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Overwatch League star player “Sinatraa” is moving to ValorantHe “straight up just lost passion for the game”
He “straight up just lost passion for the game”
It’s not even out of beta yet andValorantis tempting pros from other games into its ranks. San Francisco Shock’s star player, Jay “Sinatraa” Won, is the firstOverwatchLeague player to be making the switch, joining up with the Sentinels' new competitiveValorantteam. Sinatraa announced his retirement fromOverwatchyesterday,sayinghe “straight up just lost passion for the game”.
“Idk what the real killer was for me but maybe it was 2-2-2 lock, maybe it was bans I’m not sure… I just know it was hard for me to log on to play and I didn’t have fun in scrims/ranked at all anymore.”
These are all fair reasons. While Overwatch introduced things like role locks and hero bans to try and improve on stale metas (remember GOATS?), I can see how these restrictions hold a lot of pro players back.
His new Sentinels Valorant teamso far consists of former Counter-Strike pros Shahzeb “ShahZaM” Khan and Hunter “SicK” Mims, and Jared “Zombs” Gitlin from the SentinelsApex Legendsteam. They’re on the look-out now for their fifth and final member to fill the squad - I might nominate Matt,he seems pretty good Valorant.
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Valorant doesn’t actually have a ranked mode just yet for these pros to show off their skills. But according tothe game’s most recent patch notes, ranked matchmaking and a competitive mode will go live “in the near future”.
If you fancy trying out for a new competitive team, we’ve got loads of guides that might be of use to you. Whether you want to brush up onValorant weapons, or maybe you need a guide toValorant team comps, there’s plenty here to help with that pro training.
The CS-meets-Overwatch FPS has been insanely popular from the get-go,beating Twitch viewer recordsjust a few days into streams starting. Admittedly, that was likely because millions of people were trying to get the free beta access (which you get from watching the streams), but still, that’s a hell of a lot of fans that immediately wanted in.
