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Valorant: TenZ returns to competition as T1 names him its fifth starter for VCT 2027
T1 has made official the competitive return of Tyson "TenZ" Ngo, who retired after Champions 2024 with Sentinels and had since been with the Korean club as a content creator. With him the 2027 roster is complete: BuZz, stax, iZu, crashies and TenZ.
One of the most popular players in Valorant's history is back on a team. Overnight, at 4 a.m. Italian time on Thursday 12 November, T1 announced on X the signing of Tyson "TenZ" Ngo for the VCT 2027 season: "The KING is back", the club wrote, presenting him as "a living legend of VALORANT" who "begins a new chapter with T1".
The Canadian had retired from professional play after Valorant Champions 2024 with Sentinels, the team with which he won two Masters (Reykjavík 2021 and Madrid 2024). T1 had then signed him as a content creator; rumours of his return to the roster, reported by Sheep Esports on 3 November, are now officially confirmed.
TenZ is the fifth player in the line-up: he joins the three confirmed Koreans, Yu "BuZz" Byung-chul, Kim "stax" Gu-taek and Ham "iZu" Woo-joo, and American Austin "crashies" Roberts, whose return was announced on Wednesday. The head coach has yet to be made official: Sheep Esports points to Gustavo "Sacy" Rossi, but T1 has not confirmed it. The roster will debut in the VCT Pacific Kickoff in January.
T1 is one of the VCT partner clubs confirmed by Riot for 2027. At around 10:30 a.m. Italian time, the announcement post had passed 1.7 million views and nearly 50,000 likes on X.
Sources: official T1 announcement on X (12 November 2026); Strafe (12 November 2026); Sheep Esports (3 November 2026); Pley.gg (22 October and 4 November 2026). Text by Statcade.
