ShaZaM: King of the Fall

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RetiredRadiant

ShaZaM's entitlement is now facing a harsh reality. His lack of work ethic carried over from SEN to G2. Failing in Challengers only inspired more apathy in him. He believed that streaming would always be a fallback: but will it?

With the aura of excellence long since faded from the first Masters (yes, its been that long since he's won), long after his trademark cackle and ranked arrogance lost their charm, he is now facing a dwindling viewership. He has been on a sharp and steady decline since January 2022.

Is he fated to turn into the next Zombs? A steep decline once he become irrelevant in the competitive arena, with a viewership hovering around 460...

TLDR: Do some of these streamers have personalities attractive enough to sustain even a quarter of the viewership they garnered as competitors? Is the Valorant accent finally dead? What will its afterlife look like?

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Too old to have great AIM, too old to lack IGL skills.
It's over for him.
I think he is not mature for his age, especially if he wants to be a IGL. Literally no one respects him at all.
Even ange1 being a dogshit player ppl respect him more than shahzam as example, I think too many dramas involved him, crying on twitter, all these shit made him fall. Bc I think no teammate would respect him to be IGL at all.

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moatz

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I speak for all eu fans when I say we respect him very much for putting FNC in their place at the first iceland

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BrotherMan

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hes avg 2.2k viewers tho

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RetiredRadiant

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For now.. will he fade into irrelevance? Will he fade into esports history? A fabled story, one of great heights, matched only by the depths of despair into which he is sinking -- emphasis on sinking, not sunk, yet. A lesson learned by him, taught to others, passed down the archeologists of VLR

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read allat + well written (surprisingly)

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RetiredRadiant

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my drilla!

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not_biased_at_all

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I never pray on anyone's downfall but this man brought it on himself.

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RetiredRadiant

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amen

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Brimstan

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2.2k is still top 1% of twitch

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RetiredRadiant

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copium

this viewership, who are they? what do they watch shazam for? to see one of the greats of the game when he is no longer so? to watch ranked madling in the vein of a BabyJ (my goat)?

will the next generation of childe gamers even know the name?

will he play Challengers next year? will another disappointing season drive him further into uncertainty? will he sacrifice what little viewership he has left to practice?

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bronzil_enjoyer

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demon of the fall 🗿

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SAMPV6

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stream is stable + he's still on a team, what is bro yapping about

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UBClears

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He needed to stay playing Jett. Top 2 AWPer unironically