Caide "chloric" Heaton and Abdullah "ExiT" Al-Twaijri from Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #23 chloric Caide Heaton ExiT Abdullah Al-Twaijri Ruxic Uğur Güç hiro Emirhan Kat Kolosha Herman Skrypka stand-in have both announced their status as restricted free agents. They will explore options to join teams for the next season.

The pair of players were added to NAVI ahead of Stage 1 this season after going 2-3 in Kickoff. Due to visa issues, ExiT wouldn't make his appearance until Stage 2, but chloric stepped into the IGL role and led NAVI to a big first win against Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #9 koshmaras Martynas Namikas Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius . Unfortunately, that was the highest peak they reached, as the only other win they found was against the winless Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #2 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan LewN Burak Alkan Avez Hazem Khaled SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin N4RRATE Marshall Massey . At a 2-3 record, they missed the playoffs.

Stage 2 was almost the exact same story for NAVI. ExiT finally made his debut on the roster, and they started off the stage by 2-0ing FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #8 s0pp Efe Tur xeus Doğan Gözgen yetujey Eray Budak KROSTALY Okan Alaçam sociablEE Volkan Yonal , who had just come back from a top six performance at Masters London. Their next three games were relatively close, but NAVI were never able to get it over the line against their tougher opposition. Again, they ended the group stage 2-3 with a last-week victory over the winless PCIFIC Esports PCIFIC Esports Europe Rank #317 al0rante Felix Brandl qpert Mateja Mijovic NINJA Patryk Koczyba seven Johann Hernandez waddle Wadir Taraki . They then went on to lose both their play-in games to Joblife Joblife Europe Rank #10 kamyk Maks Rychlewski doma Domagoj Fancev chiwa Egor Stepanyuk runneR Emil Trajkovski Pa1ze Mohammad Khatib UNFAKE Bartosz Bernacki and Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #9 koshmaras Martynas Namikas Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius .

This marks NAVI's third year without reaching an international event despite having a strong crop of talent. Their entire current roster's contracts will expire at the end of the year, so it is not yet known the fate of NAVI Valorant.

For now, Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #23 chloric Caide Heaton ExiT Abdullah Al-Twaijri Ruxic Uğur Güç hiro Emirhan Kat Kolosha Herman Skrypka stand-in is:

  • Uğur "Ruxic" Güç
  • Emirhan "hiro" Kat
  • Herman "Kolosha" Skrypka (Stand-in)
  • Kyrylo "ANGE1" Karasov (Head coach)
  • Salah "salah" Barakat (Assistant coach)
  • Zuzanna "Zuzanna" Hejduk-Mostowy (Performance coach)
  • Alaa "Flynn" Nasrallah (Analyst)