Former Fnatic coach Jacob ‘mini’ Harris and Crew Liquid content material creator Connor ‘Sliggy’ Blomfield have introduced a showmatch to rejoice 5 years of VALORANT.
The celebration, referred to as Semicade Slugfest, can be live-streamed right this moment beginning at 7 pm BST on the Twitch channel of Fnatic streamer Megan ‘megsoundslikeegg’ Garner.
Riot Video games’ first-person tactical shooter VALORANT was launched on June 2nd 5 years in the past. Since then, mini and Sliggy have made a reputation for themselves throughout the sport’s esports neighborhood. Each hailed from Counter-Strile esports and picked up VALORANT teaching within the sport’s early days.
Sliggy spent two years teaching Crew Liquid’s VALORANT rosters earlier than shifting to a content material creation function throughout the esports organisation. He then efficiently established himself as probably the most in style esports co-streamers within the sport’s aggressive ecosystem. Though Sliggy not often makes on-air appearances at official VALORANT occasions, he’s extremely revered by gamers, coaches and expertise within the area.
In the meantime, fellow British VALORANT skilled mini solely lately retired from teaching. From 2021-2024, mini labored for Fnatic, contributing to the workforce’s back-to-back worldwide trophies of their dominant 2023 season.
Having claimed VCT EMEA’s ‘Coach of the 12 months’ award in 2023, mini is now exploring totally different profession choices. This yr, he has been co-streaming, VOD-reviewing, casting and analysing VALORANT esports matches.
Two VALORANT Veterans Compete
All through 5 years of VALORANT esports, the 2 former coaches have collaborated on a number of events whereas continuously poking enjoyable at one another. It was, subsequently, inevitable that their pleasant feuds would finally escalate into an epic showmatch.
On the sport’s five-year anniversary, Crew Mini and Crew Sliggy will face one another throughout 5 maps. Mini’s squad consists of VALORANT content material creators Acrethedog and Considering Man’s Valorant in addition to esports commentators Josh ‘Sideshow’ Wilkinson and Mitch ‘MitchMan’ McBride.
“PUTTING THIS OLD MAN TO SLEEP TOMORROW,” commented mini in his announcement right this moment. “I’d wish to thank my teammates on the victory already.”
Then again, Sliggy can be supported by the VALORANT teaching brothers Emil ‘eMIL’ Sandgren and Erik ‘d00mbr0s’ Sandgren. They are going to be joined by VALORANT streamer Karagii and Liquid Academy Head Coach Jake ‘Bacon9’ Lloyd.
Sliggy shared forward of the showmatch: “We’re up in opposition to 2 undersized Males & 3 Canines See you there.”
With each side bursting with confidence, VALORANT followers may comply with mini’s and Sliggy’s particular person POVs by way of their respective Twitch channels.
5 Years of VALORANT
The Semicade Slugfest just isn’t the one particular occasion devoted to VALORANT’s fifth anniversary. The sport’s developer additionally introduced a collection of parties throughout the UK, Eire, Finland, Sweden and Norway.
On high of that, Riot will launch a brand new map and an anniversary occasion cross with the upcoming Patch 11.00. The replace is predicted to drop on June 24th or 25th.
Within the meantime, followers can expertise the VALORANT anniversary nostalgia with a celebratory cinematic titled ‘Why We Battle.’
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