Silkthread Announces Professional Overwatch League Futures
By Nicholas Barth ·
Overwatch League player Silkthread has announced his future plans regarding his career as a professional Overwatch player.
Ted "Silkthread" Wang has been a member of the Overwatch League from the very beginning of Season 1 where he has competed for the Overwatch League teams of the Los Angeles Valiant and Los Angeles Gladiators. However, the talented DPS player took to his Twitter account on Friday, November 30th to announce that he would be retiring from professional Overwatch.
Goodbye Professional Overwatch: A Journey Ended
— silkthread (@silkthread) December 1, 2018
Read: https://t.co/g71YjiPpUm
Beginning his Twitlonger regarding his retiring from the Overwatch League, Silkthread explained that he had indeed signed to compete with the Chengdu Hunters, one of the new eight expansion teams for Season 2 of the Overwatch League, and that he had moved to China in order to train with the team. The 19-year-old player went to state that he did not blindside the Chengdu Hunters with his decision to retire and that he had communicated with the organization and his teammates well in advance of his official announcement.
Silkthread first explained that the reasoning for his decision to retire from competing professionally in Blizzard Entertainment's first person shooter title was largely due to his not enjoying being a professional player any longer. The former Valiant and Gladiators player also cited the major cultural differences between competing for a Western organization and a Chinese one, as in the Chengdu Hunters, was the other major contributing factor for his decision to retire.
Silkthread will be returning to Texas in order to pursue a degree in Business and has plans to stream Overwatch during his schooling.
Finishing his retirement announcement post, Silkthread expressed his thanks to all of the parties and individuals who helped make his professional esports career a reality and how his experience in the Overwatch league helped him to grow as a person.
While fans of Silkthread will likely be disappointed to see the player no longer competing in the Overwatch League, they will also likely be happy to see that the former Los Angeles Valiant and Gladiator player has decided to enter a new chapter of his life that he feels in necessary to pursue at this time in order for his physical and mental well being.
(cover photo courtesy of Robert Paul for Blizzard Entertainment)