100 Thieves Cryocells ‘Cryo’ Valorant: 100 Thieves finally announced their new signing for the upcoming 2023 VCT season and that is going to be Matthew “Cryocells” Panganiban from XSET. 100 Thieves were looking for a player who can play on Jett or Chamber after a decent performance by the team at the Champions.
Talking about the Champions 2022, Cryo impressed everyone with his Chamber gameplay at the tournament and was on the radar of many teams. Moreover, when XSET failed to secure the partnership with Riot for the upcoming VCT season, rumors became strong of Cryo leaving the team. And now, he has joined 100 Thieves and will be 100T Cryo.
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Cryocells ‘Cryo’ Is The New Member Of 100 Thieves’ Valorant Roster
This is going to be fun.@Cryocells_ officially joins @100thieves. pic.twitter.com/hPgyIzeevk
— 100 Thieves Esports (@100T_Esports) September 29, 2022
100 Thieves dropped a video of around 4minutes on their official Twitter handle to officially announce the signing of Cryo from XSET.
As of now, the players in 100 Thieves roster are:
- Peter “Asuna” Mazuryk
- Derrek “Derrek” Ha
- Brenden “stellar” McGrath
- Sean “bang” Bezerra
- Matthew “Cryocells” Panganiban
Notably, this is one of the youngest teams going to be in the Valorant next season as Asuna, Bang, and Cryo, all three are yet to turn 20.
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Cyro also took to his Twitter to bid farewell to his former team and teammates.
Thank you @XSET for everything and taking a chance on me, a growing org that supported us any way they could. excited to move back home to cali and move on to the next chapter ❤️
— 100T Cryo (@Cryocells_) September 29, 2022
He wrote, “Thank you @XSET for everything and taking a chance on me, a growing org that supported us any way they could. excited to move back home to cali and move on to the next chapter ❤️.”
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Along with the signing of Cryo from XSET, 100 Thieves also announced that they Will is now active and is free to look for other opportunities.
Will was earlier the entry fragger of the team mostly playing on Jett or Chamber. Now, the role will be given to Cryo most probably, who impressed everyone at Champions and at VCT Stage-2 Challengers of North America with his Chamber gameplay.