CS:GO veteran RpK to step down from Team Vitality roster

Team Vitality has announced that its veteran Counter-Strike: Global Offensive rifler, Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy, will be stepping down from its roster after the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown.

The 31-year-old Frenchman, who has been playing competitive Counter-Strike since the late 2000s, will be leaving the active roster after the tournament, which gets underway tomorrow and concludes on April 18. The experienced rifler has been with Vitality since it first entered the CS:GO scene in 2018, and has also represented big names such as G2 and Team Envy. In a tweet following Vitality's announcement, RpK says he will "give it his best for the boys" in his final competition for the team, which has recently been on a run of poor results.

In Vitality's announcement post, head coach Rémy 'XTQZZZ' Quoniam says that dropping the veteran from the roster has been a "tough decision" and admits it wasn't easy to "let a legendary, inspiring, and consistent player such as RpK step back from competition."

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