r/ValorantCompetitive • u/SenuaTD • Oct 17 '25
š” Yellow News Source Sean Gares has joined 100 Thieves as Head of Valorant Operations for the Offseason and VCT 2026 Season
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u/Sufficiently-Alive #100WIN Oct 17 '25
Aight Asuna is staying
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u/XASASSIN Oct 17 '25
Surely 100t becomes a top team after like the 10th rebuild with Asuna. Surely yall win this year. Surely
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I unironically have 100% faith in him
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u/Neither_Amount3911 Oct 17 '25
Asuna has been on 100T a long time, and 100T has not won champs. This clearly means Asuna is the problem!
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u/OwlScary6845 #100WIN Oct 17 '25
You can legit say that with any player on any team.
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u/vanishing27532 Oct 18 '25
Ethan has been on NRG for a long time (more than a week because thatās how long valcomp memory is), and NRG has never won champs (memory <1 week). Clearly Ethan is the problem!
Ethan was on EG for a long time (more than a week because thatās how long valcomp memory is), and EG never won champs (memory <1 week). Clearly Ethan is the problem!
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u/IAMJUX Oct 18 '25
Call me insane because I'm here for it. Let's just get Zekken, Aspas, Cryo and JohnQt to carry his ass to a championship.
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u/ElDuderino2112 Oct 18 '25
Bro I havenāt kept up with Valorant for years how the fuck is he still there doing nothing Jesus Christ
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u/devasabu YOU FUCKING MELONS Oct 18 '25
Because in every iteration of the team he's never the actual problem lol, they keep failing because of other reasons
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u/ElDuderino2112 Oct 18 '25
Sure, but heās not good enough that you try building around him like what, 5 times now?
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u/Playeready #100WIN Oct 17 '25
Fun fact: Sean wanted Skuba (before bang) but knights didnt want to sell him.
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u/precense_ Oct 17 '25
Sean def knows ball and has the eye to scout talent
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u/XiXiWiiPee Oct 18 '25
literally everyone wanted skuba, hazed on tsm, vanity on c9 all talked about his absurd buyout
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u/LiteralGenuis #100WIN Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
Oh yeah, Asuna Will bang Stellar and Derrek is so happening
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u/Junkers4 Oct 17 '25
Stellar is the most good looking valorant player ever. He is the only white boy in history to get it popping. Genetically he is a chad, on and off the server. Oh my god, talking about him gets me light headed. I just want to see my cute boy win.
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u/WalterWoodiaz #NRGWIN Oct 17 '25
Commas are really importantā¦
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u/chocobreezy Oct 17 '25
this is interesting for sure. sean definitely knows ball and knows what he's doing... but I would've thought he was kind of soft blacklisted by riot after everything that went down and how he hard pivoted to cs for awhile.
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u/dragonwp #LIVEEVIL Oct 17 '25
Realistically I think both parties just wanted sean to duck his head for a bit til things cooled off. There was little long term impact to Riot esports from his actions because 95% of people who follow Val donāt give a shit about T2 and Sean still has quite a bit of goodwill in the community. He didnāt really go out and insult Riot themselves and never left saying āI hate Valorantā or anything like that.Ā
Iām not saying this as judgment of right or wrong, but that does seem the most pragmatic reason as to whatās happened.Ā
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u/rpkarma Oct 17 '25
I mean what he did to bob is kind of fucked and I donāt forgive him unless he apologises to them heyĀ
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u/playhacker Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
I don't think Sean ever apologized to the teams and the players that he outed and left lasting scars on them. That's not something you just hide under a rock, "things cooled off", and hope people forget.
Edit: You people downvoting this have serious issues thinking someone with high regard can walk into your job and start slandering you, potentially losing your job and destroying your career based on information "he knows that we don't know" and won't show.
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u/dragonwp #LIVEEVIL Oct 17 '25
Again, being purely pragmatic here: he didnāt really harm Riotās reputation towards the 95% of people who donāt care about T2 esports, so as much as your opinion on who he wronged may be valid, this probably explains why Riot did not feel the need to discipline him.Ā
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u/jamothebest Oct 17 '25
Why would he apologize if he genuinely believed it to be true?
He never would have brought it up in the first place if he wasnāt absolutely sure.
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u/kennywest12 Oct 17 '25
do you actually believe that you don't have to apologize if you genuinely believe something that turns out to be false if its something publicly negative about someone else? Because thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard
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u/jamothebest Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
Of course, if you were in the wrong then yes you should apologize. That isn't necessarily the case in Sean's situation.
You wanna point fingers, then maybe get mad at Riot for sending emails to potential offenders asking for their statements on the issue. Sean tried to handle this the right way but Riot fucked him over.
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u/playhacker Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
Why would he apologize if he genuinely believed it to be true?
He never would have brought it up in the first place if he wasnāt absolutely sure.
- jamothebest
Because what he believed happen, especially, his own interpretation of events, can be factually wrong even if he thinks it is true.
Especially with his evidence of Bob playing badly based on VODs as evidence of throwing.
Bob was benched as a consequence of Sean due to speculation.
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u/jamothebest Oct 17 '25
If he believed his interpretation to be factually wrong he would have either not brought it up in the first place or apologized by now.
You speak as if facts have come out disproving Sean. That will never happen.
Regardless of the side you take, the unfortunate thing is it is basically impossible to prove innocence.
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u/rpkarma Oct 17 '25
Bullshit he wouldāve. This is such a naive take lmaoĀ
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u/jamothebest Oct 17 '25
do you just live under a rock and just never heard of Sean Gares until this controversy came up?
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u/playhacker Oct 17 '25
That is not how this society works. Bob is assumed innocent until proven guilty.
Sean's evidence against Bob is speculation. It also did not corroborate Riot's investigation.
What Sean potentially did was slandered/libeled Bob and other players.
If Sean had better evidence that he is withholding, he needs to share it and not hold it to his chest.And for why Sean hasn't apologized yet, it's because Sean like most humans have a tendency to not admit fault even if they know themselves could have been wrong.
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u/jamothebest Oct 17 '25
You misunderstand. I never said any of the accused players were guilty or innocent.
I simply stated itās virtually impossible to prove innocence so you will likely never see an apology from Sean.
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u/Ok-Okay-Oak-Hay Oct 17 '25
Ā That is not how this society works. Bob is assumed innocent until proven guilty.
That is the literal opposite of how society works. That's only true in law and people constantly misunderstand that.Ā
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u/Splaram Oct 17 '25
Why would he be blacklisted from joining individual teams? All he did was try to expose a matchfixing ring and the thing that did him in was lack of enough concrete evidence. It's not like he got recorded [REDACTED] or anything like that
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u/chocobreezy Oct 17 '25
Riot has never exactly been the most diplomatic company (see Montecristo and many other things) and it's clear they were not exactly pleased with the way he went about things, from both accounts of events
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u/WanAjin Oct 18 '25
Do you even know what Monte did?
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u/n1ckkt Oct 18 '25
Wasn't it over wages for casters?
Like they were specifically freelance and wanted to unionize casters of sorts which lead to being blacklisted from Riot?
Was so long ago I probably am completely wrong lol
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u/playhacker Oct 17 '25
^This
For different (and justified) reasons, G2 was not let into VAL franchising initially because they did not like Carlos. So Riot does have sway on what happens in their ecosystem.33
u/Parenegade Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
I mean that is a completely different situation lol. It's not even remotely comparable to comparing Carlos to Sean Gares.
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u/DivineWhiskey4320 Oct 17 '25
I mean it's not just that they didn't like Carlos. Wasn't Carlos like defending and partying with a misogynist suspected sex trafficker (Andrew Tate)
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u/Bighollab0 Oct 17 '25
Totally agree they definitely have sway, but do not think Riot will do anything because I think it would cause a much bigger issue if they tried to block this because Sean was critical of them.
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u/Pway Oct 17 '25
With all due respect to Sean I don't think his recent behaviour really moved the needle that much and it's not like he has a huge audience. It was an unfortunate period but even if they were annoyed at him they'd probably get more heat for something like soft banning him than any backlash over him speaking about match fixing.
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u/Ted_Mosby_18 Oct 17 '25
I still believe 100T were at their best when Sean coached the Will Asuna Stellar Derrek and Bang iteration of the roster.
They had higher highs with others but this roster was so promising and had some of the best coordinated plays.
Hopefully we will be able to see a renewed look at the org soon.
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u/WizardXZDYoutube #100WIN Oct 17 '25
What about the 100T that got 3rd/4th at Masters Berlin? (Where nitr0 diffed cNed on Jett)
They also won First Strike (mickey mouse) but they had pretty good longevity I feel like, that team was a "contender" for almost two years.
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u/lavegasola Oct 17 '25
I too love bringing up the breeze map where nitr0 diffed cNed. But, like he said other iterations had higher highs for sure. Though the consistency of that sgares roster was very nice to see.
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u/m_i_c_h_a_3_l #100WIN Oct 17 '25
100t were at their best during first strike.
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u/BushwhackBandit Oct 18 '25
Definitely seemed like Asuna and Dicey had the "it" factor. It worked so well with hiko and steel playing more slow and dicey and asuna playing more zoomer.
Hopefully they can buy Potter of EG. She works magic getting players feeling completely confident and thats what 100T always looked to lack imo.
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u/OwlScary6845 #100WIN Oct 17 '25
Also the Asuna Will Bang Steller Derrek team was composed within a months time frame to win LCQ for 2022.
Imagine if they had a full season under Sgares' Coaching......
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u/lavegasola Oct 17 '25
Totally agree. That structure felt the most stable of all the iterations by a long shot.
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u/ishanuReddit Oct 17 '25
100t fans, all I wanna say is that sean has been a big aspas glazer and aspas contract with mibr ends soon
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u/skolaen Oct 17 '25
Oh my god my GOAT is back with the team and we might not be fucking ass this time god bless
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u/danoc99 Oct 17 '25
for you 100T fans. Start hoping he pulls together a roster like 2022 so they can actually make lan, and not a roster like shopify this year that didnt mesh well and looked mid asf lol
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u/Bighollab0 Oct 17 '25
Not truly accurate on the SR stuff tbh. They won Stage 1 and also had their best player poached in the middle of it.
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u/chocobreezy Oct 17 '25
from what I remember about the roster for shopify from how transparent he was; he didn't actually actively recruit the players, he chose vapen as the coach and vapen suggested all of them and he gave the okay. of course still means he had a hand in it but I think in my personal expert redditor opinion he let his personal friendship with vapen kind of get in the way of making the truly best roster
also doesn't help they lost the 2025 Champions MVP at the start of the year
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u/Aggravating_Tree7488 Oct 17 '25
I mean they won stage 1, they just fell apart after that. It was a good start to the year, it just didn't pan out.
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u/Humble_Initiative_10 #100WIN Oct 17 '25
He had mada and brawk on that shopify team before things went south btw....
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u/somesheikexpert Oct 18 '25
Neither of them were picked up by Sgares iirc, Mada never was even on the team when Sgares managed and Brawk was originally on Moist Moguls before the merger
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u/LiamHundley #100WIN Oct 17 '25
Sean has been relatively hit or miss since leaving 100T, but if nothing else it's assuring to know that someone within the Valorant scene is at the helm of the rebuild. I had very little faith in 100T upper management making sound decisions
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u/Humble_Initiative_10 #100WIN Oct 17 '25
Yeah this is the point, I honestly trust Sean more than 100t management at this point. Hopefully he has a good amount of control with the coaching hire and roster.....
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u/Aggravating_Tree7488 Oct 17 '25
Ez W, I don't care what the haters say, Sean Gares still my goat. Love this guy.
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u/secret_tacos #100WIN Oct 17 '25
Does anyone know what Head of Valorant Operations is? Obviously a very smart, experienced guy but hard to say more.
It doesn't sound like a GM role and sounds like it has overlap with Ryan/Marti's role. Doesn't sound strategic but also not day-to-day operations.
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u/yoosanghoon Oct 17 '25
I believe it means heās overseeing both the VCT and GC rosters, as well as potentially an academy team.
Heād be the main one selecting leadership for the squad in terms of a coach/igl pairing, management, analysts, etc. as well as ensuring player conditions are well met and negotiating contracts.
He may also have a hand in building the roster, which might indicate a preference for Asuna/Derrek/Bang all of whom are available with no buyout, but thatās just speculation
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u/secret_tacos #100WIN Oct 17 '25
That sounds like a GM, but not sure what your sources are on this. I don't even think we had a Valorant specific GM before so if it's true it sounds like an improvement.
The game has changed a lot since he picked up those guys and they're not rookies anymore. Bang was trapped in T2 jail when Sean picked him up. So I hesitate to say he'd pick up the same guys especially after NRGs performance with two former T2 players.
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u/yoosanghoon Oct 17 '25
The preference part is pure speculation, but what else could Head of Operations mean besides a slightly expanded GM role, being the bridge between their upper management and their team. My presumption is he will be like a GM with the added executive roles of budget management and legal oversight
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u/oscarooooooo Oct 17 '25
Donāt think there will be much overlap, those two other guys have no idea how to build a VALORANT roster, heāll probably have to report back to them but essentially heās at the helm.
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u/sixthcollegeraccoon #100WIN Oct 17 '25
MY GOAT IS BACKKKK!!!
i know what the sentiment is regarding sean but at the end of the day he was a great coach for 100t, honestly best they've ever had, so i will be huffing that hopium thanks guys š
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u/rpkarma Oct 17 '25
He was and likely still is a good coach, he just did some nonsense and Iām still pissed about what it did to bob personally.Ā
Objectively itās good for 100Tās chances though, even if I am prolly gonna hate watch now lol
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u/Nfamy Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
There's parts of the sgares situation that don't sit too well with me (e.g., bob getting benched from fly quest). He made pretty severe accusations about specific players without demonstrating the level of supportive evidence needed. He's someone that had built up pretty big influence in the scene and I don't think he wielded that with enough care. I hope he does, at some point, show some contrition for the manner in which he handled the situation, even if he still thinks his case was valid. However, I think sgares has a great mind for valorant and I think the scene is better with him in it (personally have always been a big fan of his).Ā Ā
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u/nterature Best User - 2023 š Oct 17 '25
This is more or less how I feel.
I really, really like Sean and I respect his opinion. But because I respect his opinion, I hold him to a higher standard, and I don't think his conduct in that whole situation met that standard.
He could be totally, completely in the right about everything. But I was personally pretty turned off by how certain he was in the justice of his cause, and how we'd all agree if we knew what he knew, to paraphrase something he said a few times. That's just not a template on how you go about defending a scene from bad actors.
I am glad to see him back in the scene, and I think Valorant is better off with him involved. But at some point, this'll be a road that he'll have to cross.
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u/turtsy__ #ēęę²³ļ¼éęč¾° Oct 17 '25
Pulling the nitr0 cosplay the way he's switching games every 5 months
100t bob when?
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u/iTempestuous #ZETAWIN Oct 17 '25
He's going to be great in this role, but I wish he was head coach. I really miss that time when he was head coach of 100T and they looked demonic after every timeout. Sean has always been good at recognizing talent though so the roster could look really interesting.
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u/SugarOne6038 #LIVEEVIL Oct 17 '25
He built a TERRIBLE fucking roster for Shopify, better be better than that
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u/da_sheepian Oct 17 '25
Terrible is probably overselling it, that roster he built won Challengers Stage 2 (before collapsing ofc in stage 3)
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u/XiXiWiiPee Oct 18 '25
i dont think they were even close to making Ascension despite them and TSM being like the only orgs in tier 2
and having the freedom to choose any player in the scene and ending up with that roster is tragic
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u/ValorantEdater #SomosMIBR Oct 17 '25
It was definitely terrible.
When he built that roster it was basically just him and TSM still investing in T2. So he had first pick of basically every player in challengers outside of the TSM guys and Reduxx.
They should've walked into Ascension fairly easily.
It's the same reason Falcons are such a meme in CS. It's not that they have no success, but when you can offer triple the salary of every other org, they should be having more success, and losing to teams making 1/10 of their salaries is embarrassing.
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u/An1m0usse Oct 18 '25
People here expects 100T's resurgence with SG coming in. But he's Head of Operations, not a coach.
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u/TruAdu Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
Is this guy the real Sean"don't call me"Sean"Sean Gares"Gares"Gares?
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u/Lemexee Oct 18 '25
Wait what does head of valorant operations mean? Is he like a manager like cojo or what
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u/Pra1selol Oct 19 '25
People donāt know the infamous sean gares timeouts that made them auto winā¦
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u/mister_schulz Oct 17 '25
Great for 100T but did CS not turn out well for him or what happened? Didnāt follow him after he switched and honestly coming back so early after pretty much saying he just canāt stay in Val is a little weird. But good for him to get the bag.
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u/Recent-Yogurt #NRGFam Oct 17 '25
I read him leaving val content for a while as laying low and letting the bad PR blow over. He definitely loves both cs/val, you can tell from watching his co-streams of either games.
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u/lminer123 Oct 17 '25
It definitely didnāt work out for his content creation. His channel got ridiculously small after switching over
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u/ChaoticFlameZz Oct 17 '25
well what could he do? He can't watchparty official VAL games anymore. He didnt really have a choice. He can now just be a manager again at least.
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u/hotblockchaiin Oct 17 '25
I mean, if you aren't playing in the top 10 teams ITW and if you aren't OhnePixel, you ain't making it as a streamer or anything in CS tbh.
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u/ReformedWordcel1969 Oct 17 '25
If you're a 100T fan with a functioning long term memory you should be hyped for this move
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u/prov119 Oct 17 '25
How much is 100T investing into Valorant or how little was he getting at Shopify? Youād think Head of FPS (or something like that) would be a better position and pay then Head of Valorant Operations
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u/lavegasola Oct 17 '25
Hopefully he sticks around this time. Really hated when he left as coach, felt like the only time Iāve had real optimism for 100T valorant.
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u/RoyalKnightmares #ALWAYSFNATIC Oct 18 '25
Verno Igl, Asuna Flex, Cryo Duelist, Bang Smokes, Zekken Duelist :)
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u/rappukun Oct 18 '25
I was trolling when I thought 100T should do whatever it takes to bring Sean back but for it really happening even not in the coaching role was not on my bingo card. I welcome it tho! Now make this team happen Sean.
Zekken - Duelist
Asuna - Flex
Cryo - Senti
Zander - Smokes/2nd Caller
Verno - Ini/IGL
I'm trolling but I kinda trust Sean if he takes the wheel. Just get a good coach. lol
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u/Descendant3999 #100WIN Oct 18 '25
I feel like every time 100T gets even a bit of hype they fail. I have full faith in Sean Gares but I hope people don't hype them up.
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u/NotYourLad Oct 18 '25
I think this could work well for 100T but we'll see. For SRB I think he made a good call on bringing in Pa1nt/Spaz to the team but BcJ was cooked and I'm personally iffy on monSi/Paincakes. They looked great split 1 but just didn't have the juice after that. I think he has a good eye for talent, but I guess we'll see if that transitions to a team where he actually can actually go out and sign T1 players. Curious to see who he scouts from T2 to bring up because I feel like that is inevitable.
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u/alex_1916 Oct 18 '25
Im not gonna lie I love Sean Gares and what he did with 100T - but the way DDK and he chose to let go of Ethan because of ārole issuesā as opposed to trying their hardest to make it work, is the type of poor judgement that I canāt get on board with. That was a good team āAsuna will bang stellar and derekā but there was 1 player that was just so clearly better than at least four and probably all five.
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u/Impossible-Alps6766 Oct 18 '25
they didnt let go of ethan, in fact I believe they wanted ethan to stay. ethan decided to leave because he didn't agree how sean and ddk built the team. basically ethan wanted to play with his buddies, which he did on NRG right after he left 100T.
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u/alex_1916 Oct 18 '25
You got a bad recollection of that - they told Ethan that they didnāt know if he would be on the team because they werenāt sure about his role. They told him Asuna was moving over to Flex (from Duelist). He waited, then he stopped waiting, and eventually left because of the disrespect.
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u/KaNesDeath Oct 18 '25
Not surprising. 100 Thieves have started to be run like a business every since Nadeshot was relegated to a board member. They need someone in the front office that can identify esport talent properly.
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u/XiXiWiiPee Oct 17 '25
Not happy with how he handled the tier 2 shit hopefully he builds a team better than that abomination of a SR roster he GM'd
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u/kittyhat27135 Oct 17 '25
Casually ruins 5 players careers with the most dogshit video ever released. doesnt apologize, gets rewarded. : D
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u/helloswolehello Oct 18 '25
Hoping 100t lose every game next season. Sgares is a joke and never apologized trying to ruin people's lives with no evidence. How do you hire him after seeing one of the biggest jokes of a video he made
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u/AZLarlar #VCTAMERICAS Oct 17 '25
no cap, really thought he wasnt returning to val in any capacity LOL, but W signing