UPDATE: This article, which was originally published on October 22, has been updated as of October 25 to reflect the signings of PROFEK, sociablEE, chiwa, and PAL. With these signings, BBL has announced their full 2025 roster.

BBL Esports BBL Esports Europe Rank #40 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen sociablEE Volkan Yonal chiwa Egor Stepanyuk PROFEK Dawid Święć LewN Burak Alkan has signed Elias "Jamppi" Olkkonen as their in-game leader for VCT EMEA 2025, pending Riot approval. As of October 25, they have also announced the signings of Dawid "PROFEK" Święć, Volkan "sociablEE" Yonal, and Egor "chiwa" Stepanyuk. Gregor "PAL" Morton has also been added as an assistant coach.

"I am so happy to get this opportunity and represent BBL for next year," Jamppi commented. "To be part of this is an absolute honor."

Jamppi hails from Team Liquid after having been with the team all the way since February 2021. His accomplishments with the team include a top-four finish at Champions 2021, a top-eight placement at Champions 2022, and a first-place triumph in the 2023 EMEA League. However, Liquid struggled in 2024 as it was the first year in the organization's history that they failed to qualify for an international event.

PROFEK recently played with GoNext Esports GoNext Esports Europe Rank #5 in Challengers League East. Excluding the league's Promotion Cup, in which his team did not participate, the controller player distinguished himself with a best-in-league 1.28 rating and 1.47 K:D ratio over the course of Split 2. GoNext claimed first place in the split to qualify for EMEA Ascension, where they exited in the group stage with a 2-2 record.

sociablEE has been a mainstay in the Turkish Valorant scene since 2021. He last competed with Fire Flux Esports Fire Flux Esports Europe Rank #16 lauress Toprak Kaynak Ruxic Uğur Güç Turko Mehmet Özen w0zzip Zafer Gungor in Challengers League Türkiye throughout 2024 as a flex. The team notably won Split 1 and later placed fifth in the Split 2 playoffs, missing out on Ascension. Individually, sociablEE ended Split 2 with a strong 1.17 rating and 1.20 K:D ratio.

Much like PROFEK, chiwa spent the 2024 season as a top player in Challengers League East. He served as the sentinel for Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk and placed third with the team in Split 2 after falling 2-3 to Diamant Esports Diamant Esports Europe Rank #13 in the lower final, ultimately failing to qualify for Ascension. He recorded the third-highest rating in the league during the split at 1.14.

PAL most recently served a brief stint as an assistant coach for Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #9 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner ceNder Jokūbas Labutis Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso throughout their run at Champions 2024. Before that, he coached various Challengers teams in EMEA, including FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #21 , WYLDE WYLDE Europe Rank #29 , and Fire Flux Esports Fire Flux Esports Europe Rank #16 lauress Toprak Kaynak Ruxic Uğur Güç Turko Mehmet Özen w0zzip Zafer Gungor .

BBL spent the 2024 season in a middling position in the standings, finishing seventh overall. In both stages, the Turkish squad came just one placement shy of qualification to the EMEA playoffs after a five-way 3-3 tiebreaker in Stage 1 and a three-way 4-6 tiebreaker in Stage 2. Since then, BBL has parted with the entirety of their 2024 roster and picked up Burak "LewN" Alkan from Galatasaray Esports Galatasaray Esports Europe Rank #38 Padisah Onur Dönmez Docent Kadri Vatandaş Touven Can Eryıldız JrayN Ferhat Yılmaz in Challengers League Türkiye.

These arrivals to BBL mark the organization's first-ever signings of non-Turkish players and indicate a new international direction for the squad. This will also be Jamppi's first time serving in a formal in-game leader position. The new BBL roster will next compete in the EMEA LCQ of Red Bull Home Ground, which starts on Oct. 26.

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