North American Valorant team Sentinels is set to acquire Valorant Champions 2022 winners Gustavo “Sacy” Rossi and Bryan “pancada” Luna from LOUD. After having an explosive start to 2021 with two Masters titles, Sentinels was poised as one of the best teams in the world but things went downhill for the team soon after. It has been over a year since we have seen Sentinels in its prime and the organization is making major changes to hopefully go back to its winning ways.
TenZ is likely to be retained by Sentinels
Sacy and Pancada will join Rory “dephh” Jackson and Zachary “zekken” Patrone as new transfers. Zekken and Dephh were signed from XSET earlier this month and Tyson “TenZ” Ngo is expected to be the only player from the previous Sentinels lineup who will still be part of the active squad.
LOUD was the most dominant team at the recently concluded world championship and both Sacy and Pancada were instrumental to the team’s success. At the grand finals against OpTic Gaming, Sacy and Pancada were the top two players for LOUD with 70 and 65 kills respectively. Sacy is known for his Sova and Fade while Pancada specializes in Omen, Brimstone, and Viper.
With Riot Games bringing together Latin America, Brazil, and North America under the same league, Sentinels had more options than ever before to sign new players to revamp its roster. The team is yet to confirm if TenZ will continue to be a part of the roster or if a new fifth player will be signed.
Only time will tell if the revamped roster will be able to replicate Sentinels’ early success in 2021. Sentinels and LOUD are in the same international league which means that Sacy and Pancada will have to go up against their former teammates in February 2022.
Former Sentinels in-game leader (IGL) Shahzeb “ShahZam” Khan does not have a contract with Sentinels for the 2023 season and he is likely to move to a new team soon. The player claimed that there was a lack of communication from Sentines’ side regarding the roster overhaul which has left both him and fans disappointed.