Vitality bid farewell to shox

22/12/2021 - 19:15

The 29-year-old's time on the team comes to an end after over two years.

Vitality have announced the departure of Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon from their roster, bringing an end to his lengthy tenure as a part of the team during which he won a handful of notable events, including EPICENTER 2019, IEM Beijing 2020 Europe, BLAST Premier Fall 2020, and IEM Winter 2021.

The news comes as little surprise as Vitality were first reported to be parting ways with shox, Jayson "⁠Kyojin⁠" Nguyen Van, and Rémy "⁠XTQZZZ⁠" Quoniam in early November as they overhaul their roster heading into 2022, going the international route with the additions of Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen, Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif, and Danny "⁠zonic⁠" Sørensen.

shox and Vitality have parted ways after over 27 months together

Despite being a dead roster for their final three events of the year, Vitality had a resurgent performance, finishing as the runner-ups to Natus Vincere at the BLAST Premier Fall Final, winning IEM Winter, and placing third at the BLAST World Final.

Heading into 2022, shox has been linked with a move to Liquid, where he should join the two remaining players, Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski and Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic, as well as the reported additions of Josh "⁠oSee⁠" Ohm and Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella.

With Liquid announcing that Michael "⁠Grim⁠" Wince, Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo, and Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip are no longer on their starting lineup as of Tuesday and shox's departure from Vitality now being formalized, further announcements can be expected to follow in the near future.

sadge

2021-12-22 19:15

42 replies

+AmaNEK pls

2021-12-22 19:57

40 replies

+dupreeh +magisk pls

2021-12-22 20:06

37 replies

And after that disband pls

2021-12-22 20:17

36 replies

Why? Are you afraid of Zywoo humbling s1mple again?

2021-12-22 20:56

33 replies

IMO prime vitality versus this iteration of NaVi would actually be fire to watch

2021-12-22 21:08

2 replies

prime polish VP also could fit and NIP

2021-12-22 23:14

1 reply

2021-12-26 16:58

Humbling ye sure how many majors again?

29 replies

s1mple only has one while being in 3 finals, not a good score at all but nvm.

2021-12-22 21:14

28 replies

How many has Zywoo been in?

2021-12-22 21:19

12 replies

2021-12-22 21:39

lets not forget, it took simple 9 years to win one major even though hes been on several star studded teams. meanwhile everyone else who has a major achieved it in quarter of the time it took simple. Also simple won a major while every other team is disbanding. s1mple wont win the major in 2022 and he will go to valorant(or probably cod sense thats all hes plays now).

2021-12-22 23:16

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0/8

2021-12-23 01:13

You are lying, in literally every statement. > CSGO has barely existed for 9 years. s1mple's 1st professional team was in October 2014. It's been 7 years. He was Tier1 since 2016, which is 5-6 years. For 2 years, it was online with no majors. So, it took him 4 years of playing Tier1 LAN CSGO, to win a major. Not 9. > s1mple won his 1st major in his 10th attempt - same as device. > Throughout history, post-major reshuffles have happened. 90% of current roster changes were announced AFTER the major, just like every major. The major itself had no dead teams. BLAST Fall/World Finals had dead teams, not the major. 2/8 for the effort.

2021-12-23 06:32

7 replies

+1 you saved me the trouble of replying to that illogical hater!!

2021-12-23 08:27

+1 Speaking facts as always. Facts are enough to destroy haters. Logic is not even required :D

2021-12-23 08:47

+1 thanks for taking down that hater

2021-12-23 12:32

Hes not a h8er, just a b8er

2021-12-23 13:20

+1, was too exhausted to write the same thing you did, since it's hard explaining to braindead people. Thank you.

2021-12-23 16:12

I liked the "2/8 for the effort". +1

2021-12-26 17:07

Dumb kids who don't know crap must be brutally shut like this, +1

2021-12-28 18:49

zywoo is 21 years old btw. s1mple is 24 so that's normal

2021-12-23 12:39

how tf is that not a good score at all? what dank thing are you on german friend

2021-12-22 21:23

winning one out of 3 is not good, not hard to understand.

2021-12-22 21:40

11 replies

Winning 1 out of any number is actually good, since most players will never get the chance to play in a Major Final.

2021-12-22 21:44

5 replies

Not if you are bottomfragger in 2 of them while losing.

2021-12-22 21:49

4 replies

Well, that would mean he carries the team, if they lose when he's not at the top.

2021-12-22 22:22

No, that would mean he struggled under the pressure and choked in important matches.

2021-12-22 22:35

For the record I think out German friend above is stupid. BUT s1mple did absolutely choke in those major finals, with flamie carrying him.

2021-12-23 11:50

say that for Zeus xD

2021-12-23 05:49

Dumbest statement in the whole thread

2021-12-22 21:47

Agreed 100%

2021-12-22 22:03

lol the same argument Lebron haters are using.. Just appreciate the greatness, at the end of the day he is a major champion.

2021-12-22 22:07

Yes and the Lebron haters are right, he is nowhere close to Jordan.

2021-12-22 22:09

People hate Lebron because he's 6'8" 230 pounds and cries for a foul when another player's arm hair rubs against his.

2021-12-22 22:20

device won his 1st major in his 10th major attempt btw - same as s1mple.

2021-12-23 06:17

Yes, but when you reach a major final, thats the time to shine, thats what people consider greatness.

2021-12-23 15:28

lol no, they will be top team

2021-12-22 22:44

2021-12-26 23:43

Ahahah

2021-12-22 20:57

2021-12-23 06:44

legend

2021-12-23 11:28

ok bb

Good luck shoxie

2021-12-22 19:16

Au revoir

2021-12-22 19:21

Good luck, Shox.

2021-12-23 00:55

Best of luck in the future shox

- Kyojin incoming, sadly

23 replies

imagine - zywoo lmao

2021-12-22 19:19

G2 -Monesy +zywoo ez

2021-12-22 20:53

Not sadly, he’s awful and needs his hand held at all times

15 replies

It's just sad because he's been screwed over by being added straight into tier 1. Hope he gets picked up by a team like ldlc or dlb poney

2021-12-22 19:20

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LDLC said (or implied) that they will go to an european line-up and my Poneys will stay together because they will get signed by an org soon (revealed on Monday)

2021-12-22 19:44

Revealed on monday ? Info ?

2021-12-22 20:10

On Krl's stream

2021-12-22 20:18

BDS surely

BDSM

2021-12-23 00:03

Considering BDS's R6 lineup this may make the most sense

2021-12-23 01:06

Have they ever had a cs roster?

2021-12-23 02:48

nope

2021-12-23 10:31

+1 Even zywoo had played in tier2 event but kyojin directly played tier1 games lol

because he refused to join a t1 team and kept playing in wysix later aAa

It's been said even those teams don't want him, and can you blame them? He's had .8 rating consistently over the year.

2021-12-22 19:52

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Yeah cos he's had not only next to no tier 1 experience, but he hadn't even played many professional games at all. The fact that he's even got a .8 rating at all is decent considering he spent most of that time playing against top 10 teams, after literally having 9 recorded games on hltv when he joined vitality, with most of those games being open qualifiers when he was playing in a mix team. I know you don't have to have official matches in order to be good but still, 9 matches on hltv to tier 1 tournaments is never gonna end well

2021-12-22 20:24

That's actually crazy, I had no idea he was so inexperienced.

2021-12-22 21:10

For a 22 year old it's really surprising

2021-12-22 21:17

Sadly? He single handedly lost them last tournament. No hate towards him just like you said in #37 he was pushed to tier 1 too fast. He is not bad, especially with deagle, but sometimes he has so weird positions & decisions...straight outta faceit queue

2021-12-22 20:05

It's more sad for him, because organisations will look at how he played for vitality and not want to sign him

true

Not if he reinvents himself and his own gameplay. He has enough experience to do that now. If you look at players like kioshima or STYKO, these are the players who were stuck in the bitch roles, but they changed their gameplay and became much better players and got signed by an org. Kio got screwed over a bunch of times, but that's another story. This is what separates legends and FaceIt queue. If Kyojin gives up, he belongs to the FaceIt queue. If he takes this "opportunity" as a time to grind, he might become a legend one day.

2021-12-23 00:10

I'd love to see him in a vitality academy team if they had one.

2021-12-23 00:23

bye

Liquid with shox can beat Vitality

2021-12-22 23:23

Sad!

SAD

Legend.

SAD moment 😥 but changes have to happen

Unexpected

2021-12-22 19:36

sad:(

2021-12-22 19:17

two happinesses: one when it enters and one when it leaves

ripperino

Goodbye, legend shoxieJESUS.

nice

Good luck on liquid! I don’t like this move but I hope it works

13 replies

Same. At least, personality wise, he's one of my favorite pro cs players so, there's that...whatever it counts for.

10 replies

Poor liquid, finally lose toxic Stew, then adds a toxic Baguette.

2021-12-22 20:15

How is shoxie toxic?? he's so wholesome, there's no way.

2021-12-22 20:16

#297

2021-12-28 11:10

gtfo shox is a super nice guy

2021-12-22 21:26

Shox a toxic guy?! lol! Hes genuinely one of the nicest guy on the scene lmao gtfo hater

2021-12-23 04:39

You must be new to cs or a navi fan who hate Vitality or Zywoo to think shox is toxic lol

2021-12-23 09:41

No, I’m old and remember the days where he worked to kick the IGL of all his teams to try leading himself only to make his own level and the teams crash. Forcing for example Happy out of a successful lineup just because of your own ego is indeed a toxic behavior.

2021-12-28 11:00

Source ? Or is that just one of those random theories you found on the internet

2022-01-21 18:50

There still hasn't been anything to confirm that rumor since it came out

2021-12-22 20:45

kennyS confirmed it on stream the other day

2021-12-22 21:21

<3 shoxie jesus <3

the French legend farewell shox

bot

2021-12-22 19:18

How is your region doing? I'm pretty sure he's joining Liquid in 2022.

our region is dead, now he make it even more dead

Well, it will not die anytime soon at least it will survive till 2022 end maybe after 2022 we can say it's dead but who knows other organizations comeback like Cloud9? Who knows, maybe we need more NA players who're actually good for the tier1 scene.

No news is shocking anymore. Everything's already known lol.

well liquid deal might not be happening....

WE ALL KNEW

+snax ez

Sadge

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

they should keep shox and kick kyojin bot

gl legend! <3

One of the most influental french players in all of CS, i hope he doesn’t retire

I hope he does, to keep his legacy on top

2021-12-22 19:29

+1 just think about pasha who pretty much quit then and Snax who has just washed up and lost the glory

2021-12-23 01:04

He said in the interview after blast that he gonna stay. And before the rumors of vitality shuffle he said that he wanna prove old players like him still can be competitive in top 1 so i doubt he will lay low

2021-12-23 09:43

uff 🥶

Gl in liquid shoxie, true legend

What a legend.

Does anyone know if he's moving to the US then?

" It is not yet clear who will make up the rest of the Liquid roster moving into 2022, although names such as Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon, Josh "⁠oSee⁠" Ohm and Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella have been linked to moves to the NA squad in recent times. "

2021-12-22 19:23

Don't know, to be honest, I'm pretty sure Team Liquid got Bootcamp in the Netherlands and there are rumors and report that he will be joining Team Liquid in 2022.

2021-12-22 19:24

Someone from the management said they will stay in EU for the majority of 2022 until the covid restrictions are lifted up. As the majority of the team are practicing from EU, it makes sense too.

2021-12-23 13:11

well, that's projectable, specially since the big events are in EU but if he ends up joining the team he will have to make some trips to the US, specially during the qualifiers and stuff like that

2021-12-23 22:09

Au revoir Don’t join liquid s’il vous plait

2021-12-22 19:22

respect

retire already

Who pissed you off today? Also, flair checks out for olofmeister.

2021-12-22 19:25

your point

2021-12-23 14:14

A shoxing development.

Will miss him in Vitality. Honestly I think the best way to use him in the game after so many years in french shuffles is precisely with apEX as igl and surrounded by youngsters. Wherever he lands I hope he can keep the motivation to play at good level.

2021-12-22 19:26

Nice😎👍

2021-12-22 19:28

Bye legend, see you in a new team

2021-12-22 19:30

so fucking dumb after there results

SHOXIEjesus😢

2021-12-22 19:31

Liquid shox in coming...

Merci pour tout tonton Riri <3

2021-12-22 19:39

I like shox but I don’t want him on Liquid, it won’t work

GG and good luck in the next team, Shox

2021-12-22 19:40

Neo not my ceo <3

all best for u shox i love u <3

2021-12-22 19:43

LULquid move makes no sense but gl regardless

gl shoxieJESUS

good luck shoxie :C

shoxiejesus

2021-12-22 19:49

SADGE

finaly shox elige & naf

2021-12-22 19:51

wtf

-zywoo when already?

2021-12-22 19:53

Weird tbh….. why would you want to move when your team finding form?

2021-12-22 19:56

Because Liquid made a good offer and because Vitality need more firepower (Magisk/dupreeh)

the changes were confirmed to be happening before the Major happened , Vitality`s form in first 8 months of this year was terrible

good luck shox

2021-12-22 19:58

cya in another roster legend

2021-12-22 19:59

Bye shox, gl in the future :(

2021-12-22 20:01

The mens))😎 The myth The legend

2021-12-22 20:03

Q_Q

"The 29-year-old's time on the team comes to an end after over two years." why do they have to put his age on the header... :D like seriously just put his name or nickname, not age

2021-12-22 20:12

that's how articles work. you don't have to use his 'name surname' every single time in every single sentence.

2021-12-22 20:21

i mean using age and clearly its used here to make him look old, is just not a good way to start. if we speak about prodigies for example m0nesy, we could start with a 16y old prodigy, and it would look cool, but in this case its bad

yeah maybe not the best part of the article to put it but i don't think it's critical

2021-12-26 20:52

This is something from the English language that I will NEVER understand. They always put emphasis on age. In Portuguese we don't mention the age of the people on articles like that.

2021-12-22 21:07

Kyojin

2021-12-22 20:13

Shoxie jesus

hopefully he find a new good team

Off to liquid

The moment you realize you are years older than shox when he is already being treated like a dinosaur. #fml

Most surprising roster change of 2021 by far. Hopefully he goes to a team where he can bring out his abilities and not some random team that would make no sense, like Liquid.

2021-12-22 20:19

Shoxing O.o

So sad

2021-12-22 20:20

GL shox, hope to see you in t1 EU again

best player in the team :( sad

2021-12-22 20:22

i don’t think he’s going to Liquid he’s 29yo and married

2021-12-22 20:23

Maybe wife want to visit the states for a period too?

2021-12-22 20:52

bootcamp in netherlands

2021-12-23 02:42

Danish vitality

2021-12-22 20:28

RIP

GL shox!

2021-12-22 20:31

Shox Amanek KennyS Nbk Kyojin Will be a great team ?

2021-12-22 20:37

bodyy AmaNEk Maka shox hAdji

2021-12-22 22:40

Maka and hadji under contract with ldlc Body will never leave dbl poney he is the captain of the team. But on paper it’s fucking insane line up

2021-12-23 08:46

rip shox

2021-12-22 20:41

guys???? coldzera,snax,flamie,jw free agents

flusha,rush,jks,kenny

If we were in 2016...

2021-12-22 21:05

Sadge LEGEND

2021-12-22 20:44

RIP LEGEND

gl shoxie

2021-12-22 20:47

2021-12-22 20:48

good luck shoxie

2021-12-22 20:50

sad :((

cya

2021-12-22 20:55

Good luck in Liquid legend

2021-12-22 21:01

Not a fan of removing Shox from the team but I understand things need to change for Vitality. Best of luck in the future and there is definitely a team out there that you will benefit. :D

sad to see him go.....he's such a great personality, more than just a player, always so nice, and I do think he played good enough to remain in vitality. Hope he could find a good home, be it liquid or anywhere else. GL <3

2021-12-22 21:02

To the next chapter my boi!

2021-12-22 21:03

Legend. And still playing good.

2021-12-22 21:04

We all knew this is coming but god its sad... hes a pure legend not only in vitality but in cs overall..! hope he finds a solid team where he can play his best cs

Sadge for TL

It is so sad mens ((( why csgo make me so emitional, sad days mens (((

Good luck <3

Legend! Respect. Following him since CSS times.

It's weird to see how a team who is closest in beating NaVi have to make such massive change, you'd think -kyojin +someone slightly better had been enough to make serious NaVi contender. But I suppose it's a mental game and sometimes you just need to freshen up the lineup to stay fresh & focused mentality-wise in the game too. They've been together for quite a while now.

I don't think with player of caliber like zywoo vitality is interested in taking navi down but more as starting their own great era.

2021-12-22 21:32

First of all you have to be able to beat the best and do it consistently before even thinking about own era.

2021-12-22 22:48

Crazy... this org really wants to be #1. Gonna be interesting

2021-12-22 21:41

What's crazy about it? Every team wants to be no.1

2021-12-22 22:51

But some just try harder than others imho. Looking at Vitality with their last 3 month of performance and on the other hand for example mouz, FaZe, BiG and other top20 teams they in comparison do fcking nothing to get to #1.

2021-12-23 12:52

Vitality just lucky enough to have an opportunity to build a team around superstar and a young rising star. They already have a big part of no.1 caliber team which others don't have. I mean, Faze have it to some extend, but it seems they just don't know how to build a good team.

2021-12-23 17:39

Finally

Merci Richard

2021-12-22 21:52

Thank you shox shoxie shoxieJESUSS

2021-12-22 21:54

Gl shoxieJesuss, i would not be suprised if he come back to vitality later..

2021-12-22 21:56

An absolute legend of the game, I’m excited to see how he performs in a new environment. He seems like such a lovable selfless guy, I hope things work out.

2021-12-22 22:01

GL shox

2021-12-22 22:18

Bring him to G2 baby! lets rock

shoxiejesus <3

Another Valorant pro back to csgo ? Nitro ?! Ohh, whats up valoboys

2021-12-22 22:25

i love shox clips.twitch.tv/TangentialEnjoyablePhone..

2021-12-22 22:29

watch vitality go down tier8 with this danish shuffle

2021-12-22 22:34

Rip legend I think Stockholm was his last major

liquid??

2021-12-22 23:08

Not qualifying for the next one

2021-12-22 23:15

In na RMR? haha free for them

no im not crying

2021-12-22 22:57

2021-12-22 23:01

Merci legend shoxieJESUS <3

Well rip, gl mens!

2021-12-22 23:13

I hope you find a good new home shoxy, such an amazing player still and what it seems for years to come. Shox is a part of my dream team for CSGO, that's how much I value him. s1mple, zywoo, niko, shox, gla1ve.

2021-12-22 23:20

2021-12-22 23:36

shox, if u read this message i hope u ....hfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhf

TL shox actually inc

2021-12-22 23:37

gg shox, beautiful career. Been following since 2012. Mans was a beast in Source too. GG SHOX LOVE <3

2021-12-22 23:40

there is NO way he joins liquid, that is such a bad pickup for liquid. Do they expect him to somehow go back 7 years and become a good player? He's been below average for so long now, I'd argue he's on the same level of being washed up as olof is.

2021-12-22 23:41

Better than any NA player

2021-12-22 23:45

not really, and even if he is thats not saying much. Liquid are obviously trying to build a tier 1 team again, they made the right cuts but picking up shox is a terrible idea. He hasn't been impressive for like 5 years at least.

2021-12-22 23:47

Wow you are retarded

2021-12-22 23:52

bias detected. opinion rejected.

2021-12-23 00:04

right i feel like the line up should be naf, elige, nitro, osee, and one other from extra salt, either floppy or fang

2021-12-23 03:55

RIP Vitality, welcome to tier2

2021-12-22 23:44

Goodbye legend

2021-12-23 00:02

where kyojin kick

such a legend, he was the best after zywoo

2021-12-23 00:08

I wonder where he’s going

2021-12-23 00:14

2021-12-23 00:40

I really hope he doesn’t go to Liquid, NA rosters +1 EU/BR player has never worked, we’re better off sticking with homegrown players imo. Nothing against shox though he is a legend, hopefully a team like faze picks him up

2021-12-23 00:49

Well I guess Liquid Shox will be a thing

2021-12-23 00:52

ShoxieJesus will live on

2021-12-23 00:58

my goat

2021-12-23 01:23

hopefully he retires forever, shox fanboys worse than nbk or olof fanboys

2021-12-23 01:26

Thank you vitality <3. will always root for you when its not against us.

2021-12-23 01:52

shoxieJESUS <3 hope we will see you sooner than later

2021-12-23 01:57

He was finished before he even joined Vitality lol.

2021-12-23 02:13

and won 4 big events while being a top 25 player in 2020?

2021-12-23 02:46

Carried by the best player in the world in 2020.. and won 4 out of what.. 50 tournaments in the time he was there, that's a failure.

2021-12-23 06:11

First snax, now shox My heart is completly broken Why as a Polish fan I always receive only pain? 😭

2021-12-23 04:11

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???? they are already get paid like millions of dollars and probably will join decent team how is this sad ??? stop being worthless beta

2021-12-23 07:15

You are dumb af I dont give a shit about how much money they earned From viewer's POV snax since he left VP was only struggling. Picked up by mouz to play as a support when he played whole career as a lurker (then went back to VP). Very smart mouz. Then he left VP completly and got stuck in Polish shithole for 2 years. Recently he took a break from competetive CS, because he doesnt feel strong mentally as he was in the past. Also he got married recently. I want to see snax in tier 2/3 team, because he is still insane player as lurker, but its fully his choice and Im worried he is gonna retire soon.

i mean why are u worried about millionare that doesnt give a shit about you ?

2021-12-23 13:40

He is creating joy, entertainment for me as a viewer and Im proud of my country whenever snax is destroying his opponents. Im worried, because I can lose it if he is gonna retire

2021-12-23 14:11