Adolfo "Fit1nho" Gallego, Aaro "hoody" Peltokangas, and Ramses " Famsii " Valentino Erasmus Koivukangas have each respectively announced the expiry of their contracts with GIANTX and are now all free agents. Famsii is an unrestricted free agent, while Fit1nho and hoody will become unrestricted free agents at the end of September.
Fit1nho and hoody have both had long tenures with the team. Fit1nho in particular has spent most of his career as a staple on different iterations of the Giants Gaming team that is now GIANTX; he joined in 2020, departed that year and rejoined later in 2021. Similarly, hoody originally joined Giants in 2021 and returned to the team in 2023 after spending a year with G2 Esports G2 Esports Inactive .
In 2023, Giants reigned as a strong regional contender in EMEA throughout the regular season. After narrowly missing out on qualification to Masters Tokyo, they successfully qualified for Champions 2023 as the fourth seed from EMEA by winning the EMEA Last Chance Qualifier. They went on to place 9th-12th in Los Angeles after being eliminated in the group stage by EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 S1Mon Hsien Meng-Hsun (谢孟勋) ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) .
2024 was a more turbulent year for GIANTX as they struggled to find their footing. A winless Kickoff led the European squad to release nukkye , pick up purp0 , and move Fit1nho from Duelist to the Flex role. The team from there only managed to secure their first win of the year in week 5 of Stage 1 and did not qualify for playoffs.
Halfway through Stage 2, GIANTX benched Redgar and brought in Famsii via their partnership with UCAM Esports Club UCAM Esports Club Europe Rank #14 Flickless Karel Maeckelbergh Quick Fabián Pereira . While they managed to play a close match against Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius , they ultimately ended the regular season with a 3-7 record and were once again unable to qualify for playoffs.
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