Twitch streamer Jeremy "Disguised Toast" Wang expressed his plans to sign an all-female Valorant team. This comes after forming the North American team DSG, which debuted in January during the open qualifiers for the Valorant Challengers League. The streamer also did a live watch party for DSG's matches on Twitch.
Disguised Toast, or Toast for short, was first known for his Hearthstone streams, when he used to be a faceless streamer. When Among Us became popular during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Toast gained massive viewership on his Twitch streams and YouTube videos thanks to his entertaining gameplay and cunning deduction skills. Today, he's been creating content with OfflineTV and also playing different games with friends on stream, one of them being Valorant.
Last October, Toast first hinted at forming DSG by asking on Twitter who the best unsigned Valorant players were. Five months later, he tweeted the same thing, but this time, he's looking for unsigned Game Changers players to join his all-female team. Valorant Game Changers is the competitive program for professional women players, which includes teams from various regions across the globe.
Many unsigned pro players replied to Toast's inquiry, while others vouched for them, in hopes of being part of the team and getting a chance to compete in the next Valorant Champions Tour (VCT): Game Changers circuit. Although Toast didn't divulge much about his upcoming Game Changers team, it's safe to assume that he will spend around $500,000, which was the same amount he shelled out for DSG.
In the last few months, many Valorant Game Changers teams either had several player changes, or were completely dropped from their orgs, like TSM's all-female roster. With Toast planning to sign a DSG Game Changers team, it will open more opportunities for talented players and coaches in the scene, and perhaps others will follow suit in the future.
There seems to be a trend of streamers and content creators starting their own teams, with Ludwig introducing his Moist Moguls Valorant team and xQc hinting that he's planning to buy a team as well. However, this isn't a new phenomenon as some popular Esports organizations, like 100 Thieves, which was founded by streamer and former pro player Nadeshot, were established by content creators too. It just shows how Twitch streamers and YouTubers have been expanding their horizons outside their usual routines, and many fans seem to be on board with them most of the time.