ShahZaM
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Current team | |
Team | Sentinels |
Game | Valorant |
Personal information | |
Name | Shahzeb Khan |
Born | October 8, 1993 |
Nationality | Pakistani-American |
Career information | |
Games | Counter-Strike Valorant |
Team history | |
2014 | Denial eSports |
2014–2015 | Cloud9 |
2015 | Tempo Storm |
2015 | Sponsorless |
2015 | Conquest |
2016 | OpTic Gaming |
2016 | Echo Fox |
2016–2017 | Team SoloMid |
2017–2018 | Misfits Gaming |
2018 | OpTic Gaming |
2018–2019 | compLexity Gaming |
2020–present | Sentinels |
Shahzeb (ShahZaM) Khan is an American Valorant professional player playing for Sentinels.
Career history[]
On December 15, 2014, he joined Cloud9.[1]
Khan was central in uncovering the iBuyPower and NetcodeGuides match fixing scandal, after he issued a statement confirming that the match at issue had been thrown.[2][3][4][5]
On April 13, 2016, he was released from OpTic Gaming.[6]
On May 19, 2016 Echo Fox replaced AWPer Mohamad "m0E" Assad who got promoted to general manager and picked up ShahZaM as replacement.[7]
On December 15, 2016, ShahZam and Sgares joined Team SoloMid.[8]
On January 17, 2017, ShahZam and the rest of the Team SoloMid roster are acquired by Misfits.[9]
On February 7, 2018, ShahZam joined OpTic Gaming.[10]
On April 27, 2018, ShahZam joined compLexity Gaming as an AWPer.[11]
On October 28, 2019, ShahZam was removed from the active roster of CompLexity Gaming. The announcement was made in the wake of Complexity's poor performance during the months prior, including their early elimination from the StarSeries Berlin Major. ShahZam later communicated on his Twitch stream that the team had struggled in large part due to the relative inexperience of many of the team's members, which included the then 16 year old Owen "oBo" Schlatter. ShahZam expressed frustration with not being able to focus on his primary role of AWPing due to constantly having to perform in-game duties that on a more experienced roster would have been able to take on.[12]
On November 26, 2019, ShahZam announced his free-agency via Twitter, bringing an official end to time with CompLexity Gaming. ShahZam also mentioned his eagerness to find a new team as quickly as possible.[13]
On April 28, 2020, ShahZaM signed with Sentinels, officially making the switch over to Valorant.[14]
Tournament results[]
Bold denotes a CS:GO Major or a VALORANT Champions
Cloud9[]
- 9th - 12th — DreamHack Winter 2014
- 9th - 12th — ESL One: Katowice 2015
Conquest[]
- 3rd - 4th — CEVO Season 8 Professional
- 3rd — ESL Pro League Season 2 - North America
OpTic Gaming[]
- 1st — ELEAGUE Road to Vegas
Echo Fox[]
- 17th - 22nd — ELEAGUE Season 1
Misfits Gaming[]
- 3rd - 4th — DreamHack Open Tours 2017
- 1st — CyberPowerPC Extreme Gaming Series - Fall 2017 Invitational
- 2nd — Americas Minor Championship - Boston 2018
- 3rd - 4th — ESL Pro League Season 6 Finals
- 19th - 21st — ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018
Sentinels[]
- 3rd-4th First Strike: North America
- 1st JBL Quantum Cup
- 2nd Nerd Street Gamers Winter Championship
- 1st Champions Tour North America Stage 1: Challengers 1
- 2nd Champions Tour North America Stage 1: Challengers 2
- 1st Champions Tour North America Stage 1: Masters
- 1st Champions Tour North America Stage 2: Challengers 2
- 1st Champions Tour North America Stage 2: Challengers Finals
- 1st Champions Tour Stage 2: Masters Reykjavik
- 1st Champions Tour North America Stage 3: Challengers 1
- 1st Champions Tour North America Stage 3: Challengers Finals
- 5th-8th Champions Tour Stage 3: Masters Berlin
- 9th–12th — 2021 VALORANT Champions
Interview[]
“Lot of bad comms cost us the game”: Sentinels’ ShahZaM after losing to Team Liquid at Valorant Champions By Pratiti Dhang Of Sportskeeda
References[]
- ^ "Cloud9 add ShahZaM; Hiko out". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ "ex-iBP Unbanned from ESEA League; Updated cheating rules developed". ESEA. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ Grayson, Nathan. "Pro Teams Implicated In Huge Counter-Strike Match Fixing Scandal". Kotaku. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
- ^ "Valve bans seven CS:GO pro players from tournament play for match fixing". pcgamer. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
- ^ "New evidence of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive match fixing". pcgamer. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
- ^ "OpTic bring in mixwell, ShahZaM out". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ "ShahZam Officially Joins Echo Fox Roster". Echo Fox. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ "TSM brings seangares and ShahZam to the fold ahead of 2017". Dot Esports. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ "Misfits acquires TSM's former CS:GO roster". Dot Esports. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ "OpTic CS:GO 2018". OpTic Gaming. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ "compLexity Welcomes Stanislaw and ShahZaM". compLexity Gaming. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ "CSGO: COMPLEXITY RELEASE DEPHH, SHAHZAM BENCHED". compLexity Gaming. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
- ^ "SHAHZAM ANNOUNCES FREE AGENCY". Retrieved 2020-02-18.
- ^ Ocal, Arda (April 28, 2020). "Sentinels announce four-member VALORANT roster including Sinatraa". ESPN. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
- Echo Fox players
- American esports players
- Counter-Strike players
- Pakistani emigrants to the United States
- Pakistani esports players
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Cloud9 (esports) players
- Misfits Gaming players
- OpTic Gaming players
- Denial Esports players
- Tempo Storm players
- Team SoloMid players