Tyson 'TenZ' Ngo has returned to competitive VALORANT, signing with T1 for the 2027 season.
T1 announced the signing on X (formerly Twitter) on November 11th at 7 PM PT. "The KING is back!" the team wrote, calling TenZ "a living legend of VALORANT" who "begins a new chapter with T1." The post came with a welcome video titled 'Who am I?' and passed 3.5m views in under a day.
TenZ quoted the announcement 11 minutes later with a short message of his own: "I'm back 😎". That post drew more than 66,000 likes. T1 has also started promoting his first stream on SOOP, the South Korean streaming platform.
A second big signing in two days
TenZ is the second North American player T1 has added this week. The team announced Austin 'crashies' Roberts on November 10th, bringing him back to the organisation he first played for in VALORANT's opening year. T1 has not yet confirmed the rest of its 2027 roster or its coaching staff.
The signing ends weeks of speculation that began on October 21st, when TenZ posted just "LFT 👀" on X. LFT is short for 'looking for team', the usual way free agents tell organisations they are open to offers. Before that, he had been working with T1 as a content creator, and his X profile listed him as an Influencer for the team.
TenZ, who is Canadian, is one of the best-known names in VALORANT, with almost 1.5m followers on X. T1 is a South Korean esports organisation best known for its League of Legends team, and it plays in the Pacific league of the VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT), Riot Games' top-level VALORANT circuit.
