European group G2 Esports has signed 5 new VALORANT gamers to compete within the North American Challengers league subsequent yr, a number of sources advised Dot Esports.
Former Sentinels stars Michael “dapr” Gulino and Shahzeb “ShahZam” Khan headline the roster. They can be joined by different huge names from NA’s final yr of VALORANT Champions Tour play, together with former Version1 gamers Erik Penny and Maxim “wippie” Shepelev. Former Dark Ratio participant “Oxy” is about to finish the crew, in keeping with sources.
Former Cloud9 participant Rahul “curry” Nemani was trialed for the brand new roster as properly.
The earlier head coach for Version1, Ian “Immi” Harding, is main the roster, as beforehand reported by Dot Esports on Oct. 27.
The crew is about to compete in Challengers following the group’s failure to safe a partnership with Riot Games, which might’ve ensured G2 a spot within the Americas worldwide league.
G2 Esports has the chance to qualify for the worldwide league, nevertheless. Next yr, the Challengers circuit will enable the most effective groups outdoors of the league to compete in opposition to one another to ultimately qualify for Ascension, a brand new circuit.
Ascension within the Americas area will carry collectively the most effective Challengers groups from North America, Latin America, and South America to compete in opposition to one another. The greatest crew from the circuit will qualify for the worldwide league in 2024.
Both ShahZam and dapr will possible look to hunt revenge in opposition to their previous group underneath G2 Esports, whereas penny and wippie may face off in opposition to former teammates on Cloud9 if G2 qualify for the Americas worldwide league.
