Ghost Gaming
Ghost Gaming
Inactive
koalanoob
Gianfranco Potestio
NiSMO
Marc-Andre Tayar
aproto
Alex Protopapas
brawk
Brock Somerhalder
johnqt
Mohamed Amine Ouarid
has released their roster after over a year and a half of involvement in the competitive Valorant scene. The organization also revealed that they had been rejected from the 2023 franchised league.
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Ghost originally entered Valorant after signing
Project !
Project !
Inactive
chase
Dajon Lopez
zecK
Addison Gorzeck
payen
Nathaniel Lopez
NiSMO
Marc-Andre Tayar
dazzLe
Will Loafman
in January 2021. However, the team struggled to find a tournament victory in the months after their inception, and slowly worked to piece together a new roster that could compete at the top of NSG Summer Championship Open events and eventually breach the upper echelon of North American Valorant.
Ghost found their first Valorant tournament win in the July 2021 edition of the Knights Monthly Gauntlet, but entered a dry spell afterwards.
As 2021 came to a close, the team managed to find a sole runner-up victory in the NSG Winter Championship Open 5, prompting roster changes going into the 2022 VCT year.
Ghost settled on swapping out Danny "HUYNH" Huynh and Dajon "chase" Lopez for Brock "brawk" Somerhalder and Mohamed "johnqt" Amine Ouarid, but failed to find success initially in the Stage 1 Challengers qualifiers. However, the team did find success outside of the VCT by winning the March 2022 edition of the Knights Monthly Gauntlet and Knights Circuit Monthly #1.
With two prominent tournament wins under their belt, and Alex "aproto" Protopapas now slotted into their lineup, Ghost were poised to silence their doubters in Stage 2.
While Ghost's hopes were high going into the Stage 2 Challengers open qualifiers, they stumbled out the gate in the first open qualifier, bowing out in the round of 32 following losses to
BASILISK
BASILISK
Inactive
royal
Matthew Buick
Jangler
Dwaine Kirkpatrick
and
DarkZero Esports
DarkZero Esports
Inactive
. In the second open qualifier, Ghost managed to survive their first upper bracket final match against
Zero MarksMen Black
Zero MarksMen Black
Inactive
Tim
Timothy Braun
Blahst
Nathan Brand
yiinel
Elias Soto
Nanners
Anderson Lutkehus
, but fell to
Evil Geniuses
Evil Geniuses
North America
Rank #22
Derrek
Derrek Ha
NaturE
Nicholas Garrison
supamen
Phat Le
afterwards, leaving them one loss away from an early end to their VCT competition year.
To add to the severity of the situation, their first opponents in the lower bracket were Team Basilisk once again, who had sent them to the lower bracket in the first open qualifier. However, the team had learned from their past mistakes, and breezed through the series, and began to gain steam, eliminating
Complexity
Complexity
Inactive
RetrQ
Alex Kadan
trial
Governor
Peter No
truo
Robert Pham
jcrueL
Joel Cruel
agM
Michael Abood
,
NYFU
NYFU
Inactive
oderus
Chad Miller
YaBoiDre
Diondre Bond
ShoT_UP
Andrew Orlowski
neptune
Jason Tran
JSUNG
Jason Sung
, and
Built By Gamers Academy
Built By Gamers Academy
Inactive
BlackHeart
Hasan Hammad
monSi
Ludovic Lefebvre
khanartist
Nabil Khan
FireBallOps
Cameron Tomaselli
in the lower bracket, leaving
Knights
Knights
Inactive
as their only opponent before the open qualifiers were concluded. Ghost mustered a win against Knights in overtime on the second map to clinch a group stage berth, extending their VCT season for a short while.
With a second wind bringing the team to life, Ghost tore through the group stage, only falling in the first week of group stage play to
XSET
XSET
Inactive
. Despite their one loss, Ghost had the best rounds won to rounds lost ratio and better round differential than XSET, who finished the group stage in pole position with a similar 4-1 record.
However, their dreams of reaching the top were soon going to come crashing down, as playoff losses to Evil Geniuses and
NRG Esports
NRG Esports
North America
Rank #1
FiNESSE
Pujan Mehta
s0m
Sam Oh
Verno
Andrew Maust
mada
Adam Pampuch
Ethan
Ethan Arnold
put an abrupt end to their VCT competition year despite the high expectations they had hoped to meet. The team's final appearance under Ghost was the NSG Summer Championship, where they took first place in the Summer Championship finals.
Going forward, the team will now compete under the name
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters
Inactive
johnqt
Mohamed Amine Ouarid
NiSMO
Marc-Andre Tayar
brawk
Brock Somerhalder
aproto
Alex Protopapas
.
The former lineup of
Ghost Gaming
Ghost Gaming
Inactive
koalanoob
Gianfranco Potestio
NiSMO
Marc-Andre Tayar
aproto
Alex Protopapas
brawk
Brock Somerhalder
johnqt
Mohamed Amine Ouarid
now known as
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters
Inactive
johnqt
Mohamed Amine Ouarid
NiSMO
Marc-Andre Tayar
brawk
Brock Somerhalder
aproto
Alex Protopapas
consists of: