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          Sentinels announce four-member VALORANT roster including Sinatraa

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          Overwatch League MVP Sinatraa to retire, heading to VALORANT (1:34)

          Reigning Overwatch League MVP and 2019 Overwatch World Cup champion Jay "Sinatraa" Won will retire from Overwatch. He will now compete in VALORANT as a part of Sentinels. (1:34)

          The Sentinels have announced four members of their newly formed VALORANT team, with pros from three different FPS titles.

          Earlier Tuesday, Tyler Erzberger and Jacob Wolf first reported for ESPN that Jay "Sinatraa" Won would be retiring from Overwatch to pursue a career in VALORANT, and that he would be joining the Sentinels. Sinatraa leaves a massive legacy in Overwatch, including being the reigning regular-season Overwatch League MVP, OWL Season 2 champion with the San Francisco Shock, and Overwatch World Cup gold medalist with Team USA.

          Joining Sinatraa will be Jared "Zombs" Gitlin, who has been competing for the Sentinels in Apex Legends. The Sentinels Apex Legends trio had multiple first-place finishes, including at TwitchCon San Diego in September 2019, as well as a third-place result at the EXP X Games Invitational in Minneapolis.

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          The final two members of the team announced Tuesday by Sentinels come from CS:GO -- Shahzeb "ShahZaM" Khan and Hunter "SicK" Mims. SicK had previously competed for TSM, Misfits, Rogue and Complexity Gaming, among others. ShahZaM is also a CS:GO veteran, with Echo Fox, TSM, Misfits, Optic and Complexity among the orgs on his résumé. Both were part of Misfits in 2017 when the team earned a semifinal finish at the ESL Pro League Season 6 Finals in Odense, Denmark.

          Sentinels founder Rob Moore said this in the team's official release: "Our goals as an organization are to connect our fans to the biggest, most exciting games in esports, and to recruit championship-caliber teams as we have in other games like Fortnite and Halo. Signing on Sinatraa, ShaZaM and SicK to join our organization further cements Sentinels as a home for world-class players and teams."

          The Sentinels are also home to last year's Halo world champions (TOX Gaming, who signed with Sentinels in February 2019), as well as Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf, last year's Fortnite World Cup champion. The World Cup runner-up, Harrison "psalm" Chang, recently announced his retirement from competitive Fortnite to pursue a career in VALORANT.

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