fnatic have announced that they have completed the signing of 17-year-old rifler Volodymyr "mazay" Iorhachov from Spirit Academy.
The Ukrainian will step into the shoes of Viktor "Br4tkO" Kondratets, who has been moved to the bench. Signed from Lazer Cats in March, Br4tkO averaged a 0.97 rating while playing for fnatic.
"First of all, I want to say big thanks to Spirit Academy for giving me so much knowledge about this game," mazay wrote on X. "I'm looking forward to using it in practice. It's a great opportunity for me, and I want to put 100% of myself to make this team succeed."
mazay joined Spirit Academy in the summer of 2025 as a replacement for Maksim "kyousuke" Lukin, only to leave the team shortly afterward as he could not practice as much as required because of his studies in Germany.
That did not stop Dmitry "S0tF1k" Forostyanko from praising mazay, stating that he was the future of Spirit Academy and would return "at the first opportunity." The Ukrainian re-joined the academy team in February 2026 following a roster overhaul.
mazay becomes the second player to join fnatic in the off-season, following the signing of Artem "cairne" Mushynskyi from Ninjas in Pyjamas at the start of the month.
The duo's arrival will provide a firepower injection to a squad that was ranked 50th in Europe by the invite cutoff for the Cologne Major, almost 300 Valve points away from the qualification zone.
With this move, fnatic are now:
Rodion "fEAR" Smyk Artem "cairne" Mushynskyi Dmytro "jambo" Semera Nikita "jackasmo" Skyba Volodymyr "mazay" Iorhachov
Miks "Independent" Siliņš (coach)
Viktor "Br4tkO" Kondratets (benched)
Dmytro 'jambo' Semera
fnatic
Rodion 'fEAR' Smyk
Dmytro 'jambo' Semera
Nikita 'jackasmo' Skyba
Artem 'cairne' Mushynskyi
Volodymyr 'mazay' Iorhachov
Miks 'Independent' Siliņš
Rodion 'fEAR' Smyk
Lazer Cats
Ruslan 'yab0ku' Kekot
Nikita 'nikitea' Chakhovskiy
Maksym 'Magic' Melnychuk
Serhii 'Kiy0o' Savitskyi
Dmytro 'monarrrh' Shakh
Volodymyr 'mazay' Iorhachov
Maksim 'kyousuke' Lukin
Viktor 'Br4tkO' Kondratets
Miks 'Independent' Siliņš
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer
Martin 'stavn' Lund
Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck
Roman 'n0te' Hamze
Kacper 'xKacpersky' Gabara
Richard 'Xizt' Landström
Nikita 'jackasmo' Skyba
Dmitry 'S0tF1k' Forostyanko
Spirit Academy
Vitaly 'VILBy' Zakharyuta
Kirill 'Kiryasoo' Solovkov
Yury 'kidofpain' Sokal
Nikita 's1nside' Besedin
Vladislav 'Flash_1' Bykov
Artem 'cairne' Mushynskyi