Two months ago, there were rumors circulating that the 27-year-old American player would participate in the North American VCT Last Chance Qualifier with Sentinels. And not much longer after that, Sentinels confirmed that he would be participating in their team.

Zellsis is a former professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player. On May 10, 2020, he went into retirement so that he could start a career in VALORANT. One month later, on June 24, 2020, he came back to CS:GO. After making the decision to join Orgles5, he went back into retirement on September 27, 2020 in order to take a second attempt at a career in VALORANT.

Zellsis was able to switch over to Sentinels and compete with them because Version1 did not have sufficient points to qualify for the LCQ this year. If the team had made it to the champions, it is very probable that Zellsis would have competed on the team. As of right now, Zellsis will be competing once more under Version1.

Although there was no further information provided regarding his contract or his status, the organization had this to say on the return of Zellsis: “Our goal is to put together the strongest possible roster ahead of any franchising decisions. We��re happy to welcome Jordan back.”

In spite of the fact that franchising is scheduled to take place next year, it is possible to climb back up to tier one competition by first competing in tier-two events. Since it will be possible for teams to play at the highest level in the VCT even after franchising takes place, the majority of teams are making plans to bring back their players or add new members to their squads in the event that they do not make it through franchising.

Zellsis and the renowned streamer Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek were the two players brought onto the Sentinels roster in time for the NA LCQ. Tarik “tarik” Celik, who is widely considered to be VALORANT’s streamer with the most viewers, was signed by the Sentinels on Tuesday. Fans all over the VALORANT community believed that he would only join the squad as a content creator and would be inclined to join the professional roster only if a spot opened up. However, now that there is an opening on the professional roster, they have already been making assumptions that he will take Zellsis’ place.

Since Sentinels’ season is over, there has been no official statement made by the team regarding the exit of Zellsis or who will be joining the team to replace him. They were eliminated from the NA LCQ tournament and will not be taking part in the VALORANT Champions 2022 competition.

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FaZe Clan and Team BDS enter this lower bracket round two match-up coming off equally surprising results in their round one series��. FaZe Clan are coming off a surprising yet impressive 3-0 win in their round one BO5 against Group B��s top seed Endpoint CeX. Whereas, Team BDS struggled to get past Group D��s bottom seeded team Pioneers, eventually taking the series 3-2.

Group A have the most participants in the playoffs, as they have all of the three teams that qualified still alive. FaZe Clan is the third ranked squad that entered playoffs, but if they were to take out this series against Team BDS they would potentially match-up against Version1, if they were to lose, in a round three BO5. FaZe came into the 2022 RLCS Winter Major ranked number four in the current LPRatings, so there is still high expectations for this team to go deep in this tournament with some of the bigger and higher ranked teams from EU and NA now out.

Team BDS have had a very interesting tournament to say the least. They flew out of the gates early in Group C with a 3-0 demolition of Team Secret, but since then they have played 15 out of a possible 15 maps. They finished Group C with a 2-1 record, and won their lower bracket first round game 3-2 over Pioneers. Team BDS had massive expectation on them as they entered the RLCS Winter Major as the number one ranked EU team and have won 10 of their last 11 tournaments they had entered. Team BDS will want to keep that run going and by doing so they will have to get past FaZe in what sets up to be another nail-biting series.

Given the potential that Team BDS have shown in recent times and their tough series they have played, Team BDS will be ready for another tough series against FaZe Clan here. GG Bet is giving us $1.61 for Team BDS to win, we think this is a fair price, so we will be investing our money here.

The first of our upper bracket semi-finals brings us the top ranked teams from Group B, in FURIA and Group C, in G2 Esports. Both teams had highly competitive groups, with FURIA having to play a tie-breaker against Endpoint CeX for top spot and G2 playing Team BDS in their last pool match to decide who would take top spot in Group C.

FURIA were very underrated coming into the 2022 RLCS Winter Major as they were $21 outsiders to take out the Major and they now currently sit in the top four teams and in the upper bracket playoffs. During the pool matches for FURIA they convincingly despatched of NRG and Endpoint in 3-1 wins but then lost 3-0 against Renegades, which turned out to be Renegades only win for the Group Stage. FURIA have been playing really well as a team and they will have to keep playing well if they want to beat G2 and continue this great underdog run throughout the playoffs.

G2 on the other hand, have been nothing short of impressive and one of the outstanding teams to come out of the Group Stage. They were challenged by both Team Secret and Team BDS, taking them to five maps, but G2 were able to hold them both off and finish undefeated at 3-0 atop of Group C. The G2 boys will be out to add to their impressive finish to 2021 and start to 2022, by winning this Major, after they won both the NA Fall Regional Event and the NA Winter Regional Event in the last four months.

G2 will start the series as $1.40 favourites and they could very well take out this series, but we believe the $1.40 is a little under the odds. As the upper bracket semi-finals are best of seven series, it is anticipated that this series could go the whole way, so we suggest taking the $1.66 for over 5.5 maps, with GG Bet.

The top two ranked teams in regards to record and map differential are these teams here, Version1 and Spacestation Gaming. Version1 finished off their Group Stage as the real surprise package, ending their pool matches undefeated at 3-0 and only dropping one map for the entire stage. Spacestation Gaming did what many expected them to do by finishing top of Group D, with an added surprise going undefeated with a +3 map difference.

Version1 came into the RLCS Winter Major ranked fifth in the current LPRatings for NA, making them the lowest ranked team in Group A but exceeding all expectations and beating every team in the group with relative ease. The team��s success probably wouldn��t be a surprise to them as they took out the RLCS 2022 Winter NA Regional Event 3 �C Mobil Mountain Classic, beating NRG 4-1, in the last tournament they entered in February of this year. If Version1 do continue their run into the upper bracket final, it could be the first time they have made it to the point end of a Major and one of the stories of the entire tournament.

Spacestation Gaming have taken everything in their stride so far this tournament, taking their only two pool matches 3-2 against Dignitas and 3-1 over Pioneers. Spacestation Gaming are continuing their steady climb up the LPRatings ladder as they now sit at third in the current NA LPRatings moving from fourth since the last ratings changes. Spacestation Gaming have won four of their last six tournaments that they have entered since August of 2020 winning four in a row in over the end of 2020 and start of 2021 then finishing second in back to back tournaments to finish 2021 and start 2022.

Spacestation Gaming will be looking for a change of fortunes and go all the way at the RLCS Winter Major, but Version1 will be looking to continue this fairy-tale run and make it to the pointy end of a Major for the first time. The odds that we are getting for this series to go over 5.5 maps with GG Bet is very fair, therefore, we suggest taking the $1.61 on offer.