Posted by Steve
Wednesday, December 29, 2021 12:02 PM
pAura recently announced that he is traveling to NA, presumably because he has been signed. In his original post-SMB LFT announcement, he specified that he would only be comfortable being an IGL on a Turkish team. It's no secret that NA is lacking IGLs currently so I would be surprised to see an NA team import pAura for any other role. This tells us that whatever team signed him will be communicating in Turkish.
While there is nothing officially tying pAura to any NA team, if you remember that 100T is interested in cNed, it makes sense that they would be interested in pAura as well. Coco had said that cNed was close to re-signing with Acend, but that was a week ago and we still haven't seen anything official so that deal probably fell through, likely because 100T gave cNed a better offer.
Thinking about other Turkish free agents in the NA scene, the first person that comes to mind is obviously tarik. I don't know if he actually speaks Turkish, but his Liquipedia page says he's of Turkish descent. Some people have said that he's not going pro because of how well his stream is doing but I know tarik and he's too competitive to just be a streamer so I've been expecting a move like this for a while. Also, Trick (a player on the unsigned team Bait Academy) recently tweeted that nobody is talking about a 'giant move in NA Valorant' which is likely related to tarik signing with 100T.
I don't know yet who would fill the last two spots on the roster. 100T might just keep Asuna because he doesn't really need to be able to understand the IGL when he just runs in and kills people. One name I heard mentioned was Dr. Oz (also Turkish) but I'm not sure about this because his reaction time would be really bad because he is old and I don't know if he plays Valorant.
References
- https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/rqswsv/100_thieves_tarik_cned_paura_na_turkish_superteam/
- https://reddit.com/rqswsv
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