Team Vitality has had a rocky start to 2021. The French roster has lost six out of nine games in 2021 and is according to 1pv.fr looking to shake up things before ESL Pro League Season 13.
The former number 1 in the world plays their opening game Saturday against FaZe. Here the Belgian player Nabil “Nivera” Benrlitom will not be part of the roster according to the website citing the main reason the change of rules from Valve, that dictates a 20% reduction of points if a team uses a substitution during an RMR (Regional Major Rankings) event.
The former coach of FaZe, Janko “YNk” Paunović commented on the rumor on Twitter, where he doubted the reasoning behind the decision.
Not so sure about this one, Vitality has the most success with the 6 man roster and we don't even know for sure if the Major will indeed happen this year…
There are so many big tournaments nowadays that it justifies keeping the 6 man roster if it helps you win https://t.co/6BRlYAUIXH
— Janko Paunovic (@YNk) March 11, 2021
The six-man roster rotation from Team Vitality was a huge success at the end of 2020, where the team won IEM Beijing and BLAST Premier Fall Finals.
You can read the report from 1pv.fr here.
Team Vitality roster:
Dan “apEX” Madesclaire
Cédric “RpK” Guipouy
Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut
Richard “shox” Papillon
Kévin “misutaaa” Rabier
Nabil “Nivera” Benrlitom
