With little time to spare, PCIFIC Esports PCIFIC Esports Europe Rank #326 qpert Mateja Mijovic seven Johann Hernandez has announced its roster for the 2026 season. The team's playing roster consists of Mehmet "cNed" Yağız İpek, Felix "al0rante" Brandl, Johann "seven" Hernandez, Mateja "qpert" Mijovic, and Patryk "NINJA" Koczyba, while assistant coach Manuel "thinkii" Martínez and analyst Koray "Koyo" Arpat join head coach Leader .

PCIFIC's five-man signing class comes as a result of Turkish VCT team BBL Esports BBL Esports Europe Rank #6 Lar0k Yusuf Kaan Kanber Loita Utku Kart signing the team's entire roster following its EMEA Ascension-winning run. While controversy arose, due to PCIFIC's status as an affiliate of BBL at the time, Daniel Ringland, head of esports in EMEA, confirmed no wrongdoing.

With a clean slate to build a team from, the Turkish team brought in a Turkish icon in cNed. The icon's reputation precedes him. With Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk , he became one of the first world champions in Valorant's pre-partnership era. When the partnership era began, he joined forces with the core of FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix Inactive SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin Zyppan Pontus Eek ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky ardiis Ardis Svarenieks , another pre-partnership powerhouse, on Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #23 Ruxic Uğur Güç hiro Emirhan Kat , continuing as a high-octane Duelist for the squad. In 2024, he helped FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #8 s0pp Efe Tur xeus Doğan Gözgen yetujey Eray Budak KROSTALY Okan Alaçam sociablEE Volkan Yonal to a 5th-6th finish at Masters Shanghai. After stepping away to start the 2025 season, he returned in EMEA Stage 2, primarily playing the Controller role as FUT went 2-3.

al0rante joins PCIFIC after spending most of the 2025 season with Ascension participants FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #15 , who he also competed for in 2024. He's been well-traveled in European Valorant, also competing at Ascension 2023 with MOUZ MOUZ Inactive . The Sentinel player was also a part of one of the earliest Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #9 Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish teams, competing alongside ardiis and paTiTek in the 2021 season. Since making his debut in the First Strike era, he has also played for Cool Guys Cool Guys Inactive Babax Baptiste Bertrand apathy Alexander Gluhov al0rante Felix Brandl Amilwa Amine Saidi , peanutz peanutz Inactive Desmo Casper Rasmussen SouhcNi Ibrahim Sağır al0rante Felix Brandl Babax Baptiste Bertrand Amilwa Amine Saidi , and volvo peek volvo peek Inactive Phardon Brandon Perez Testa SH0UTyy Michal Glacner SouhcNi Ibrahim Sağır juseu Elric Belland Amilwa Amine Saidi al0rante Felix Brandl .

seven joins as one of the more out-of-place signings on PCIFIC's roster. He is most well-known for his two stints with American squad TSM TSM Inactive Timotino Timothée Lavigne Dupont stand-in alvinboy Alvin Hong stand-in seven Johann Hernandez gMd Anthony Guimond vora Jordan Pulwer , who he first joined in 2022. As the team's flex player, he played all four agent roles for the squad in 2025, which ended with the team finishing second at Americas Ascension to ENVY ENVY North America Rank #9 Eggsterr Evan Grady nightz Christian Smith . seven has been in Valorant since its earliest days, at one point competing for T1 T1 Korea Rank #2 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-oh (김태오) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) DH Kang Dong-ho (강동호) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범) during its North American era since making his debut with Teal Seam Teal Seam Inactive renz Austin Dickman furbsa Jonaaa6 Jonard Penaflor d1msumboi Erik Almhjell Cade3k Cade Warren in 2021.

qpert is the team's in-game leader for this upcoming season, having joined from Team Liquid Academy Team Liquid Academy Europe Rank #14 Prti Ivan Erak . He helped the squad finish 5th-8th at EMEA Stage 3. Valorant has taken the Serbian all across the globe in different roles. Since entering professional Valorant in 2020, he has been an assistant coach for The Guard The Guard Inactive JonahP Jonah Pulice trent Trent Cairns neT Michael Bernet valyn Jacob Batio tex Ian Botsch , an analyst for Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #5 nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin GSR Ognjen Bondžić kamo Kamil Frąckowiak trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Kicks Kimmie Laasner , a sixth man for Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #14 FireBallOps Cameron Tomaselli Zellsis Jordan Montemurro Jackk Jack Foote OXY Francis Hoang v1c Victor Truong , and has played for Digital Athletics Digital Athletics Inactive lurzy0y0 Ibrahim Sandıkcı and SK Gaming SK Gaming Inactive , among other teams. After five years in the game, he and seven finally get their shot at VCT with PCIFIC in 2026.

NINJA also joins from Team Liquid Academy, having played for the team for most of the 2025 season before moving to the inactive roster in October. He was Liquid's Initiator player for most of the year and, unlike many others on this roster, has been a late bloomer of sorts in Valorant. While he made his debut in 2022, it wasn't until the year after that he competed with his first Challengers team, FFXD FFXD Inactive NINJA Patryk Koczyba NOKOCU Michał Michałów nyczu Szymon Kulik qxv Jakub Sawicki Czester Nikolas Żarów . He made a name for himself the year after as Chipi Chapa's Chipi Chapa's Inactive globeX Michail Kostylew NINJA Patryk Koczyba bzt Renátó Bárányos 's Controller player, and was signed by Team Liquid to start 2025.

thinkii joins after spending the 2025 season with BBL as an assistant coach. After wrapping up his playing career with KPI Gaming KPI Gaming Europe Rank #64 VIPEX verity AleZ Alejandro Martinez Nevado SebZz delamac Movv in 2021, the Spaniard has coached with Arctic Arctic Inactive , Team Queso Team Queso Inactive mezoky Boom Daniel Jiménez , and UCAM Esports Club UCAM Esports Club Europe Rank #20 Buld Michał Sokal B1SK Vitaliy Emelyanov Famsii Ramses Valentino Erasmus Koivukangas OLIZERA Diogo Oliveira . He was a former CS: GO and Counter-Strike player, competing for 10 years from 2011 to 2021. Analyst Koyo joins after spending the 2025 season as the coach-turned-head coach of Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #67 . In the past, he has coached TeamOrangeGaming TeamOrangeGaming Europe Rank #28 Ben Ben Polzin SanZ Sloov Kuro Christian Schulz , Lootcifer Lootcifer Inactive zeikosha RadenZ NoMiss , and Sissi State Punks Sissi State Punks Europe Rank #262 Tezics Tim Leszkovich Swung Nirvia frazune Franz Enigl fl1xxd , among other teams.

PCIFIC's roster announcement comes one day before the team is set to take the stage against none other than BBL. While no members of the 2025 squad will be opposite of BBL on stage, we now know the ten players who will be squaring off in one of Valorant's newest Turkish derbies.

PCIFIC Esports PCIFIC Esports Europe Rank #326 qpert Mateja Mijovic seven Johann Hernandez 's full roster is now:

  • Mateja "qpert" Mijovic
  • Felix "al0rante" Brandl
  • Mehmet "cNed" Yağız İpek
  • Patryk "NINJA" Koczyba
  • Johann "seven" Hernandez
  • Kaan "Leader" Taşpınar (Head coach)
  • Manuel "thinkii" Martínez (Assistant coach)
  • Koray "Koyo" Arpat (Analyst)