Ninja s Valorant experiment is over, but his team marches on
By The Washington Post
By Mikhail Klimentov
Sit in the chat of a streamer with an esports background and inevitably you ll see the questions: When are you going to compete again? Why don t you join a team? Why don t you start a team?
The simple answer is that it takes time and costs money, and for streamers, spending the former competing means sacrificing opportunities to earn the latter. So it was a surprise when last summer, Tyler Ninja Blevins, perhaps the most widely-known figure in streaming and, at his peak, the subject of a litany of mainstream future of entertainment articles, announced he would be fielding a team and competing in Valorant, a popular new shooter from developer Riot Games.