Sentinels pANcada addresses Marved’s status after VCT Americas defeat

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Sentinels Valorant star Bryan ‘pANcada’ Luna has assured that he doesn’t really feel any strain from the staff having a participant of Jimmy ‘Marved’ Nguyen’s caliber on the bench.

After a promising begin to life within the VCT Americas league with a 2-1 victory over 100 Thieves, Sentinels lower a annoyed determine of their 2-0 defeat in opposition to NRG on April 9, with the second map, Icebox, ending with a lopsided 13-2 scoreline.

The defeat has led to requires Sentinels to subject Marved, who was signed as a substitute player ahead of the VCT Americas League. Probably the greatest Controller gamers on the planet, the previous OpTic Gaming star is returning to exercise after taking a break on the finish of 2022 to get better from a taxing 12 months.

As he watched his staff get soundly crushed on Icebox, Sentinels content material creator Tarik ‘tarik’ Celik joined the refrain asking for Marved to play. “The place the f**okay is Marved? When are we bringing him out? We signed him and now what? We have to use him, we want him to play. Now!” he stated on his stream 5 rounds into the sport.

After the match, pANcada insisted that the presence of a participant like Marved on the bench just isn’t a further supply of strain for him.

“I don’t know if he’ll enter the staff within the close to future, I don’t even know if he’s in america,” he advised Mais Esports.

“That’s one thing that solely the workers can reply as a result of they’re those answerable for that and for the staff’s efficiency. I don’t really feel any strain with regard to that. I belief my work. If I’ve to step out [of the team], I’ll do it and not using a downside.”

pANcada talks Sentinels function swaps

One of many greatest speaking factors surrounding Sentinels for the reason that begin of VCT Americas is the function modifications for a few of the gamers. pANcada has been the lurker on brokers like Killjoy and Viper, whereas Sacy has been taking part in the first Controller function and dephh the Initiator on some maps.

“These modifications have been made to make the IGL’s life a bit simpler,” pANcada stated. “It occurs on numerous groups the place the IGL is much [from the action] and can’t see what’s taking place. That occurs with most IGLs, they should play as flex.

“The one approach for our IGL to do it was to alter our roles, and I ended up taking part in as a Sentinel. Afterward, Sacy grew to become the Controler, additionally due to the IGL.”

Sentinels will face Leviatán subsequent within the VCT Americas league. The match is scheduled for April 16 at 12pm PT.