The EMEA International League features a variety of organizations from European countries. Still, the players are from all over Europe, Turkey, and the CIS region. The League will be held in Berlin, Germany.

Team Vitality and Karmine Corp are the two French organizations that have landed themselves a Riot Games partnership to participate in EMEA’s International League. Team Vitality already has vast experience participating in the VALORANT competitive landscape after taking the runner-up spot at last year’s VALORANT Regional League Finals. Despite the loss to FUT Esports in the finale, Vitality showed its prowess, and their 2023 VCT team bets on a mix of old and new talent, with Twisten coming in as a potential star of the team. Meanwhile, Karmine Corp is a relatively new team in VALORANT esports. Despite that, the team has formed a formidable roster after managing to sign the Benrlitom brothers from Team Liquid — ScreaM and Nivera — to form a very promising Belgian-French mix.

The EMEA International League also features three Spanish organizations join the fight in VCT 2023; Team Heretics, KOI, and Giants Gaming. Team Heretics, former First Strike Europe Champions from 2020, will want to return to their winning ways by signing former experienced G2 Esports player m1xwell, and the young talents of keloqz and former VALORANT Champions winner zeek. Giants Gaming has much to prove, as the team failed to achieve much in terms of top-flight VCT competitions, and instead resorted to participating in lower-tier events. With a more formidable roster consisting of a European medley of talent with rhyme and nukkye at the helm, Giants may finally find the long-desired success in 2023. Finally, much like Giants, KOI failed to find its footing in the 2022 VCT season. However, the team has now joined the top-flight of VALORANT competition. KOI signed a mostly CIS/Eastern European mix featuring Starxo, a former VALORANT Champions winner, and koldamenta, the Spanish in-game leader for the squad.

From the far eastern side of Europe, BBL Esports and FUT Esports will be joining the VCT International Leagues as Turkish representatives. FUT is the winner of the VALORANT Regional Leagues in 2022 and has shown that its players have the discipline to mount a comeback after being 2:0 down in a best-of-five series and reverse-sweep Team Vitality in the grand finale. Following that success, the team has decided to retain the VRL-winning roster, with the minor change of signing a sixth-man, ATA KAPTAN. Meanwhile, BBL Esports will be looking to get into the swing of things this season. Following constant roster changes in 2022, the team failed to find meaningful success. This is considering that BBL are the First Strike Turkey Champions and the runners-up of VCT Turkey Stage 1 Masters. Hopefully, the recent signing of SouhcNi alongside previous roster changes will solidify the team.

Only one CIS organization has made it into the VALORANT International Leagues: Natus Vincere (NAVI). NAVI has essentially signed the entire former FunPlus Phoenix roster without ardiis who joined NRG Esports in the Americas International League. In his place, however, the Turkish star of the VALORANT Champions-winning Acend has stepped in; cNed. The former FPX roster was a force to be reckoned with in 2022 and they may be one of the most dangerous teams in the league.

Finally, Team Liquid and Fnatic round out the list of VCT teams in EMEA. Being juggernaut organizations, VALORANT fans have grown accustomed to seeing them compete at the highest level in the game. And yet, both had a rather underwhelming 2022 given their star-studded rosters. Team Liquid will be coming into the VCT International League without ScreaM and Nivera. However, the team acquired Redgar, nAts, and Sayf to fill the void. All three players have historically proved that they belong in the top tier of VALORANT and will surely retain Team Liquid’s reputation going into VCT 2023. As for Fnatic, the reputable team led by the charismatic figure of Boaster has signed Leo and Chronicle to boost the team’s chances in the VCT league. With Derke and Alfajer being Fnatic’s skilled superstar players, Fnatic’s expectations to finally lift a trophy will be sky-high in the 2023 VCT season.

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