Orangutan
The South Asian duo has reportedly been dropped from the Indian-based org as they attempt to make a focus to move to Southeast Asia.
(Orangutan/Twitter)
According to sources, Prabhdeep “Ghost” Bhatia and Mustafa “shooteR” Kamal have been dropped from the Orangutan roster. This comes after a narrow loss in the Skyesports Champion Series to both Enigma Gaming and Global Esports to miss out on the APAC Challengers Playoffs.
(VLR.GG) Suffering narrow losses, Orangutan missed out their chance to make it to APAC on their VCT debut.
In the case of shooteR, his release from the org is cited primarily on blaring visa issues from his home county of Pakistan; making it difficult for him to travel to LANs or bootcamps with his team.
Meanwhile, Ghost will be pursuing his future in the United States for his studies; with a similar fate as former Team Exploit player Areeb“Storax” Rehman.
This leaves Indian player Vibhor “Vibhor" Vaid as the last remaining South Asian player on the active roster, with the org looking to move to the Southeast Asian ecosystem as the VALORANT franchising partnership looms closer to its arrival.
Taking the place of the two players will be Singaporean Felipe “Skye” Lim and Malaysian Arsyad “aduka” Sazali. For Skye, this is his second venture into playing under a South Asian organization; playing for Galaxy Esports before the team’s split from the org during the most recent MY/SG challengers.
Aduka comes from Malaysian organization Todak, a notable org especially in Mobile Legends alongside having a VALORANT title in the First Strike: MY/SG tournament. He is also a former CS:GO player in addition to his time in VALORANT.
Another potential candidate for the team was Korean player Jung “RyZzi” Ki-jin, who last played for free agent team Desperado in Stage 1 of the Korean VCT.
Seeking to be the first major team in the APAC scene to have 5 players from 5 different countries, the new rumored Orangutan roster is:
- 🇮🇳 Vibhor “Vibhor” Vaid
- 🇵🇭 Jon Michael “tesseract” Piga
- 🇰🇷 Yang “Persia” Zi-on
- 🇲🇾 Arsyad “aduka” Sazali
- 🇸🇬 Felipe “Skye” Lim
Source : Here
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