Early EMEA talent scouting hub

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Congo1

Welcome to my EMEA T2 Talent scouting hub. Goal of this post is to list the best Rookie Prospects (=<18) at any given point in time. I update this post regularly.

TOP 20 Rankings

Larok (flex)
Loita (smokes)
Krizz (sentinel)
Spear (flex)
GSR (flex)
Yohpa (initiator)
Fangeer (duelist)
wTex (flex/duelist)
Audaz (smokes)
Slaughter (smokes)
qu1ckz (initiator)
Izana (sentinel)
Yassien (flex)
Razziss (duelist)
WanZeru (duelist)
Sunflower (sentinel)
Chaza (Iso abuser/sentinel)
shinnok (flex)
prayy (duelist
yigox (sentinel)
Influx (duelist)

List of players promoted to T1 from my Picks so far (and ranking at the time):**

Ara (Rank 20) -> VCT EMEA Stage 1 Week 4 - GiantX
Comeback (Rank 2) -> VCT Stage 2 - Gentlemates
Sayonara (Rank 1) -> VCT Kickoff 2026 - Vitality
Proxh (HMs) -> EWC qualifiers - Gentlemates

Honorable Mentions (late starters who have low comp experience for their age): GlobeX, ZachKappa,

Remaining talent Pool (Just for me to keep track of some names)

Lava 16
Shinnok 17
Movi 17
Niwt
Rexxtoned 17
Donatello 16
Davia 16
Luca 17
C4pee 17
Raz 18
Lamelly 17
Merix 18
Echo 17
Curve 18
Darxcio 16
Terrox 17
Fractioned ?
Ico
Waddlesthepig
Sh0ut
Echo
s0pp
Fortres
Yaggert
favian
Lucio
Ao
poeth
troizyyy
sulunist
nosby
fvriosa
Hassan

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Any clue on the age? Competetive history does seem new.

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hmmmmmm idk

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KROSTALY

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Isnt krostaly older?

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18

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Wouldnt that mean that he started playing competetive games at like 14?

Well... I'll trust you i guess but that is surprising.

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Yes, he is 18 but he will be 19 next month

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actually... he can be 19 rn, next month 20 but he is young i am sure

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19/20 is a bit old for the purpose of this thread so i will leave him out for now

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Good shout. Had a nice debut for HGE yesterday.

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influx and Lava both 16

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Best 18

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Thank you

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https://www.vlr.gg/player/39357/s0pp

he is also young, 16

he needs to be better but he has so much potential like other Turkish duelists

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Bump for reach

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Lovers rock right? Is he 18 right now?

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yes

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ATAKAPTAN

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Ata is 45 my dude

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Should consider taking a look at the ChipiChapa boys playing in Spain now. Both ZachKappa and Serial have been absolutely crazy. And while they are not his young ChipiChapas was literally just playing the officials raw, barely any praccs no server time at all. This is their first professional environment and they are insane

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serial is 21 and zachkappa 22 but still very good upcomers

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Yes yes I know, but they’ve never been on professional enviroments before so the potential improvement is there like if they were a lot younger

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Agreed

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This is not supposed to be a "good players in T2" list but a potential young prodigy list. Otherwise the list would get too big and loose focus. Zach is like 22 and SK is 20 i think. Chippi chapa obviously goated but different purpose.

If i were to make a list about the best players in T2 that need to get picked up i would maybe list half of these kids if even that.

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I understand, not saying you add them. I’m saying due to the circumstances of ChipiChapas in a way they are like this young players, pure talent no experience at all, everything to learn yet. So the improvement margin is similar

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Lets see if he can continue improving on liquid. Excited to watch.

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great choice

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canezera, nightz

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Its emea focus

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Ico 18
Windett 15
ara?
GSR 16
Yohpa 17
NoMiss 16/17
Ciuffo 16
loll9 17
Razziss 18
Davia 16
Sloov 16
Ziad 17/18
cullumx 18

dont look to much on the stats by some players, ive heard coaches say that they have insane potential and just need experience but mechanically r alr insane

Some NA and pacific talent who r unknown and r def worth a look:
CXIX (onenineteen) 17
123 18?
Timotino 17

personal fav:
GSR, Ico, CXIX, Windett, ara

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i checked some of these so far. will continue later. thanks for the effort

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these r the most notable one i can remember, but some of them r rly insane and just need some prof experience

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glad to see some italian recognition (stay tuned for that 3 names, some big announcement from Italy…)
ara was so good, same as Lamelly (16) and Qu1ckz from BFG

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bro thinks he is from mortal kombat

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Does anyone have any info about Akai? How long is his military service and does he plan on competing when it’s over?

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Military service in the UAE is usually a bit less than a year. I think it was something like 11 months

Haven't heard if he has plans to return or not (he might've said something; I just haven't heard anything)

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Ty

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also if u want to know the talents not from tomorrow but from the day after tomorrow

https://x.com/BadeVLR/status/1846129477065015459

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Bade

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yooooo goat <3

i'll update the list soon... more names to add. turkiye has so many young players, it's insane.

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love the list, esp seeing some of them in vcl now, im praying for more german player, for example jixxen
<3

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Bade

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i recenty found a few more German players to add to the list :)

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great to hear, wish u all the best and ty for ur work <3

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Bade

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thank you <33

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yo hows the list going? any update soon?

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Bade

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i have a list of hundreds of players who are under 18, sorted by peak rank and other factors (experience in t2/t3/premier etc) im about halfway through it, already covered regions such as France + Benelux and Northern Europe. currently working on Eastern Europe (did Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary) now and have plans to do every region.

sadly not gonna release the full list publicly because of how many hours ive put into it (orgs hit me up!!)
but i can share the under 16 names once im done with that (because they are underage per riot rules and cant play)

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wow that is very impressive, I hope that many orgs will approach u esp for projects like Academy teams or similar, keep up the great work, esp for a "mess" that european T3/T2/Premier is

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Bade

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thank you <3 ive talked with multiple vct coaches/managers before but yeah leading an academy team would be a dream

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Its a bit too early for my list btw. Should be eligible for T2 at least

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some of them are alr

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sunfloweR is 16 mr congo1

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Honestly, if you want a good head start, just check out Bade's twitter, I know the guy and i can tell you his lists are pretty damn good (though he doesn't publish all of them of course.)

kozzy, 14yo, genuinely insane at the game, and super young aswell, could be a big name when he turns 16

idle, 15yo, idlevlr on twitter + idle#15yo on leaderboards #54 last act, his account seems a bit suspicious in the performance tab, but im not going to make assumptions on if legit or not, its one of the names to watch out

po1nt, 17yo, this guy used to be pretty decent in 2023, he ghosted in 2024, but apparently he is back and streaming radiant ranked grind, could be a good name in some time if he puts in the effort, but for now, nothing crazy.

yutaro, 18yo, I don't really know if this guy is even considered EMEA atp, he is ukrainian but lives in japan from what ik, I heard about this guy from Bade, and he is genuinely insane, yutarovlr on twitter.

rehn, 16yo, though I wouldn't say he is the best right now, he is definitely decent and is very young, so he can improve alot.

Kaaru, no idea on his age, this dude quite literally was going +20 in all northeast open quals games, his account is also quite suspicious, but, he was let into vcl, so i assume he is clean, definitely one of the names to watch out

WaddlesThePig, 18yo, Kaaru's teammate, 1k rr peak player, pretty good in ranked, a bit overwhelming in actual games so far, but has potential.

TakeR, 17yo, 1k rr peak, seems very promising.

Also, keep an eye for TL Academy, GSR and Donatello will destroy.
Razziss will also be going into vcl apparently, insane talent
SunfloweR also incredibly talented, hope he finds a team.

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i would have way more to add, but i just cba to write more now tbh

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what about chaza ?

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Chaza is also good yeah
But i only figured it out yesterday that he was 17??
I thought he was way older considering he was supposedly a paladins player for fnatic, which according to liquipedia was in 2017 as a sub. dude was 10 ig?💀

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Yh he's on the players list on liquipedia here: https://liquipedia.net/paladins/Portal:Players

he was 12-13. he's cracked

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I dont think i should include ranked demons who havent played comp. I want to see at least some early signs of comp success before putting the seal of approval on em

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didn't you already put him second on your list?
also he has played comp

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Good shout on sunflower. Also just added razziss after his recent performances.

Taker still doesnt play comp. And some of the others either not playing at all or still in bush leagues. I will hold off on those for nowm

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I did mostly ranked players that will be upcoming in a far more long term tbh, and also, looking back at this list, even then i could have done way better if i wasnt lazy lol.

Also, yutaro was playing VCL jp promo/rele for CREST Gaming not long ago btw
but im not sure if he is fit for "EMEA" scouting hub, despite being half ukrainian he is playing in JP and has JP Citizenship :)
https://www.vlr.gg/player/52723/yutaro

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I dont think he will leave anytime soon tho, his japanese is good.

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yeah i dont think he leaves either

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GSR

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he alr on my list lil bro

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Influx 16

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bumping this thread as Italian, Finnish and Spanish VRC started, and there's many good players standing out
(all are on vlr.gg)

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GSR earned best player in north east eu stage 1 already

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also projectv starting soon

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Bump for update

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can u add derr (16, Siko), Terrox (17, NXT) and Darxcio (16, NXT)? or maybe watch some games of them but theyre very promising (derr had a tough first game but I heard lots of good stuff abt him)

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I will hold out a bit with derr. That debut was jsut too dreadful. I heard great things about s0pp too and he flopped so far. I do need some real data to support the case before i list them.

I will add Terrox and Darxcio however. Looked decent enough and vs good opponent (CGN)

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very reasonable, its gonna be a pleasure to see them play again soon

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also Curve (18, wylde)

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Very little data mhmmm. But looks decent in lowers so far even though its bush league.

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its true but he got in for Fractioned and imo Fractioned was insane so there has to be smth abt curve but we will see in the future tho

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Wonder why fractioned is gone. He had good performances.

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yeah tbh i had him as a top 3 duelist in North East iirc but hes LFT atm so hopefully hes gonna play soon

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kolosha is in my top 10 rn and might be best unsigned talent atm

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How old is he? 16 i'd assume.

Farmed some bush league games so far. Would love to see him play some more northeast quals and especially lower swiss to gather some more valuable comp data. Comp results rather volatile so far.

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he turned 17 recently
yep he's looked good so far and can also say he's farming in scrims too hehe

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do u have his X or yt? would like to see some clips from him

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Heizzy looking good

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Know the age?

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would guess him between 19-21 at max 22

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Keep your eyes on Tenkai whenever he turns 16

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boDork how come teams like deti ulice dont play next split in northeast?

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VLR is just bugged

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Many of the players you mentioned have been signed by Team Liquid Academy btw

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if you mean gsr rex ninja and donatello then yes i am aware. They have scouted very well

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gegsurdaddy is goated

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reduxx

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u gotta be joking

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why would I?

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hes in Na and the title says "Emea" also hes prob the most known T2 player in the world

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wdym, he is clearly not talked about enough. Most people have never heard of him

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im sry but this is a serious discussion abt unkown/slightly known emea talents, Reduxx is very well known, is in the Sen Acad System and hes not from Emea

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bro this is the most obvious bait ever, how come you don't realise it?

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guys this is not worth your time. Relax and have fun

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i was 50% sure tbh, some ppl on that site say the same stuff but r 100% serious aswell as some weird sen fans, dont take it personally <3

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dw it's just for fun

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qu1ckz (18) and lamelly (16-IGL) from BFG are looking good as well; Raz (18, MIR) is doing really good, crazy shooter.
from t3/premier, i'd say Kyoukei (17, hungary), beNca (18, hungary), kizy (17, czech republic), zeyno (16, france), flank (17, UK)
u15 best guys are probably, other than kozzy and jamelinho, myagii (15, france) and etna (15, russia)

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darxcio if he drops the duelist role he can be a goated senti, and I am not kidding he might be nats jr.

KOZZY is quite good but too early to tell he is like 14?

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nah he is a great duelist and NXT is focused on improving young talents, theyre literally founded by the government to do that

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i think darxcio is to good on the duelist to move him on the senti, i dont see him being nats jr at all;
kozzy is 15 now (pretty sure) and im almost certain that he's on DVM (as a sub until he's 16)

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Well sayo was the best player in spain starting from his first game. Who knows maybe kozzy can get close to that. DVM shows that belief at least

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young fragging prodigy Jessivash lmao

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Bump for rankings update

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U NERD NO GOUCHING GRASS DONT MATTER KOI AND G2 GOATDE TEAM G2 SO ENTERTAINING THEY COOOOOOK ALLL I LOOOOOOOVE G2 SENITNEL AND PAPER REX AND VITALITY TRASHHHHHHHHHH

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alexiiik - 19 (z10, former gonext)
he is kinda fading off the prodigy title but still very promissing

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He hasnt been stellar lately, plus he is over 18 and has played for a while. He is in veteran category atp

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BUMP

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uhh ange1 and FNS

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SUPER FUNNY OMG LOL XD LMAO😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹

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sybau subhuman

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Bump to ask MENA people about Yassien since i hardly watch any Mena.

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