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Giants reveal new international lineup

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January 7, 2022

Giants Gaming Giants Gaming Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Fit1nho Adolfo Gallego nukkye Žygimantas Chmieliauskas hoody Aaro Peltokangas Cloud Kirill Nehozhin have revealed their new roster, once more betting on European talent as the 2022 VCT approaches.

Adolfo "Fit1nho" Gallego is the only player remaining from the former roster, having re-signed with Giants for another year. Giants' new project was built around the star Duelist, who now leads the squad going into 2022.

Unlike their previous roster, Giants did not entirely hand-pick free agents for the formation of this roster. The Spanish organization opened up their wallets to buyout Batuhan "russ" Malgaç and Ondřej "MONSTEERR" Petrů from Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #22 skylen Asil Yalçın ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz VenTT Emre Bozkurt OXMANN Aytekin Çakır umu7 Umut Pekdoğan and Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius , respectively, according to an internal Giants source.

Adam "Jesse" Čtvrtníček and Fabián "Quick" Pereira round out the roster. Jesse last played for UCAM as a stand-in, reaching top six in the GameGune 24 and winning the Fragleague Cup 5 to close out the year. Quick last played for Movistar Riders in the LVP Rising Series Finale, where he finished second, and the GameGune 24, where he placed in the top eight.

Coaching the squad will be Tanishq "Tanizhq" Sabharwal, who has been looking for a team since mid-October. The British coach had been seeking offers ever since September and now reunites with russ under a new name.

On January 9, Fit1nho, Quick, and former Giants coach Lucas "HITBOXKING" González-Sabariegos will host a special Q&A stream on HITBOXKING's Twitch channel. Giants' debut is scheduled for January 10, in the open qualifier of Stage 1: Challengers 1.

Giants Gaming Giants Gaming Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Fit1nho Adolfo Gallego nukkye Žygimantas Chmieliauskas hoody Aaro Peltokangas Cloud Kirill Nehozhin 's 2022 roster is:

Adolfo "Fit1nho" Gallego
Batuhan "russ" Malgaç
Adam "Jesse" Čtvrtníček
Ondřej "MONSTEERR" Petrů
Fabián "Quick" Pereira
Tanishq "Tanizhq" Sabharwal (Coach)

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importing players LUL

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I like it. I think it got a lot of potential.

I wonder if Giants will bring back the Russ duelist days. MONSTEERR will play sentinel most likely, Quick on smokes, and probably Jesse on Sova flex.

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I only see Russ playing Jett if Giants want to play double duelist and Fit1 goes for the Raze. If not he will play the JettOP most likely.

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Russz is more talented than fitinho, they should force him to play support roles

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not really, fitinho has been a top5 duelist emea lately, just look at his redbull performance, russ is good fitinho potential as duelist is higher imo

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Russ who had like 400 acs vs liquid one game?

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nice he popped off 1 map pogchamp ?????? what is this silver logic, ofc he is insane but fitinho is better imo

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Well your opinion shouldn’t matter lmao, Russ is a much better jett than him if you actually watched him play it

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It’s a team bro, it doesn’t work like that. Okay imagine this, Russ Jett is +1 better than Fitinho Jett, the problem comes when Russ Sova is +5 better than Fitinho Sova. Even if you think that Fitinho is a worst yet than Russ (which I disagree with) you can’t argue that the team is better with Russ on Sova and by consequence Fiti on yet

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not really lol

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This is a statement that gia published which clarifies the roles on the team:

..."Quick (24 years old, Spain) comes from Movistar Riders, he is a smoker; Jesse (18 years old, Czech Republic) recently went through UCAM and will be flexing; russz (22 years old, Turkey) comes from SuperMassive Blaze and works as a controller, being able to play a duelist; MONSTEER (17 years, Czech Republic), plays Sentinels and comes from Team Heretics. Along with them, Fit1nho, a duelist "...

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I'm assuming that they meant initiator instead of controller, especially if they already mentioned that Quick is a smoker.

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he said that on his stream he will play sova and duelist but idk which one

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Vamo quick

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too much czech players. this team will never win anything

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Fake aslan

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full roster TR teams LULW

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#WeAreGiants!! This team will reach EUs top soon!

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Ok let's see
Fitinho- very good
Russz- very very good
Monster- good
Jesse- nice potential
Quick- ehh

Tani - super good

Conclusion could regularly contend for top 8 in Europe (not EMEA) maybe could upset some potential good teams

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Pretty much agree with everything, Quick is the biggest doubt and he is gonna IGL too, let’s give him a chance tho

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any czech people know how you pronouce jesse's surname? im confused at where the vowels are

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xDDD

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his last name is pronounced like "chet-vert-NEE-check" (accent on NEE)

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looks deadly. btw, what does an international lineup mean? like, how is it different from any other lineup?

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International lineups don't speak their mother tongue

On the other hand, national rosters comm in their native language

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hmm, thanks.

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I feel like this roster is like A or S tier. I hope that they'll play at least one international lan. I'm very curious to see what they can do because I was expecting Guild to come big with S-tier member but I'm a little bit disappointed with Guild

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There is a Turk in the roster. I think russ overrated player

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Wait. I like this. SHEEEEESH.

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Russ back on Jett?

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in a statement from the official Giants website, it says "russz (22 years old, Turkey) comes from SuperMassive Blaze and works as a controller, being able to play a duelist" . So, maybe in some maps he will play Jett and Fit1nho Raze.

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he said i'll play both roles while he was streaming

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De hecho lembo ya leekeo eso. :)

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this roster looks pretty sexy ngl

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I don't know about monsterrr and Jesse but they have potential so let's see if it will work out. I mean it's good pickups but still a big downgrade to previous roster of course. Dropped from a top 5 Team to a probably top 15 team, but at least they have the potential to climb back up

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Once my favourite team in EMEA,just got a buff ,LFG!

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Love the team except for the coach, for obvious reasons...

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What reasons?

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yeah, dont leave us hanging please.

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I have no idea, but maybe he is talking about defending Niesow or just his behavior on Twitter in general. Is the only reason I can think of

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Judging by his post history it is because of defending Niesow lol.
Sorry I don't believe in a massive conspiracy between Riot, Heretics, and all of his teammates like nukkye, AvovA, pAura, Lowel, Taimou etc to protect 1 person for whatever reason

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Yeah, ig it’s that. Don’t really care tbh, past is past, future is future, and you better qualify for that EMEA VCT to compensate us and that poor guy for cheating in FS kekw

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