Irish esports organisation Wylde and London-headquartered org Fnatic have announced changes to their Siege rosters, with UK players coming and going.
The news comes a few days before the Blast Rainbow Six Siege Europe League (EUL Stage 2) kicks off on September 2nd 2024.
Wylde ‘building for the future’ with EUL Stage 2 roster
Irish org Wylde have announced their roster, which includes two UK players – Layton and Pacbull – as well as Spanish player CroqSon, Hungarian dod0o and Dutch player Freq.
Northern Irish player Pacbull previously left the org in late May, but now he’s back, and says the new roster is a ‘super exciting project’ to be a part of.
Layton added: “A new challenge, lots of work to be done. See you all on the big screen on Monday for the debut against BDS.”
Dutch esports manager Face said: “A new beginning for Wylde R6. We are building for the future with a crazy amount of talent surrounded by expirience.
“They have all be working hard, some for their debut, some to continue to prove themselves. All different people but united under the same passion and goal.”
Croatian head coach neLo commented:
“With this Rainbow Six roster, we are definitely looking to have like a starting point for the future.”
neLo, Wylde
“I believe the team is built – it takes time to build a team and to properly fix a lot of things within the team.
“So we are trying to achieve that starting point, to try and fix all the basics, the callouts, strats and manage people, because we have five players together who have kind of never played [with each other] before.
“So getting them to become a team takes time, and that’s mainly what we’re looking to do.”
He previously said he wants to make sure everyone supports and trusts each other, in order to become the best, to work hard, build confidence and get results.
Wylde is also hosting a Wylde Cup this weekend on-stream to raise money for Unicef.
Fnatic make changes to EUL Stage 2 roster
Fnatic have brought in Finnish player Kantoraketti, who was previously with Wylde, and Italian player Sarks.
They have also moved Australian player Jigsaw to the bench and let go of UK player Tyrant.
This means their starting roster is: Deapek, Jeggz, LeonGids, Kantoraketti and Sarks.
Deapek, LeonGids and Kantoraketti previously won the Six Berlin Major 2022 with Rogue.
Fnatic UK IGL LeonGids said: “We felt in Stage 1 we had the right fundamentals as a team, and we hope to expand on that this stage.
“This stage we’re bringing in some new up and coming talent in the form of Sarks. I know a lot people have their opinions him, but he’s a beast who I think will prove a lot of people wrong.
“Then we have Kanto, again. For fuck sake.”
The news comes after Fnatic acquired LeonGids and the rest of the former Rogue roster in March of this year, after Rogue exited Siege esports.
R6 Europe League EUL Stage 2 teams and UK players
There are other UK players in the league, including Azzr, Kendrew, Creedz and Oscr on UK org Into the Breach’s Siege roster, which also has UK coach KangruKenny and UK manager Blainey.
ITB said on Twitter: “We ain’t changin’ nobody fam.”
There’s also Doki on G2 and Yuzus on BDS, who recently lit up a Piccadilly Circus billboard after winning the Esports World Cup. He also won the EUL Stage 1 with BDS earlier in the year, while UK org ITB were runners-up.
UK org Wolves Esports also compete in the Europe League.
The full list of teams in the EUL Stage 2 2024 are as follows:
- BDS
- Ence
- Fnatic
- G2
- Into the Breach
- Team Secret
- Virtus Pro
- Wolves Esports
- Wylde
The schedule for the EUL Stage 2 is as follows:
In other Siege news this week, Epic.LAN announced it would be hosting the Siege T2 EU esports finals in early 2025.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
