dephh removed from Sentinels’ VCT roster

  ❘   Revealed: 2023-05-12T10:36:29

  ❘   Up to date: 2023-05-12T10:36:39

Rory ‘dephh’ Jackson is now not a part of Sentinels’ Valorant roster for the VCT Americas league, based on Riot Video games’ contract database.

The British in-game chief is now not listed as a Sentinels participant within the VCT global contract database, which all however confirms that he has parted methods with the group, as first reported by George Geddes.

With solely two matches left to play within the common season, Sentinels brought Tyson ‘TenZ’ Ngo back into the starting lineup after he missed three weeks of motion attributable to sickness and a finger harm. In a quick replace on Twitter, the North American group made no point out of dephh because it listed its different 5 energetic gamers.

Neither Sentinels nor dephh has up to now confirmed the choice to half methods with each other. Nonetheless, the participant has eliminated the Sentinels banner from his Twitter profile and the phrase “SEN” from his title on the social media platform. Furthermore, his Twitter bio now not mentions that he performs for the staff.

dephh has been with Sentinels since October 2022, when he was announced as the “final piece of the puzzle” for the 2023 VCT season. He signed a contract till the top of 2024, reuniting together with his XSET teammate Zachary ‘zekken’ Patrone and head coach Donald ‘SyykoNT’ Muir.

dephh loved a profitable 2022 season with XSET, who attended VCT Stage 2 Masters Copenhagen and Valorant Champions 2022. However he struggled to duplicate that with Sentinels, went out of VCT LOCK//IN in Seventeenth-Thirty second place and are nearly out of the working for a playoff spot in VCT Americas.

No backup for VCT Americas league

With dephh out of the roster, Sentinels are actually down to 5 energetic gamers. Hunter ‘SicK’ Mims continues to be listed as a participant, however questions stay about his standing on the staff. On March 6, Dot Esports reported that Sentinels had decided to suspend the player pending the completion of coaching following his arrest for legal trespassing two days earlier.

Sentinels CEO Rob Moore later stated that the group hoped to “help [SicK] throughout this tough second” because it started the method of discovering a brand new sixth participant. Shortly afterward, Sentinels signed Jimmy ‘Marved’ Nguyen, a former member of the OpTic Gaming squad that completed second at Valorant Champions 2022.

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After three weeks out, TenZ returns to Sentinels’ beginning lineup

Earlier this week, SicK was arrested for the same offense and released a day later. A number of group figures, together with former teammate Shahzeb ‘ShahZaM’ Khan, have expressed concern for SicK’s psychological well-being attributable to his erratic habits on social media and on Twitch in current days.

Sentinels will face KRÜ Esports and FURIA of their last two matches within the VCT Americas league, with the staff having solely a 7% likelihood of reaching the playoffs, according to a prediction model created by Sam Rosenberg.