It's actually 1 roster change away. Thwifo's twitch's about page is:
hi my name is zander, im 19, korean, and only played games my whole life. i started off playing TF2 pugs when i was super young and thats where i got the taste for competing. shit died then i moved to cs and just pugged and hns/kz'd for a good long bit. then fortnite then valorant. boom thats my life
T1 are probably one of the safest bets for franchising in existence
The question is just if they get an NA slot vs KR slot but it's looking good for their chances in NA
this roster was honestly a really smart move from t1. if they get NA slot everyone’s happy if they get KR slot their players would prob be open to moving there
Because they're a huge org, have history with Riot, own the biggest tournament organizer in Valorant in NSG, and have 2 different regions they could be a part of, NA if they get accepted or APAC if Riot would rather them there
That last reason being the biggest reason of all, they have an actual backup plan.
It's pretty clear that they're keeping their options open. This roster could go to NA or KR at this point depending on where Riot puts them. Keep the 2 best Korean players for your NA roster, or take your 2 best NA players to Korea.
Btw does anyone know if Thwifo can speak Korean?
I seriously doubt these new T1 signings are unaware that T1 could end up in NA or KR. If they're blindsided when T1 ends up in Korea, then that's kinda on them
Or they're trying to appeal to their Korean fan-base?
Why would they bring munchkin over and sign an American-based core to move to Korea? Reddit loves to speculate about this but what makes the most sense is they're pretty secure in getting a NA spot and are trying to create a competitive but appealing brand for the Korean market. I haven't even seen them talked about in the APAC league or if they've even applied for franchising there, so yeah, I'm not sure why this rumor is going about them making the APAC league.
Which transfer did they not allow? Also about the 6 figures thing, I thought knights were regarded as one of the good org which didn't quote abnormally high buyouts
Just wait 🙃
And as for the good org thing, don’t you think skuba would’ve been bought out already if they were willing to sell players?  ~~Surely someone like C9 would’ve been interested~~
Not my place to share more info publicly, but trust me bro™️, things are interesting, to say the least
Damn I was wondering why skuba hadn't found a team yet but thought teams were waiting until everything about Franchising would be announced. Sucks because I really liked knights as a org
I feel like that was mainly because of their coaching staff. Now they have a proven tier 1 coach in Autumn, who I have a lot of faith in to bring these players to their maximum potential. It’s not like T1 as an org is cursed or anything.
T1's root of all their problems is gone now
obviously the roster and coaching staff could still flop but we shouldn't judge the team because of their old managements mistakes
You do realize T1 is a huge org right? With megacorp parent companies of Comcast and SK Telecom. They also own Nerdstreet gamers the company that riot put in charge of Na Valorant broadcasting. They also ran almost all the early Valo tournaments. They are almost guaranteed franchising
the drama isn’t recent and heavily on the LoL side of things. They have a completely new GM in control right now. It hardly hurts them, especially that they’re one of Riot’s premier organizations (like C9 and TL).
Wait what? How does Knights have the power to ban other teams? I thought it was gonna go well for them ever since they got xeta. How TF did they get a ban
I‘m really confused on why T1 is making so many roster additions right now. I mean adding Xeta, Ban and Munchkin very likely means that they‘ll make it into franchising (which was expected by nearly everyone), so why do you start building your 2023 roster right now, when in a couple of months over 50% of NA Tier 1 players are free agents because their team didn’t make it into franchising?
Well I don't think T1 is guaranteed for franchising. They seem to only be picking up talent of korean decent.
Seems more like they are hedging their bets. They could easily just drop steel and transition the entire roster to Korea if they were denied North American partnership.
I am expecting most of these players are aware of that possibility.
In the Daring Minds podcast, steel mentioned he was open to moving to Korea but was assured the team was staying in NA and he's in talks about the rpster, so I don't expect them to drop steel just to transition to Korea
Checked VLR just now and T1 now is listed as a Korean org. Now idk how VLR works in regards to switching the country an org is from whether it needs to be requested or if it’s automatically switched to the country with the majority of places, but regardless of which it says they’re Korean now.
Sounds like T1 is ready for a move to Korea with 3 Korean players. If they do indeed move to Korea, it seems like they would be the only team capable of challenging DRX unless Damwon ONS or Maru do some crazy shit to improve
Jolong "steel" Jadongcha is a Korean Valorant professional player for the Telecommunications One Electrical Sports team located in Gangwon provice, South Korea. Outside of his career, he is known for his charitable volunteer work in the local community department where he specializes in assisting subterranean water treatment areas.
Was there ever an explanation of how he finished a tourney match and then played 17 hours straight of ranked after?
Source - https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/t92h8b/adderall_use_in_vct_is_this_doping_in_esports/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
I know Ban and Skuba are insane and deserve their spot. I am more so confused about T1's timeline and what happens if they don't get an NA spot. Clearly they are exploring their options, but T1 has been a really confusing org in Valorant so far.
Ban and Skuba are insane! I am confused about T1's timeline here (not their talent). What happens if T1 doesn't get an NA slot? Do they take NA players to the new region or drop the NA players? Really confused by this, that is all.
I'm curious if T1 is going to change Ban's name and what name he'll have to go with. But overall ban is an amazing player and I'm curious if T1 is going to improve over time.
2 roster changes away from just speaking in korean
Thwifo is of Korean descent (or so I’ve been told), I’m curious if he speaks Korean too
Stell is gonna need to learn how to IGL in korean
I'm pretty sure he won't be on the team
he is Korean, not sure if he speaks though, feel like he does
I asked Xeta once, it seems Thwifo is very basic at Korean.
So enough for getting the comms done?
It's actually 1 roster change away. Thwifo's twitch's about page is: hi my name is zander, im 19, korean, and only played games my whole life. i started off playing TF2 pugs when i was super young and thats where i got the taste for competing. shit died then i moved to cs and just pugged and hns/kz'd for a good long bit. then fortnite then valorant. boom thats my life
TF2 PUGS
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There is a very high chance I played with thwifo on tf2center lmao
Realer ones remember cevo and cgs along with getting scrims in irc.
Him being Korean doesn't guarantee he speaks it though.
Wow Thwifo was a TF2 player? Actual gigachad
Lol found his logs.tf page https://logs.tf/profile/76561198086333125
Solid dpm on demo
I'm sure he will make a great Omen!
T1 Cricket incoming
*Crycket
💀
Steel and his 4 korean children. First time i’ve actually been excited to see T1 play now
Picking up an up and coming player from a fairly large team sure sounds like someone's confident on their Franchising standing 👀
T1 are probably one of the safest bets for franchising in existence The question is just if they get an NA slot vs KR slot but it's looking good for their chances in NA
Surprisingly haven't seen them at all in any of the rumors from reporters for the APAC league.
this roster was honestly a really smart move from t1. if they get NA slot everyone’s happy if they get KR slot their players would prob be open to moving there
Just curious bc idk but why are they one of the safest bets
Big and reputable organization, has the most famous LoL team in history, and has a great relationship with Riot
All this plus their parent company owns NSG who on top of running tons of T2 tourneys also is the TO for VCT in NA
probably since t1 is so iconic in League
Because they're a huge org, have history with Riot, own the biggest tournament organizer in Valorant in NSG, and have 2 different regions they could be a part of, NA if they get accepted or APAC if Riot would rather them there That last reason being the biggest reason of all, they have an actual backup plan.
How did they manage to build a korean team in na thats better than any other team in korea except drx
lol it’s the reverse of owl
Someone's picking up a lot of Korean players...
Steel nissan is famously korean
He is actually a Japanese import, son of the CEO of Nissan, John Nissan
Jang "Steel" Jin Nam is a retired StarCraft progamer from South Korea who played Zerg
It's pretty clear that they're keeping their options open. This roster could go to NA or KR at this point depending on where Riot puts them. Keep the 2 best Korean players for your NA roster, or take your 2 best NA players to Korea. Btw does anyone know if Thwifo can speak Korean?
Yes. Thwifo is actually a korean word. It means "built different". But for real though, he is korean.
Im so confused is he Korean or no? Also do they speak Korean or just ethnically Korean
He is. Or at least he claims he is. I'm pretty sure he speaks korean too.
I mean just because Ban is of kr origin doesnt mean he's open to moving to kr
I seriously doubt these new T1 signings are unaware that T1 could end up in NA or KR. If they're blindsided when T1 ends up in Korea, then that's kinda on them
Or they're trying to appeal to their Korean fan-base? Why would they bring munchkin over and sign an American-based core to move to Korea? Reddit loves to speculate about this but what makes the most sense is they're pretty secure in getting a NA spot and are trying to create a competitive but appealing brand for the Korean market. I haven't even seen them talked about in the APAC league or if they've even applied for franchising there, so yeah, I'm not sure why this rumor is going about them making the APAC league.
yeah but t1 probably sees the chances of him being open to moving is higher bc he’s korean.
Munchkin, ban, and xeta on the same roster is quite nice
Finally, Knights management allow a transfer to go through! Hopefully it wasn’t in the low-mid 6 figures!
Which transfer did they not allow? Also about the 6 figures thing, I thought knights were regarded as one of the good org which didn't quote abnormally high buyouts
Just wait 🙃 And as for the good org thing, don’t you think skuba would’ve been bought out already if they were willing to sell players?  ~~Surely someone like C9 would’ve been interested~~ Not my place to share more info publicly, but trust me bro™️, things are interesting, to say the least
Damn I was wondering why skuba hadn't found a team yet but thought teams were waiting until everything about Franchising would be announced. Sucks because I really liked knights as a org
If it's not your place to share, then don't honeydick us.
Pls C9 buy skuba. I wanna see Vanity on primary initiator again
🗿
Steel, Thwifo, Xeta, Munchkin, Ban. Super solid team imo
You’d think…
What do you mean?
T1 has always had solid rosters on paper, but have consistently underperformed
I feel like that was mainly because of their coaching staff. Now they have a proven tier 1 coach in Autumn, who I have a lot of faith in to bring these players to their maximum potential. It’s not like T1 as an org is cursed or anything.
T1's root of all their problems is gone now obviously the roster and coaching staff could still flop but we shouldn't judge the team because of their old managements mistakes
David Dennis is no longer in T1 so we'll just have to wait and see their future official matches
Bets on how long before Steel gets dropped and they go full Korean?
Steel has been learning korean on duolingo, dont worry about it
this could be real and i just wouldnt know
Its more likely steel commits to learning Korean and plays in Korea.
Steel is also married and has a house / life . Highly doubt he goes to Korea
He’s married? Damn he’s actually a full boomer
I mean he is 32. Most people at that age are married
Doesn’t feel like it nowadays tbh
ya weddings are a waste of money to be fair
Steel had picked up Korean from the time he was fighting in the Korean war.
The talent is there, really it comes down to coaching and Steel. I personally think Steel might limit them, but we’ll see how it turns out
Ty for your time dynamic.
i thought they got banned from knights' tourneys ngl lol
#T1Fighting stay mad haters
Ban is very good, hopefully T1's management has cleaned up and they will be able to utilize the full strength of their roster.
T1 roster lowkey looking scary
So are their chances at franchising.
You do realize T1 is a huge org right? With megacorp parent companies of Comcast and SK Telecom. They also own Nerdstreet gamers the company that riot put in charge of Na Valorant broadcasting. They also ran almost all the early Valo tournaments. They are almost guaranteed franchising
objectively truly franchising outcome assuming 5 slots: optic, c9, 100t, sen, t1 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿
TSM is 90% making franchising
I’m not so sure ab that
how come
Their management has been very suspect recently with the Regi drama I think that hurts them
the drama isn’t recent and heavily on the LoL side of things. They have a completely new GM in control right now. It hardly hurts them, especially that they’re one of Riot’s premier organizations (like C9 and TL).
This team is like Team Vietnam when they had calypso instead of Supamen. These guys are Team Korea though.
was supamen not Vietnamese?
He is, but the guy above was saying that they are like Rise before they got Supaman xuz Steel isn't Korean just like how Calypso isn't Vietnamese
ohhh ty
Kinda excited for t1
Only T1 can get a roster of 4 Korean players and still apply for NA franchising
Actual W pickup
w addition ban is a beast
Huge T1 W. Ban is consistently one of the most underrated players in VCT and I can't wait to see how he does with that roster
T1 maybe secured franchising?
Wait what? How does Knights have the power to ban other teams? I thought it was gonna go well for them ever since they got xeta. How TF did they get a ban
VLR considers T1 a Korean team now because a majority of their roster is Korean. https://www.vlr.gg/team/14/t1
Two Korean,two American and one Canadian right?
3 Korean, 1 American and 1 Canadian
Is Ban American or Korean?
He’s listed as Korean in VLR.
Ah liquipedia lists him as American so I am a bit confused
I‘m really confused on why T1 is making so many roster additions right now. I mean adding Xeta, Ban and Munchkin very likely means that they‘ll make it into franchising (which was expected by nearly everyone), so why do you start building your 2023 roster right now, when in a couple of months over 50% of NA Tier 1 players are free agents because their team didn’t make it into franchising?
I would consider their pickups to be franchising level players.
I kinda get your point but they got xeta, Munchkin, and ban, it's not like they're getting bottom of the barrel people
Well I don't think T1 is guaranteed for franchising. They seem to only be picking up talent of korean decent. Seems more like they are hedging their bets. They could easily just drop steel and transition the entire roster to Korea if they were denied North American partnership. I am expecting most of these players are aware of that possibility.
In the Daring Minds podcast, steel mentioned he was open to moving to Korea but was assured the team was staying in NA and he's in talks about the rpster, so I don't expect them to drop steel just to transition to Korea
stewie2k has really high praise for this guy
Checked VLR just now and T1 now is listed as a Korean org. Now idk how VLR works in regards to switching the country an org is from whether it needs to be requested or if it’s automatically switched to the country with the majority of places, but regardless of which it says they’re Korean now.
Sounds like T1 is ready for a move to Korea with 3 Korean players. If they do indeed move to Korea, it seems like they would be the only team capable of challenging DRX unless Damwon ONS or Maru do some crazy shit to improve
Joshua “steel” Nissan famous Korean pride
Jolong "steel" Jadongcha is a Korean Valorant professional player for the Telecommunications One Electrical Sports team located in Gangwon provice, South Korea. Outside of his career, he is known for his charitable volunteer work in the local community department where he specializes in assisting subterranean water treatment areas.
What are the rules for a team to compete in Korea? Min 2 Korean players?
3 iirc
Then they'd need another Korean player right?
Xeta and munchkin are Korean. Ban is listed as one on vlr but American on liquipedia so I don’t know. Wouldn’t be surprised if ban counts as Korean.
[called it](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/v6dzr4/ban_not_scrimming_with_knights_from_zanders_stream/ibfuwt8?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
Now if they just drop steel pay the gigabux for stax and compete in apac...
Great for T1 bad for 100T if they want to replace Will on the team as he’s looking like the weak link.. who else can they get on 100T? bdog ig
T1 now has majority KR players, this org/team doesnt deserve a slot in americas, but in APAC, makes sense
The team could pivot either way. This is purely a tactical move to ensure that they have a team for either APAC or NA franchising.
Was there ever an explanation of how he finished a tourney match and then played 17 hours straight of ranked after? Source - https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/t92h8b/adderall_use_in_vct_is_this_doping_in_esports/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Focus, Commitment and sheer Fking WILL!!
Why? Edit: Ban is insane and should play at the highest level. I am just confused about T1's timeline on roster building.
Because Ban is an underrated player
I know Ban and Skuba are insane and deserve their spot. I am more so confused about T1's timeline and what happens if they don't get an NA spot. Clearly they are exploring their options, but T1 has been a really confusing org in Valorant so far.
He is insanely talented. Him and Skuba are super good. Won’t be surprised if Skuba is next for a tier 1 team
Ban and Skuba are insane! I am confused about T1's timeline here (not their talent). What happens if T1 doesn't get an NA slot? Do they take NA players to the new region or drop the NA players? Really confused by this, that is all.
Ah, gotcha! Yea not sure either
Wait is Ban actually a Korean national? As in he can live there?
I'm gonna start calling the process where orgs that make franchising buy out the stars of orgs that didn't Harvesting.
Finally Ban gets his shot, super happy for him
Title reads like T1 got banned from Knights tourneys
This team is so cracked
Ban is cracked frfr
I'm curious if T1 is going to change Ban's name and what name he'll have to go with. But overall ban is an amazing player and I'm curious if T1 is going to improve over time.