Sacy admits he was toxic during LOUD stint: “I was no saint”

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Sentinels Valorant star Gustavo ‘Sacy’ Rossi has confirmed that he contributed to LOUD’s poisonous atmosphere throughout their dream 2022 VCT season.

LOUD capped off a powerful 2022 season by beating arch-rivals OpTic Gaming to the Valorant Champions trophy, cementing Brazil’s standing as a significant powerhouse in Riot Video games’ FPS esport.

However regardless of having fun with worldwide success and incomes accolades at The Sport Awards and the Esports Awards, the crew break up up in the course of the low season, with Sacy and Bryan ‘pANcada’ Luna transferring over to Sentinels.

To fill the vacancies of their lineup, LOUD signed two younger stars, Cauan ‘cauanzin’ Pereira and Arthur ‘tuyz’ Vieira. And the primary impressions have been extremely optimistic: LOUD completed second to Fnatic at VCT LOCK//IN and stay undefeated within the VCT Americas league after 5 video games.

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LOUD got here away with the Valorant Champions 2022 trophy.

In a vlog recorded on the day of the mouth-watering conflict towards Sentinels and launched on April 25, LOUD’s Felipe ‘Much less’ Basso surprisingly revealed that his confidence and shallowness ranges have been often low final yr as he didn’t really feel at residence enjoying with the crew.

“Each time I did one thing fallacious, it appeared like I used to be dangerous, which destroyed my confidence,” Much less mentioned. “Generally, I’d surprise if that is what I wished for my life. It was actually exhausting. I had actually dangerous performances on sure brokers as a result of I ended up enjoying poorly in follow.

“I bought a lot flack that I believed I used to be horrible with the agent and that it was greatest if I didn’t play with it. That ended up affecting my psychological well being quite a bit.”

Much less went on to say that the present ambiance within the crew is quite a bit more healthy. “It’s not an atmosphere the place I can’t make errors,” he added. “It’s not a poisonous atmosphere, so to talk. That provides me quite a lot of belief. It actually makes me need to play.”

Sacy responds to poisonous claims

Much less’ feedback have sparked an intense debate within the Brazilian group about toxicity in esports and whether or not such an environment must be eradicated. And whereas Sacy was by no means talked about by title within the vlog, many imagine that he fostered a hostile atmosphere throughout his year-long tenure with LOUD.

Questioned by a viewer on his stream on April 26, simply hours after the vlog was launched, about whether or not he was poisonous, Sacy was surprisingly nonchalant about it.

“Certainly I used to be,” he mentioned. “I used to be no saint. However we gained, didn’t we?”

After a number of seconds, he added: “I’d do it yet again. Simply to make it clear.”

Sentinels are at present joint-sixth in VCT Americas with a 2-3 document, with their subsequent match scheduled for April 30, towards Cloud9.