Savva "Kr1stal"
Fedorov has announced that he has departed
Xi Lai Gaming
Xi Lai Gaming
China
Rank #3
Viva
Lifan Ran (冉立凡)
Rarga
Arthur Churyumov
happywei
Deng Minwei (邓闵维)
coconut
Colin Patrick Chung (钟弘祖)
YOU
Yip Man Ho
and is now an unrestricted free agent just days after winning China Ascension 2024.
Kr1stal has been playing in various Challengers circuits in Asia since 2022. Before competing with XLG, he played as the in-game leader for the
SCARZ
SCARZ
Japan
Rank #5
zepher
Jyousuke Matsuda
Medusa
An Min-cheol (안민철)
Anthem
Yoshitaka Enomoto
LOB
Lim Byung-gun (임병건)
Yoshiii
John Yoshiharu Kawakami
roster that placed second in Pacific Ascension 2023 after falling to
BLEED
BLEED
Inactive
.
XLG proved to be a strong team in China under Kr1stal's leadership throughout 2024. During Ascension, they only suffered defeats against
Rare Atom
Rare Atom
China
Rank #9
zhe
Niu Zhe (牛哲)
Satoshi
Fei Zhixian (费郅贤)
ZiXuan
Liu Junwei (刘俊伟)
Midnight
Wang Yingjie (王英杰)
, who they lost in both the group stage and the upper final.
Faced with the same opponents for a third time in the grand final, XLG came alive and delivered a dominant 3-0 stomp. Kr1stal stood apart individually in that series with 57 kills to only 26 deaths, 274 ACS, and 174 ADR, and was a top ten player for the entire tournament by K/D ratio and ACS.
XLG's decision to release Kr1stal is presumably due to the rule stating that each VCT team may only field one non-resident player, as both Kr1stal and XLG duelist Rarga hail from Russia. XLG head coach hvoya clarified that Kr1stal had already agreed before joining the team to part ways with the team in the event that they won Ascension.
Xi Lai Gaming
Xi Lai Gaming
China
Rank #3
Viva
Lifan Ran (冉立凡)
Rarga
Arthur Churyumov
happywei
Deng Minwei (邓闵维)
coconut
Colin Patrick Chung (钟弘祖)
YOU
Yip Man Ho
are now: