A world esports group with a protracted historical past within the higher echelon of European League of Legends, and one with a championship pedigree in Counter-Strike, has lastly made the soar into VALORANT.
Although the precise scope and course of its plans are at present unknown, SK Gaming formally introduced at present that it’s getting into the VALORANT scene, changing into the final present member of the LEC to leap into the rising tactical FPS sport. With Astralis exiting the LEC to get replaced by Karmine Corp, who already competed in VCT EMEA, SK was the final org to make a transfer towards VALORANT.
Inside European League of Legends, SK has been a aggressive fixture for over a decade, however regardless of two Worlds appearances in each 2012 and 2014, a trophy nonetheless eludes its League division. SK, nevertheless, is not any stranger to lifting trophies within the tactical shooter house.
After competing with a European roster in CS:GO for a lot of years, SK went and picked up the legendary Brazilian roster taking part in for Luminosity in the summertime of 2016. The transfer instantly paid off with a Main trophy at ESL One Cologne just some months later, and the roster core of legends FalleN, fer, and coldzera continued to gather trophies by the top of 2017. The gamers would finally go away to resurrect the MIBR model in the summertime of 2018, signaling SK’s exit from Counter-Strike.
As for the course SK needs to absorb VALORANT, there are a selection of paths the group may go down. With a lot historical past in Europe and Brazil, they might take a look at Challengers rosters in both area and take into account an Ascension run. There’s nonetheless a plethora of North American Challengers talent available as properly, or SK may soar into the Sport Changers scene, with some early hypothesis that both G2 Gozen or the Version1 roster may change into out there if the reported G2-V1 merger goes by.
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