Laget har ändå fått en flygande start med två raka vinster i Bukarest något som kan skapa problem för kaptenen. Det är nämligen så att om Vitality spelar ytterligare tre matcher med (de är just nu garanterade minst två till) kommer litauern att registreras på lagets VRS-ranking.
Skulle detta inte bli ett undantagsfall kommer Vitality tvingas registrera sin kapten som inhoppare så han kommer fortfarande att spela Majorn, men då utan stickers då Valve tidigare inte gett stickers till inhoparna.
Skulle Vitality vinna sin nästa match och sedan förlora första slutspelsmatchen blir det dock bara fyra matcher för jL, så det finns chans för den konspiratoriske att tänka att det franska laget inte kommer göra allt de kan för att vinna första slutspelsmatchen.
Will apEX or jL get stickers?
— Udknud (@JesperLarsen222) October 11, 2026
With EPL concluded Vitality has only one event left before the Major invites go out.
It's PGL Bucharest where jL will stand in for apEX.
This event will have ZERO implications for Vitality's major qualification as a team. They are guaranteed a stage 3 invite no matter what results they get in the event.
The only interesting thing left for Vitality fans and jL and apEX in particular, is how many matches Vitality will play in PGL Bucharest with jL as a stand-in.
With another strong event, or maybe a weaker event with a 3-2 group stage, Vitality will play 5+ matches in PGL Bucharest and if jL plays in all of them, then he will take apEX's spot on Vitalitys VRS Invite roster of 5 players that get an invite for the major.
apEX would then have to be fielded as a substitute for the major and there would be no apEX stickers for the fans.. but there would of course be jL stickers instead.
Deep dive on VRS Invite rosters if you care:
Just to explain exactly how VRS Invite rosters work, let's entertain this theoretic thought:
Maybe you are thinking they could just swap jL out after 4 matches in PGL Bucharest then, so that apEX can still get on the invite roster.
Well.. that would work only if they then lost that 5th match.
Now it gets a little bit technical, but VRS only looks only 10 matches back in the search for the 5 players that most recently has played 5 matches for the team.
If Vitality played 4 matches with jL and then 2 more matches with another stand-in "XYZ" instead of jL (probably not even allowed within an event in this case?), then they would have played 6 matches in PGL Bucharest, which means that in the last 10 matches then apEX would now only have played 4 of those which then also disqualifies him for the VRS Invitation roster.
Now VRS would not even be able to find a 5th player which had played 5 matches in the last 10 (jL=4, XYZ=2, apEX=4).
What would then happen is that VRS will only invite 4 Vitality players to the major believe it or not.. ????
We don't know yet how Valve would handle this situation since we have managed to avoid it yet.
With BC Games success in getting an exemption from the rules through appeal, we could perhaps assume that Valve will step in and invite a 5th player to make up for this flaw in VRS. It would be kind of absurd to invite only 4 players and what about the sticker ecosystem, could it handle a team only having 4 stickers..????
But we actually don't know yet.
Well.. this last bit was just an explanation of how Invite rosters exactly work in VRS.
What remains the only really big talking point for Vitality in PGL Bucharest is whether jL will get 5 matches and push apEX out of the VRS invite roster for the major and grab apEX's sticker.. ????
