Read more: Version1’s Vanity and Zellsis react to booking their ticket for VALORANT’s first international LAN In hindsight, that loss doesn’t look nearly as bad as it looked at the time, with V1 running over a bunch of top-tier teams to qualify for the Stage 2 Masters. When the first open qualifier for NA Challengers Finals rolled around a few weeks later, FaZe Clan ended up losing in a surprising 2-1 upset to Version1. Unfortunately for FaZe Clan, that top finish didn’t guarantee any special treatment for Stage 2 Masters. The team finished second in the Stage 1 Masters, losing the finals to Sentinels. The way we play, we take teamfights in Overwatch and just throw them into VALORANT.”įaZe Clan’s VALORANT team has been one of the most successful North American teams so far. Coming over to VALORANT, especially in the beginning, you notice that you are way, way, way ahead of how you should use your abilities. You end up learning ability usage, teamfights and how they play out. “A lot of us had played CS in the past, but we picked up Overwatch in its infancy, it was a really fun shooter game and we fell in love with it. “FaZe Clan as a whole, all the Overwatch guys, we think we migrated really well,” Corey said. Babybay’s retirement said, “My heart is just not in anymore,” Rawkus said he still loved the game but VALORANT “hit differently,” and ZachaREEE said he’s “really been loving the flow of VALORANT.”Īll three players are now Corey’s teammates on FaZe Clan’s VALORANT squad.Ĭorey, center, and Rawkus, right, now teammates on FaZe Clan, were also on the 2019 Overwatch World Cup team that took gold. The most common reason that popped up in the customary retirement Twitlonger was simply preferring the game of VALORANT to Overwatch. When making a career-defining decision, there are always multiple factors. Seon-chang “ANS” Lee (San Francisco Shock).Benjamin “uNKOE” Chevasson (Dallas Fuel).Sang-beom “Munchkin” Byeon (Boston Uprising).Thomas “brussen” Brussen (Boston Uprising).
Luis “Greyy” Perestrelo (Paris Eternal).Zachary “ZachaREEE” Lombardo (Dallas Fuel).Jung-woo “Spyder / Sayaplayer” Ha (Florida Mayhem).Shane “Rawkus” Flaherty (Houston Outlaws).Andrej “BabyBay” Francisty (Atlanta Reign).Corey “Corey” Nigra (Washington Justice).Jay “Sinatraa” Won (San Francisco Shock).Here’s the list of all 17 OWL players who retired in 2020 to play VALORANT: They ranged from the most high-profile players the league had cultivated to bench warmers hoping to break into the top level. But when I was playing it, they were updating the game once every six months, characters were overtuned for way too long.”īy our count, 17 players on Overwatch League team rosters in 2020 retired to play VALORANT. “Since I’ve been gone, has tried to make a lot more improvements. “I just wasn’t crushing on too hard,” Corey said. to an Overwatch World Cup victory in November 2019, announced his retirement. Many Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pros dropped the game to pursue VALORANT, especially players fed up with North America’s struggling CS scene, but so did a bunch of Overwatch League players.Īs of this month, May 8 to be exact, it has been one year since Corey “Corey” Nigra, an OWL player for the Washington Justice who helped lead the U.S. No one knew what the game's esports structure would look like either, but it didn’t matter, players saw enough. VALORANT didn’t become publicly available until June. A combination of an entirely captive audience stuck at home during the early days of the pandemic, years of rumors building to Riot’s release of the tactical shooter and a stagnant esports scene created perfect market conditions for VALORANT’s release. The first day streams got up, records started getting broken. In April 2020, the closed beta of VALORANT was released.
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