Valorant: Wo0t Returns to Turkey With FUT After Three Years at Heretics
Wo0t, the Team Heretics flex player, signs with FUT Esports for the 2027 Valorant season and reunites with yetujey on the Turkish roster. Photo: thespike.gg (all rights reserved) Mert "Wo0t" Alkan, a flex player who spent three years at Team Heretics, has signed with FUT Esports for the 2027 Valorant season, VLR.gg r...
Wo0t, the Team Heretics flex player, signs with FUT Esports for the 2027 Valorant season and reunites with yetujey on the Turkish roster.
Photo: thespike.gg (all rights reserved)Mert "Wo0t" Alkan, a flex player who spent three years at Team Heretics, has signed with FUT Esports for the 2027 Valorant season, VLR.gg reported.
It is his first spell with a Turkish team since 2023.
FUT is one of eight partner teams in EMEA for 2027 and one of two partnered Turkish organisations, alongside BBL Esports. That status already guarantees the team a place in the VCT 2027: EMEA Kickoff.
Fans following competitive Valorant in the region will see Wo0t line up there in a new jersey.
A thin roster with a familiar face
Wo0t is the first signing FUT has announced since Efe "s0pp" Tur and Volkan "sociablEE" Yonal left for Eternal Fire.
He joins Eray "yetujey" Budak and Okan "KROSTALY" Alaçam, and thespike.gg says those are the only three players confirmed so far. The organisation is still building its lineup.
Wo0t and yetujey have played together before, on Fire Flux Esports in 2022. FUT finished third in both Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the 2026 EMEA season. The team also reached the top six at Masters London.
Three years of near misses and trophies at Team Heretics
Wo0t broke into Tier 1 in 2023 at 17, thespike.gg wrote, and made his international name at Masters Shanghai in 2024. Playing duelist there, he led the event with 0.87 kills per round.
Team Heretics lost that final to Gen.G Esports.
Two months later, the team reached the final of Champions 2024 in Seoul and lost to EDward Gaming. That result gave China its only international Valorant title to date, according to thespike.gg.
The trophies came later. Wo0t won the Esports World Cup 2025 with Team Heretics, then helped the organisation take its first regional title at VCT 2026: EMEA Stage 1.
Thespike.gg notes that results dried up for the team over the rest of the 2026 season.
FUT announced the signing on X on 6 November, saying that Wo0t is officially joining its VCT roster. The organisation has yet to name the remaining players for its 2027 lineup.
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