Ninjas in Pyjamas

So same coach regimen there, but obviously the Mates duo plus Diaz I think should be a very solid team, but definitely going to be kind of a new face for Vitality if they go with that roster.

um continuing on speaking of form of vitality players nip ninjas in pajamas currently rumored to be signing crr and stizzy the spanish duo along with potentially prosy prosy prosy One, two, I don't remember which.

Which is interesting about this is, if you're paying attention to the Rocket League Twitter, the blue wall, the K-Corp have been all over pros.

They wanted this guy, apparently.

Two cuts.

There you go.

So far, you have kept Carmine Corps, and you have kept Ninjas in Pajamas.

You have cut KC, as in KC Pioneers, Wild Card, and NRG.

That wound up over the weekend as well.

NIP with the champs over there.

We're going to kind of recap it with a skin, you know? So this is where you and Chad get to get involved in the, well, the giveaways.

Type skinscom in chat right now.

Locked in a MIBR.

Correct answer is MIBR.

That was actually their run for NIP.

They beat Liquid into Heroic into MIBR in the single elimination bracket.

I'm just from the start.

starting point of where we can look at this NIP I know I was excited I remember saying I was excited that they would have a chance at the elite teams.

But when you think of everything they've had to go through in these last events and past week, they play an event, qualify for playoffs, they fly to Malta, they get smacked on by tier one teams and elite teams that they dreamed of fighting up against, to obviously test themselves up against.

And then they run back and they go to another event that we will talk about a little later on in the show that they did eventually win.

You can't get away with anything, man.

You're just going to have to face the top team and do it.

But it was just nice to see the NIP guys back there.

I saw Stan for a little bit.

Continuing on, though, this was kind of expected.

Ninjas in Pajamas, NIP, will be parting ways with their roster after a very...

Up and down season, a very demoralizing performance in Worlds.

Much left to be wanted there.

They are a China-based organization.

I don't know if it's the first Chinese-based org, but our most recent and notable one, for sure.

Gen.G, Twisted Minds, Ninjas in Pajamas, Team Falcons, Wildcard, and Karmin Core.

However, they are still undecided if they'll participate.

... just make BlameF frag.

Like, I think this is great because the thing is, with all these young, like, all, all these academy teams, the only time any one of them has ever meaningfully promoted their IGL was Mouz, right? NiP had, I think, both LZ and ZTR.

They had no interest-

Yeah, yeah.

Then it's EWC, which is quite recent.

Uh, but it's EWC and he has a great series against NIP and a best-of-one against MIBR, right? Like, it's not reassuring-

Yeah

... that...

There could be a, an element of that at play still.

Um, but in terms of the teams they lost to, it was still...

They lost to NIP, they lost to Spirit, NIP, they lost best of ones against Luminosity, Nemesis, and GamerLegion during that period where we were kinda down on it all.

And- If they return to that level of event, maybe we'll have same things to say.

I've been there since the second or first year, I cannot even remember right now.

But my NAP run started a little bit earlier with Black Dragons, which was a Brazilian org that bought out the players and everything to go to NAP once they just started.

I just sent a message to Psycho at the time and said, bro, I want to be the coach of your team.

I think I can learn a lot.

But I think I was not the greatest individual player, let's say it that way.

How long were you mulling this over for or when it came to a head with NIP was that when you went okay well I need to make some choices here was that when you went okay what's available do I want to go into coaching or were you thinking about this like over the recent history or when did it really start to come into your mind?

I mean I think I actually think 2025 we did pretty good with the NIP it was a very tough year to be outside of the VAS circle because I think most of the tournaments actually didn't have qualifiers and we managed to get through to a standard.

So I actually think we did a really good 2025.

I think people completely forget that.

And we can kind of tie this all together because there's a lot to talk about.

And I want to get it through your lens.

So, NIP coming to a close.

I'm sure.

Ninjas in Pyjamas are playing BBL, HAVU, and Except.

Like this is, this is the chaos, this is in the nightmare.

And so I feel like in-