Shroud finally breaks post-Mixer silence with cryptic Valorant tweet Mixer: shroudStreaming star Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has finally broken his social media silence with a cryptic Valorant tweet, more than a month after Microsoft paid out his exclusive Mixer contract ahead of the platform\u2019s shutdown. The six-second GIF teaser posted on July 30 \u2014 38 days after Grzesiek\u2019s last tweet \u2014 shows an animated gun graphic. The blue-washed steel weapon\u2019s trigger is pulled, before it fires a bullet to the left of the screen. The most interesting part of the teaser comes just two seconds in. Short flashes of Valorant gameplay footage can be seen on the barrel of the gun. This includes a clear shot of Omen, one of the title\u2019s original release agents. The footage flashes begin with a short snippet showing someone firing with an Operator, Valorant\u2019s AWP equivalent. The in-clip teaser then finishes with some kind of explosion, though it\u2019s not clear what\u2019s causing the detonation. The gun itself does evoke Escape From Tarkov, another title shroud had been regularly playing on-stream before Mixer\u2019s shutdown. Battlestate\u2019s hardcore FPS title has been going from strength to strength in recent times, partly thanks to shroud\u2019s support. Shroud himself didn\u2019t include any comment with the teaser; he has not yet made it clear when he will release a statement on his future. The last time he addressed the situation was on June 23, when he said he was \u201cfiguring out [his] next steps.\u201d The teaser, of course, set chins wagging almost immediately. One theory that sprung up was that the retired CSGO pro was finally making good on his recent April Fool\u2019s prank, where he pretended he was \u201cgoing pro in Valorant\u201d because he missed competitive play. Others were more simple; he had \u201cpulled the trigger\u201d on a return deal with Twitch. That would mean references to Riot\u2019s FPS title, and possibly Escape from Tarkov, were only included in because he had been playing both a lot in the past few months. A return to the Amazon-owned platform makes sense \u2014 he still boasts 7.1 million followers \u2014 but the teaser offered no specific clues on that front. Similarly, YouTube streaming popped up as a suggestion nearly immediately. Shroud\u2019s fans made a few more humorous suggestions too, including the possibility the \u2018human aimbot\u2019 had \u201ckilled DrDisrespect\u201d. While it certainly would provide a good reason for the Doc\u2019s disappearance, that one is definitely not true. Shroud jumped ship from Twitch to Mixer in late November 2019, after inking an exclusive deal reportedly worth up to $13 million per year. The former CSGO pro had to honor the Mixer deal for less than a year, however, after the platform shut its doors in July. Grzesiek reportedly walked away with a full payout for his three-year deal, and turned down a move to Facebook Gaming. He, along with fellow Mixer star Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins, have yet to confirm their next platform of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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