Gentle Mates Gentle Mates Europe Rank #9 starxo Patryk Kopczynski bipo Taranvir Singh marteen Martin Pátek GLYPH Conner Garcia Minny Patrik Hušek has signed their new roster for the 2026 season as they re-enter VCT EMEA. Their new roster consists of Patryk "starxo" Kopczynski, Taranvir "bipo" Singh, Martin "marteen" Pátek, Conner "GLYPH" Garcia, and Patrik "Minny" Hušek, the only player to return from the 2025 roster. They have also added new head coach Pavle "pakko" Kostic and assistant coach Jiri "KUNDIKUNDI" Honkala.

After being relegated from VCT EMEA in 2025, Gentle Mates have nearly fully scrapped their roster and rebuilt anew. Now given a second chance to prove their worth in the league, they have entrusted starxo to IGL the team. starxo was most notably the winner of the very first Champions tournament. More recently, in the partnership era, he spent the 2023 and 2024 with a middling KOI KOI Inactive team, before dropping down to tier two in 2025 with Joblife Joblife Europe Rank #16 kamyk Maks Rychlewski doma Domagoj Fancev chiwa Egor Stepanyuk runneR Emil Trajkovski Enzo Enzo Mestari . There he reinvented himself, taking up the role of IGL, and leading his team to Ascension. While his team fell short of ascending, starxo individually was the highest rated player of the whole tournament.

The other two returning VCT players are marteen and minny. The latter player was the only one from Gentle Mates' 2025 roster to stay on the starting lineup for the whole year. He demonstrated consistency in a variety of roles throughout the year, on top of IGLing the second half of the season. marteen, on the other hand, has been Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #41 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan LewN Burak Alkan sheydos Bogdan Naumov Avez Hazem Khaled SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin 's duelist for the past two years. His team found great success very early with their Kickoff win in 2024, but have since been unable to reach the same heights.

Rounding out the M8s roster is their two new rookies, bipo and GLYPH. bipo has been in the scene since 2021, playing for a variety of tier two rosters across the years. Most recently, he was with MOUZ MOUZ Inactive during their 2025 campaign that saw them win Split 3 of VCL DACH. With bipo heading the team as their duelist, they put up a respectable performance at Challengers EMEA, but had not accrued enough points to make it to Ascension. GLYPH, on the other hand, did make it to Ascension back in Americas. GLYPH first broke into the top echelon of Challengers NA in Stage 2, where he placed second with Ambrosia Ambrosia Inactive GLYPH Conner Garcia acrian satellite . Then joining Winthrop University Winthrop University North America Rank #160 moobs Gabriel Powell strongtallguy62 sym Tyler Porter stand-in Recoil Awab Hussain stand-in Fair in Stage 3, he accompanied the team on their run through Ascension, reaching top four at the tournament. He and bipo will now get to see the VCT stage for the first time in 2026.

The new Gentle Mates roster will debut at the Intel Monsters Reloaded Tournament, where they will face off against FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #12 xeus Doğan Gözgen MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak KROSTALY Okan Alaçam qRaxs Doğukan Balaban , Fenerbahçe Esports Fenerbahçe Esports Inactive ibonata İbrahim Taha Güler Slaughter İrfancan Çakıl mepeezy Enes Öztürk Yigox Yiğit Arslan wtex Muhammet Emin Kılıç , and CGN Esports CGN Esports Inactive Kixer Leon Kixmüller Rand reyvn Robin-Lee Maier Varlas Luca Di Benedetto Wanted Giuliano Sotgiu Mimori Mihael Lazarin .

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