Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #9 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso have removed Lukas "feqew" Petrauskas and Ouali "M4CHINA" Manset from their active lineup.
Both players were part of the original FrenzyGoKill FrenzyGoKill Inactive bramz Bayram Ben Redjeb M4CHINA Ouali Manset vakk Vakaris Bebravičius feqew Lukas Petrauskas ceNder Jokūbas Labutis roster signed by the Vitality. After some promising results early on in the VCT Stage 1: Challengers 1, the team was knocked out by Monkey Business in the top 16. They never advanced further in the VCT brackets, leading to these changes.
In the second Challengers event, the French-Lithuanian squad exited the qualifier in the top 32 after a disappointing result against iPon Team Horizon Reapers. Before having their last chance in Challengers 3, they participated in the epic32, where they forfeited the Lower Bracket Final against Rix.GG. In the third and final Challengers qualifier, they were swept by Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk , the ultimate winners of Masters EU.
The future of both the benched players and prospective new members is unknown at the moment, although sources indicate the organization is looking towards ex-CS:GO players as replacements.
Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #9 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso are left with: