Tanizhq and Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #20 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Kicks Kimmie Laasner runneR Emil Trajkovski ceNder Jokūbas Labutis Sayf Saif Jibraeel have parted ways after five months. The announcement comes following a report of the organization's acceptance into the EMEA partnership league.

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Today we part ways with our Valorant Head Coach @Tanizhq

Thanks for this wonderful season and we wish you all the best for the future 💛

Tanizhq was announced as part of the team back in early April, allowing him to build a roster that would include players like Santeri "BONECOLD" Sassi and Kamil "baddyG" Graniczka. During that time, Vitality participated solely in the French VRL, which they won after four losses in the regular season, and the VRL Finals.

He had been previously benched by the team. He was sidelined due to comments made towards Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #9 MAGNUM Martin Penkov tomaszy Tomás Machado N4RRATE Marshall Massey marteen Martin Pátek sh1n Ryad Ensaad 's assistant coach, who previously coached Vitality, on Twitter. He was away during the two weeks leading up to the VRL playoffs, during which Harry "Gorilla" Mepham acted as interim head coach.

In the league's round robin stage, Vitality let slip four matches — two to the regular season champions MAD Lions MAD Lions Inactive KRAY Calum Knight — but showed a reinvigorated form in the playoffs. After beating KCorp 3-2 in the semifinals, they swept MAD Lions in the grand finals to become VRL France champions and earn their spot in the VRL Finals, where their year's high came.

In the VRL Finals, Vitality started with a 2-0 loss to TENSTAR TENSTAR Inactive Br0die Jack Emmott KRAY Calum Knight Polvi Niko Polvinen xms Alexandre Forté doma Domagoj Fancev , but eliminated EXCEL EXCEL Inactive Moe40 Muhammad Hariff chiwa Egor Stepanyuk paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski Foxie Tyler Lowton ALIVE Gilad Hakim and TENSTAR to reach the playoffs. There, they dropped just one map across two matches, against FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #5 MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak AtaKaptan Ata Tan cNed Mehmet Yağız İpek qRaxs Doğukan Balaban and Case Esports Case Esports Europe Rank #171 GatsH Guillaume Kalka H1ber Joona Parviainen Kiles Vlad Shvets Wolfen Berkant Joshkun Lime Jacob Foster , on their way to the final. FUT came back from the lower bracket and reverse swept them in the grand final. Vitality have been absent from the servers since.

In a TwitLonger, the coach said he was surprised by Vitality's decision and cited their results in the past season, referring to the VRL tournaments. The coach is now a free agent and is open to offers from any region.

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