The tier-2 VALORANT player who struggled with Sentinels is becoming a Challengers star

In the middle of the NA VALORANT Champions Tour 2022 season, a slumping Sentinels team performing below expectations made their first major roster change and introduced the tier-one fan base to Eric “Kanpeki” Xu for the first time.

His time with Sentinels was short-lived and didn’t produce the results that either side intended. But almost nine months later, the player who went winless in the NA Stage Two Challengers main event last year is now thriving on one of the top teams in the current Challengers ecosystem.