Streamer whose esports team just ate 7 losses in a row: 'I have been having a lot of doubts about my decision making'

pcgamer.com:

Look, my experience with playing games competitively is minimal, but the one thing I do know is that losing can feel real bad. Thankfully, I only have a handful of friends and strangers to witness my poor performances. But when you're a newly-formed team under a hugely popular streamer on a seven-loss streak in a major Valorant tournament, I'm sure those Ls hit a hell of a lot harder.

That's the problem Jeremy «Disguised Toast» Wang has found himself in. The OfflineTV member decided to get into esports earlier this year, rounding up a team of pro Valorant players to tackle the game's Challengers 2023 tournament under the moniker DSG. It's a pretty strong team, too—a large chunk of the roster came from playing competitive CS:GO, with recent additions like Jacob «yay» Whiteaker coming from huge organisations like OpTic Gaming and Cloud9. 

The team got off to a great start, skating through open qualifiers by winning all three of its games. It won a couple of games during the tournament's first split, but then a curse seems to have befallen the team. It's failed to win a single game since the beginning of March, losing seven games in a row. DSG is yet to secure a single win in the tournament's second split and is teetering on the edge of relegation with two games to go.

Despite a motivational message and a ton of backing, the losses have continued to hit the team hard. In a surprisingly transparent act for the industry, Disguised Toast opened up about the struggles of pulling together a team and apologised for the recent performance. «Sorry to all the DSG fans for our performances recently. Esports have definitely been one of the more challenging experiences I've faced in my career.» he tweeted on May 4. «I've always been