Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #11 Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner CyvOph Clement Millard Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso has added two new faces to their coaching staff ahead of the VCT EMEA Stage 2 playoffs, welcoming Edgar "psych_chek" Chekera as a performance coach, and Aleksey "slk" Lynksov as an assistant coach.

psych_chek joins after spending a short time away from the game, which was preceded by a stint with European giants FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #1 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder . Alongside head coach Elmapuddy and then-assistant Milan , he played a part in the squad lifting EMEA Stage 2 and then finishing 5th-6th at Champions 2024. Before his time with FNATIC, he was also a performance coach for Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #26 UdoTan Go Kyung-won (고경원) Kr1stal Savva Fedorov Papi Federico Evangelista ban Joseph Seungmin Oh yoman Chae Young-moon (채영문) Deryeon Derrick Yee in 2024, working with them through Pacific Kickoff and Pacific Stage 1 before departing.

slk joins as one of the more well-traveled assistant coaches in professional Valorant. After wrapping up his playing career in 2020 with flawless flawless Inactive SimonD4rk Alexandr Skovbel yuudai Danila Ovchinnikov Redgar Igor Vlasov Vlady Vladislav Trofimov gingerwizard Daniil Dubkov , he began his coaching career with Russian teams, enjoying brief stints with ROX TEAM ROX TEAM Inactive valder Vladimir Pospelov steady Dmitry Prutkov Duno Mikhail Fokin , CrowСrowd CrowСrowd Inactive Cloud Kirill Nehozhin dreAms Adel Smirnov Duno Mikhail Fokin trial Panic Leonid Pozdnyakov , and Team Singularity Team Singularity Inactive Insider Artem Puzanov NLaaeR Ilya Koppalov B1SK Vitaliy Emelyanov Dimaoneshot Dmitriy Bandurka hvoya Aleksandr Eremin . He then spent a brief time with FNATIC in 2022, and rejoined them as VCT's franchising began in 2023. slk's time at CrowCrowd and FNATIC overlapped with Derke 's, and the pair's paths will cross again at Vitality. After leaving FNATIC at the end of 2023, slk spent time in China as a coach with TYLOO TYLOO China Rank #21 Scales Zhang Zhen (张震) 5CM Ding Xuanpeng (丁宣鹏) waituu Xu Yinze (许寅泽) Ninebody Ding Yi (丁毅) slowly Kelun Sun (孙科伦) hfmi0dzjc9z7 Zhang Juncheng (张峻程) , and now returns to Europe with Vitality.

After lifting the EMEA Kickoff trophy and finishing fourth at Masters Bangkok, Vitality's Stage 1 has been a mixed bag of results. They went 2-3, with wins over GIANTX GIANTX Europe Rank #104 Cloud Kirill Nehozhin grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko westside Miłosz Duda Flickless Karel Maeckelbergh ara Hanceriuc Eduard-George and Apeks Apeks Europe Rank #25 MOLSI Michał Łącki AvovA Auni Chahade batujnax Mehmet Batu Özaslan , but lost to FNATIC, Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #2 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius , and Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #30 ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky Ruxic Uğur Güç hiro Emirhan Kat koalanoob Gianfranco Potestio . The loss to NAVI cemented Vitality as the fourth seed of Group Alpha, meaning they entered the playoffs in the lower bracket. They await the loser of the FNATIC and FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #12 xeus Doğan Gözgen MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak AtaKaptan Ata Tan qRaxs Doğukan Balaban upper bracket match.

Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #11 Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner CyvOph Clement Millard Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso 's full roster is now: