It's not like I am not familiar with what you get for supporting an esports team. You win some you lose some, right? Losing is perfectly fine but the attitude and their individual behavior is what getting on my nerves!
Let's start with TenZ, it used to give me the most joy watching someone else play. Then, his settings and mouse change skit got boring. He would just switch between his 300 USD Finalmouse starlight Medium and small and claim whichever one he was using at that moment to be the best mouse itw. It got real annoying one point that I stopped watching streams & stopped subbing for awhile but it wasn't anything serious other than that cz with all respect, get your bag man. Then, there is the 'Ping issue'. He has been saying forever that he would go to TX at least for the qualifiers since the last time he was there he felt that low ping helps a lot and he won 30 ranked games in a row or something. But, no change. I mean if LA ping doesn't bother you then it's fine, play from there. But, it clearly bothers him and in his mind limits how he plays then why can't he just go to TX for the weekend to play his matches from there? How hard could it be? You gotta sacrifice a bit when there is so much on the line and so many of your fans(whose support helps you make a living) expect you guys to do well.
Then there's ShahZam. This guy just loves useless ranked games. Even the night before an important match he would stream 8 hours? Why? stop with the " he does it on his spare time". How can you have so much spare time when you are a professional player? and an IGL on top of that, who doesn't have a big supporting stuff to make things easier btw!
And then note, let's talk about the management. Sentinels valorant is the worst run esports team I have ever seen! These guys have no ambitions. Just cz the team is popular we expect them to act like a legacy orgs like TSM or 100T. But their actions couldn't be far from it. No proper coaching stuff, no bootcamp, no guidance for their players to not be reckless and draw out a clear vision of what their goal is in this scene.
All in all, I just feel like it's not worth investing mentally and with my time on this team who takes all of our support for granted. Never seen a group of people so entitled in a volatile scene like the esports scene! But, I just keep going back hoping it's gonna be different this time and keep getting disappointed.
TL: DR; Want to stop supporting Sentinels bc of their lack of motivation and their careless behavior, but for some reason can't.
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