Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #4 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen PROFEK Dawid Święć Derke Nikita Sirmitev Chronicle Timofey Khromov Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu have made changes to their vast coaching staff ahead of Stage 2 of the EMEA League. Harry "Gorilla" Mepham has replaced Salah "salah" Barakat as head coach as the organization moves him to the bench. Coach Joseph "Strong" Edwards has also been released after two years.

Vitality were recently denied playoffs of EMEA League's Stage 1 via a five-way tiebreaker that saw Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #32 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan LewN Burak Alkan sheydos Bogdan Naumov Avez Hazem Khaled SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin , FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #1 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Veqaj Sylvain Pattyn Alfajer Emir Ali Beder , and Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #24 purp0 Semyon Borchev wayne Wayne Chang MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin kamo Kamil Frąckowiak advance from Group Alpha.

The organization entered 2024's VCT in lackluster fashion after failing to advance to the playoffs of EMEA Kickoff. Despite finalizing their roster changes before Stage 1, the team dropped matches against Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #11 sociablEE Volkan Yonal Filu Dawid Czarnecki Shao Andrey Kiprsky Ruxic Uğur Güç hiro Emirhan Kat and KOI KOI Inactive to place them at the bottom of Group Alpha.

Salah had been at the helm of many notable teams throughout his career, the likes of which included names such as FaZe Clan FaZe Clan Inactive POISED Kevin Ngo mummAy Anthony DiPaolo TiGG Tanner Spanu BABYBAY Andrej Francisty supamen Phat Le , Akrew Akrew Inactive gucc107 Andrew Gutnichenko Neon Austin Hedge Paincakes Jake Hass jovahnii Jovanni Miramontes ZachaREEE Zachary Lombardo , and OG LDN UTD OG LDN UTD Inactive . He signed with Vitality ahead of franchising and was with the squad throughout their roster changes over two years.

Denied playoffs, Vitality opted to make changes and move Salah to an inactive position on the roster whilst promoting Gorilla. The new coach must prepare his squad for their Stage 2 appearance following the conclusion of Masters Shanghai.

The golden hornets have now diverted their attention towards Champions, the last international LAN event of the year, as their final destination. Having only racked up three Championship Points across Stage 1, Vitality will need to make a deep playoffs run in order to catch up with the competition.

Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #4 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen PROFEK Dawid Święć Derke Nikita Sirmitev Chronicle Timofey Khromov Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu is now: