After shifting to the Americas circuit in November 2022 to attempt to convey the NRG core to new heights, a VALORANT star is reportedly returning to the EMEA area and reconnecting with some acquainted gamers.
Latvian duelist Ardis “ardiis” Svarenieks has reportedly come to a verbal settlement to hitch EMEA staff NAVI for the VALORANT Champions Tour 2024 season, according to Alejandro Gomis from blix.gg. This may totally recreate the previous FPX roster that competed in EMEA in 2022 and gained a global Masters match in Copenhagen.
Out of all of the potential signings throughout the 2023-2024 VCT offseason, this one has been rumored since NRG’s collapse at Champions 2023. For an import duelist from EMEA, there was all the time that potential of going again to the area he left, particularly after a down season. Now, that “down season” wasn’t essentially a foul one as NRG have been nonetheless among the best groups in Americas, competing towards Evil Geniuses, LOUD, and Cloud9 for his or her worldwide slots because the yr went on.
On the identical time, the expectations for the NRG roster with ardiis have been sky excessive. It was doubtless laborious to not really feel the strain when the core of NRG was part of a top-two staff in 2022, and the 2 additions had the potential to convey them to the identical heights. The 2 new gamers for 2023, ardiis and Sam “s0m” Oh, each had their highs and lows. S0m had the robust function of changing Jimmy “Marved” Nguyen and he rapidly confirmed he was able to filling his footwear. As for ardiis, he needed to substitute Jaccob “yay” Whiteaker. With a special meta, ardiis needed to flex, however he remained among the best Jett gamers within the area, and will even play a top-tier Killjoy if wanted.
It wasn’t all constructive, although. For s0m, his lowest level was dropping a seemingly unlosable spherical to Paper Rex at Masters Tokyo. For ardiis, it was his trash speak to Bilibili Gaming that got here again to chew him and led to an early departure from the match by way of that very same staff. The season ended on a bitter notice for the entire roster, with clear adjustments on the horizon. With this report from Gomis, ardiis is seemingly on his manner out of NRG, not too lengthy after both Pujan “FNS” Mehta and Sam “s0m” Oh moved to streaming for the organization. This may imply three of the 5 beginning gamers in NRG’s 2023 lineup are gone, solely leaving Austin “crashies” Roberts and Victor Wong on the roster.
As for NAVI, ardiis’ reported transfer follows up on another blix.gg report that Mehmet “cNed” İpek won’t be on the roster for 2024. Whereas NAVI have been the NRG of EMEA, a core that gained internationally however couldn’t match of their new signing(s), it seems to be like their purpose is to convey the outdated band again collectively. If ardiis does come again to NAVI, we would see the staff attain new heights, even when it’s a well-recognized place for the core.
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