Global Esports exit the esports scene after nearly a decade, rebrand as GE Studios, and release their VALORANT roster into free agency.
Global Esports announced their exit from the esports scene on Monday, October 19, ending nearly a decade-long involvement in the scene.
The announcement was made by the organization’s CEO and Founder, Rushindra Sinha, who revealed that this decision has been in the making for a long time.
“Last November, when the entire partnership structure was changing, when Riot reached out to us and asked us about our future, we told them that 2026 was more than likely going to be our last year in Esports,” said Sinha.
GE’s shock exodus from the esports world comes following their best VALORANT season to date. They won the VCT Pacific Stage 2 title and qualified for both VALORANT Masters London and VALORANT Champions, although GE haven’t found much success in either big event.
“We tried everything to keep this roster together; they deserved it more than anything or anyone else.
This roster has been very, very close to my heart, but to run an entire organization just to keep a roster together did not make sense, because even if one player left, the entire thing would crumble.
With the new rules and everything that’s setting in, it didn’t make sense to continue an entire company just to keep the roster together, and it also didn’t make sense to steal away other future opportunities that the team would have.”
Global Esports’ departure from the esports scene also comes with an organization’s rebrand into GE Studios. With that, the Indian company will begin anew as an AI studio, which is said to amplify everything Global Esports have done in the last decade with artificial intelligence.
Global Esports’ exit comes amid a major overhaul of the competitive VALORANT scene, as the esports circuit moves away from a league structure toward a tournament format. As a result, the current partnership structure will see major changes for the 2027 season.
South Asia has now lost their sole partnered representative, and with a replacement unlikely, the number of VCT Pacific teams will be limited to eight.
With that, however, the new VCT structure also allows non-partnered teams to compete in big events, as long as they battle through the bracket with other Asian and Oceanic teams.
All of Global Esports’ players including Savva “Kr1stal” Fedorov, Go “UdoTan” Kyung-won, Kale “autumn” Dunne, Xavier “xavi8k” Juan, and Patrick “PatMen” Mendoza are free agents, adding a pinch of excitement to the post-VALORANT Champions roster shuffle.
Mark Prezelj
Esports Betting Analyst
Mark Prezelj is a Slovenian esports betting analyst with over 3,500 articles at EsportBet and the founder of Lines64.com — someone who has been reading odds longer than most readers have been watching esports.
