Team Secret , as many other teams over the week-end, were preparing for the ALGS NA Qualifiers bootcamping from different places across the region. I had the pleasure to meet & visit Team Secret while they were playing from Waves E-Gaming Facilities in the Greater Toronto Area.

Yousif & n9ted were playing together at the venue, while Grego played from home. The team had an average performance overall, finishing 36th in total at the Qualifiers. Like many other professional teams, they struggled with the tournament format. Leaving the players with almost no room for errors . At the end of the day, some small coordination & communication mistakes eliminated the team from their chance of qualifying for ALGS 1st Major, held in Arlington, Texas in March 2020.

n9ted Hacked Story

What really picked my attention is their story right before the qualifiers.

Many members of the community are aware that n9ted has been hacked by a professional hacker weeks before the tournament. He told me that he has literally lost over 12,000$, 12,000 YouTube subscribers, over 2,000 Instagram followers and the access to his email account to retrieve those accounts. The hacker deleted all of his videos totalling millions of views, as well as blocked over 7,000 of his twitter followers. While all of this was happening, he had to keep his head in the game, and practice with his new team.

Team Secret & Yousif have been amazing to n9ted. They paid for his traveling over Toronto, Canada. Helped him obtain a VISA in only 48 hours after his application was sent to the Canadian consulate in Brazil.

Funny story about this process was when n9ted presented a copy of Yousif's passport, the authorities thought they were joking & trolling them. Yousif has quite a special signature. Indeed, his signature looks literally like a STAR. We laughed for a moment, and I told him he should change it to a Checklist mark at this point.