Vision Strikers Vision Strikers Inactive stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Rb Goo Sang-min (구상민) Zest Kim Ki-seok (김기석) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) captain Kim "glow" Min-soo (김민수) has retired from professional Valorant. Vision Strikers will need to sign a new fifth to replace him.
13 years. 100+ events. 30+ Championships.
And countless memories.
To our Captain and friend, thank you glow.
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glow was by far the oldest player on the Vision Strikers roster at 33-years-old. The rest of the roster is at youngest 19 and at oldest 21.
In the video the team posted alongside his retirement announcement, glow clarified that he is retiring in consideration of his age and the team's future success. "I think that this is the right time for me to retire." He said he has felt his ceiling as a player has been at its limit, particularly in the most recent stage of the VCT when Vision Strikers experienced defeats for the first time.
He has competed in the upper echelons of South Korea's tactical shooter scene for well over a decade. His first tournament logged in the Liquipedia database is a July 2008 Counter-Strike event in which he played for South Korean organization Lunatic-Hai.
glow spent the latter half of the last decade playing CS for another South Korea organization, MVP. In 2019, he joined up with a new set of players on MVP — a roster that later became the core of Vision Strikers.
This marks the first change to the main starting core of the Vision Strikers roster since it became South Korea's first professional Valorant team last June. The team won 60 matches tracked on the VLR.gg database before their first defeat.
Vision Strikers have not yet named a replacement.
The Vision Strikers Vision Strikers Inactive stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Rb Goo Sang-min (구상민) Zest Kim Ki-seok (김기석) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) roster is now:
And the team's coaches are: