The VALORANT Champions Tour is coming quickly, and an extended offseason is creeping up proper after it. The shortage of occasions introduced for the interval has led professional gamers to share their frustrations on social media.
This extended downtime has left {many professional} gamers grappling with a way of drift, like how former T1 participant Daniel ‘Rossy’ Abedrabbo expressed on X (previously Twitter), stating, “I’ve by no means felt like I’ve had much less goal in my life. Really this schedule makes me depressed and I wouldn’t doubt different gamers as nicely really feel comparable.” 100 Thieves’ pro-player Sean ‘bang’ Bezerra echoed this sentiment, replying, “Really feel this, want I can time skip into 2025.”
Why 2025? Aspirants who didn’t make it to the VCT should wait one other six months or so to strive once more as a result of VALORANT’s aggressive scene oscillates between an empty offseason and a jam-packed interval in the course of the main occasions. As a reply to Rossy’s submit on X, Former YFP participant Adam ‘boyc3’ Boyce and TSM’s Tyler ‘sym’ Porter opines on the present schedule saying, “fucking tough schedule man, i cant even think about how shitty it should really feel in that spot rn” and “hopefully schedule turns into higher”—however the animosity in the direction of how Riot has deliberate out this 12 months’s occasions is nothing new.
The lengthy breaks and packed aggressive intervals have created a cycle of intense exercise adopted by prolonged lulls, resulting in psychological well being challenges for the gamers. Wanting again on the 2022 and 2023 offseasons, a number of tournaments had been scheduled for professionals of all ranges in the course of the interval, giving them probabilities to heat up earlier than the VCT season started.
Riot has not but made a remark about whether or not the 2024 offseason will observe swimsuit, and if the silence continues, professional gamers should sustain their spirits by some means exterior of competing.
