Elevate Looks To Re-Enter Valorant With MY/SG Roster

North American esports organization Elevate is looking to expand its venture to Valorant. They are nearly signing a Malaysian/Singaporean roster for the upcoming season.

Elevate is one of the longest-standing esports organizations, starting operations in 2012. Currently, Elevate boasts lineups in numerous titles, such as Rainbow Six, Counter-Strike: 2, COD Mobile, PUBG, and more. Over its decade of operations, Elevate has collected nearly $1,800,000 in prize winnings from 236 tournaments. 

Hopping on the trend, Elevate tried running a North American Valorant team when the game was first released. Unfortunately, multiple iterations of rosters from 2020 to 2021 did not generate any success for the organization, and Elevate shortly disbanded the roster relatively early. 

In 2024, Elevate signed a full Portugese roster to compete in a different region. Again, the roster achieved minimal success, and the entire lineup was released only four months after being signed. 

Despite multiple instances of failure, Elevate remains committed to the Valorant scene and is in the final stages of securing a Malaysian/Singaporean-based roster.

The rumored Elevate roster consists of:

• Danial “RedKoh” Hakim (Singaporean)
• Henri “Flaring” Forichon (French/Singaporean)
• Azrie “Riza” Adly (Malaysian)
• Wayne “wayne” Chang (Singaporean)
• “pudj” (Singaporean)

The Elevate roster is headlining two potential powerhouse players from the Malaysian and Singaporean region, RedKoh and Flaring. The two played under a stack named ORGLESS that went on to win the VCT MY/SG Split 1 tournament convincingly. RedKoh mainly played Initiator agents, while Flaring was the team’s Controller player.

If you can’t beat them, join them. Two members of the team, wayne and Riza, played for DisguisedToast’s Valorant team, Disguised. The former Disguised pair finished second with their previous team in the VCT MY/SG Split 1 tournament, losing to ORGLESS in the Grand Final 0-3. 

The final piece of the puzzle was pudj, a relatively unknown player—his name is not even registered in any Valorant database. Still, the Singaporean was one of the highest-rated players in the Split 1 tournament despite playing for Ninjas in Galaxy, a team that placed relatively low in the event. 

It will be interesting to see how the roles are divided among the team. Judging from recent matches, there have been clashes of agents between the five players. 

Elevate is looking to become a direct competitor to Disguised, which is also going through a roster rebuild and signing players from the ORGLESS roster. 

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