Dallas Fuel have just announced that they will be updating their Overwatch roster for the remainder of the season. The main change for this roster is the departure of both head coach (Aaron “Aero” Atkins) and assistant coach (Louis “Tikatee” Lebel-Wong), this was their statement:
— Dallas Fuel (@DallasFuel) August 4, 2020
In addition to parting ways with both coaches, the Dallas Fuel management decided to also part ways with one of their DPS players, Jang “Decay” Gui-un. Decay joined the team back in October of 2019 with the hopes of being a stepping stone for the roster for them to start winning championships, however this was not the case.
This is what Envy CEO, Mike Rufail had to say about Decay’s departure:
Decay is obviously a great player, but he didn’t fit into our team and didn’t want to cooperate with the goals of our staff. We just can’t keep someone like that around. We wish him the best and hope he can find a place where his talent fits.
— Mike Rufail (@hastr0) August 3, 2020
If you thought that those were the only roster changes being made, you thought wrong. Just yesterday, DPS player Hyeon “EFFECT” Hwang announced his retirement from professional Overwatch. His statement can be found the twitlonger below:
Hi, I’m Effect. Retired Overwatch league player.
— Syeon (@EFFECT) August 3, 2020
Read: https://t.co/mIApQ2dDXS
It seems like a lot of organizations and teams are going through a couple of changes in order to assure the best roster for the current state of professional Overwatch. Another example of a team roster change was when SF Shock announced Ta1yo to be one of their main DPS players.
Competitive Overwatch is certainly changing, and obviously this is due to VALORANT impacting professional esports careers, being that it’s a new game, most pros are jumping to it in hopes of having a more successful career in VALORANT rather than their current esport.
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