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T1 part with brax and AZK

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February 8, 2021

T1 T1 Korea Rank #3 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-O (김태오) Sylvan Ko Young-sub (고영섭) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) have parted with Braxton "brax" Pierce and Keven "AZK" Larivière.

T1

@T1

Today we say our goodbyes to @brax1wnl and @AZKcs_.

Thank you for being such an integral part of T1 VALORANT - best of luck in your future endeavours & we'll see you on the server!

As the first two members signed to T1's Valorant roster in Spring 2020, brax and AZK were part of the infamous iBuyPower CS:GO team in 2014 that was eventually banned indefinitely from Valve sponsored tournaments for match fixing. Initially, T1 soared to the top of North American competition, only falling short to other powerhouse teams like Gen.G in the T1 X NSG Invitational Grand Finals, and TSM in the T1 X NSG Showdown.

But as the first Summer of North American Valorant competition continued, T1's performance began to waver as they made fewer and fewer top eight appearances. Recently, they suffered a defeat at the hands of Andbox in the first stage of VCT North America to miss qualifying for the main event.

Just three days ago, T1 announced the addition of Timothy "autimatic" Ta. The day before, they welcomed David "dd8" Denis as their new head coach.

With these two departures, T1 is now short one player of a five-man roster.

Currently, T1 T1 Korea Rank #3 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-O (김태오) Sylvan Ko Young-sub (고영섭) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) is:

Tyler "Skadoodle" Latham
Timothy "autimatic" Ta
Ha "Spyder" Jeong-woo (하정우)
Sam "DaZeD" Marine
David "dd8" Denis (Head coach)

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#1

bentseH

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Wtf

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wagunl

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t1 vice
Also gen.g azk and brax

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+aproto

-SkadoodleOrDaZeD
+ANDROID

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Dazed is the IGL, and neither of those IGL. They also all play different agents. Dazed is sova, Ska is breach. Android is entry, Aproto is sentinel. That makes no sense

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Is Dazed actually any good as IGL - and a player? yes I know IGL isn't expected to frag out but still needs to contribute, last time I saw him playing it was pretty unimpressive, but then of course he was still just making his comeback to top tier gaming so to speak.

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this combined with fRoD's vague tweet regarding this departure lead me to believe this was a higher-up decision. disappointing to see

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as always, even in T1 LoL its just the same with coach problems.

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hope brax can play on a more competitive team now, he's an amazing talent.

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Why is DazeD still on the team and Brax kicked? lol

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seems like brax and AZK are a package togther kind-of like food and Crashies were.

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brax isnt kicked he left on his own because they were benching azk and dazed is the igl of the team he is the backbone of the team

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Is this confirmed? I mean they probably wanted to bench AZK but yeah Brax must have chose to step down with AZK since Brax is really good and could probably compete on a better team.

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Dazed is the IGL, and they both perform different roles. Also, if you do research, Brax left because AZK was kicked

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so... someone from C9 Blue? Maybe vice?

#9

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Damn, brax is a good player, hope he find a team quickly

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azk is understandable but brax is a surprise lol

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why brax tho

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+freakazoid ?

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Azk was a good support on T1 and Brax also, If they want to make roster changes they should've kick Dazed. GL to these two pros

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+tarik

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kekw

#37

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only on sangal

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brax has great stats, it's weird to see him kicked.

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He wasn't necessarily kicked, T1 benched AZK, but brax/AZK are somewhat of a package together so brax was benched as well.

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-steel +brax

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I've checked this two matches of T1, and i was not impressed with neither of them, especially on decider maps
https://youtu.be/ai0YK9gDKvc
https://youtu.be/KxakkxAlYLs

But yeah they are only seems to be available in a bundle like food and crashies :)

Anyway T1 need to step up, so likely the change will be good!

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Remove brax and keep DaZeD? T1 are looking for mistakes where there aren't any. The bad performances comes from the team as a unit, not individual players.

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They will probably do a big buyout like android. They desperately need aggressive players. Or maybe a european/korean

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U can’t just fix a passive team by throwing an aggressive player on it. With that being said, T1 probably will just throw money at the problem

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Wtf that's exactly how you fix a passive team. You can only lead an aggressive strat if there is atleast one man willing to be the aggressor. In T1 they forced Ska into that role. Laws of attack say there must always be a man going first.

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sorry i should probably clarify. obviously an aggressive team needs some aggressive players, but there's other mandatory parts (adaptive IGL, flexible shot-calling structure, etc.). otherwise the aggressive players are just gonna feeeeed.

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ofc. but i dont think anybody doubts dazed's ability to lead. i think he just needs time to adapt to the game.

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propably freakazoid joining T1 with someone else. dazed should have been kicked too! brax wasnt that good so understandable. i can imagine myself that T1 and dazed are somehow partners so he cant be kicked lmao!

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Lmao 0/8

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whoever says this guys only available as a bundle is a iron 4 player! dude, i can imagine someone signing brax soon but AZK??? If they only available together, it means brax can uninstall valorant since i cant see a team signing AZK anytime soon! before someone signs AZK they sign mOE!

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This... Brax simply did not renew his contract. No doubt AZK was given a shorter term that ended on the same date as Brax. Brax needs to find a team solo.

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EG Brax and or AZK

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So I guess that they wanted to do -AZK +auti but brax didn't want this and benched himself. Right?

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pretty sure

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Atleast they still got Spyder/Saya, hes straight up nasty

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100T should pick Brax up and sell Steel.
They would be NA's most dominant team for at least a year.

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100T Brax, assistant coach steel

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Really bad take... Steel is probably the smartest player in NA and is a top 3 IGL. I can't think of 1 player who could replace Steel and make 100T better

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That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard

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