DRG rounds out coaching booth with Melon and Alti

Dragon Ranger Gaming Dragon Ranger Gaming China Rank #8 Flex1n Lo Rui (罗瑞) Life Qu Donghao (瞿东豪) vo0kashu Ilya Ushakov Nicc Shao Yi-qun (邵逸群) Verse Zhou Zijun (周子钧) SpiritZ1 Lin Dingyu (林定宇) has finalized its roster at the midway point of its season, sharpening the edges in its coaching booth with "Alti" joining as a performance coach and Melon joining as an analyst.

Additionally, a source confirmed with VLR that assistant coach JKH was no longer with the team.

Alti joins having been well-traveled in Southeast Asian Valorant. Since ending his coaching career in 2022, he has held coach and staff positions on several teams, including KPMOONIIBLM9 KPMOONIIBLM9 Inactive JayH Wong Jia Heng joshh Joshua Leow FirstLove Darren Mok Yong Xiang bryce Bryce Lee Flaring Henri Forichon Xenoo , BearClaw Gaming BearClaw Gaming Inactive joshh Joshua Leow bryce Bryce Lee Flaring Henri Forichon JayH Wong Jia Heng , SWING CT SWING CT Inactive Alti Worship Ian Ga Jettos Ender Kieran Phang Xian Zu , W Streak Esports W Streak Esports Inactive Ching Enrico Perez Yort Troy Hiramia ChrisM Christian Rosquillo xavi8k Xavier Juan stand-in Georggyyy George Audrey Lachica , and, perhaps most notably, Kizuna Esports Kizuna Esports Inactive SHINSEI Yeo Zhong Kang , the organization he once owned. He's spent time working with a handful of notable figures from the region, including current Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #5 PatMen Patrick Mendoza UdoTan Go Kyung-won (고경원) Kr1stal Savva Fedorov xavi8k Xavier Juan Autumn Kale Dunne in-game leader xavi8k at W Streak and former Wolves Esports Wolves Esports China Rank #18 glacier Liang Zhekai (梁哲恺) yosemite Wang Lei (王磊) Spring Liu Jiunting (刘俊霆) Deryeon Derrick Yee aluba Zhong Haojun (钟皓钧) assistant coach Maark at Kizuna.

Melon joins the side as a relative unknown, but adds to a coaching booth that now sits at five men deep, with head coach NaThanD , assistants JKH and 1t , and now Alti and himself.

DRG, despite qualifying for Masters London to reach its third international event since ascending in 2023, still has work to do if it wishes to reach what is set to be the biggest Valorant event in China's history. With a homeground event in Champions Shanghai now just months away, DRG sits fourth in China's Championship Points standings with six points. Four points behind third-placed All Gamers All Gamers China Rank #6 Shr1mp Yang Yong (杨勇) K1ra Huang Zhihao (黄志豪) Bai Zhang Zeyang (张泽洋) f4ngeer Roman Smirnov iamgrq Gao Ruiqi (高锐琦) and nine points behind the top two, DRG's qualification for the event is far from guaranteed.

In Stage 2, DRG is set to compete in Group Omega, arguably the tougher of the split's two groups. Up against Xi Lai Gaming Xi Lai Gaming China Rank #2 WsLeo Huang Pinwei (黄品维) Sharks Qiu Ge (邱戈) Lysoar Liang Youhao (梁优好) NoMan James Man Rarga Arthur Churyumov happywei Deng Minwei (邓闵维) , Bilibili Gaming Bilibili Gaming China Rank #5 whzy Wang Haozhe (王昊哲) rushia Wang Xiaojie (王晓杰) nephh Marcus Tan yilai Gu Yiming (顾依铭) Knight Liu Yuxiang (刘宇翔) bud Yang Renyu (杨韧余) FT Yan Shuaibo (闫帅博) , and All Gamers, DRG is tasked with a group that has four of the region's top five in the Championship Points standings.

Shao "Nicc" Yi-qun (邵逸群)
Lo "Flex1n" Rui (罗瑞)
Qu "Life" Donghao (瞿东豪)
Ilya "vo0kashu" Ushakov
Zhou "Verse" Zijun (周子钧)
Lin "SpiritZ1" Dingyu (林定宇)
Deng "NaThanD" Senqiao (邓森侨) (Head coach)
Huang "1t" Biaohong (黄彪宏) (Assistant coach)
"Alti" (Performance coach)
"Melon" (Analyst)