Valorant star yay joins Bleed Esports in VCT Pacific for 2024 year

Declan Mclaughlin

Bleed Esports has announced the signing of Valorant star Jaccob ‘yay’ Whiteaker to its roster for the 2024 VCT season.

yay has signed with Bleed Esports for the 2024 VCT period. The Valorant star will turn into the third North American to acquire up an import slot in the VCT Pacific league.

The former OpTic Gaming participant has experienced a peaceful off-time right until a short while ago as he was suspected of actively playing ranked in the Pacific location with Bleed player Derrick ‘Deryeon’ Yee underneath the title ‘zoomy.’ In a press release about the signing, yay stated that he went to excellent lengths to hold his transfer beneath wraps, such as scriming beneath a distinct title and not talking in rated matches.

yay is coming off of a disappointing 12 months professionally as the participant was dropped from Cloud9 in March immediately after a much less than stellar showing at VCT LOCK//IN. The organization and its mentor have claimed the player was allow go because of to part troubles, however, several suspect it was thanks to economical challenges with the corporation.

The Duelist player then went to enjoy for Disguised in the second split of the North American Challengers League. Disguised and yay were being sooner or later relegated from the league immediately after going winless in the group phase, and getting rid of out in the Enjoy-In Relegation tournament.

Just before becoming a member of Cloud9, yay had an outstanding year with OpTic Gaming. The staff positioned best three at every global VCT event and took house the VCT Masters Reykjavík trophy.

yay joins Bleed Esports in the VCT Pacific league

yay is signing up for a squad that has been regarded to go right after splashy signings. Bleed tried to indication Turkish Valorant star Mehmet ‘cNed’ İpek in 2022 with a $1 million offer you.

“I preferred a new challenge. Seeing the APAC and China video games, their exclusive Valorant fashion intrigued me. I wanted to practical experience it to develop my match. With all the economical drama in N.A, moving to Singapore appeared appropriate,” yay explained in a push release.

Bleed was promoted into VCT Pacific by means of the Ascension event. Bleed received both splits of the Malaysia & Singapore Challengers League and only dropped 5 maps en route to winning the promotion tournament.

In the off-period, Bleed dropped two players and signed Javier ‘Egoist’ Chua. With yay signing up for the workforce, the business now has a entire roster.