Ahead of Champions 2022, FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix Inactive SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin Zyppan Pontus Eek ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky ardiis Ardis Svarenieks has announced that Emir "rhyme" Muminovic and Neil "neilzinho" Finlay will be joining them as a substitute and analyst respectively.

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We're excited to welcome @rhymeVAL and @neilzinho as our Substitute and Analyst for the upcoming #VALORANTChampions tournament!
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rhyme was initially a part of Ninjas in Pyjamas Ninjas in Pyjamas Inactive dimasick Dmitriy Matvienko chiwa Egor Stepanyuk Jady Yaroslav Nikolaev rhyme Emir Muminovic 's first foray into Valorant in the EMEA region. He was a part of a roster with several notable names such as Dmitriy "dimasick" Matvienko, Emil "eMIL" Sandgren— who both joined Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #18 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin Enzo Enzo Mestari Mistic James Orfila Keiko Georgio Sanassy — and Yaroslav "Jady" Nikolaev, who now plays for M3 Champions M3 Champions Inactive Jady Yaroslav Nikolaev purp0 Semyon Borchev Chronicle Timofey Khromov Redgar Igor Vlasov . Despite finding success at the start, they kept falling in the playoffs stage until NIP made the decision to disband the team and move to the LATAM region.

After this, he moved over to North America and joined Gen.G Gen.G Korea Rank #2 Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) Meteor Kim Tae-O (김태오) Lakia Kim Jong-min (김종민) Karon Kim Won-tae (김원태) as both an initiator and the team's IGL. He was with them for just over half a year. The team, despite finding success in the tier two scene, fell short of qualifying for the VCT group stage in all of the open qualifier events, unable to make it past the top 16. In July, he announced he was an unrestricted agent with no buyout and was moving back to Europe.

neilzinho started off his career in Valorant as a coach for Rix.GG Rix.GG Inactive frei Aaron Frei DPS Harry MacGill hype Tautvydas Paldavicius weber Brandon Weber , before signing with G2 Esports G2 Esports Inactive as their coach for the entirety of 2021. After he left, he ended up joining DarkZero Esports DarkZero Esports Inactive ScrewFace Kyle Jensen Ange Adam Milian Trick Justin Sears ZexRow Anthony Colandro Drone Taylor Johnson , a North American organization, in January of this year. He continued working with the roster for a short while after the organization released the team, who kept playing under Dark Ratio Dark Ratio Inactive Ange Adam Milian Trick Justin Sears ZexRow Anthony Colandro Drone Taylor Johnson Will William Cheng . In August, he announced he was no longer working with Dark Ratio since he had gotten “an opportunity too good to ignore.”

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