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Sources: Guild to play with Yacine instead of Russ for EMEA LCQ

CocoJD

August 1, 2022

Guild Esports Guild Esports Inactive will play with Yacine "Yacine" Laghmari instead of Russel "Russ" Mendes for EMEA LCQ, sources tell VLR.gg and Dot Esports.

Russ has stepped aside to take a break from competition, as first reported by Dot Esports. Despite rumors of Twisten as a replacement, it is instead Yacine who will reunite with his former teammates for a tournament. After leaving Guild last November, he went to Tundra Esports Tundra Esports Inactive bonkar Malkolm Rench Nille Nichlas Busk krea6on Vilius Malinauskas for the first VRL Polaris split before moving to Finest Finest Inactive DESTRUCT1VEE Hakan Lekesizer Kicks Kimmie Laasner bonkar Malkolm Rench for the second split. They finished the league by losing in the grand final to EXCEL, missing out on VRL Finals.

Guild will participate in the Last Chance Qualifier EMEA from August 7 to August 15 and will start by facing Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #20 ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky .

For the LCQ, Guild Esports Guild Esports Inactive will field:

Saif "Sayf" Jibraeel
Jose "koldamenta" Luis Aranguren
Nikita "trexx" Cherednichenko
Leo "Leo" Jannesson
Yacine "Yacine" Laghmari
Russel "Russ" Mendes (Benched)
André "BARBARR" Möller (Coach)
"maeVe" (Assistant coach)

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koeNN

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Whats next? Bonkar x Koldamenta? L Guild

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huge W for Guild, russ was borderline greifing every game

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you forgot bonkar

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minte

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true

6v5 everyone in lcq

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nah thats still a 5v5

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sentinelmain377

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DAMN. YOU DO BONKAR DIRTY LIKE THAT LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Don't forget bonkar's 1v4 on Icebox 🥶

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call draken

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:(

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The real paladins world champion himself???

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Source: Trust me bro

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massive W for guild, lcq in the bag for sure

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Guild's second LAN appearance confirmed.

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???????????

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I'm not fan of Russ either but Yacine Big L

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Did he know??

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No, but pyth know

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Get pyth on the first flight to sub he's prob better than yacine at least

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I can agree with that

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WWWW although i wonder where twisten will go 🤔

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He will stay on big I guess

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LOL. Good riddance. He was the worst performer in Copenhagen

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huge upgrade imo

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Better than russ worse than twisten

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W, Yacine has improved a lot and have always been looking really good just dont know what role he is gonna play.

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Twisten > Yacine

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Hello VLR, I would like to edit my predictions for LCQ now thank you

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Yacine was the goat so glad hes back with guild

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yup
i remember when i was newer to val esports and esports in general
i watched guild after like 1 month and saw yacine as a crazy raze but bonkar like a silver players. i was surprised they let yacine go but trexx is an upgrade so cant complain

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i dont care/know if he was even that good i can't remember, i just remember him having balls of steel lmfao

he was why i supported guild for emea last year, also cause i thought leo and sayf were super under rated

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Wondering what the reason is...

(This is a joke)

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No Bonkar, too bad

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bruh momento, already congrats too m3c

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WWWWWWW

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minte

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major W

watched LCQ at my place with some friends last year, might have to invite them back over again with these news

best of luck Yacine, knew i'd see you back soon

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https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/f26f9523 L anyway.

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:( twisten

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U should be happy as big fan. They have pretty high chance to make franchising. They are popular I Germany as I know

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XDDDDDD

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I saw the new and I thought it was an old one bumped bruh. You gotta be kidding me

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Guild is the masters of roster changes

+Draken
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2nd at lcq(yes ik draken left later on)

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Are they going to repeat their result by going 2nd in lcq again?

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no they can actually win events now, they broke their curse last qualifier by making it to lan

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Confused why they have looked at 2 duelist only players to fill the hardcore support role with 5 days notice. I don't think this will work at all.

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Trexxis really good on kayo and on sentinel agents so itcouldwork, but the real question is do guild trust yacine to take the role from arguably a top 3 raze in emea?

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WWW

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Well it sayf gonna stay on duelist than all good cuz this guy is baiting

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hope this is true I heckin' love Yacine :D

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welcome back bro :)

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no way dude

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twisten :(

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Lmfaooo bruh
Crazy shit let's go

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L twisten better

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Honestly this makes a lot of sense considering he knows most of the team

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most of 2021 core is back lfgg

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4v5 for all teams in LCQ, good luck Guild!

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yacine taoufreak? SubrozaSalute

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huh, interesenting, let´s see how guild performance.

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we need bonkar

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MASSIVE WWWW OMGGG

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L for Guild, Russ is mad underrated because people only look at numbers

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And he was actually really good in the past in stage 1 but he struggled to perform after that.

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GUILD L

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L GUILD

they only win if russ overperforms

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HUGE L...
There are so many freaking options and you pick Yacine?!?
Twisten, pAura...

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Twisten is just a worse short notice pickup
And pAura is currently signed to a team which is in lcq so that really isnt an option
There are still a ton of t2 players who fill Russ' role so its not like taking Yacine isnt risky, so it seems theyre just banking on existing synergies and taking a proven t1 player

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I love to see Yacine, but I don't think this is the right move.

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paycheck stealer

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Lezgooo Yacineee. Sed for Russ :(

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Guild W

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It's not in the bag.

Guild haven't won a tournament in EMEA yet and now they're contending with:

acend who are known to just pull off freakishly good performances out of no where. The most fluky team as some of you say.
improved m3c with jady maybe?
improved liquid who they've traded series with for a while

EMEA lcq looks insanely tough. Not free for any team.

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very few analysts expect guild to actually win this tbh, coming out of a international event into a qualifier 3 weeks later is just way too rough
(youve been nonstop working since the last qualifier, youve shown all/most of your strats, other teams have had way more time to prep new stuff)
And yea qualifiers in EMEA are never easy since everyone is good af

... im still high on hopium though

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BIGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEST W

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L we need happy Russ

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Un Bonkar X Kolda no viene mal :)

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Yacine after joining T1: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hBjI69xfpr4

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I love yacine.
but there were other choices

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Twisten hasn't played with Barbarr,Leo and Sayf <3 <3

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Guild needed this yacine is their engine

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TROOOLLLLIINNNGGG

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