The team consisted of former Knights players, alongside esports veteran steel. The squad went 2-3 in the first split of the competition, then added in Valorant superstar Jaccob ‘yay’ Whiteaker for the second split.
The squad went winless that split, was later relegated to a promotion bracket, anddisbanded after.
Steel opened up about some of the team’s problems in a Twitch chat of CS:GO pro Timothy ‘autimatic’ Ta that was then posted to theValorant Competitive subreddit.
Steel opens up about DSG Valorant
The former DSG IGL said the team had one player who would show up late every day and then “afk in matches” so he cut him.
Steel then said the organization brought yay in next, who wanted to cut steel and “basically” everyone else on the team.
While he hasn’t spoken much about what went down behind the scenes with DSG, yay said at the time of DSG’s relegation that he and his teammates were no better than ranked players.
ive never been so depressed i think in my entire lifethe mistakes that are happening on this team are things in which im 99% sure ranked players could do better, and its actually pathetic that we are “salaried professionals"im donating my last paycheck to charity since I…
“The mistakes that are happening on this team are things in which im 99% sure ranked players could do better, and it’s actually pathetic that we are ‘salaried professionals,'”yay said on social media.
Declan McLaughlin was a Gaming & Esports Writer on Dexerto’s US team, specializing in Valorant and League of Legends. He has bylines at Upcomer and Inven Global.
