ALEX confirms Vitality departure

9-9-2020 20:55

The 24-year-old in-game leader is expected to reveal his next challenge soon.

Alex "⁠ALEX⁠" McMeekin joined Vitality at the end of 2018, following a successful period with LDLC, with his addition helping invigorate the French squad. During his tenure with the team, they managed to first climb into the top 10 of the world rankings, and then peak at #2 in the middle of the year.

His stay in the team was marked by issues around splitting the in-game leadership roles with Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt all the way until the 26-year-old's departure, when ALEX took on the role fully. Despite Vitality's continued success, ALEX decided to step down from the roster at the start of 2020, citing a stressful travel schedule as the reason. Now, after six months on the bench, he officially departs the French organization.

ALEX leaves Vitality behind after six months on the bench

ALEX won four tournaments with Vitality, including EPICENTER 2019 and ECS Season 7 Finals, two events where he had some of his best individual performances, boasting a 1.23 and 1.15 rating respectively. On his list of achievements are two strong runner-up finishes as well, from DreamHack Masters Malmö 2019 and ESL One Cologne 2019.

"It has been an incredible ride, from finding out I'll be playing for Vitality while boarding a plane to the Caribbean for Christmas to taking over the IGL role, making 11 straight playoffs, 6 finals & 4 trophies," ALEX wrote in his TwitLonger. "I would like to thank Vitality for always making sure we had what we needed in order to succeed, for always supporting us no matter what time of day".

The British player thanked all of his teammates and the staff in Vitality, but gave special praise to assistant coach Mathieu "⁠MaT⁠" Leber and head coach Rémy "⁠XTQZZZ⁠" Quoniam: "The person who taught me the most is Rémy, he is an incredible coach, an incredible person and a good friend".

ALEX finished his statement with a teaser for his new challenge, saying, "By the way, how many UK players is too many for one team?". He is expected to share more details on Thursday, as he is scheduled to take part in the 1PV.fr show at 16:00 .

gl in C9

2020-09-09 20:55

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No no, Faze Clan member confirmed!

2020-09-09 20:57

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C9 ALEX has been confirmed lol.

2020-09-10 16:46

UKCS in C9 KEKW

2020-09-09 21:01

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Top 5 IGL again?

2020-09-09 21:19

carried by Zywoo

2020-09-10 00:41

"By the way, how many UK players is too many for one team?" ALEX + smooya

2020-09-09 22:03

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2020-09-09 22:25

Alex igl + smooya on the awp+ Thomas on the rifle

2020-09-09 23:40

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+1 would be very cool. And could be a very decent british team.

2020-09-10 00:56

As long as Alex can keep the cool of toxic players like smooyw

2020-09-10 10:16

2020-09-10 09:01

2020-09-09 23:53

thomas too?

2020-09-09 23:57

He didnt played today against Sprout and tweeted something teasing 12 hours ago.

2020-09-10 01:02

He will join Envyy

2020-09-10 10:12

Even maybe OG -mantuu +woxic, then they can grab mantuu

2020-09-10 04:43

Dephh

2020-09-10 08:45

dephh was playing competitive valorant, i dont think he is going to return to cs

2020-09-10 12:38

Yeah, he's playing with the former fornite "pros" xD

2020-09-10 13:24

MOM IM #2

2020-09-09 20:56

10 replies

I'm so proud of you my baby-girl!

2020-09-09 21:39

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THANKS MOM!

2020-09-09 21:42

Hey my wife. Did u miss me ha?

2020-09-09 22:21

You wish Turkish kebab

2020-09-10 07:33

I would but i've already eaten it yesterday brother. Actually Turkish kebab is for everyday.

2020-09-10 13:25

Im proud of you my savage girl. Hey do u remember me im your father.

2020-09-09 22:20

Didn't you go to shop for milk?

Why do you Think he came back, he Saw the daughter was doing well

2020-09-09 22:53

U might be right or not :).

2020-09-09 23:43

I've gone for some cookies and milk but the truth is "i've gone to striptiz club"

2020-09-09 23:44

to c9

C9.ALEX inc!

Hello UK Cloud9.

Pog

2020-09-09 22:59

c9 confirmed

Throwback Thursday this time on Tuesday?

Today's Wednesday?

Sure as hell I should sleep more then

2020-09-09 21:07

C9 incuming

Its happening lads!!

TY FOR EVERYTHING GOD ALEX

GL ALEX!

How tf he leaves vitality if he wasn't in vlitality since 1 year ago or idk how much time...

2020-09-09 20:58

Still in contract maybe?

2020-09-09 20:59

They liked to pay 1 guy afk =))))))))))) ez $

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I think they pay him less, like %25 of his salary

2020-09-09 21:12

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7.500k$ for afk is ok =)))))

2020-09-09 21:15

ok AS F

2020-09-09 21:21

Do they earn 30k per month ?

2020-09-09 22:05

a little less a little more. 30k is around the pay for a top 5 team

OMG!! didn't know that progaming pay that much good for them

2020-09-10 00:54

It’s probably more

2020-09-09 23:41

Since he benched himself his salary was really low...

2020-09-09 22:34

They had him benched during his contract waiting for offers for his buyout, idk how the salary works but probably reduced

he was on the bench with INSANE buyout for him

2020-09-09 21:46

nice brains kid

2020-09-10 10:54

thanks for everything <3

Hello FaZe,free IGL here!!!

-shakebye +Alex

if they were gonna sign him they would’ve just waited and not signed kyaerbye and i didn’t read all of the announcement but if his contract didn’t end then someone bought him out of his contract C9 incoming

2020-09-09 23:18

Yea nice one, already in C9 lol

2020-09-10 17:02

POG

GL i Valorant, Very kool

Gl for the future, thank you for everything captain !

By the way, how many UK players is too many for one team? bois is he hinting something?

Unexpected

Good luck in Cloud9!

C9 with Thomas and smooya? Gl

2020-09-09 21:00

C9 ALEX C9 GuardiaN Who else?

budget mouse alex guardian olof woxic smooya nice retirement home

2020-09-09 21:26

You should add jugi for one more sniper.

Awp op weapon so 4 awpers must be ez win right :()?

2020-09-10 09:02

English had talent to create money with economy... So 4 snipers could work! :D

2020-09-11 17:57

new squad will come ALEX -IGL OLOFMEİSTER- support WOXİC -AWP NEX- secondary support and one free agent

-nex +someone good

2020-09-09 21:05

is nex bad? i tihnk he is good player

2020-09-09 21:06

weak piece, big tried to save him but decided to not keeping him

I thought there was a time where he was supposed to be the next big German star. Around troubley times.

2020-09-10 00:21

Nex is so damn inconsistent its bizarre. He can be the worst guy on map1 only to win 2nd map singlehandedly with clean entries on t side... Its hard to win deep playoff runs with a player like that if he goes missing in a big game :()

2020-09-10 09:04

Olof in 2020?

2020-09-10 05:09

What else would happen xD?

c9 confirmed!

cloud 9

ALEX Smooya I dont think there's more actually good UK players. Cloud9 hasn't released their roster yet.

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Thomas is a great player

2020-09-09 21:04

he is tier3 and he will join envy anyway. meziii will join c9 with alex

2020-09-09 21:11

Id say thomas is actually pretty good. Hes pretty consistent which makes him good for a 5th in almost any lineup :()

2020-09-10 09:07

You forgot he was in c0ntact, didnt do shit...

2020-09-10 15:38

Maybe Thomas, since he haven't been playing for Endpoint lately.

2020-09-09 21:10

Mantuu. I can't see why OG would sell him though unless C9 offer absolutely stupid amounts of money and they can get Woxic as a replacement.

OG roster is bringing solid tournaments right now I dln't think they want to fuck it up all of a sudden

2020-09-10 07:04

2020-09-09 21:02

gl in c9

2020-09-09 21:03

Vitality's Mat is Mathieu "MaT" Leber, former aAa.cs player from my era who went later on to win WCG in 2007 with emuLate. A wonderful being who I'm sure brings indeed a lot to the Vitality roster with his experience.

Yeah aAa had a lot of playoff finishes back in the day but never quite got there as a finalist. Much like the koreans with that one lineup :()

2020-09-10 09:10

finally c9 is back

It would be interesting if get an UK line up at top tier cs or at least the core of it: Alex+Smooya+Thomas+mezii

2020-09-09 21:09

Thomas highly overrated please no. That guy can only play in t3 and will flop instantly

2020-09-10 07:05

FaZe PLS!

shocker

2020-09-09 21:08

He is not the problem. Apex is 🤦‍♂️

smooyaaaa, smooooooyyyaaaaaa

alex and smooya c9 confirmed

C9 confirmed

Alex - smooya - thomas.

Without zywoo he would still be tier 2 trying to qualify for big tournament

not a good assistant coach in your report hltv ;)

By the way, how many UK players is too many for one team? Who will we see with him? Thomas? Smooya? Trial in c0ntact? Surreal?

2020-09-09 21:22

I like name men))

2020-09-09 21:38

Thanks :D

Yes mens)) you are smart names wish I had got it

C9 Alex

GL Alex!

2020-09-09 21:23

2020-09-09 21:25

Mr. Fluke

explorer?

2020-09-09 21:40

C9?

2020-09-09 21:41

Cloud 9 ALEX and Cloud9 GuardiaN confirmed, who else?

2020-09-09 21:49

NEW C9 INCOMING

2020-09-09 21:51

I miss the early days of CSGO when Anexis picked up a UK team spearheaded by RattleSnK. He raged a good bit, but at the time he was a great player. If he came back to CSGO and joined a team with ALEX and smooya, I think that would be pretty cool.

Oof...no buyout

2020-09-09 22:13

Cloud9 ALEX Cloud9 w0xic

2020-09-09 22:16

2020-09-09 22:17

C9 100%

He hadnt left already?

2020-09-09 22:19

RIP Alex, what a legend

2020-09-09 22:30

UK c9???????????? alex smooya thomas guardian and w0xic?

2020-09-09 22:37

UK9

2020-09-09 22:36

Vitallity does not deserve the RPK omegalul

2020-09-09 22:41

Well, hasnt been there for a while

2020-09-09 22:43

tldr: ALEX confirms Kreaz C9

2020-09-09 22:44

RIP fantasy of him magically replacing apEX again.

2020-09-09 22:52

Lol travel in 2020??

2020-09-09 22:54

Clown9 ALEX

2020-09-09 23:17

Everyone saying Smooya but if C9 are willing to splash the cash and really want to make a top tier UK team then surely Mantuu should be top of their shopping list. Would OG sell? Well everyone has their price, right? And Woxic to OG, reuniting with Issaa, makes a certain amount of sense.

2020-09-09 23:59

Smooya, Thomas and Alex 😍😍😍

2020-09-10 00:09

time for Faze alex !!!!!!

2020-09-10 00:14

Faze = suicide to career

2020-09-10 07:07

Overrated as fuck, apEX did better in a matter of weeks while teaching a complete newbie. He'll never do shit again at the top without zywoo making up for his lack of vision and leadership

2020-09-10 00:40

LMAO

2020-09-10 09:35

omg clown9 LOL

2020-09-10 00:43

You have to assume he did not want to play for FaZe for some reason or another

2020-09-10 00:48

With NiKo malding and fucking up as a player and washed up rain no one would want to join that roster. They kick olof and change bymas ti kjaerbye not realizing that Rain is the problem

2020-09-10 07:08

expected

2020-09-10 01:28

Forgot about him, gl in C9 then!

2020-09-10 01:30

I love you Alex Gl with c9 Thx 4 everything

2020-09-10 01:32

O(M)G, nobody expected this!

2020-09-10 01:42

nows your chance Faze kick either Rain or Kjaerbye to kerb and finally get an IGL

2020-09-10 02:54

There's no way Niko will accept it

2020-09-10 04:49

yea well fuck Niko they need an IGL and Alex is the guy for that job

2020-09-10 04:59

cloud9 already stole alex

2020-09-10 06:09

well there fucking smart aren't they prob gonna get top 10 before too long

2020-09-10 07:59

2020-09-10 03:25

Vslorant?

2020-09-10 03:38

Lets go c9

2020-09-10 04:25

C9 97%

2020-09-10 04:46

Go C9

Alex and Smooya sure. C9 is NA though. Infinite and Zelisis They'll be competitive and put jerseys on fans. If not cooper, I'd go go FPL talent. Chaos did it and so did Triumph.

2020-09-10 07:11

Thomas dude. Not Smooya.

2020-09-10 07:28

FaZeUp

Alex Smooya Mantuu Thomas Dephh

2020-09-10 08:47

would be fire lowkey. Although 2 awpers

2020-09-10 11:47

alex was the problem of Vitality LUL, NOW #1

2020-09-10 09:00

C9: GuardiaN, ALEX. Who is next?

2020-09-10 10:11

So far, according to this I can confrim C9 woxic and C9 ALEX look at who she's following. twitter.com/TifaPls/following

2020-09-10 10:27

EZSkins v2.0 confirmed

2020-09-10 12:11

Great addition to C9

2020-09-10 12:58

Leavin g because the coach was a cheater and he is probably only one who spoke out. Hope rest of team is banned

2020-09-10 15:03

He is pretty good, I think making him return to Vitality would be a great decision for both sides, but I understand his decision, he is pretty good as I said so I think he will find some not bad team wanting him.

2020-09-10 15:51