Joblife Joblife Europe Unranked WanZeru Tomáš Peroutka Sevire Ethan Starke hoody Aaro Peltokangas al0rante Felix Brandl westside Miłosz Duda has signed FOKUS FOKUS Europe Unranked 's Mohammad "Pa1ze" Khatib ahead of its VCT EMEA Stage 2 Play-Ins campaign. The addition comes as Russian player chiwa , formerly of BBL Esports BBL Esports Europe Unranked Lar0k Yusuf Kaan Kanber Loita Utku Kart and Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk , is dealing with visa issues.

Pa1ze played out the 2026 season with FOKUS, ending the regular season just short of directly qualifying for the Play-Ins by finishing EMEA Stage 3 in fourth place. FOKUS and Pa1ze had one more shot at reaching VCT competition at the EMEA LCQ, but fell in the quarterfinals of the single-elimination eight-team tournament to eventual winners Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt Europe Unranked musashi Alessio Xhaferi azury Luca Sammer Jamelinho213 Ryad Bentot Fizzy David Figueiredo .

Before 2026, Pa1ze played for Gamax Esports Gamax Esports MENA Unranked YappA Anis Akremi Bard0lf Emir Çinkılıç Yassien Yassien Ahmed Chaza Charlie Phillips Shniider Yousef Osama and Diamant Esports Diamant Esports Inactive , but has enjoyed by far the most success this past year with FOKUS. Now with Joblife, he has a chance to reach an even higher stage.

Already armed with five players who have VCT experience, Joblife enters the Play-ins as a force to be reckoned with. UNFAKE , who played for Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Unranked jawgemo Alexander Mor Jamppi Elias Olkkonen PROFEK Dawid Święć Chronicle Timofey Khromov Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu and KOI KOI Inactive , kamyk , who played for Gentle Mates Gentle Mates Europe Unranked and Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Unranked GSR Ognjen Bondžić kamo Kamil Frąckowiak , former FNATIC FNATIC Europe Unranked kaajak Kajetan Haremski Cloud Kirill Nehozhin man doma , former Vitality player runneR , and chiwa already line the Joblife roster. While Pa1ze, a Duelist player, is not a perfect swap for Sentinel player chiwa the switch could see Joblife adopt more double-Duelist comps.

With Pa1ze onboarded, the Joblife roster set to take on VCT competition in the Play-ins is:

  • Bartosz "UNFAKE" Bernacki
  • Maks "kamyk" Rychlewski
  • Domagoj "doma" Fancev
  • Emil "runneR" Trajkovski
  • Mohammad "Pa1ze" Khatib
  • "Bilal" (Manager)
  • Kévin "Larsson" Bernard (Head coach)
  • Arnaud "SKAZZ" Trocars (Assistant coach)