Because the VALORANT Champions Tour’s annual low season interval begins, so does the chaos of groups releasing, transferring, and signing gamers. This time, it seems like one of many largest names within the sport has secured his group for 2024.
American group Sentinels appears to have launched one of many strangest roster bulletins thus far this 12 months, confirming that their star participant Tyson “TenZ” Ngo can be round for one more VCT season according to a Sept. 8 tweet from the org.
TenZ was initially confirmed to have solely signed a contract with Sentinels through the end of the 2023 season, in contrast to the majority of the roster’s core who’re signed on for an additional 12 months.
The supposed announcement video options Sentinels content material creator Tarik “tarik” Çelik pitching a enterprise concept to an edited panel of judges from “Shark Tank.” The edited clips present the judges rejecting tarik’s enterprise proposal—seemingly for the Sentinels org as an entire—till he brings out TenZ.
As soon as TenZ waves to the judges, the reception shifts from clips of them swearing and downplaying tarik’s authentic enterprise concept to an extremely optimistic stream of feedback relating to TenZ. The judges shortly backtracked, accepting tarik’s pitch and investing in Sentinels, or quite, investing in TenZ.
Nothing in regards to the video itself appears to verify TenZ’s contract for 2024, apart from the tweet’s textual content, which tells us “he’s right here to remain.” Nonetheless, the tweet’s replies and the VALORANT Competitive community appear to be taking the announcement as affirmation.
The video skit as an entire appears to poke enjoyable on the current information of the Sentinels organization’s financial struggles in the last year, but in addition acknowledges that TenZ could be one in every of their most useful property. The duelist is named one of the mechanically expert gamers in all of VALORANT and stays a prime identify within the scene regardless of Sentinels’ disappointing 2023 VCT season.
The final worldwide look for the fan-favorite North American squad was all the way in which again in January on the opening LOCK//IN match in São Paulo, Brazil. The group did not qualify for each Masters Tokyo and Champions in Los Angeles, although TenZ did attend the finals within the viewers, and even made an look on broadcast.
There haven’t been some other roster strikes out of the Sentinels camp but, although one other notable rostered participant—Jimmy “Marved” Nguyen, who was signed mid-season initially as a alternative—additionally has his contract expiring this 12 months.
Because the off-season progresses, many VCT groups each within the U.S. and overseas can be reworking their lineups and making roster changes forward of the brand new season’s launch, which is about to start February 2024.
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