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Acend field L1NK ahead of EMEA LCQ

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July 29, 2022

Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk have announced Travis "L1NK" Mendoza as their fifth player in place of Aleksander "zeek" Zygmunt, a week prior to the kickoff of the EMEA LCQ.

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Bald buff activated 🔥

Join us in welcoming @L1NKVAL as the final member of Acend Valorant's LCQ roster 💪🏻

#RiseUp

Once world champions, Acend dropped Vlad "Kiles" Shvets and Santeri "BONECOLD" Sassi in place of Ondřej "MONSTEERR" Petrů and Vakaris "vakk" Bebravičius following a lackluster Stage 1 performance. While the team's results did improve for Stage 2, a top-six placement in the playoffs led to zeek's benching.

L1NK was one of Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #23 paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski kamyk Maks Rychlewski nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin Keiko Georgio Sanassy kamo Kamil Frąckowiak 's longstanding members and a part of the original roster formerly known as fish123 fish123 Inactive Kryptix James Affleck ScreaM Adil Benrlitom L1NK Travis Mendoza ec1s Adam Eccles soulcas Dom Sulcas . He experienced Liquid's highs and lows, as the roster went from a top-four world contender to unlikely Masters 1: Reykjavik attendees in 2022. Just after that tournament, the team split with coach Connor "Sliggy" Blomfield and nearly a month later, during their Stage 2 group run, L1NK moved to Liquid's bench.

Acend will debut in the EMEA LCQ against M3 Champions M3 Champions Inactive Jady Yaroslav Nikolaev purp0 Semyon Borchev Chronicle Timofey Khromov Redgar Igor Vlasov in a rematch of the Valorant Champions 2021 grand final. Win or lose, they'll be playing either G2 Esports G2 Esports Inactive or OG LDN UTD OG LDN UTD Inactive in their second match.

Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk 's LCQ roster is:

Travis "L1NK" Mendoza
Vakaris "vakk" Bebravičius
Ondřej "MONSTEERR" Petrů
Mehmet "cNed" Yağız İpek
Patryk "starxo" Kopczynski
Mark "Krimson" Senior (Manager)
Laurynas "Nbs" Kisielius (Coach)
Milan "Milan" de Meij (Assistant coach)

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minte

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this is a great pickup for Acend, L1NK is a very strong player

best of luck in LCQ

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Kindler

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Common Eutalyx W
Edit: omg i dont even know how to thank you for that but whoever downvoted ❤️

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valorantgamer69420

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really desperate for upvotes aint you

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Kindler

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Nah
I appreciate the people who downvote definitely i deserved it like i didnt even say anything and someone is so pissed that in 8 secs i get a downvote
Idc about upvotes but someone is really hiding behind and being a rat show ur self

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valorantgamer69420

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yea so i dont know about your problem but trust me, even if they show themselves you wont do shit

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babysasuke

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It was me, make a move bozo 💀

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MrAbsol

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chill bro, its literally vlr.gg. Why are you so pressed that someone downvoted you, its not that deep bro

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deathlyclaws

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Link is a good addition but the roles will look interesting definitely now with him

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Blazieboy

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Zeek was playing a lot of Omen during his last few games with Acend so I don't think there will be a role swap problem in the team.

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Misfeit

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Link - controller
Cned - jett / chamber
Starxo - 2nd duelist
Vakk - initiator
Monsterrr- sentinel

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Riveraa

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Monsterrr is gonna be playing controller instead of Link i think, bcz we saw Link was playing sentinel alot

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Olofboost

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Why on earth teams keep recycling same players over and over

Pick up someone from VRLs, there's a dozen better than L1nk in his form

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UmutShawty

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How the fuck do you know L1NK's current form? He was one of the best clutch players out there and he will be again

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WinterZ

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https://www.vlr.gg/player/99/l1nk/?timespan=90d

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Olofboost

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He was terrible last split and bad 1st split
It's a decline and it's unlikely to become suddenly good

Again, why L1nk? So many guys to choose from, but they get clouted ones, despite worse gameplay

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He benched himself because he was being made to play a role he was not comfortable on or enjoyed, of course those stats aren't exemplary.

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Bro if u believe this someone might have a bridge to sell u.

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mauge67

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yeah because you know what happened

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philantrop1st

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"Benching yourself" is just not a thing, sorry to break it to you guys.

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Dertyser

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It is LMAO

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mauge67

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oh its not well ty for breaking it for us !

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Na_logic

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bro these people probably have been trialing lots of players for weeks and you are asking why link

so it’s easy to reply, because he’s been the best fit among all the other trials

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shantanu

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Wait... So who is Liquid's 5th player now.???

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ShibaInu

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Stewie2k

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eutalyx

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right now, no one

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BananaBread

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Dimasick

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HikageMango

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Dimasick is only trial and they didnt continue his contract

edit: my bad is was Dreamas not Dimasick

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common Eutalyx W

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no_noise_979

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extremely mediocre pick up

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WinterZ

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why is this downvoted? L1NK is in the worst form hes ever been in as of stage 2 and he brings nothing to the table IGL wise. Hes kinda overrated if u ask me

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Huge W

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Huge W, i might have to change my pickems

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UmutShawty

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W but it would be better if it was vakk rather than zeek that has to step down

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Didn’t he leave Liquid because he didn’t want to play an anchor/smokes role anymore? He wanted to play more aggressive/active roles no?

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Yes. acend already has good anchor monsteer so he probably gonna play something more agressive

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I think it's not like that, in team liquid lately I played a lot of breach, according to lei I didn't want to play so much support anymore, I guess in acend I'll go back to controller

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Bald buff pickup

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Oh my god if Liquid don't pick up Zeek RIGHT NOW

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Liquid need a IGL not a player like zeek

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oh god, I feel bad for L1NK now, My guy joined one of the strongest Orgs who signed him for ATLEAST 2 years and the org didn't even make it to valorant's next year partnership program
source: https://blix.gg/news/20-teams-advance-in-valorant-emea-process

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lyniakk

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Who said this is right?
This is just a speculation.
No official statement, when orgs will know, we will see the same thing as in NA - many lineup drops

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HaSanity

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Yes it’s because of gambling ties

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MagnumRaging

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Which is a shame because they literally created the org Acend to differentiate from RaiseYourEdge (the org that has gambling sponsors)
I hope this isn't true and Acend can still make franchising but I highly doubt it for that stupid reason

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valorant so cringe! every team just pick up any trash player who just got dropped... that's why the scene is so boring and limited! you have tons of potential champions out there which wanna compete too and yet they pick up trash players with trash mental problems

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With franchising it’s gonna get even worse

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Editorial suggestion: would you consider adding a newline between the players and the coaching staff in the roster changes related articles? Would improve readability imo, especially if there's multiple people in the latter

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I predicted it. gl link<3

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I don’t wanna be disrespectful, but this is just not a good roster. If M3C don’t win LCQ I would be shocked.

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Guild is still in LCQ just saying

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L1NK_Lover

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LETS GO L1NK YOU ARE THE GOAT good luck at acend

i just realised there is a link button on every post he must be that good

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uhmm, weird, but okay

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Huge pick up. Guys a class act tbf. Acends odds of qualification just shortened quite a bit.

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Newbery

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L1NK ıs very good but i think zeek should be in this roster instead of vakk

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bro who cares acend didn't make franchising...

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Maunjou

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Lul

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Its sad that zeek - mvp of champions isnt playing LCQ

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