Sentinels shakes up 2024 VALORANT offseason with addition of acquainted face as substitute

Whereas Sentinels is anticipated to maintain the remainder of its beginning VALORANT roster intact, exterior of its latest IGL addition, the group is including some expertise and seemingly limitless content material potential to its bench by way of a well-known face.

Jordan “Zellsis” Montemurro is becoming a member of the Sentinels roster “instead,” as famous by coach Kaplan within the group’s newest announcement in the present day. As a flex participant with a various agent pool and familiarity with varied roles, Zellsis can be out there on a weekly foundation for Sentinels ought to they should subject a alternative for basically any member of the beginning roster.

Zellsis’ earlier stint with Sentinels was brief however memorable, becoming a member of the group alongside streaming celebrity and former CS:GO professional shroud to compete within the 2022 North American LCQ. The duo joined forces with TenZ and former Sentinels gamers ShahZaM and dapr after a tough 2022 marketing campaign for the once-dominant group however have been eradicated after losses to The Guard and eventual LCQ winners 100 Thieves.

Whereas Zellsis was initially led to believe he would retain a starting spot with Sentinels going into 2023, the group finally did part ways with him at the end of August. After a quick return to Version1, Zellsis finally signed with Cloud9 for the primary VCT Americas season in 2023. Whereas the initially billed C9 “superteam” didn’t final lengthy, C9 was thought-about among the best groups within the Americas area final 12 months regardless of fielding two unproven rookies. Earlier this month, Zellsis introduced that he had turn into an unrestricted free agent.

Waiting for the beginning of the 2024 season, Sentinels is anticipated to subject a beginning roster of TenZ, zekken, Sacy, pANcada, and johnqt, with Zellsis out there instead. It’s possible extra groups will transfer away from utilizing subs this 12 months, with some teams reportedly considering less player spending, and with Riot now not requiring groups to subject six gamers on the roster.

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Scott Robertson

VALORANT lead employees author, additionally overlaying CS:GO, FPS video games, different titles, and the broader esports trade. Watching and writing esports since 2014. Beforehand wrote for Dexerto, Upcomer, Splyce, and in some way MySpace. Jack of all video games, grasp of none.

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