Night:

ON OFF

Spoilers:

ON HIDDEN

T1 sign renowned Overwatch sniper ANS

tamagao

March 19, 2021

The 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) organization has signed Lee "ANS" Seon-chang (이선창), previously a sniper specialist for the championship San Francisco Shock Overwatch League team, to their Valorant roster.

In the team's video announcement, T1 clarified ANS was joining as a sixth player to transition him into the game. Their current starting five will remain the same.

T1

@T1

Starting fresh.

Welcome @ansansniper__ to T1 VALORANT!

ANS joined the reigning champion Shock team before the 2020 Overwatch League season as a rookie in the league despite previous experience competing in Overwatch for years prior. He instantly dazzled on the game's main sniper hero, Widowmaker, as well as other hitscan characters, and became a key part of the team's championship run in 2020 before he retired at the end of the season.

He is the second Korean sniping specialist to join T1 after last competing in Overwatch. The team signed Ha "Sayaplayer" Jeong-woo (하정우), then known as Sayaplayer in Overwatch, last fall after he retired from the Overwatch League.

Like Spyder, ANS joins T1 as a player with previous experience playing on rosters with both Korean and western players. There was almost always at least one American playing alongside ANS at any given time and he was based in the United States along with his teammates. ANS, however, has never played on a team with Spyder or anyone else currently on T1.

ANS has never competed on a Valorant team before joining T1. His experience in the game has largely been limited to competitive matchmaking.

T1 will have some time to integrate ANS into the roster. They currently have no matches on their upcoming schedule.

The 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) roster is:

Tyler "Skadoodle" Latham
Timothy "autimatic" Ta
Ha "Spyder" Jeong-woo (하정우)
Rahul "curry" Nemani
Lee "ANS" Seon-chang (이선창)
Sam "DaZeD" Marine
David "dd8" Denis (Head Coach)

Comments:

Threaded Linear

#1

BIGGEST_LG_FAN

8

Frags

+

–

SHEEEEESH ez clap

#2

saranghaeyo

16

Frags

+

–

YES ANSANSNIPER
안스 사랑해!

#3

BIGGEST_LG_FAN

13

Frags

+

–

saya and ans on same team, scary af ngl

#8

NSG_Observer_2

-36

Frags

+

–

another overrated overwatch player who can only snipe. Cant wait to see him get destroyed

#9

D4nny_

14

Frags

+

–

What about Babybay and Corey? They were known for their hit-scan and they are dominating right now. Overwatch is a higher skilled game btw.

#10

saranghaeyo

6

Frags

+

–

only time will tell if he's overrated or not. he has potential to be at least as good as babybay & corey

#18

TaoOat

5

Frags

+

–

Yeah he was a far better Widow player than them in OWL. Although Corey had a period where he could maybe contend ig? Idk Ans is insane

#69

saranghaeyo

0

Frags

+

–

yeah when he had that hot streak on the justice i believe it was he was insane aswell but ANS basicly carried the shock the whole season

#38

beb0p

2

Frags

+

–

Spyder? The dude is cracked.

#39

beb0p

6

Frags

+

–

Go back into your hole pls. Nobody wants to see you.

#45

NSG_Observer_2

-14

Frags

+

–

what do you mean go back to my hole idiot

#46

beb0p

5

Frags

+

–

haha

#49

bigpeensheen

0

Frags

+

–

i dont think he's overrated if most ppl can already conclude he will be good for T1
-1

#63

POT

-1

Frags

+

–

Tbf I hate overwatch but concidering how bad ska has been the overwatch players have a point.

#4

supernova

-10

Frags

+

–

-curry ?

#5

rohooster

5

Frags

+

–

6 man roster/forming an academy team

#13

30Spence

7

Frags

+

–

Academy teams are not allowed by riot, it's why T1 disbanded theirs back in August

#41

bloodysky

2

Frags

+

–

I thought T1 Korea disbanded back then because Riot not allowed teams to have multiple representative per region? (also the reason why C9 Korea disbanded)

#44

bleghfarec

3

Frags

+

–

What? Where are people getting this multi-region nonsense? It's just one team globally period, with an exception for a women's team.

#50

bigpeensheen

-3

Frags

+

–

so orgs can have a team in NA and a team in lets say, KR, and it's cool?
then why tf did C9 and T1 leave KR, they were taking a fat shit on everyone they went up against

#58

bleghfarec

3

Frags

+

–

???

one team globally

An organization can't have more than one team ANYWHERE in the world, unless it's a secondary women's team.

#68

30Spence

0

Frags

+

–

they had both a Korean and NA academy team

#6

xLinksz

10

Frags

+

–

Hopefully this T1 project begins to give better results, because this roster has enormous potential and I would love for them to be one of the best teams in NA

#7

Dell

7

Frags

+

–

t1 top 4 soon heard it here first.

#47

beb0p

3

Frags

+

–

Yes pls

#11

Aster1x

8

Frags

+

–

Dude they have 2 cs awpers and 2 widow mains. What

#19

macro

4

Frags

+

–

4 ops meta

#32

zet1wnl

2

Frags

+

–

Idk what's happening rn in T1 roster

#37

Coach_Sinay

1

Frags

+

–

Overwatch snipers are only headshoting if you aim at the head so basically sniper players in overwatch are everything BUT awpers (and IGL too I guess). The proof beeing that I never saw an overwatch player taken as the awper of the team (apart from Babybay recently) even among main snipers like Corey or AKM in EU.

#40

beb0p

10

Frags

+

–

That’s cuz it’s wasting their insane aim. More useful to put them on a rifle.

#12

ideekae

7

Frags

+

–

I have a feeling it won’t be 6 players in a month or so. No way you sign this guy to only have him play like 50% of the time.

#14

sentence

8

Frags

+

–

its prbly just gonna end up like C9, somebody is gonna get cut.

#42

beb0p

4

Frags

+

–

Rip vice :(

#51

bigpeensheen

0

Frags

+

–

F

#15

dudeeee

3

Frags

+

–

dont lie, u werent confident in the current 5man roster

#16

Cheasle2

3

Frags

+

–

I've never kept up with the OW scene but if what people are hyping up is true. This could be insane!

#17

ViperBuffManagement

0

Frags

+

–

At this point T1 should just move to Korea, I hope imports rule comes soon

#22

beb0p

1

Frags

+

–

they have a korean team

#23

Helix_Exton

0

Frags

+

–

They no longer have a Korean team, Riot made everyone drop their non-female secondary rosters.

#24

beb0p

4

Frags

+

–

Oh :(

#20

SharubuNguvu

3

Frags

+

–

6 player rosters don't work in this game or CS. Only heretics have a 6 man that works and that is because niesoW cannot play with them full time because of his personal life so it is more like a 5 man roster and a 6th man who is a part time member. I can't see this working too well. Someone will get dropped.

#28

jayy

0

Frags

+

–

Source about the part regarding niesoW?

#31

Jockie

1

Frags

+

–

Tons of interviews to both lowel (Team Captain) and Taniz. They explained on social media and streams aswel.

#43

BIG_IRON_RULEZ

-4

Frags

+

–

it's the official story but in reality it's just them phasing out niesow because he's a cheating piece of shit. he won't come to Masters 2 LAN either. it's obvious if you can read between the lines and follow the EU scene at all.

expect their coach defending him here in comments shortly. he usually does.

#56

SharubuNguvu

1

Frags

+

–

What @Jockie said, lowel and Taniz have said this in interviews and Rubino has said on stream too.

#52

bigpeensheen

-3

Frags

+

–

A good bunch of CS teams are using 6 man rosters right, now, like NaVi and Vitality

#55

beb0p

4

Frags

+

–

Vitality recently dropped screams brother from the roster

#57

SharubuNguvu

-1

Frags

+

–

vitality and Navi have 5 man?, scream brother was dropped and guardian has been benched since they had perfecto. Astralis has 6 but Bubyzjki never plays. Having bench players is not worse the big communication changes. We may see 6 man in valorant when we have like 60 agents but right now there is no need.

#59

srtyzinhoow

0

Frags

+

–

NaVi - S1mple, electronic, boombl4, b1t, flamie and perfecto that's 6 players not 5

#65

SharubuNguvu

1

Frags

+

–

I have not watched csgo in months lol so I don't know about b1t. Still I think no pro team has shown proper use of a legitimate 6 man roster.

#66

V0sotros

1

Frags

+

–

Vitality had a pretty decent 6 man roster until they dropped it because valve was being stupid with their substitution rules for RMR points

#64

Mememeister1

1

Frags

+

–

imo the way vitality used the 6 man roster was really good but valvo dont like it and they have to have a fixed roster which made it useless

#21

beb0p

3

Frags

+

–

well you can never have enough korean overwatch aim gods ig.

#25

greedeetv

1

Frags

+

–

I dunno if he still needs more time, but autimatic so far has been a bit underwhelming. Same for Skadoodle as of late. Even curry is stepping up the pace compared to them.

#26

GOGLFURIAVKS

-7

Frags

+

–

Ok... DaZed is finally out, the guy can't aim for shit. ANS will sova and will do a great job, ska or auti will IGL and this team is gonna grow fast.

#27

beb0p

6

Frags

+

–

Dazed’s aim isn’t that bad

#29

Helix_Exton

3

Frags

+

–

Dazed's aim isn't ass and he is the IGL, Ska is notoriously quiet so he can't igl, and it makes no sense to move him to a role like breach that requires him to call. I think ANS becomes jett, Spyder becomes second duelist or smokes, and autimatic gets cut.

#34

GOGLFURIAVKS

0

Frags

+

–

No way they will cut auti who IGLed for Gen.G in CS and is a way better player than DaZed. You guys are delusional, Sova is the 3rd fragger of the team behind the two duelists, and DaZed can't frag, he is out. Thrust me.

#35

sm0ke3

0

Frags

+

–

Autimatic didnt even IGL for GenG, daps did, also DaZed is the IGL, its harder to frag when he is the IGL, and he doesnt even bottom frag most of the time, btw who will IGL if DaZed is cut, probably Auti and Saya, and they have never been IGLs before

#36

GOGLFURIAVKS

1

Frags

+

–

lol who was the IGL for Gen.G for the 6 months before daps left? Are u insane?

#48

beb0p

5

Frags

+

–

I don’t think they kick autimatic, he is very new to the game and he is getting better everyday.

#53

bigpeensheen

2

Frags

+

–

autimatic wont get cut, the chemistry between him and ska is good

#71

BIGGEST_LG_FAN

0

Frags

+

–

saya better jett than ansan

#67

Delusional_Mitch_Fan

0

Frags

+

–

did you hear the vid? at all?????????????????? they said they still need to develop his English, his skill to the game, and others. he's most likely gonna start on the academy team.....

#70

fontea

2

Frags

+

–

Academy teams arent allowed to exist anymore, riot got rid of them all, hes just gonna be a 6th player :) (or a 5th eventually potentially). may be worth reading all the other comments that say identical shit first my dude

#30

SNEAKY1TAPS

1

Frags

+

–

Is he gonna play as the SNIPE of the team?

#33

zet1wnl

-1

Frags

+

–

I bet -Skadoodle in few months...6 man roster is a joke in this game.

#54

bigpeensheen

-1

Frags

+

–

cant say that since it really hasn't been tested on the main stage yet. Besides, T1 hasn't done very well lately, the performances have been a bit above average, so they just trying to climb the ladder of best teams NA with whatever they got

#60

exxem

3

Frags

+

–

he can be a top 5 player with time good pickup

#61

beb0p

1

Frags

+

–

no cap

#62

f0xes

0

Frags

+

–

Wish he stuck with the name sayaplayer - it was unique and had a nice ring to it

Sign up or log in to post a comment