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We know you’ve been waiting with bated breath, so we won’t beat around the bush. Virtus.pro have confirmed their full lineup after a complete rebuild - b1st and tO0rO return to the starting lineup, alongside academy players AquaRS and F0R3VER.

We don’t know much about these players, but all four were part of the same VP.Prodigy roster that handed it to Liquid in a BLAST-qualifier last year, which is at least something. That being said, pretty much anyone can do that these days.

Yeah, we’re not particularly excited. Add that the academy team was led by AquaRS, who now will hand over captaincy to mir - for whatever reason - and we don’t see why this lineup would become very good.

Not that it matters, for now. The academy team had a VRS-rank - probably part of why they decided to go this route - sitting pretty as the 78th best team in the world. Quite far from tier one events, to say the least.

Defenders of this move might point to MOUZ and NAVI’s previous academy teams, that have become tier one competitors after being promoted or sold on, but for VP that’s a line of reasoning we can eliminate entirely. Most of you may not even have noticed, but VP have been running their academy team for six years at this point, and have thus far produced no player better than r3salt. That is to say, nobody who stacks up to FUT or xertioN and co.

We might be wrong, but for now it’s sayonara to the polar bears in any notable tier of Counter-Strike. See you in LanDaLan!