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| ShahZaM vs. Berlin: Sentinels’ IGL seeks to conquer the city that burned him twice Mere minutes after his NA CS:GO roster had been eliminated in the Challengers Stage of the StarLadder Berlin Major, Complexity’s CEO Jason Lake went public with his plans to nuke his roster. He effectively declared to the world he was willing to pay any price to improve his team with his current players likely still sitting in front of their monitors. “I love our players as individuals but these results won’t be tolerated,” he tweeted. “If you’re a Tier 1 player looking for a fresh start at the best facility in the world, HMU [hit me up]. I’ll pay your buyout and give you the world’s highest salaries. Let’s build a juggernaut. Spread the word.” Back in Berlin, Shahzeb “ShahZaM” Khan and the Complexity team had just taken an ugly loss to Australian team Grayhound Gaming, punctuated by a one-sided 16-4 defeat on Inferno that finished the series and ended their run at the Major. On Twitter, ShahZaM saw his boss publicly reprimand his team’s performance, but more importantly, saw his job security become questionable at best. It stung. “It was like five minutes after we lost,” the now-VALORANT player told Dot Esports. “You know, we spent almost a month boot camping and then we lost, so it was pretty disappointing. That tweet just kinda kicked us while we were down.” With Sentinels’ arrival in Berlin for VCT Champions, the team’s vocal leader is returning to a city that’s handed him two of the biggest losses in his lengthy career. This journey of his started more than two years ago as one phase of his career ended, beginning with a single incendiary tweet that would eventually lead him to his next stage. A month after Complexity’s run in Berlin ended, the team brought on the first pieces of the new juggernaut in RUSH and k0nfig. A month later, ShahZaM was moved to the bench, and a month after that, he was released. During that brief free agency period, he said he was offered to continue playing with Complexity’s new version of the lineup but didn’t accept it. He also received offers from TSM and Cloud9, and even one internationally. 먹튀검증업체 None of those offers interested him, so ShahZaM continued to play CS:GO and played with Team Singularity, where he first teamed up with Michael “dapr” Gulino. He was also still playing alongside Hunter “SicK” Mims after the two briefly joined up under TSM before both moving on to Misfits and then Complexity. ShahZaM and SicK have now been consistently playing together for close to four years, and the Sentinels IGL credits his long-time teammate for a lot of his own progress. “It’s been a pleasure to play with him on all the teams,” ShahZaM said. “He’s always been like an extremely talented player, but more than that, he’s been a really good teammate. Through the years we keep each other in check and make sure that we [still] share the common goal, and that we’re putting our best into it. I wouldn’t want to play with anyone else.” |
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