In an announcement in regards to the 100 Thieves Valorant roster for 2023, the 100T Basic Supervisor, Daniel ‘ddk’ Kapadia, and head coach, Michael ‘Mikes’ Hockom, mentioned the offseason and why they selected to signal Matthew ‘Cryocells’ Panganiban.
100 Thieves haven’t had an especially lively offseason forward of the 2023 VCT season. 100T solely made one important signing in Cryocells who changed William ‘Will’ Cheng on the roster.
The group had the chance to signal among the best Valorant gamers on the earth in Jaccob ‘yay’ Whiteaker however handed on the chance.
The group choosing Cryocells over the present Cloud9 player has been an ongoing debate amongst Valorant followers that was even addressed by the 100 Thieves CEO.
100T ddk addresses Cryocells signing
Within the announcement, ddk straight addressed the general public notion that 100T missed out on signing yay after which picked up Cryocells.
In accordance with the 100T Basic Supervisor, the group thought it was finest to usher in the younger expertise over the established star.
“Though I feel each gamers would make an unimaginable addition whichever method you went. Cryo for us, I feel, we felt like was one of the best match,” ddk said. “We’re very excited relating to Cryo’s talent units. It’s simply he’s a participant that may immediately react, has a really excessive mechanical talent ceiling and I feel we’re in search of that elevated tempo in our place.”
The 100T Basic supervisor went on to say that the tempo Cryocells brings to the squad ought to “trickle down” to the remainder of the group. He stated that this was one of many extra thrilling issues he was wanting ahead to seeing within the group sooner or later.
Finally, 100 Thieves are betting on youth of their Valorant group. The present squad has a majority of gamers that received their first large break on an esports group in Valorant. The oldest participant at present on the roster is the IGL, Brenden ‘stellar’ McGrath.
