ENVY ENVY North America Rank #9 Eggsterr Evan Grady has signed Max "Demon1" Mazanov. Hastr0, the owner of the organization, confirmed that the contract length is one year.

Demon1's reputation precedes him. The former Champions Los Angeles winner and MVP grew to notoriety in 2023 when he started the year as a reserve member in Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses Inactive ' 10-man roster, but ended the year at the top of the competitive Valorant world.

Following that year, he joined NRG NRG North America Rank #2 mada Adam Pampuch skuba Logan Jenkins Ethan Ethan Arnold as part of an attempted superteam, and was released midway through the season. He signed with LEVIATÁN LEVIATÁN North America Rank #3 spike Rodrigo Lombardi blowz Guilherme Oliviera Neon Bruno Rodríguez Sato Eduardo Kenzo Nagahama Sato kiNgg Francisco Aravena the following offseason as the org looked to rebuild after losing aspas , but again was dropped before seeing out the entire year with the team.

Since his time with Lev, Demon1 has proven to be a formidable stand-in when called upon. He had a stand-in stint with Dragon Ranger Gaming Dragon Ranger Gaming China Rank #9 Flex1n Lo Rui (罗瑞) Life Qu Donghao (瞿东豪) Nicc Shao Yi-qun (邵逸群) Verse Zhou Zijun (周子钧) SpiritZ1 Lin Dingyu (林定宇) at Champions Paris when vo0kashu dealt with visa problems, and earlier during Americas Kickoff played two matches for Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #13 FireBallOps Cameron Tomaselli GLYPH Conner Garcia alym Torogul Baidyldaev Derrek Derrek Ha nightz Christian Smith as a substitute when OXY had to step away.

During his time with C9, Demon1 primarily filled the Sentinel role, playing Chamber on four maps and Jett on one. He will be replacing Inspire , who was benched just before the team signed Demon1. Inspire primarily played the Sentinel role for ENVY, the role that Demon1 will presumably be filling.

ENVY will take to the stage tomorrow to play Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses Inactive in the lower bracket, with Demon1 competing for the team he sent to the lower bracket just five days prior. It is believed that he will become the first player to compete for two different teams in the same tournament in the partnership era.

ENVY ENVY North America Rank #9 Eggsterr Evan Grady 's full roster is now: