"Given enough chance, we would come into top 3": Velocity Gaming's Sentinel talks about the Valorant team's aspirations at the AMD Skyesports Champions Series and globally
The ongoing AMD Skyesports Champions Series, being held in Chennai, is hosting six of South Asia's best Valorant teams. They are locking horns in a double-elimination bracket to determine who will get the lion's share of the $30,000 prize pool and the two slots to the VCT Stage 2 APAC Challengers.
In an exclusive interview with Sportskeeda Esports at the AMD Skyesports Champions Series playoffs, Velocity Gaming's Sentinel talked about his team's preparation for the event, the experience at the earlier APAC, the changes that it brought, and his hopes for the future of his team and the region in Valorant's global competitive scene.
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Sentinel: I was with the team for the last three or four days because we were scrimming and we were getting good results. I was completely calm and composed. So the night before the event, reality struck.
This is an event that we have been preparing for. All the changes, and all the things that we have done, is for this event. So it's like reality kicking in at the last moment. I was really tense before the match. But obviously, I didn't express that to the team.
I had just told them to continue what they have done in the scrims. They have done a wonderful job and kept the thing going right now. So, a good start to the event. I just told them to continue. This is just the first victory. Every victory is going to get tougher and it's not going to get easier. So you have to be prepared for that.
Sentinel: For the Sky LAN event, honestly, speaking, we were not prepared. One good thing about Riot is that they give out new updates so that the same team doesn't have the same performance on a regular level. You have to keep adapting to new agents, new metas, and all that.
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