kioShiMa will be standing for G2 Esports

G2 announced that Fabienne "kioShiMa" Fiey will replace Richard "shox" Papillon at the European qualification for IEM Beijing 2019 and ESL One New York 2019.

According to 1pv.fr journalist Guillaume "neL" Canelo, Richard "shox" Papillon is close to moving to Vitality. It is known that the clubs are at the stage of discussing the last details of the transfer, and the amount of compensation will be from $350 000 to $450 000.

Fabienne "kioShiMa" Fiey did not perform on the professional stage since March this year, when he left Cloud9. The last tournament for the 25-year-old Frenchman was IEM Katowice 2019 Major, where his team took 9-11th place.

G2 line-up for the upcoming tournaments:

Kenny "kennyS" Schrub
Audric "JaCkz" Jug
Lucas "Lucky" Chastang
François "AmaNEk" Delaunay
Fabienne "kioShiMa" Fiey