Yacine "Yacine" Laghmari has rejoined Guild Esports Guild Esports Inactive on loan, confirming our previous report. He will be playing in place of Russel "Russ" Mendes, who has moved to the inactive roster.

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Welcome home, @YACINELAGHMARI!

He joins our active roster for the upcoming #VALORANTLCQ 💪
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After nearly qualifying for Champions 2021, Guild parted ways with most of the roster sans Saif "Sayf" Jibraeel and Leo "Leo" Jannesson. Guild rebuilt their roster with the likes of Russ, Nikita "trexx" Cherednichenko, and IGL Jose "koldamenta" Luis Aranguren.

Guild qualified for Stage 1: EMEA Challengers via EU Challengers. They ended with a 3-2 record after going on a three-game winning streak at the start of the split. As a result, they came into playoffs as the Group B third-seed. Guild's run was short-lived as they were eliminated by M3 Champions M3 Champions Inactive Jady Yaroslav Nikolaev purp0 Semyon Borchev Chronicle Timofey Khromov Redgar Igor Vlasov .

In Stage 2, Guild turned over a new leaf, qualifying for playoffs as the Group B first seed. The roster went on a hot streak as their win over M3C solidified their spot in Masters: Copenhagen. In Masters, Guild qualified as the Group A first seed after defeating then reigning champions OpTic Gaming OpTic Gaming Inactive and KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #2 keznit Angelo Mori Mazino Roberto Rivas adverso Benjamín Poblete Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro . However, the EMEA representative exited in the top eight as they were outmatched by the eventual finalists Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #5 mindfreak Aaron Leonhart Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov in the upper bracket and eventual winners FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix Inactive SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin Zyppan Pontus Eek ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky ardiis Ardis Svarenieks in the lower bracket.

At the start of VCT 2022, Yacine played with the unsigned team YONK YONK Inactive M4CHINA Ouali Manset bonkar Malkolm Rench krea6on Vilius Malinauskas Nille Nichlas Busk Yacine Yacine Laghmari . The roster attempted to qualify for EMEA Challengers but fell short. They set their sights on VRL NE: Polaris, where their qualification into the group stage caught the eye of Tundra Esports Tundra Esports Inactive bonkar Malkolm Rench Nille Nichlas Busk krea6on Vilius Malinauskas . Tundra disbanded shortly after their defeat to EXCEL EXCEL Inactive Moe40 Muhammad Hariff chiwa Egor Stepanyuk paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski Foxie Tyler Lowton ALIVE Gilad Hakim in the VRL NE playoffs.

For the second split, Yacine and his ex-Guild teammate Malkolm "bonkar" Rench and ex-Tundra teammate Ouali "M4CHINA" Manset were picked up by Finest Finest Inactive DESTRUCT1VEE Hakan Lekesizer Kicks Kimmie Laasner bonkar Malkolm Rench . The roster came into playoffs as the second seed after going 5-2 in the group stage. Finest were ultimately defeated by EXCEL in both upper and grand finals, thus losing their spot in VRL Finals.

Guild will play in EMEA Last Chance Qualifiers, where they will face seven other teams for the last chance to represent EMEA at Champions.

For the EMEA LCQ, Guild Esports Guild Esports Inactive are: