Every FNC supporter loves Derke (Derke even here and then comes to FNC matches to watch live), Sayonara even just answered on one of Boasters PDF sheets he'd love to play / work with him again and Chronicle and the FNC players are even shouting funny things towards each other during every single match.

There is no spreaded hate. There is just trashtalk against the orgs managment and the orgs strategy, which is simply ratty. Vitality at the moment is basically Fnatic 2.0, that's a fact. But yeah... literally every FNC supporter on Reddit, YT etc. talks positive about Derke, Chron, Sayo, Scuttt and Jamppi. Jamppi worked so hard for this all... also with BBL. He deserves this.

Btw.: I'm supporter of FNC because of the players, not because I love the CEO of Fnatic. I like Vitalitys players, I love Vitality CS2 but I absolutely don't like the behavior of Vitality Valorants managment / squad builders.

Dark day for all FNC / PRX supporters and FNS... xD

Yeah, dunno. First map was a full desaster. I mean I was happy to see Derke perform like that on Jett (I hope he 24/7 Jett in London) but yeah... dunno man.

It just sucks that we're not able to have a constant roster for a few months.

Leo retires due to health reasons
Not able to sign Sayonara
Chronicle gone
Veqaj ill

Like WTF?!

Deserved win, deserved little revenge for them. Vitality finally performing like they're supposed to perform.
I'm happy for Jamppi, Chron, Sayo etc. Seeing Jamppi in tears like that made me feel like "Yeah, it's okay."

But yeah... Fnatic is def. "allowed" to lose like that with all that crazy roster bad luck.

GGs Lowers it is.

primmie <3

FS in London = max. cool!

GGs

Congrats GE, amazing match. What a team performance. Especially happy for PatMen...

But I really hope PRX will make it to London, too.

GGs

You can't say but Vitality earned this. After weeks of "meh" performances they showed up when it mattered. Sayonara def. showed why he is mentioned as one of the biggest rookies / talents in the world - especially someone who is good on any type of agent and has great mechanics at the same time. Clear MVP.

And also... I was not really happy with some of the things Chronicle did and said during recent matches, but what he just talked about sounded like the old Chronicle from Fnatic. Supporting the rookie (Sayo), helping his team in any way possible and talking about respect and "friends" when talking about Fnatic... that's really, really honorable.

kozzy is def. the craziest 16 year old player... I hope so much that he gets a contract with a serious attempt to make him a great T1 player.

Rest in peace! :(

BABYBAY is easily one of my fav. players at this point. I would love to see an offseason jff match with the oldest VCT players vs. the youngest. So BABYBAY, Boaster etc. vs. Sayonara, erde etc.

ENVY rebuild?!
Duelist: penny / Boni
Initiator + IGL: NiSMO / Dark3st
Controller: sorex / Notexxd / Spaz / exa / Zander / Shondex
Sentinel + 2nd Duelist: Demon1
Flex: Kyu / neT

Sooo many nice options from Tier 2 NA (don't take it too serious... I know it's not that easy)

Down to erde game. :)
But honestly... I was waiting for this guy to show up in VCT. Together with Neon he dominated Tier 2.
Nice to see LOUD becoming better and better... very sympathic team as well. lukxo, erde, Virty, caua, Darker... all are just chill and well mannered.

GGs

Very good adaptation from 100T. GGs

You're blind. He aced in the last match, also won almost an 1v5 clutch today... had literally 0 bait kills.
You have no clue about this game. His Phoenix and Raze are very good... his Veto was kinda meh.

Also... you should see that they're playing Neon x Raze. So who is entrying? Neon. bipo never gets entry kills, then you can't throw away your 2nd Duelist as well. So he gotta play smart. MiniBoo flanked and backshot almost half his kills on Lotus.

And when you still think "KD farming" works in Tier 1 like that you're lost.

GGs

Love to see MiniBoo giving starxo etc. some of their toxicity back with shooting their bodies (usually I don't like it, but you also never see him doing it - he just did it today and that's a clear sign).
And marteen should honestly run away when his contract is ending.
Love to see purp0 finally in a team where he feels home. Dude is such an amazing player. nAts W IGL. Likeable team.

marteen is insane on Raze and Phoenix. Not his fault that his team sucks.

I feel so bad for marteen. He is literally the ONLY player at M8 doing smart plays and has good aim. They need to rebuild for sure.

Absolutely deserved win, EF know how to not fall under pressure even though admitting to feel it and echo also said he feels a bit sad for GX, which is very sympathic in my eyes. Impressing. nekky is such an nice and chill IGL, I really like this guy - and the whole team.

Honestly... I don't think Vitality deserve this boost... especially after their dirty tactics to sign players and how their coach PAL treated Less and then Chronicle talking big about going to beat Fnatic (fail), Derke shooting Alfajers body etc. Vitality Valorant are like the opposite of Vitality CS2, which is the best team in the history of CS with the best player ever (ZywOo) being totally down to earth.

GGs

What a match. CyvOph did an insane job for being just a few days with the boys.

And Kaajak is slowly but surely coming closer to his 2025 form. Insane performance!

GGs

Get well soon Veqaj & thank you for playing CyvOph. <3

I hope this will be a great match even though it will be insanely difficult for FNC. I really like BBL, too.

PCF should keep al0rante and seven and replace the others. Or just keep al0rante.

TH look strong again. Old RieNs back? I hope so. :)

GGs

I alain related to Sayo? Because of the family name.

Yeah or like that. :)

True. wayne is def. very talented but maybe it's the playstyle and wayne is not used to the winter environment in central Europe. So yeah, maybe with the summer around the corner he gets better - and with Stage 2 VCT moves to Spain because I think many players didn't like the cold / rainy weather in Germany in fall etc.

Whatever happens... GSR is def. a crazy talent.

GSR is crazy, yeah. I wonder who he'd replace at TL next season?! purp0 gets better and better. Maybe nAts go full Controller, they replace wayne and put someone else on Senti.

Keikoooo. :)

I love seeing Keiko, something, Derke etc. on Jett again. I missed that.
And mada on Harbor is crazy work. xD

GGs Fun watch.

Yep. Only Sayonara looks promising... I mean he turned 18 just before Stage 1. He is their best fragger, plays great util, never stands up. I hope he finds a new team.

KRÜ playing perfect Valorant on their maps.

Developing into top favourites. You can tell they are just enjoying gaming. Just look at their kill distributions... the team play is on another level.

Here bro... just found this: https://x.com/ajdouninho/status/2047774758297624739

So many people see it like us.

CS2 Vitality > every other FPS esports team in history
What ZywOo, ropz etc. currently playing is literally the best competitive FPS we ever recognized. They set a new reference (still doing).

Neon & Sato vs. Demon1 & keznit :) This will be fun.

GGWP :)

Karma hits VIT once more.

Sayonara is easily one of the smartest players. Can't wait to see how he is developing... so damn good.

But yeah, I'm glad people saw Lar0k is a super friendly guy during the 1v1 vs. Jamppi. Trashtalk is not really showing peoples true personality (otherwise Fnatic and Derke / Chron wouldn't trashtalk during the game and being super chill afterwards).

Please 3 maps.

You are watching different matches then.

He just 1v4 Ace clutched and played great matches on Phoenix and Raze.