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blaZek1ng announces retirement

jenopelle

October 30, 2024

After a four-year-long career, former Global Esports Global Esports Inactive PatMen Patrick Mendoza Kr1stal Savva Fedorov xavi8k Xavier Juan Autumn Kale Dunne player Gary "blaZek1ng" Dastin has retired from e-sports.

blaZek1ng made the switch to Valorant after a short Counter-Strike: Global Offensive career, making his debut for BOOM Esports BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #4 kellyS Kelly Sedillo Xan Xan Ng Iceyyy Lionel Tay Zi natz Jonathan Adiputra NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra in 2020. He played for the Indonesian team for three seasons, helping them stay towards the top of the Indonesian Challengers circuit and eventually reaching Champions 2022. In 2023, BOOM Esports lifted the Indonesian Challengers League, earning entry into Pacific Ascension. At Ascension, they fell in the semifinals to eventual champions BLEED BLEED Inactive .

After the 2023 season, blaZek1ng joined Global Esports, who was coming off of an eighth-place finish in the 2023 Pacific League. In 2024, Global Esports fielded another diverse roster, boasting players from five different home countries. Similarly to the prior year, the season ended in disappointment, as they would win just three matches across both splits and fail to qualify for the playoffs of any event they competed in. Towards the end of this past season with GE, he was the team's go-to Sentinel player, filling the Killjoy and Cypher roles, but had been known to play Viper, Omen, and Sova as well.

blaZek1ng announced that he was an unrestricted free agent weeks into the offseason, but less than a month later has now retired. Before the start of the offseason, Global Esports announced its entire roster were restricted free agents. Their roster is now a clean slate.

Global Esports Global Esports Inactive PatMen Patrick Mendoza Kr1stal Savva Fedorov xavi8k Xavier Juan Autumn Kale Dunne ' roster is now:

Hose "taeri" Son (손호세) (Manager)
Preston "Juv3nile" Dornon (Head coach)
Vatsal "Vatsal" Uniyal (Staff)

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a better player than whole of nrg

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0/10 i want to see better out of you next time

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im sorry but he is pretty mid

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Global esports claims another..

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Nah
People usually leave them to get into championship rosters
Sad that it had to end like this with BK

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Actually ur right it’s only been ayrin and wronski so far

Maybe more to come..

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Tbf Wronski just left for no reason apparantly
Brother just dipped

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Brother dipped to open his own clothing brand which i don't think have beared fruit yet

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Brother gamba'd into oblivion

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Bro he was literally deaf in one ear

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I mean esport isnt good for long term as tenz said, so yeah........., people start quitting I see

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why india flag?

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Wait
I just noticed 💀

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I fat fingered 😭

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o7 blaZek1ng

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no offers, failed new GE roster trial, BOOM doesn't want him back, doesn't want to go back t2, retires.
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Not related to him since I don't know if he didn't want to go to tier 2 teams or not
But ex tier 1 players seriously need to consider going into tier 2. It is unstable but you get to play more games and it's not that bad.12 tier 1 teams, 60-65 players will only get a chance at tier 1. Not everyone can be there. Pros just don't understand it for some reason.
Like my brother, no one is gonna judge you for building yourself up from tier 2 again.

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From getting pay min 4k$ to min 300$, I'd just go retire lol

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blaZek1ng is 28, and going from international Tier1 salary to domestic T2 local indo salary might be a factor. AE roster probably best chance indo will ever get in 2025 Ascension, and if he's not in that roster, probably not worth competing. Also if he's ever back in Tier1, highly unlikely he ever get into a champions competing roster anyway considering his age.

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Yes tier 2 teams already have 5 man, even premier team already compete before roster shuffle happening

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No no
I didn't mean just him
Just in general
People like Crashies, Victor and many more tier 1 players
It's like they just dip after not getting a chance in tier 1

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He's already 28, staying in Tier 2 isn't worth it.

He's a smart guy, better to head back to an office job or start his own business than gamble the next 1-2 years on something uncertain.

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you say this because you think about it competitively, but going from a monthly salary of minimum 5k to a F/A team or any org isnt good honestly, specially if you have to pay rent and debts and whatever else exist

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Tier 2 isn't really sustainable on its own, not just for orgs but for players as well. It's only worth it if you see a clear path into tier 1.

For someone like blazek1ng, he'd need to massively improve to make the jump back. Not because he's not good enough for tier 1 per se, but the skill floor is increasing every year, orgs will always prefer younger players. He'd need to massively stand out from a large crowd of insanely talented and hungry tier 2 prospects.

Realistically he's not making it back, and I honestly think retiring is the wisest career choice.

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You got long trial and not selected in last stage and meanwhile tier 2 already have 5 man is fking sucks man, feels bad for blaze ngl

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Karma for leaving BOOM😂

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Karma leaving tier 2 for tier 1? Small dick mentality

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Yeah he left boom ( in t1 now ) to defend his bf benkai🤣
Unlucky career but deserved tbh. He chose the wrong path.

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Yeah karma for not knowin his sht. He is definitely mid in tier 1 and still choose to try it wanna be like monyet. Getting sht talk by everyone n its not strange tho

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Not for leaving boom, but for bad PR.

Hes one of the reason they beat FURIA in off season. Put some number in his team on the league a couple times. But somehow stupidly choose to defend benkai (which played very poor that match) & talkshit to the fans after. Deserved tbh

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Context?

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GE so fucking dumb for putting this guy on sentinel when he's one of the best initiator in SEA

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WRONSKI and Blazeking retire. Who's next GE???

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Ayrin, Lf, skrossi, benkai, russ

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GE's first international roster created the likes of Monyet and Texture but made ayrin, bazzi and wronski retire and skrossi fall into t2. GE's whole second international roster players are now free agents and are still not signed by any T2 org - benkai, russ, polvi, lightning and this made Glaze retire.

So it is safe to say that your career might be at stake when you join GE

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Bazzi had military service.
Ayrin easily had other options. He 'chose' to retire.
Wronski - not sure if any other t1 team had an eye on him when GE signed him. It's not like they signed star players, and they retired after the season.
Which players that are let go by partnership teams this season have joined a t2 team?

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I am a professional GE hater but you are wrong here

Wronski left valorant because he wanted to start a business
Bazzi had military service
Ayrin didn't wanted to continue playing eSports because he was playing over 10+ years
Skrossi falled to tier2 because of SKILL ISSUE this has nothing to do with GE he was just bad like that

But this doesn't change the fact that the management at GE is still shit if we see from the pov of SA , they are doing pretty good internationally but as an SA org they are complete thrash no contribution towards their region just fake promises.

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WRONSKI, AYRIN, now blaZek1ng...

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Next skrobot

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o7 king

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o7 bounce back in another side of job, k1ng.

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jessievash next. That old man needs to retire.

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Just put him on ac or something

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who?

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