NAVI will compete within the upcoming VALORANT EMEA Conflict 2026 with a stand-in, as Uğur ‘Ruxic’ Güç has incurred a hand harm.
The Ukrainian esports organisation will as an alternative subject Herman ‘Kolosha’ Skrypka, who’s at the moment signed to tier-two crew Boars Gaming.
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In keeping with NAVI’s official press launch, Ruxic is present process physiotherapy and is predicted to return to the energetic roster for VCT EMEA Stage 1 in April.
The Turkish professional participant signed with NAVI forward of the 2025 VCT season and has been among the many crew’s top-performing members ever since. His high-fragging potential within the controller function earned him the 2025 Controller of the 12 months award inside VCT EMEA.
This 12 months, NAVI had a promising begin at VCT EMEA Kickoff however finally missed out on a Masters Santiago spot after ending Seventh-Eighth within the occasion’s triple-elimination bracket.
NAVI has due to this fact change into one in every of six VCT groups to compete towards six Challengers squads within the inaugural VALORANT EMEA Conflict. The primary-of-its-kind match will happen from February nineteenth to twenty fifth, providing a €25,000 (~£21,800) whole prize pool.
EMEA Conflict’s distinctive format options two simultaneous double-elimination brackets. Furthermore, after an Alpha Bracket crew suffers its first loss, it will likely be demoted to the decrease bracket of the Omega Bracket and vice versa.
Who’s Ruxic’s Stand-in Kolosha?
Kolosha has been energetic in EMEA’s tier-two VALORANT esports scene since 2023. In Could 2025, the Ukrainian participant joined Boars Gaming to compete within the NORTH//EAST Challengers circuit.
Below his present organisation, Kolosha has achieved a fourth-place end in Challengers NORTH//EAST Stage 3 and received Purple Bull House Floor Ukraine.
Ruxic and his stand-in have vastly totally different agent swimming pools in professional play, with the previous primarily filling the smokes function inside NAVI, whereas Kolosha prefers entry-duelists corresponding to Neon and Waylay. Nonetheless, each gamers have additionally performed Chamber of their respective matches this 12 months.
The VALORANT EMEA Conflict might be Kolosha’s first alternative to compete alongside and towards tier-one rosters.
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