Valorant News
Kroenke ownership enters VALORANT as The Guard – signs Psalm, neT, valyn
Kroenke Sports and Entertainment have entered VALORANT, along with a rebrand of their esports side to The Guard.
Shawn "Germanicus" Heerema
Cloud9 and Serena Williams team up to inspire high school youth with a free course
Serena Williams is ready to inspire a new wave of esports athletes at Cloud9 with the “Champions Mindset” course.
Sage Datuin
Xset PureR: “As we play more matches, we’ll play like we do in scrims and dominate even harder in the future.”
Xset PureR's 2021 season is now over, but he is ready for next season to be a breakout year for Xset.
Sage Datuin
Valorant community reacts to the return of the Ranked five-stack
In Valorant patch 3.10, Riot Games announced the reintroduction of the five-stack back into competitive ranked matchmaking
esports.gg Editorial Team
RISE Neptune: “It’s like 90% mindset, especially at the top level.”
RISE were unable to qualify for the VCT Champions after losing the finals to Cloud9 Blue, but they will only improve from here.
Sage Datuin
Valorant 3.09 Patch Nerfs Classic and Brings Changes to Fracture
No more running and gunning with the Classic after Valorant 3.09. There's also a new battle pass with the latest update.
Rohan Samal
Riot announce RiotXArcane event centred around show launch
To go along with the launch of Arcane on Netflix, Riot Games are running a large event across all their games. Find out what free content you can get and what you can expect from the show's launch!
Shawn "Germanicus" Heerema
Gen.G Temperature: “The two weeks [NA LCQ hiatus] benefited me the most out of probably any other player”
VALORANT player Temperature is learning exactly what it takes to be a great team in VALORANT.
Sage Datuin
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RISE Supamen: “The analysts were saying ‘You don’t deserve to be here, someone else should have your spot’, we used that as motivation to improve and prove them wrong.”
Grand Finalist and dark horse Rise are one match away from qualifying for Champions, and Rise's Phat "supamen" Le is loving every minute of it.
Brittany "Briggsycakes" Gonzalez Gonzalez
C9 Vanity: “There are more strategies and counters to 100 Thieves over RISE.”
Sage Datuin
