T1 T1 Korea Rank #3 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-oh (김태오) Sylvan Go Young-sup (고영섭) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) have announced they will be adding fRoD as the team's new head coach. Currently, their roster has just three players.

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One of the most decorated players in CS:GO history, with championships on championships under his belt as both a player and a coach.

We're happy to welcome @OfficialfRoD as our head coach for Valorant, to further our org's winning tradition in NA! #T1WIN
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fRoD won numerous titles with compLexity Gaming and Evil Geniuses in the pre-Global Offensive days of Counter-Strike. He had a brief career in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive before briefly making a transition to Overwatch with FaZe Clan. He became the organization's esports manager soon after.

He then returned to Counter-Strike as a coach, which he was doing up until VALORANT's release. He was coaching the Swole Patrol roster and later Swole Identity before swapping games.

His history in Counter-Strike fits with the rest of the current T1 roster, who all most recently competed in Counter-Strike before joining the T1 VALORANT roster.

All three of T1's players competed on the same team together for the first time this past weekend at the T1 x Nerd Street Gamers Invitational. They finished second on a roster that was not officially playing under the T1 name.