Sylvan joins T1 Valorant Team as Red Bull Home Ground APAC Play-In arrives

The Red Bull Home Ground #5 APAC play-in is fast approaching this coming October 20 to 21, and the five invited teams as well as the Japan qualifiers winning team are doing some final touches with their preparations. 

As for T1, they were actively working on their long term goal of making a full-korean Valorant Esports Team. They are another step closer to that goal now that the 23 year old former Gen.G player “Sylvan” signs a contract with their team.

T1’s First Tournament With Their New For

 

After staying in China for a while and playing for Top Esports and most notably, Gen.G, Sylvan now joins forces with T1 and will already be participating in the Red Bull Home Ground APAC Play-ins’.

This is the chosen approach of T1 in order to create their ideal team that could compete with the rising powerhouses like Sin Prisa Gaming. Fans speculate that there might be another roster change/sign-up update from T1 that will complete their “full-korean” esports team.

As of now, with Sylvan joining the team, T1’s line up for their upcoming qualifiers tournament are:

 

• Carpe
• iZu
• xccurate
• stax
• Sylvan

Only xccurate, an Indonesian professional player, is the remaining non Korean player of T1. He is listed as part of the participating members for the Red Bull Home Ground APAC play-ins along with the freshly signed Sylvan, but that doesn’t stop the theories about him getting replaced soon.

Red Bull Home Ground APAC Play-Ins: What We Know So Far

The Red Bull Home Ground APAC play-ins will consist of five invited Valorant Esports teams and one Japanese winning team from the qualifiers. The winner of the play-ins would receive a ticket to shoot their shot along with seven other teams at the Red Bull Home Ground #5 Main Event that will take place at Riot Games Arena, Berlin, on November 23 to 24.

The Play-in is yet to start but with the conclusion of Japan Qualifiers, we now have a complete list of the teams that Sylvan and his new team T1 will face off with at gunpoint.

• T1 – Invited Team
• ZETA DIVISION – Invited Team
• DenotatioN FocusMe – Invited Team
• Talon Esports – Invited Team
• Rex Regum Qeon – Invited Team
• Crest Gaming Zst – Winner of Japan Qualifiers

The prize pool of this off season tournament is yet to be announced, this might be updated once the main event teams are complete and are ready for a proper shootout

Conclusion

As an offseason tournament, the Red Bull Home Ground #5 will be a good place to try out newfound forms of power that these Valorant Esports teams obtained. It will not only be a good opportunity to adapt to the changes but also to find out if those changes are truly going to lead to a bright future for the team as a whole.

Sylvan is quite a famous player that managed to achieve great feats and made a name for himself with his previous teams. He played well quite consistently in an environment that is different from his natural settings—which makes the news of him being signed by T1 all the more exciting. We will be sure to not miss the chance to witness how differently he can play with a team that is almost all Korean.