One of the biggest names in the Overwatch esports scene has announced his recruitment into the Sentinels structure to become a professional player on VALORANT.
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Fever VALORANT hasn't finished going up. Many semi-professional players have already declared to leave their game to hope to reach the top on the future competitive FPS of Riot Games. The title brings together a wide variety of players, from CS: GO Overwatch, passing by the three battle royale of the moment and Rainbow Six Siege.
On Overwatch, it's a big name who decided to go headlong into the new shooter. Jay "sinatraa" Won joined an Los Angeles-based esports structure. The latter is present on Apex Legends, Fortnite and Hearthstone. The structure decided to put the means by launching on VALORANT, and has already recruited known players on their respective stages.
Sinatraa won the Overwatch League in 2019, the equivalent of the World Cup on the Blizzard game. 2019 was a consecration for him, having also won the MVP title of the season. But since the start of the 2020 season, he had played little with his team.
Shocked we added another world champion? pic.twitter.com/GotPjkcaxr
– Sentinels (@Sentinels) April 29, 2020
The structure also made its player switch to Apex Legends Zombs on VALORANT. The other two players on the team, SicK and ShaZaM, are former professional players on CS: GO, the game considered to be the closest to VALORANT.
The FPS of Riot Games already brings together promising players, while the game has not yet been officially released and its competitive circuit has not yet been fully revealed. However, the game already contains most of the features that respond to the development of a competitive scene, such as an observer mode and regular rebalancing changes.
The end date of its closed beta has not yet been announced and the game will officially be released this summer.
