{"id":7994,"date":"2023-09-08T16:57:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/valorant\/g2-the-guard-report"},"modified":"2026-03-15T19:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:09:34","slug":"g2-the-guard-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/valorant\/g2-the-guard-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: G2 has reached a verbal agreement with several The Guard\u2019s players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to sources with knowledge of the situation, BLIX understands that German organization G2 Esports has reached a verbal agreement to sign multiple members of The Guard&#8217;s former lineup. According to these sources, G2 are targeting at least three players in order to lay claim to The Guard&#8217;s VCT Ascension spot. <\/p>\n<p>The news comes after The Guard and their former lineup were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/valesports_na\/status\/1696561641826013274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversially<\/a>  denied a spot in VCT Americas due to The Guard organization not meeting Riot&#8217;s Team Participation Guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>While joining G2 may offer a solution to the impasse for the former The Guard players, the same sources cannot confirm that Riot has offered their approval of G2 Esports joining VCT Americas 2024.<\/p>\n<p>For context, G2 Esports was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/esports-valorant-cloud9-vct-americas\/report-cloud9-replaced-g2-esports-in-vct-americas-idUSFLMS0lmB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly a top contender and likely candidate<\/a> to become one of the ten selected franchise teams in the Americas, however after it&#8217;s former CEO and founder, Carlos &#8220;ocelote&#8221; Rodr\u00c3\u00adguez became embroiled in <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2022\/09\/g2-esports-co-founder-carlos-rodriguez-resigns-as-ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a PR nightmare involving Andrew Tate<\/a>, the organization were passed over for the past.<\/p>\n<p>If approved and the verbal agreement that G2 has with The Guard players is formalized, G2 Esports could return to compete in Valorant&#8217;s top competition next 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to sources with knowledge of the situation, BLIX understands that German organization G2 Esports has reached a verbal agreement to sign multiple members of The Guard&#8217;s former lineup. According to these sources, G2 are targeting at least three players in order to lay claim to The Guard&#8217;s VCT Ascension spot. The news comes after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":7995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-valorant"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}