Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #60 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan LewN Burak Alkan Avez Hazem Khaled SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin N4RRATE Marshall Massey head coach Andrey "ENGH" Sholokhov has announced his departure from the team. As a result, former player-turned-coach Ahmed "ZE1SH" El Sheikh will assume the head coaching role.

ENGH shared that the decision to step down was his own, and a decision that he made based on the team's results from EMEA Stage 1.

"Someone should be responsible, and it's me," he said. "It's as simple as that. It was an amazing time, to be honest. A lot of good and bad things happened, especially recently as you can see. I feel like right now it's very important for our club to have some new approach, new system, new kind of vision."

ENGH had been with KC since the start of the 2024 season, joining after spending the 2023 season working with Daeda and Itopata on TSM TSM Inactive Timotino Timothée Lavigne Dupont stand-in alvinboy Alvin Hong stand-in seven Johann Hernandez gMd Anthony Guimond vora Jordan Pulwer . His time in professional Valorant extends far, as he also worked with bonk bonk Inactive juseu Elric Belland for a short time in 2022, and earlier in his career helped lead some of Russian Valorant's biggest names with Gambit Esports Gambit Esports Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Chronicle Timofey Khromov d3ffo Nikita Sudakov sheydos Bogdan Naumov nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin and M3 Champions M3 Champions Inactive Jady Yaroslav Nikolaev purp0 Semyon Borchev Chronicle Timofey Khromov Redgar Igor Vlasov .

ZE1SH, who just a few years ago was a coach-turned-player competing in KC's first partnership era VCT team, has been in the Les Bleus coaching booth ever since, assisting ENGH.

"I know you have doubts, of course, with the results we've had, and that's normal," ZE1SH said in KC's announcement. "We accept criticism and even understand. I'm going to do my best to prove you wrong and show you that I have a lot to give, and that my new responsibilities will have a positive impact on the team."

ZE1SH's path in Valorant has been unique. He started his career as a head coach for L'institut L'institut Inactive keloqz Cista Wassim Twenee1 Mickael Annequin VlaDéDé Romain Mieudonnet iDex Sammy Van de Weghe liptoNNN and Anubis Gaming Anubis Gaming Inactive before joining Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #5 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen PROFEK Dawid Święć Derke Nikita Sirmitev Chronicle Timofey Khromov Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu as an assistant coach in 2021. He joined KC in 2023 initially as an assistant coach, but saw the stage in eight matches after Newzera stepped down.

After going 1-3 at EMEA Kickoff and winless in Stage 1, Karmine Corp will have plenty of time to adapt to new protocols under ZE1SH, with Stage 2 set to begin in July.

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