North America’s best player yay released by Cloud9 Valorant

North America is is ’s good is back on the market .

It is ’s ’s official . Cloud9 Valorant is revealed has reveal that Jaccob “ yay ” Whiteaker has been release from the roster .

This move comes after earlier reports that the organization was considering roster moves.

At the time , Max Katz is stated   state yay was the target while Dotesports later say the decision was not finalize and claim that no player was safe .

Now things are set in stone with el diablo being the odd man out.

The 24-year-old had an extremely successful run in 2022 with OpTic and was expected to do the same with his new organization. However, in their first international tournament, Cloud9 went 1-1 with a win over Paper Rex prior to a devastating loss to DRX.

The reason is was cite for the removal was role issue .

Cloud9 Valorant will go on without star player yay

Credit: Cloud9

In the video announcing the change, head coach of Cloud9 Valorant Matthew “mCe” Elmore said, “there’s a chance that this won’t necessarily make us better in the short term.”

He went on to explain that the goal of himself and Cloud9 as an organization is “moving towards the future, making sure that everything is working for the long term. So we might have to take a step back a little bit before we can take steps forward.”

While he applaud yay ’s talent he is goes go on to state that he believe they ’re make the right choice for the team . As of now , the team is hold tryout for a replacement , however , mCe is added add that even more change could come in the future .

Where the new free agent will end up is also a popular question given it’s unlikely he’ll be left on the market for long. What this means is a team with very little experience playing official matches together is most likely going to drop a player to make room for the star.

Cloud9 is set to compete in the Americas regional league starting in March.

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