Something that had me confused for a while was a tidbit from mCe's watchparty for EG vs NRG where he stated something along the lines of (The vod is deleted so I'm paraphrasing here): "EG are winning tokyo, they are touched by god to make the cinderella run that we were supposed to have on the Guard. None of you know about the absolute monster that they're hiding. Every org had to wait 2 years to sign this guy because of his age"
My confusion comes from the fact that a franchised roster can keep a secret player in the first place, if he were signed already, surely his name would show up on the contract database.
During the latest platchat episode, mCe further mentioned that EG was scrimming with Reformed on Jett and this secret 10th man. He said, "I will pull up the screenshot of Reformed shitting on us with jett. I can't actually show it, he was on jett, were memeing it, and he actually did really well. Cus like, their 10th player who can't be named, i was like 'oh this must be fun' why aren't you on this and then screwface why aren't YOU on jett? They're picking the one guy, they have like 7 jett mains and they're like YEAH THAT GUY"
Now, if you remember the whole Turtle Troops drama with EG, for the longest time, it almost felt confirmed to TTR that Add3r was going to become EG's 10th man until they pulled out at the last moment.
Assuming this is true, it would make the situation perfectly clear: EG is unofficially playing with this secret 10th man without officially signing him for whatever reason.
The secret 10th man must fit these criteria, therefore:
-Young
-Insanely talented
-Not signed by an org, otherwise wouldn't be able to scrim with EG
-Since they were originally trialing add3r, they were probably looking for a sentinel, so we're looking for someone who's cracked on both Sentinel and Jett given mces praise
So I cross referenced the tracker.gg profiles of all the known EG players for common duos, and I found a match.
https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/icy%234444/matches
Notice how the EG players he duos with are almost exclusively from the second roster, which would make sense if he's their teammate. He also has a pretty high winrate with all of them, which is abnormally high compared to all of their other duos, meaning he is actually pretty cracked.
And sure enough, his VLR page shows that he's no longer part of any team as of right now, and he plays KJ and Jett.
EG's 10th man is Icy.
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