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December 8, 2020

FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix Inactive SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin Zyppan Pontus Eek ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky ardiis Ardis Svarenieks have parted ways "under mutual agreement" with Johan " Meddo " Renbjörk Lundborg following the team's third-fourth place finish in First Strike: Europe.

FPX

@FPX_Esports

We'd like to say farewell and thanks to our colleague, companion, and friend, @MeddoVAL. He will no longer serve for FPX VALORANT under mutual agreement.

Meddo is now available to explore more options in VALORANT esports, and we wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors!

Expected as grand finalists in First Strike, FPX were instead stopped short at the semifinals by British upstarts SUMN FC SUMN FC Inactive Moe40 Muhammad Hariff doma Domagoj Fancev Mistic James Orfila Boaster Jake Howlett tsack Konstantinos Theodoropoulos in a 2-1 series.

This marks FPX's first roster change since the birth of the team from the merger of PartyParrots PartyParrots Inactive ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov dinkzj Denis Tkachev Art1st Vyacheslav Lyadnov 7ssk7 Artur Kurshin Shao Andrey Kiprsky and FABRIKEN FABRIKEN Inactive Limpone Linus Wecksell Shrew Gabriel Gessle PHYRN Oskar Palmqvist LATEKS Oliwer Fahlander , of which Meddo was part of.

The move was unexpected, as explained by Meddo:

Meddo

@MeddoVAL

I was surprised when i got the news yesterday, but i sincerely wish the boys best of luck in the future.
I've had a blast playing with them and got a lot of experience as a player. I also want to thank @FPX_Esports for giving me the chance to play fulltime! twitter.com/FPX_Esports/st…

Both FPX and Meddo will have ample time to maneuver in the lull in competition before the start of the Valorant Champion's Tour next year.

FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix Inactive SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin Zyppan Pontus Eek ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky ardiis Ardis Svarenieks is now:

Pontus "Zyppaan" Eek
Kyrylo "ANGE1" Karasov
Andrey "Shao" Kiprsky
Tobias "ShadoW" Flodström
Ivan "Johnta" Shevtsov (Coach)
Erik "d00mbr0s" Sandgren (Analyst)

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if they just dropped cuz of FS result this is bs af.

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wtf

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kicked him bs he was last in the scoreboard
OMEGALUL
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Team Liquid, what are you doing?

#6

Crash

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literally makes 0 sense

#8

nyx1de

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i think in near future we will see fps = cis players

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?

#10

hikka

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maybe +deadfox?

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DumboVAL

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If the replacement is not ScreaM, than i don't understand.

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that makes 0 sense

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i Think DeadFox will be the 5th player

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Kenpi

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+Jady ?

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myrrhhee

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jady in nip already
UPD: that's only my thoughts

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nle

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how you know? and who did he replace?

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idk what happened in nip, but 90% that ninjas will change their current roster
UPD: that's also only my thoughts :/

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On an interview made by thespike.gg with peca, FPX Valorant GM, he stated this:
“The decision behind this move has been made because we would like to make a change in our playstyle starting from the next competitive season, and Meddo as a player is just not the best fit for the long-term strategy we are trying to build. We are aiming to become the best team in the world, and I would like to ask our fans and the community to have faith in our decisions. We will get there.”

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?????

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If you are confused by what I said,go check thespike.gg interview with peca and you will understand everything

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so no sentinel ig?

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Maybe, our Meddo might play the sentinel role in a way that doesn't mix well with the ideias that ANGE1 and the coaching staff has in mind
Time will tell what's gonna happen

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interesting decision. Ange1 wants to break meta? because Meddo is an insane Cypher

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Renvas

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Dont get this decision at all if anyone it would have been shadow i feel like..

#22

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Welp now the best Cypher player in NA/EU is a free agent... The move I would want to see is Meddo to NiP with NiP dropping chiwawa. Also very interesting to see what FPX do now.

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They must have had someone in mind for sure before letting Meddo go, and my guess would be it's a Jett OP player, don't you think?

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doubt it, jett op is not a necessary role at all, unless you're a super uncreative team (na team)

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i mean all the teams that are winning have jett op players in almost every region. how many tournaments have fpx won again?

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Nah, either SUMN FC nor Heretics who were in the finals in Europe really play jett op. That "meta" is long dead since op-nerfs months ago.

I think FPX now are looking for a player (maybe a sentinel) with a more aggressive style compared to Meddo, like pAuras playstyle in Heretics who have crazy aim and also a overall more constistent performance.

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-sayf -lucker in NiP Peepowtf
so it's not neccessary to kick chiwawa :)

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Shadow and Meddo were a package deal. The only logic I can see behind this is that Shadow will be next and Meddo was simply signed earlier. Meddo is a great player, I just don't understand any other reason...?

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