Yay wins the Greatest Esports Athlete at The Sport Awards 2022 – Esports

Yay wins the title of one of the best esports athelte at The Sport Awards 2022

Former OpTic Gaming duelist, Jaccob “yay” Whiteaker received the Greatest Esports Athlete of the yr award at The Sport Awards. 

There have been 5 nominees within the Greatest Esports Athlete class. Yay received the class over different large names together with Jeong ‘Chovy’ Ji-Hoon, Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-Hyeok, Finn ‘Karrigan’ Andersen and Oleksandr ‘S1mple’ Kostyliev. Yay was the one skilled Valorant participant within the checklist of nominees.

Yay! A yr of dominance 

Nicknamed the ‘El diablo’ for his spectacular performances all through the previous yr, Yay has been the most effective gamers within the Valorant esports scene. Greatest recognized for his Chamber gameplay, Yay would usually flip the tide of a spherical on its head serving to OpTic get essential spherical victories.

OpTic Gaming completed received VCT Masters Reykjavik earlier this yr. In addition they completed third at VCT Masters Copenhagen and ended their season with a runners-up at VCT Champions Instanbul. The North American org misplaced to LOUD within the Grand Finals however Yay continued to dominate. His victory as one of the best esports athlete at The Sport Awards is no surprise.

The Post-OpTic yay 

OpTic Gaming failed to secure a franchise spot in Riot Games Valorant. The upcoming season will start with a VCT kickoff eventi in Brazil next year. The event will see all 30 teams participating in the Lock in tournament.

After OpTic failed to secure franchising, yay was without doubt one of the most sought after players on the market. After several weeks of suspense, the former Counter-Strike player revealed he was joining Cloud9.

Here’s the full Cloud9 Valorant roster:

• Nathan “leaf” Orf
• Erick “Xeppaa” Bach
• Anthony “vanity” Malaspina
• Jordan “Zellsis” Montemurro
• Jaccob “yay” Whiteaker

While Yay is known best for his Chamber gameplay, Riot recently brough significant nerfs to Chamber in Valorant patch 5.12. It will be interesting to see how yay adapts to these changes. Riot also introduced Harbor a water-manipulating India-based agent. 

Cloud9 will participate in the Red Bull Home Grounds #3 tournament that kicks offo on December 9. The Valorant off-season event features a $100,000 prize pool and features top tier teams including Cloud9. 100Thieves, Vitality and more.

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Rohan

Started esports with Dota, moved to CS, then OW, back to Dota 2 and now a bit of Valorant.

I love city-building games, have spent hours in Cities:Skylines only to have the traffic defeat me.

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