Rossy joins LEVIATÁN

LEVIATÁN LEVIATÁN Latin America South Rank #1 Demon1 Max Mazanov tex Ian Botsch Rossy Daniel Abedrabbo kiNgg Francisco Aravena C0M Corbin Lee has added Daniel "Rossy" Abedrabbo to their roster. He will join the starting roster in place of nataNk , who was benched after only three official matches with the team.

After a great 2024 season from Leviatán that saw them win the Americas league and place third at Champions, their top-six placement at 2025's Kickoff came as a relative disappointment. This led to the benching of their European import nataNk , who, according to head coach Itopata , was having trouble fitting into the team system.

In 2024, Rossy was abroad in Pacific with T1 T1 Korea Rank #1 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-oh (김태오) Sylvan Go Young-sup (고영섭) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) , where he helped bring his team to an international appearance at Masters Shanghai. For 2025, he planned to return to North America with Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #6 Xeppaa Erick Bach v1c Victor Truong mitch Mitch Semago neT Michael Bernet OXY Francis Hoang , but was unexpectedly cut midway through the offseason, leaving him without a team for Kickoff. In his short time with Cloud9, Rossy was able to draw eyes at the Red Bull Homeground main event in Berlin. At the event, Rossy had an outstanding performance, ripping apart the likes of G2 Esports G2 Esports North America Rank #1 jawgemo Alexander Mor trent Trent Cairns valyn Jacob Batio JonahP Jonah Pulice leaf Nathan Orf and FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #5 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder . He ended the tournament as the highest-rated player. Now with Leviatán, he will make his debut in VCT Americas.

Heading into Stage 1, Leviatan is now:

Francisco "kiNgg" Aravena
Max "Demon1" Mazanov
Ian "tex" Botsch
Corbin "C0M" Lee
Daniel "Rossy" Abedrabbo
Juan "Daykiry" Garcia (Manager)
Dimitar "Itopata" Staev (Head coach)
Casper "Desmo" Rasmussen (Assistant coach)

Would be nice, but the main reason we don't see rosters stay together longer is the ridiculously long off season combined with a busy (and relatively short) active season for competitive.

You don't get that many shots to make it very far, let alone in actually making it to international events.

Looking at CS for comparison, they have 1 month off seasons 2-3 times per year, wayyy more tournaments (actually LANs with teams from multiple countries), and we're not even talking about what the actual majors look like.

Tl;dr Riot's structuring of the competitive scene is what necessitates cut-throat roster decisions. If they added a policy to deter orgs from making roster decisions, the irony would be pretty apparent.