🚨OFFICIAL: Dambi 🇰🇷 LOOKING FOR TEAMS
After the news their org didn’t make Partnership, the Santiago MVP has announced he is exploring his options for next year.
He is the first player on Nongshim 🇰🇷 to do so.
LFT
Wild offseason so far, but I am still looking for a team as head coach for next season. Open to any region. Lets talk to see if our ambitions match.
Contact via DMs or @AFoxxxxxx
Everything @LudwigAhgren is saying here is 100% fair and accurate. Let's do the math:
1. To support a Valorant challengers team like the 2026 M80 roster which won NA would be approximately $500k annually give or take. That's 5 players, 1 HC and 1 AC/Analyst on monthly salaries + travel etc.
For us to take this roster into the new ecosystem and compete we would have to make EVERY Cup + at least ONE Masters event to just break EVEN on the investment into the game. If we miss even 1 cup we are down six figures. If we miss a Masters its an even bigger hole.
Most teams cannot afford to take this risk for so little return. It's financial suicide.
We could just look to drastically reduce salaries but then you are just in a race to the bottom. Playing T1 Valorant is a full time job and you have to be able to pay people full time wages. I would rather go do something else than pay players a fraction of what their time is worth. It's sad because there are many t1 Valorant players in North America who will miss out on opportunities to have a career.
Sucks to even write that to be honest.
2. Competitive Integrity. This will be an 8 team league in Americas and there should be no doubt about that.
Any non-partnered team that has an inch of success or develops an amazing talent will lose those players at the first break in the season to partnered teams and have to start building chemistry over. Agents will insist on their players being moved to partner teams and if you try to retain them you will be holding them back. This is fair as the best salaries and financial opportunities will only come from partner teams.
This, even more so that the financial picture, is the real reason M80 will not compete in Valorant in 2027. It's just a completely unlevel playing field and that's not something we are interested in.
I got into esports because of Valorant. We launched M80 with a Valorant roster announcement. It breaks my heart to leave.
We love the game and the community and would love to return in an instant when things make more sense. I look forward to that day.
To clarify
Riot changed the way Valorant works so that any team can make/win an international tournament
But they chose 4 teams in NA to become partners
They give those teams millions of $$ AND a skin in the game (they get a percentage of sales)
If an unpartnered org builds a moneyball team that absolutely crushes at an international event- those players will be poached by a partnered org
It happened to us with Brawk and Mada going to NRG it is happening to C9 who just lost partnership and already letting their players shop around
I just don't know if it is worth competing in the esport long term as compared to investing into an esport with a truly open system
⚠️ LFT F/A ⚠️
Mainly HC, considering AC 🎓
Any Region 🌍
After this year my passion and drive to reach the top has increased 10x and I know I have the ability to make a team World Class
Work Samples and reference available 📋
Vouches and RT’s much appreciated ♻️❤️
LFT | AWPer 🇹🇷
Looking for a serious team as an AWPer.
• Role: Main AWPer
• Language: Turkish / English
• Available for practice, officials & tournaments
• Motivated to improve and compete at a high level
DMs are open for offers. RTs appreciated! ❤️
TWEET 1/3
LFT/LFO for the 2027 VALORANT season 🌎 All regions.
Roles: Sentinel / OP
High-level agent pool: Cypher, Chamber, Veto, Vyse, Sage & Yoru.
Looking for orgs building a roster for the upcoming season. 👇
LFT 2027
Reposting as the season concludes, i am now LFT as a UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENT
-IGL / Initiator / Mid-rounder
-Fluent in English and Chinese
-Open to all regions, ready to relocate 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇨🇳
Contact me or @frsvalo
Likes & retweets greatly appreciated🫶
LFT Asst Coach
Former : NS, T1.A
The past year and a half with NS RedForce has been incredible: two Ascension runs, Kickoff and Masters Santiago titles, 3rd at EWC, a runner-up finish in VCT Pacific 2026, and a Champions playoff appearance.
Now it’s time for a new chapter.
Although I’m looking exclusively for an assistant coach role mainly focused on in-game strategy, I also bring a deep understanding of team leadership, backed by two years of head coaching experience and my time leading NS RedForce’s coaching staff during Stage 2. Contact me via DM (Discord : sungmin & rio_steven) or email.
liquipedia.net/valorant/sung…
business@riocompany.co.kr