OpTic yay responds after shroud doubts org\u2019s future in Valorant Colin Young-Wolff\/Riot GamesValorant pro Jaccob \u2018yay\u2019 Whiteake has hit back at shroud after he cast his doubts on OpTic\u2019s future in Valorant after 2023 franchising. We\u2019re now just a short while out until we learn what teams will be joining Riot\u2019s partnership for the 2023 Valorant Champions Tour. It\u2019s expected that only eight to ten teams will be accepted into the Americas league for the 2023 season, leaving much uncertainty to the over 150 North American organizations alone that applied for partnership. It\u2019s understood that no organizations have yet been notified whether or not they\u2019ve made it into the partnership. Regardless, cryptic tweets from OpTic yay and Chet have led shroud and Tarik to debate whether or not the organization has a future in Valorant. Just a short while ago on August 23, a tweet from yay stating there are \u201cinteresting times ahead after champions\u201d left fans feeling uncertain about the organization\u2019s future. At the same time, the team\u2019s coach Chet also put out a rather vague tweet. Despite OpTic already making their mark in Valorant, taking home the Masters 1 trophy this year and putting in great performances at other events, shroud speculated that the tweets could mean they didn\u2019t make it into franchising. \u201cI don\u2019t know what it means. I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s drama amongst the team or if they didn\u2019t make franchising. I don\u2019t know which one it is,\u201d shroud said during his Champions watch party. The Sentinels pro then noted that a player on OpTic\u2019s roster was previously involved with Counter-Strike match-fixing allegations, which could be causing the organization issues trying to join Riot\u2019s partnership. \u201cWait, didn\u2019t one of the teammates on OpTic have allegations for throwing? I don\u2019t remember who but I swear someone does,\u201d shroud noted, referring to Jimmy \u201cMarved\u201d Nguyen being named among many players suspected of match-fixing in CSGO. Tarik and Shroud talking about OpTic either not making franchising or Marved not allowed because of prior fixing allegations in CS pic.twitter.com\/idIMIIusgH \u2014 Jake Lucky (@JakeSucky) September 3, 2022 However, Tarik argued that Marved\u2019s controversial past wouldn\u2019t be as big of an issue as shroud thinks, especially when considering that it is just allegations that have been made. The Twitch star also added that he\u2019d be surprised if OpTic didn\u2019t get into the franchise, and if they were denied due to Marved\u2019s allegations they\u2019d make the roster changes needed to join. Speculations were then shut down as yay claimed his cryptic tweet was a meme and questioned those looking for a deeper meaning in them. \u201cmy tweet was a meme, why people looking so deep,\u201d he wrote. Riot is expected to notify teams on whether or not they\u2019ve made it into the partnership before the end of Champions 2022, which is set to end on September 18. It\u2019s unclear whether or not we\u2019ll see teams announce their status on whether or not they made it into the franchise. Hopefully, we\u2019ll be seeing OpTic among the teams accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OpTic yay responds after shroud doubts org\u2019s future in Valorant Colin Young-Wolff\/Riot GamesValorant pro Jaccob \u2018yay\u2019 Whiteake has hit back at shroud after he cast his doubts on OpTic\u2019s future in Valorant after 2023 franchising. We\u2019re now just a short while out until we learn what teams will be joining Riot\u2019s partnership for the 2023 […]<\/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-66871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66871","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=66871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}