Sacy announces retirement

After four years of competing in the VCT, Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #3 Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid 's Gustavo "Sacy" Rossi has retired from competitive play.

Sacy was one of the biggest names in early Brazilian Valorant. As the Sova player for Team Vikings Team Vikings Inactive Veroneze Vinícius Ribeiro Ds Daniel Silva swag João Neto pollo Julio Silva , he made a name for himself by winning Brazil's regional Masters 1, as well as being the first representative of the country at the international stage with his appearance at Masters Reykjavík. While Vikings and Brazil as a whole struggled against the global competition that year, it would not be long before the tides would turn in their favor.

In 2022, Sacy would join the Brazilian superteam put together by LOUD LOUD Brazil Rank #1 pANcada Bryan Luna saadhak Matias Delipetro Less Felipe de Loyola tuyz Arthur Andrade cauanzin Cauan Pereira . Full of young rookies new to the top tier of competition, it was up to Sacy, the veteran presence on the team, to help mentor the youngsters and develop them into the world beaters that they would become. LOUD entered the international stage with a bang, where Sacy's return to Reykjavík saw him toppling juggernauts from EMEA and NA to make it to the winner's side of the grand finals. However, LOUD's inexperience showed when they were swept in the finals by OpTic Gaming OpTic Gaming Inactive . Their problems only seemed to grow worse when they were eliminated in the bottom two of Masters Copenhagen, once again at the hands of Optic. However, they returned at Champions with a vengeance. After making it out of groups, they would go on to dominate the playoffs bracket. Even Optic, their rivals throughout the year, could not stop them, as LOUD would defeat them 3-1 in the grand finals to claim the Champions trophy for Brazil. Sacy himself would put up a dominant performance in the grand finals, with a 1.31 rating across the series to cement his legacy as a Brazilian legend.

Sacy holding the Champions trophy with LOUD A historic moment for Brazil. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)

Sacy joined Sentinels alongside pANcada at the beginning of franchising, with the both of them opting to leave behind their Brazilian brothers at LOUD to join the North American organization. They would struggle to deliver on the high expectations set for Sentinels, as their season was plagued with a multitude of issues. Role adjustments, coaching staff changes, and roster swaps made it difficult for Sentinels to find their footing in the Americas league, as they failed to qualify for any international events.

In the off season before 2024, Sentinels added a new IGL in johnqt , as well as replacing Pancada with Zellsis , leaving Sacy as the sole Brazilian representative for the North American organization. This new roster showed promise, winning their own Sentinels Invitational as well as the AfreecaTV Valorant League tournament. They followed this up by topping the Americas league at Kickoff to qualify to Masters Madrid, where they would take home their second international trophy, as well as making Sacy the only player to ever win both Champions and a masters event. Following their big win, they would face some turbulence in Stage 1, failing to qualify for the Americas playoffs, but quickly rebounded in Stage 2 and made it to Champions off the back of championship points. At Champions, they would pull off a shocking upset against the Shanghai winners of Gen.G Gen.G Korea Rank #1 Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) Meteor Kim Tae-O (김태오) Lakia Kim Jong-min (김종민) Karon Kim Won-tae (김원태) to make it out of the proclaimed group of death, a feat few expected going into the tournament. They would find two more wins in playoffs against DRX DRX Korea Rank #2 Flashback Cho Min-hyuk (조민혁) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) Foxy9 Jung Jae-sung (정재성) BeYN Kang Ha-bin (강하빈) and FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #2 Boaster Jake Howlett Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder to reach the top four, but losses at the hands of the grand finalists of EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 S1Mon Hsien Meng-Hsun (谢孟勋) ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) and Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius would eliminate them at fourth place.

Sacy kissing the Masters Madrid trophy. Another trophy for the bald. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)

Sacy's long and decorated career in VCT now comes to an end as he takes a rest from professional play. Alongside TenZ , he is now the second player from Sentinels to retire, leaving the organization to find replacements for these two vital members in the off-season.

Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #3 Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid are now:

Mohamed "johnqt" Amine Ouarid
Jordan "Zellsis" Montemurro
Zachary "zekken" Patrone
Rahul "curry" Nemani
Bryan "Zyto" Ybanez (Manager)
Kevin "Kez" Jeon (Manager)
Adam "kaplan" Kaplan (Head coach)

Been seeing all of this Sacy stuff on vlr, and really, I just feel like everyone is missing the main point. I saw one of his streams a while back, I think he was duoing with Zekken? Might've been with someone else, but I remember watching him play Sova on icebox when suddenly and without warning, my mind went completely blank, and the only thought in my head was, "Could I fit Sacy's head inside my ass?"

Maybe it was just the comely sheen off his dome, but something about that shining bespectacled orb gave the deep, inescapable feeling that this world would be better off with that head firmly inserted into my rectum. Sexuality be damned this; this was a spiritual impulse! Like Abraham before the bush; like Moses on Mount Sinai; like Whoopi Goldberg holding the script for Sister Act 2, God has given me my task.

I called Gustavo, thinking this might be an unreasonable proposition, his candid response however, intrigued me: "yeah," he said, "but can we do it in the porch area of a local Starbucks?" I asked him why, and he told me that six other people had already asked to do this, and he had done those at Starbucks, and if he brought in a seventh he would get a free salted caramel latte. I asked if he could get me one too, but he said they're just for him.