Karmine Corp
Karmine Corp
Europe
Rank #10
Avez
Hazem Khaled
SUYGETSU
Dmitry Ilyushin
has announced the player lineup that they will be competing with at the 2025 Project Blender tournament. The roster is Hazem "Avez"
Khaled, Dmitry "SUYGETSU"
Ilyushin, Burak "LewN"
Alkan, Bogdan "sheydos"
Naumov, and Zhumagali "dos9"
Dastan, with Andrey "ENGH"
Sholokhov and Ahmed "ZE1SH"
El Sheikh as the coaching staff.
Karmine Corp put together an intriguing roster in 2025, pulling together a mismatch of talent from across EMEA led by Americas import saadhak . After failing to reach any international events however, only Avez, SUYGETSU, and the coaching staff remain.
New to the roster are LewN, Sheydos, and dos9, all with at least a year of VCT experience under their belt.
LewN and dos9 both had breakout rookie years in 2025, with LewN serving as the Duelist for
BBL Esports
BBL Esports
Europe
Rank #5
Crewen
Ali Eren Sargin
Lar0k
Yusuf Kaan Kanber
Loita
Utku Kart
Rosé
Eren Erzan
lovers rock
Umut Pekdoğan
, and dos9 as the Controller player for
BOOM Esports
BOOM Esports
Asia-Pacific
Rank #6
natz
Jonathan Adiputra
Shiro
Hildegard Arnaldo
NcSlasher
Sheldon Andersen Chandra
BerserX
Rizkie Adla Kusuma
. Both teams had their high points in the year, both coming within touching distance of reaching the international stage, but ultimately falling short at the final hurdle.
Sheydos on the other hand, is one of the oldest names in Valorant, having competed at the highest level since 2020. Originally part of
Gambit Esports
Gambit Esports
Inactive
Redgar
Igor Vlasov
Chronicle
Timofey Khromov
d3ffo
Nikita Sudakov
sheydos
Bogdan Naumov
nAts
Ayaz Akhmetshin
, he lifted an international trophy in 2021 at Masters Berlin, and came second at Champions that same year. More recently, Sheydos has been with
KOI
KOI
Inactive
for the past three years, but was never able to find the same success.
The team will participate in the Project Blender tournament, competing with a very wide range of teams across EMEA, including seven other VCT EMEA teams. The tournament also features a unique implementation of agent bans, called Blender draft. The approach attempts to encourage agent variety by limiting the teams' abilities to play the same agents across different maps. Blender draft is explained in detail on the Project Blender website.
For Project Blender, Karmine Corp is:
Discord