On June 7, T1 officially announced the new contract of the team, Stax, former captain of Drx. Stax left the main squad of Drx on May 27, after the Drx could not win the VCT Pacific Stage 1 trophy, not even winning tickets to VCT Masters Shanghai 2024.
Stax is a quality addition to T1 squad when this team is lacking an in-game leader. Earlier, Carpe was responsible for calling but later moved to XCCurate. However, it is still unclear which player will make room for Stax in the T1 squad. The current squad of T1 Valorant includes:
– Lee “Carpe” Jae-hyeok
– Kim “Stax” Gu-taek
– Ha “Sayaplayer” Jeong-woo
– Daniel “Rossy” Abedrabbo
– Ham “Izu” Woo-ju
– Kevin “xccurate” susanto
Stax has played for more than 2 years in the Drx squad and has won a lot of remarkable achievements such as 3rd place at Valorant Champions 2022, In-Game Leader of the year by VCT Pacific award in 2023. In Stage 1, Stax and unbeaten teammates in the group stage with a record of 5-0, though to the play-off round, it was quickly eliminated after 2 losses before Paper Rex and Geng.
Meanwhile, T1 stopped in the third position of Stage 1 and won the right to VCT Masters Shanghai. However, this team was quickly eliminated in the Swiss round after the 1-2 loss to G2 Esports and 0-2 to Leviatan. At the upcoming Stage 2, T1 will go to Geng's confrontation at 15:00 on June 16.
