Following the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, members of the Gambit Esports team were barred from competing in Riot tournaments and were forced to form the independent roster known as M3 Champions.

The 20-year-old Russian player noted he is ready to start a new phase in his career as a professional player and made the announcement of his free agency. He also expressed his gratitude to Gambit and hoped that he would reunite with his old teammates in the near future.

Sheydos was an invaluable catalyst to the victory that M3 Champions and Gambit achieved in Valorant. In September of the previous year, the squad won the VCT Masters Berlin tournament by adeptly defeating Team Envy in the championship match. After a tough battle against Acend, which they ultimately lost 3-2, they were able to secure second place overall at the Valorant Champions 2021 tournament.

Nonetheless, the team has fallen short of expectations this season. The M3 Champions were not able to qualify for the Reykjavik or Copenhagen Masters events since they could not place high enough in either season of the EMEA Challengers to earn a spot. Subsequently, they competed in the final of the EMEA’s Last Chance qualifier for Valorant Champions 2022, but they were defeated by Team Liquid, and as a result, they ended the year without starring on an international stage.

The conclusion of the 2022 Valorant Champions on September 18 marked the beginning of the offseason for the professional Valorant scene, and the next few days are likely to see an increase in the number of player transfers.

According to reports, North American teams have extended offers to the players in question. However, it is highly improbable that the players will accept those proposals due to the import bans that are placed on Russian players. It is likely that the players will make an effort to sign with a team competing in the EMEA league.

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He said: “Sometimes we��ve to make tough decisions. So, it��d be honest to announce that I��m not an M3C player anymore. I��m deeply grateful to all my team for these years. But now it��s time for changes. My e-mail for offers: [email protected]”.

Since the beginning of the M3C roster’s remarkable trophy run at the 2021 VCT Stage 3 Masters in Berlin, nAts has been an integral component of the team’s success, playing a variety of agents including Viper, Cypher, and others.

As a result, the M3C roster has been able to achieve a great deal of success. NAts was depended upon heavily by M3C to provide back-breaking moves that would stop the dynamism of an opponent because he was both a site anchor as well as one of the lethal lurkers in the entirety of VALORANT.

The choice taken by nAts takes place just two weeks after he and his now former teammates on M3C formally became free agents themselves, ultimately parting ways entirely with the Gambit organization that the players had been unable to represent this year due to Riot’s restriction on Russian organizations amid the invasion of Ukraine.

After losing to Team Liquid in the EMEA LCQ grand finals for the second year in a row, the M3C roster was unable to make it to the championships.

When M3C initiated their collective free agent move, they added Seymon “purp0” Borchev to the roster as a substitute player; however, it is not yet known whether or not he will be promoted to the starting lineup. Even with nAts gone, M3C still consists of some of the most highly skilled players in the world, such as Bogdan “Sheydos” Naumov, Igor “Redgar” Vlasov, and Timofey “Chronicle” Khromov.

With M3C, nAts won the Stage 3 Masters Berlin tournament, the Stage 1 Masters competition of the 2021 CIS Valorant Champions Tour, and finished second at Valorant Champions. The 20-year-old Russian was also named by Dexerto as the greatest player of 2021.

In the same vein, any EMEA team worth its while will give serious consideration to signing a player of nAts’ calibre, especially since he has only recently turned 20 years old.

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