DetonatioN FocusMe DetonatioN FocusMe Japan Rank #4 Meiy Ibuki Seki SSeeS Tomonori Okimura yatsuka Caedye Amon Mateus Okakura Akame Yu Gwang-hui (유광희) has announced their new roster for the 2026 VCT season. They have kept Ibuki "Meiy" Seki, Tomonori "SSeeS" Okimura, and Yu "Akame" Gwang-hui (유광희) from their 2025 roster, while adding "yatsuka" , Amon "Caedye" Mateus Okakura, and head coach Kakeru "Vorz" Ikarashi from RIDDLE ORDER RIDDLE ORDER Japan Rank #3 JoXJo Cho Byung-yeon (조병연) Minty Daiki Kato Seoldam Park Sang-min (박상민) gyen Koki Nakamura Luca .

After spending the first two years of VCT Pacific at the very bottom, DFM finally made strides towards improvement in 2025. They started the year with a top six finish at Kickoff, even knocking off Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #1 invy Adrian Jiggs Reyes Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov in the lower bracket, and finished the year with their very first appearance in playoffs. From that 2025 roster, they have maintained a core of three players.

The new additions to the roster all hail from Japanese challengers team Riddle Order. Rising up from Premier, the team entered the league in 2024, and have since dominated the region. Winning the league two years in a row, they have had two shots at Ascension as Japan's representatives. In 2024, they placed fourth, only losing to the two grand finalists. This past Ascension, they were less successful, going completely winless in the group stage. Still, as part of the strongest upcoming team from Japan, yatsuka and Caedye have been given the chance to see the VCT stage for the first time.

DFM's new rookies will be put to the test right away, as their first match of Kickoff will be against Pacific juggernauts Gen.G Gen.G Korea Rank #3 Lakia Kim Jong-min (김종민) ZynX Kim Dong-ha (김동하) Ash Ha Hyun-cheol (하현철) Karon Kim Won-tae (김원태) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) .

DetonatioN FocusMe DetonatioN FocusMe Japan Rank #4 Meiy Ibuki Seki SSeeS Tomonori Okimura yatsuka Caedye Amon Mateus Okakura Akame Yu Gwang-hui (유광희) is now: