Crew Liquid has introduced its new VALORANT roster for the 2026 VCT season.
The brand new VALORANT roster options two acquainted faces from the EMEA and three rookie gamers. Head Coach Ivo ‘LohaN’ Albino defined that the purpose was to search out gamers who had been ‘passionate’ greater than anything.
Crew Liquid Reveals VCT Roster
Crew Liquid’s 5 gamers for 2026 embrace:
- Ayaz ‘nAts’ Akhmetshin
- Kamil ‘kamo’ Frackowiak
- Dominykas ‘MiniBoo’ Lukasevicius
- Seymon purp0′ Borchev
- Wayne ‘wayne’ Chang
nAts and kamo have performed for Crew Liquid earlier than and have loads of VCT expertise. MiniBoo, purp0 and wayne are new to the organisation, however match LohaN’s imaginative and prescient of constructing a crew that’s passionate, younger, devoted and open-minded.
“I wish to increase the bar for this 12 months,” he mentioned. “I need the gamers to develop extra atonomy in the way in which they work. Final 12 months sooner or later, it felt that my affect was the important thing factors for fulfillment. Once we’re dealing with issues we’re not so comfy with, we struggled to search out solutions.
“This 12 months, we wish to develop a extra artistic facet to our gamers the place they’re extra artistic and suppose for themselves.”
LohaN talked about his determination to carry the three new gamers to the roster.
wayne is an import from the APAC area that has a basis of unbelievable expertise. Nevertheless, LohaN additionally felt that he would give the remainder of the crew perception into how different areas play.
MiniBoo is ‘very, very skilled,’ in response to LohaN, and he’ll carry his expertise and perception to the crew. The crew famous his fixed concepts that may doubtlessly maintain Crew Liquid forward in matches.
purp0 has two years {of professional} expertise, the place he’s confirmed to be very strict and disciplined. This might add some construction to the roster, which is basically targeted on creativity and keenness.
LohaN is hoping this crew may have the suitable stability to dominate subsequent season. Crew Liquid’s followers have responded positively to the roster, excited for what’s to come back in 2026.
