Sean Gares explains why yay joining Disguised makes “total sense”

  ❘   Revealed: 2023-04-12T11:03:24

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Valorant content material creator and former 100 Thieves coach Sean Gares has shared his ideas on Jaccob ‘yay’ Whiteaker’s choice to affix Disguised and argued why the transfer is a logical one for ‘El Diablo’.

After over two years competing on the highest stage, reaching group success and particular person accolades, yay has taken a step again by becoming a member of Disguised within the Challengers league, the second tier of North American Valorant.

The transfer got here after yay and Cloud9 determined to half methods lower than six months into his contract. He attended simply two occasions with the group earlier than they determined to go in a special route, citing “role issues”.

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Sean Gares believes that yay’s choice to affix Disguised is smart

On his stream, yay mentioned that his Disguised tenure “might be a short-term thing” as he’s set on enjoying at a high stage once more. For Disguised to safe promotion to the VCT Americas league, they must end high two within the Challengers league playoffs after which win the Americas Ascension event, that includes six groups from North America, Brazil and LATAM.

Sean Gares on why Disguised yay makes whole sense

Throughout a dwell stream, Sean Gares admitted that, at a primary look, having a participant of yay’s caliber in a tier-two league “is definitely insane”. However wanting on the present state of affairs in VCT Americas and the truth that the switch window is closed till the top of the season, he noticed the logic behind the transfer.

“That’s really loopy, nevertheless it makes whole sense when you concentrate on the roster lock and among the issues he may be going through proper now,” he mentioned. “We talked about it some time again.

“You have got 100 Thieves, Cloud9, NRG, EG and Sentinels. The place is yay going to go? They [100 Thieves] simply picked up Cryo. He simply got here from right here [Cloud9]. They [NRG] picked up ardiis in his place. Sentinels have TenZ, zekken… Marved is already their sixth, so he’s not going there.

“That basically simply leaves EG till the season is over and groups make roster adjustments.”

yay will make his Disguised debut on April 20 against Oxygen Esports within the NA Challengers league. Disguised have been positioned in Group A, together with M80, TSM, Oxygen, Turtle Troop and Shopify Riot.