G2 Esports appeared confident in its North American “Valorant” partnership application. Then, the company's CEO jeopardized the whole thing.
for “Valorant” esports beginning in 2023, in which the sport’s open participation system would be whittled down at the highest tier to 30 “partnered” organizations that would enjoy unique benefits, including an annual stipend. The season’s set to kick off with an international tournament in São Paulo, Brazil.
Riot never formally offered a slot to G2. However, according to people familiar with Riot’s thinking, some teams’ executives were given informal, winking green lights on their partnership applications to allow them to start handling the logistics of a possible move.Since at least June, G2 has shown interest in acquiring or working with North American talent.
“[I’m] obviously pretty gutted,” said Adam “kaplan” Kaplan, a North American coach who interviewed with G2 for the head coach role. G2 had reached out to Kaplan in early September. “Five teams is an incredibly low number of teams to trickle NA down to. … While I’m confident in my situation, as a region we’re guaranteed to see a large pool of talent not have the opportunity to show São Paulo and the world how competitive of a region NA has been these last two years.
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