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Gen.G Esports has announced signing the complete Valorant roster for VCT 2023 season.The last two players from the previous roster were sent to the bench in June and the active roster was empty.Due to Gen.G accepting a partnership with Riot Games for the APAC region, the organization had to hire local players.Earlier, the team mainly hired United States and Canadian athletes, but now Gen.G has assembled a South Korean squad. Only the head coach is Australian.The new Gen.G Valorant roster is as follows:Lee “k1Ng” Seung-wonKang “iNTRO” Seung-gyunYu “TS” Tae-seokYeom “eKo” Wang-ryongKim “Secret” Ha-jinKim “Meteor” Tae-OChris “Elmapuddy” Tebbit (head coach)Lee “bail”…
American esports organization NRG signs T1 player Zander “thwifo” Kim as a sixth man for its Valorant roster, Sportskeeda reported.The 20-year-old American thwifo has been inactive in T1 since the beginning of October. He has to leave the organization due to import slot limitations. T1 was accepted into the Valorant Partnership Program as an APAC team. Due to Valorant Partnership Program rules, a partnered organization can only acquire one player from another region that the team will play.thwifo also hinted on Twitter that he has found a new team for himself.At that time NRG officially had only one player in…
Chinese Dota 2 veteran Lu “Somnus” Yao (also known as “Somnus丶M” and “Maybe”) has announced his retirement from Dota 2 competitive scene.”My youth is destined to have regrets and difficulties. Thank you all for your concern and encouragement. My youth is over. Somnus out,” he noted on Weibo.Somnus wrote this post on a Chinese social network after his team Royal Never Give Up was eliminated from The International 2022.26-year-old Somnus started his esports carrier in 2013 with Vici GamingHe ranked 2nd-3rd-4th with LGD Gaming and PSG.LGD on The International in different years, but he never won the most important Dota…
Michael “Mikes” Hockom steps up from assistant coach to the position of head coach of 100 Thieves Valorant roster.He will replace Sean “sgares” Gares at this position, who headed the training staff since March 2022.100 Thieves’ General manager Daniel “ddk” Kapadia announced that sgares moved from the head coach position into a different role to content creation.Sgares had been a steamer in Gen.G Esports in 2021-2022.”The transition is definitely bittersweet. I definitely obviously miss streaming and creating content for my fans throughout this time and that was one of the hardest things. That as well as I really missed casting…
The Los Angeles-based esports organization Sentinels has decided to bring back Hunter “SicK” Mims to its active Valorant roster from the bench as the sixth player.The news came right after Sentinels had announced that they have completed their Valorant squad by hiring Rory “dephh” Jackson and that they wouldnât field the sixth position for the upcoming VCT 2023 season.24-year-old SicK came to Sentilels in 2020. He has been inactive since the end of May 2022.Sentilels are now:Tyson “TenZ” NgoZachary “zekken” PatroneGustavo “Sacy” RossiBryan “pANcada” LunaRory “dephh” Jackson (in-game leader)Hunter “SicK” Mims
DarkZero’s Rainbow Six Siege player Paul “Hyper” Kontopanagiotis has decided to take a break in his carrier due to difficult family circumstances.”I don’t want to get into extreme detail because it isn’t my place to tell everyone specifics on the situation but recently a close family member of mine has suffered life changing injuries and it also plays a part in why I want to go home and be with family at the moment. I have no intentions of completely leaving the scene as I do see myself coming back in the near future,” he noted on Twitlonger.He said he…
Ex-XSET player Rory “dephh” Jackson has joined Sentinels, as previously predicted.By hiring dephh, Sentinels finally completes its roster for participation at the VCT 2023. The British athlete will be the new in-game leader.dephh came to Sentinels from XSET, which didn’t get into the new Riot Games’ partnership program and had to release its Valorant roster. In the American team, he will reunite with Zachary “zekken” Patrone, his ex-teammate at XSET.Recently Sentinels officially signed another duo. Gustavo “Sacy” Rossi and Bryan “pANcada” Luna came to the Los Angeles based team from Brazilian LOUD.As expected, only Canadian Tyson “TenZ” Ngo remained in…
The Ukrainian organization B8 Esports has parted ways with its CS:CO in-game leader Nykyta “Hkta” Reva.Who will take the vacant place and who will lead the team in the future, the organization has yet to reveal.22-year-old Hkta joined B8 in August 2021. B8’s squad with them ranked from 1th to 4th at some local C-Tier tournaments but didn’t perform well at more significant competitions. The team finished 9th -11th at RMR to Rio in Malta.After Hktaâs departure, B8’s CS:GO roster is now:Artem “r1nkle” MorozArsenyi “cptkurtka023” DerevynskyiDenys “amster” LiashenkoAleksei “alex666” YarmoshchukIvan “Maddened” Iordanidi
Kazakhstani esports organization K23 has benched and put on the transfer list its in-game leader Vladislav “FinigaN” Usov and Bogdan “xsepower” Chernikov.The organization hasnât officially declared the reasons for this decision as of yet . However, L23 didnât perform well at the Intel Extreme Masters Road to Rio 2022 (they ranked 9th-11th at the RMR B), which probably prompted the management to rebuild the lineup.Read more: Halloween Themed CS:GO InventoryAfter the last announcement K23 CS:GO active roster is as:Daniil “X5G7V” MaryshevKonstantin “Raijin” TrubarovTimur “clax” Sabirov
Former Esports Integrity Commission employee Alexei “Yarabeu” Kurlov has accused Polaris Esports Dota 2 team and a number of CS:GO pro players (mostly from Russia and Ukraine) of fixing matches.On the stream of Konstantin “LENINIW” Sivko, he stated that Polaris is a team made for suspicious matches. He pointed out that there were cases when bookmakers canceled bets on Polaris’ games. He also said that he tried to bring his accusations into Valveâs notice, but was unsuccessful.Read more: Halloween Themed CS:GO InventoryAccording to Yarabeu, there were quite a few CS:GO players involved in the foul gamesÑ Among them were Volodymyr…