100T ddk explains why Cryocells was picked over yay for Valorant team 100 ThievesIn an announcement about the 100 Thieves Valorant roster for 2023, the 100T General Manager, Daniel \u2018ddk\u2019 Kapadia, and head coach, Michael \u2018Mikes\u2019 Hockom, discussed the offseason and why they chose to sign Matthew \u2018Cryocells\u2019 Panganiban. 100 Thieves have not had an extremely active offseason ahead of the 2023 VCT season. 100T only made one significant signing in Cryocells who replaced William \u2018Will\u2019 Cheng on the roster. The organization had the opportunity to sign one of the best Valorant players in the world in Jaccob \u2018yay\u2019 Whiteaker but passed on the opportunity. The organization picking Cryocells over the current Cloud9 player has been an ongoing debate among Valorant fans that was even addressed by the 100 Thieves CEO. 100T ddk addresses Cryocells signing In the announcement, ddk directly addressed the public perception that 100T missed out on signing yay and then picked up Cryocells. According to the 100T General Manager, the team thought it was best to bring in the young talent over the established star. \u201cAlthough I think both players would make an incredible addition whichever way you went. Cryo for us, I think, we felt like was the best fit,\u201d ddk said. \u201cWe are very excited regarding Cryo\u2019s skill sets. It\u2019s just he\u2019s a player that can instantly react, has a very high mechanical skill ceiling and I think we are looking for that increased pace in our position.\u201d The 100T General manager went on to say that the pace Cryocells brings to the squad should \u201ctrickle down\u201d to the rest of the team. He said that this was one of the more exciting things he was looking forward to seeing in the team in the future. Ultimately, 100 Thieves are betting on youth in their Valorant team. The current squad has a majority of players that got their first big break on an esports team in Valorant. The oldest player currently on the roster is the IGL, Brenden \u2018stellar\u2019 McGrath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
100T ddk explains why Cryocells was picked over yay for Valorant team 100 ThievesIn an announcement about the 100 Thieves Valorant roster for 2023, the 100T General Manager, Daniel \u2018ddk\u2019 Kapadia, and head coach, Michael \u2018Mikes\u2019 Hockom, discussed the offseason and why they chose to sign Matthew \u2018Cryocells\u2019 Panganiban. 100 Thieves have not had an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}