The incident of Edward Gaming and S1mon has caused a stir in the Valorant community in recent days when the members and managers of the team have spoken out about the attitude of the Chinese Taipei player. Although EDG has confirmed that S1mon will not play with the team until the end of Masters Toronto, the possibility that this team will break up with this player in the near future due to the conflict that is too big.
If S1mon left EDG as predicted, the 'Champions' Curse' will continue to apply to the Champions 2024 champion. Since 2023, this' curse 'has been very popular in the Valorant community when all Valorant Champions champions cannot retain their squad in the next season.
In 2021, Acend won the world championship after defeating Gambit with a score of 3-2 suffocating. By 2022, the organization extended the contract with all members in February, though only a month later, the two players BoneCold and Kiles left the team, and at the end of 2022, there was no player to stay.
In 2022, the Brazilian team – Loud won the championship with the extremely high performance of the ASPAS superstar. However, shortly thereafter, Sacy and Pancada left the team to switch to Sentinels. The replacement of Cauanzin and Tuyz could not help Loud defend the championship in 2023 when stopping at the finals of the loss with a defeat of 2-3 against Evil Geniuses.
After defeating Loud, Evil Geniuses continued to surpass the Paper Rex 3-1 in the final to win the world championship. However, by the end of that year, Evil Geniuses was a problem to extend the squad and by the end of 2024, all members had left, and the team could not attend the Champions 2024 when only ranked 7th in Americas.
Although the chance of continuing the champion's 'curse', Edward Gaming is still holding 4 members and is still the strongest team in China. If there is no surprise, the possibility of Zmjkkk and his teammates will soon win tickets to the Masters Toronto 2025 and beyond the direction of defending the Champions 2025 championship in France later this year.
