Team Heretics

Team Heretics is a Spanish esports organization founded in 2016. In 2020, the club signed a Heretics Valorant roster, which included former professional CS:GO players nukkye and lowel. Lowel, who became the captain of the roster, is known for playing for mousesports.

In 2020, Team Heretics entered the list of the best teams in the world. The team won numerous tournaments, including the largest First Strike Europe. For the victory, the team received $40,000. In 2021, the team’s results dipped a little. After placing second at VCT 2021: Europe Stage 1 Masters, Team Heretics failed to qualify or reach the playoffs at VCT tournaments.

In 2022, the team did not take part in any VCT series tournaments and showed very sad results during their performance in the Spanish league. However, towards the end of the year, the club managed to compete at one of the most prestigious international tournaments, Red Bull Home Ground #3, where they showed the best result for the entire year.

The most productive period for the team was 2024. During the off-season, the organization was able to complete a roster that showed the best stats of all time. The Team Heretics roster included such players as MiniBoo, RieNs and Wo0t, which immediately increased the team’s performance.

One of the hardest tournaments of the year for the team was VCT 2024 Masters Shanghai. The second match of the playoffs of the stage sent Team Heretics to the lower bracket, but thanks to new players such as Wo0t and RieNs, the team easily made it to the finals of the tournament and took 2nd place, losing to Gen.G Esports.

A few days after the end of Masters Shanghai, Heretics VCT 2024 EMEA Stage 2 started, where Team Heretics had to compete for EMEA Points in order to qualify for the main event of the year. During the group stage, the team showed the best result, thanks to which it reached the semi-finals of the upper bracket. However, here they began to have difficulties, after the first match, TH fell into the lower bracket, where they won only one victory, after which they crashed away from Team Vitality and took 3rd place, thereby securing their entry to VALORANT Champions 2024.

Shortly before the start of the main event of the year, the head coach, under the tag neilzinho, spoke about his dissatisfaction with the team's form during the season. He noted that Team Heretics can show a higher level of play and significantly exceed the results that were shown during the group stage. He also added that their main opponent in the season was themselves, which was noticeable by the blunders during the final matches.

With VALORANT Champions 2024 upon us, the team has worked through the mistakes made during the regional stage and is well prepared for the most important event of the year. Before the start of the tournament and even after the end of the group stage, few believed that they would be able to make it to the finals and compete for the title. But Team Heretics performed a real miracle: they reached the finals, but could not win, losing with a score of 3:2 and a consolation prize pool of $400,000.