{"id":24270,"date":"2022-10-05T00:51:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T04:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=24270"},"modified":"2022-10-05T00:52:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T04:52:09","slug":"xset-release-valorant-roster-after-riot-games-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/xset-release-valorant-roster-after-riot-games-snub\/","title":{"rendered":"XSET release Valorant roster after Riot Games snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>XSET have made the decision to part ways with their entire <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/valorant\/\" title=\"Valorant esports betting\">Valorant<\/a> roster.\u2028 <\/p>\n<p>\u2028The decision was reached owing to their inability to secure a spot in Riot Games\u2019 2023 partnered league. While several unselected teams allowed their players to explore other options by releasing them from their contracts, others sold their players\u2019 contracts outright.\u2028 <\/p>\n<p>\u2028XSET went in line with the former in a bid to afford their talents the opportunity to secure other favorable options. A number of other teams, like <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/g2-esports-allowing-valorant-players-to-explore-other-options\/\" title=\"G2 Valorant players up for grabs\">G2 Esports<\/a>, previously released their members into restricted agency, while TSM revealed that they would continue competing in Valorant and would continue paying their players regardless.\u2028 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>XSET parted ways with both of their remaining players &#8211; Brendan \u201cBcJ\u201d Jensen and Zachary \u201czekken\u201d Patrone &#8211; as well as analyst Drew \u201cDrewSpark\u201d Spark-Whitworth and head coach Don \u201cSyyko\u201d Muir. The NA organization took to Twitter to make the announcement and went on to thank all the previous members of the team for their contributions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we announce the release of XSET Valorant&#8217;s Zachary \u2018zekken&#8217; Patrone, brendan &#8216;BcJ\u2019 jensen, drew &#8216;drewspark&#8217; spark-whitworth, and Don \u2018sykko&#8217; Muir from their contracts so that they may freely explore opportunities outside the organization,\u201d the release read.\u2028 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;d also like to take this opportunity to thank the aforementioned. As well as Jordan \u2018ayrin&#8217; He and Rory &#8216;dephh&#8217; Jackson, for their incredible contributions to XSET Valorant, and we wish them the best of luck in the future.\u201d\u2028 \u2028<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IFsENRxhOq\">pic.twitter.com\/IFsENRxhOq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; XSET (@XSET) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XSET\/status\/1576983373288861696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Former XSET top player Matthew \u201cCryocells\u201d Panganiban was previously transferred to 100 Thieves in order to complete that team\u2019s lineup for next year. 100T took off William \u201cWill\u201d Cheng in order to make way for their first squad addition since the Valorant offseason period started.\u2028 \u2028Besides Cryocells, Rory \u201cdephh\u201d Jackson and Jordan \u201cAYRIN\u201d He were also announced as unrestricted free agents. <\/p>\n<p>While XSET have officially released their Valorant players, they are yet to make known their plans as regards the Valorant esports title.\u2028 \u2028They currently have the options of fielding a lineup in the tier-two scene to participate in next year\u2019s Ascension tournaments, or moving away from the Valorant scene in entirety.\u2028 <\/p>\n<p>\u2028XSET put up an admirable performance this year, which led to them qualifying for an international event having been unable to do so for the past two years. The team secured top-10 finishes in both the VCT Masters Copenhagen (7th-8th) and the Valorant Champions tournament (5th-6th). <\/p>\n<p>\u2028As yet, no former XSET player besides Cryocells has announced being picked up by another squad. However, according to previous reports, Syyko was en route to joining Sentinels as the squad\u2019s head coach, while Adam Kaplan from Ghost Gaming would be the team&#8217;s strategic coach of the team. Neither party has commented on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2028<a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having failed to win a spot in Riot Games&#8217; new franchised leagues, XSET have made the decision to part ways with their entire Valorant roster.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":21821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,1150,1901],"class_list":["post-24270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-valorant","tag-xset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24272,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24270\/revisions\/24272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}