The 2023 world champion replaces Derke in the side that finished second at Champions Shanghai and swaps VCT Americas for EMEA.
Team Vitality have officially announced Alexander “jawgemo” Mor as their fifth player for the 2027 VCT season. The French organisation posted the signing on X at , calling him the final piece of their 2027 puzzle.
The move confirms what Sheep Esports reported on 2 November, a day before we wrote that he was set to swap G2 Esports for Vitality. jawgemo said goodbye to G2 on 6 November, describing his two years there as a journey he “enjoyed every iteration of”.
He also wrote that he hoped his journey did not end there, “because this has been a hard year for me”.
Vitality’s five is complete
jawgemo takes the duelist spot Nikita “Derke” Sirmitev left on 24 October before joining Aurora. The other four players were already on the roster, and Vitality finalised their coaching staff a day earlier: assistant coach Scuttt was promoted to head coach to replace PAL, slk became assistant coach and Szed joined as performance coach.
| Player | On the roster since |
|---|---|
 Jamppi | November 2025 |
 PROFEK | November 2025 |
 Chronicle | October 2025 |
 Sayonara | March 2025 |
 jawgemo | November 2026 |
| Scuttt (Coach) | Promoted 10 November 2026 |
The team they rebuild finished second at Champions Shanghai, where they beat G2 2-0 in the upper bracket semi-final before losing the grand final 3-1 to LOUD.
A first step outside the Americas
jawgemo has played his whole VCT career in the Americas. He joined Evil Geniuses in January 2022, finished second at Masters Tokyo in 2023 and won VALORANT Champions 2023 the same year. G2 signed him in October 2024, and his first season there brought the Americas Kickoff, Stage 1 and Stage 2 titles plus second place at Masters Bangkok.
2026 brought one more regional title, Stage 1, and fourth place at both Masters Santiago and Champions Shanghai. His individual numbers dipped: at Champions he went 262-278 over 17 maps with 139.5 ADR.
In EMEA he becomes the only player in Vitality’s five from outside Europe, next to a Finn, a Pole, a Russian and a Moldovan. Raze is the agent he brings with him: he has played her on 191 maps in his career, roughly twice as many as Yoru, Jett or Neon.
G2’s reported rebuild
G2 have not announced their 2027 lineup. VLR lists only leaf and trent as players, with JoshRT as head coach. According to Sheep Esports, the American organisation has its roster in place, with HYUNMIN replacing jawgemo and LEVIATÁN pair kiNgg and Sato joining. We reported that G2 were closing in on HYUNMIN on 2 November. None of the three moves has been confirmed.
| Player | Status |
|---|---|
| leaf | On the roster |
| trent | On the roster |
 HYUNMIN | Set to join, per Sheep Esports |
 kiNgg | Set to join, per Sheep Esports |
 Sato | Set to join, per Sheep Esports |
| JoshRT (Coach) | On the staff |
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