Ninja's 'Valorant' experiment is over, but his team marches on

They're not the stewards of some strategy poised to take the scene by storm. They aren't "game changers," nor are they "mavericks." Their story doesn't align with the structure of a great sportswriting arc. For a while, they were mostly a team that happened to field one of the most visible celebrities in all of gaming. But when the schadenfreude that inevitably accompanies watching a celebrity fail lost its kick, what remained was a ragtag team of strivers, hearty with a miraculous new lease on life.