XSET
XSET
Inactive
have announced the signing of Rory "dephh"
Jackson, replacing the benched Matthew "wedid"
Suchan, who was moved to the sub role earlier last month.

Through his versatility, and ability to lead the team in game, we believe he will bring XSET Valorant to new heights. 📈
#RepTheSet❌
With the British player, XSET hope to regain the roster momentum of Stage 1, where the team previously became a Tier 1 contender, taking down established rosters such as
TSM
TSM
North America
Unranked
Recoil
seven
Johann Hernandez
gMd
Anthony Guimond
vora
sym
Tyler Porter
,
Cloud9
Cloud9
North America
Unranked
Xeppaa
Erick Bach
v1c
Victor Truong
mitch
Mitch Semago
neT
Michael Bernet
OXY
Francis Hoang
, and
Envy
Envy
Inactive
Marved
Jimmy Nguyen
Victor
Victor Wong
crashies
Austin Roberts
FiNESSE
Pujan Mehta
yay
Jaccob Whiteaker
.
The move also mildly shuffles the roles within XSET, with dephh telling Upcomer that he will assume the role of in-game-leader of XSET, a role that has been tossed around from Bryce "PureR" Lovell to Zander "thwifo" Kim to most recently Brendan "BcJ" Jensen.
Before joining XSET, dephh was previously one of the core players of the original male
Dignitas
Dignitas
Inactive
koalanoob
Gianfranco Potestio
trial
rara
Noah Giesbrecht
ryann
Ryan Welsh
dephh
Rory Jackson
MAKKA
Bryan Drouillard
roster when the organization signed the
Homeless
Homeless
Inactive
supamen
Phat Le
psalm
Harrison Chang
POISED
Kevin Ngo
dephh
Rory Jackson
squad in full last year. After a string of disappointing results, the roster made a handful of roster changes and trialed multiple players before the organization dissolved their male squad in late March.
The ex-Dignitas core remained together for one Challengers qualifier, under the moniker rice and meatballs. The mix made a deep run in the Stage 2 qualifier, taking down the overhauled
T1
T1
Korea
Unranked
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)
roster 2-0 before falling to 100 Thieves in the qualifying round.
Like many other teams in the upper echelon of North America, XSET await the return of the Champions Tour in Stage 3, which is set to kick off in the coming months. Until then, dephh has stated the team look to deepen their agent pool during the downtime the team have with their new roster.
XSET
XSET
Inactive
are now: