4 years after Michael “shroud” Grzesiek retired from aggressive esports, CS:GO legend Shroud is making his return to aggressive FPS with Valorant. The participant can be becoming a member of North American Valorant workforce Sentinels forward of its upcoming run on the North American Valorant Champions Tour 2022 (VCT 2022) Final Likelihood Qualifier. Sentinels announced shroud’s addition to the roster with a brief video posted on its social media handles.
Shroud to reportedly take up the controller position in Sentinels’ Valorant lineup
On his livestream on Twitch, shroud confirmed that he's “filling for the LCQ” because the controller and that Shahzeb "ShahZaM" Khan will proceed to play because the IGL of Sentinels. He additionally confirmed {that a} bootcamp with the workforce is within the works.
Whereas no official announcement has been made on whom he can be standing in for on the LCQ, it's probably that shroud can be changing Hunter “SicK” Mims who has been scuffling with psychological well being points and was the de facto participant within the controller position for Sentinels’ Valorant lineup.
“At first all people thought I used to be trolling,” mentioned Shroud, talking about his return to aggressive esports with Sentinels. “Once we threw my title into the bucket of the gamers that they'll use as a fifth, all people thought I used to be trolling. Everyone… the gamers, the proprietor, all people. They nonetheless may, who is aware of? You guys in all probability assume it's a troll too.”
He detailed that the transfer was conceptualized over dinner. He mentioned, “Yoni [Ginsberg - Talent Strategist] from Loaded mentioned hey can I throw your title within the bucket of Sentinels for the LCQ as their fifth. And I mentioned yeah.”
Shroud said that he was ready to bootcamp with the workforce and work onerous forward of the LCQs. “I'm not going to half-ass, that’s gonna be dumb. That will simply be a shitty transfer for me and for the workforce,” he mentioned.
The participant additionally confirmed that this transfer was only for the LCQ and that even when they win it and go all the way in which, each events would have a dialog earlier than making a choice on whether or not he continues to play on the workforce for the VCT Masters occasion.
Shroud retired from aggressive CS:GO in 2017, after an illustrious profession which features a win on the ESL Professional League Season 4 - Finals and a runner-up end at ESL One: Cologne 2017. His recognition really exploded along with his Twitch stream as he soared over 114 thousand subscribers at his peak.
This resulted in him securing a large unique streaming contract from Microsoft backed Mixer in October 2019. Nonetheless, he made his approach again to Twitch after Mixer folded.
Though the participant has not competed in skilled Valorant, he recurrently streams his pub video games and infrequently casts VCT matches which surpass the streaming numbers put up by Riot's official streams.
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