Nikita "trexx" Cherednichenko has announced that he has been allowed by Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #7 nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin keiko Georgio Sanassy kamo Kamil Frąckowiak to explore his options with a new team this offseason.

"I'm allowed to explore my options by Team Liquid as restricted F/A," trexx said. "We managed to dominate EMEA in such short period of time and I'm thankful for that, now it's time to move into the next chapter."

The 2025 season has been a hectic one for trexx. He started the year with Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #25 Derke Nikita Sirmitev Chronicle Timofey Khromov KovaQ Blendi Kovaci Less Felipe de Loyola Basso , the squad he had been with since the start of 2024, and entered the year as part of a new EMEA super team alongside new signings Derke and Less . After winning EMEA Kickoff, trexx and Vitality entered Masters Bangkok as one of the favorites, but fell short of those lofty expectations, finishing fourth.

trexx was then moved to the bench in favor of CyvOph , and spent his time on the sidelines until the start of EMEA Stage 2, when he was picked up by Team Liquid. Joining the team as a go-to Initiator player allowed for Team Liquid to pair trexx with paTiTek as part of double-Initiator team comps. Liquid was crowned champions of EMEA Stage 2 to end the regular season, but bowed out early at Champions Paris, placed in the same group as defending champions EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #3 ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) Jieni7 Zhang Juntai (张君泰) , third-place finishers DRX DRX Korea Rank #2 Flicker Kim Tae-hee (김태희) Flashback Cho Min-hyuk (조민혁) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) free1ng No Ha-jun (노하준) HYUNMIN Song Hyun-min (송현민) BeYN Kang Ha-bin (강하빈) , and eventual champions NRG NRG North America Rank #1 brawk Brock Somerhalder mada Adam Pampuch skuba Logan Jenkins Ethan Ethan Arnold .

trexx is the second member of Team Liquid's squad to enter restricted free agency since the start of the offseason. paTiTek was allowed to explore his options a week before trexx. Both players' current contracts run until the end of the 2026 season, according to the VCT Global Contract Database.

Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #7 nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin keiko Georgio Sanassy kamo Kamil Frąckowiak 's full roster is now:

  • Ayaz "nAts" Akhmetshin
  • Georgio "keiko" Sanassy
  • Kamil "kamo" Frąckowiak
  • Nico "Harmii" Harms
  • Eamon "cauzed" Drea (Manager)
  • Ivo "LohaN" Albino (Head coach)
  • Daniel "yaotziN." Roczniak (Assistant coach)
  • Jake "Bacon9" Lloyd (Analyst)