Vitality part ways with Shox

Vitality and Richard "shox" Papillon part ways mutually ending a two-year stint with the organization. Shox was part of the winning roster in EPICENTER 2019, IEM Beijing 2020 Europe, BLAST Premier Fall 2020, and IEM Winter 2021 and even after all the title, the 29-year-old’s departure comes as no surprise as Vitality had already hinted at his departure in November itself.

Vitality had earlier shared they would be letting go shox, Jayson "Kyojin" Nguyen Van, and Rémy "XTQZZZ" Quoniam as part of the overhaul process as they replace the trio with Peter "dupreeh" Rasmussen, Emil "Magisk" Reif, and Danny "zonic" Sørensen. Shox has now been linked to a move to Liquid who recently announced the departure of Grim, FalleN, and Stewie2K.