January 2023 hasn’t been kind to Call of Duty fans, as the beloved elite eSports player announced his retirement. This professional Call of Duty player was none other than Seth Abner of Optic Gaming, who is better also known as Scump in the gaming community. This news came out as a huge shock for the Call of Duty fans.

However, pulling the curtains on his professional Esports career doesn’t mean it’s the end of his existence. After all, Scump has become a Twitch streamer now. He even got over 90,000 concurrent views and $17,000 subs from his debut Twitch stream.

Scump isn’t the first pro eSports player to retire and transition to streaming. Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek also did something similar and saw incredible success being a Twitch streamer. But the 26-year-old is still nervous about this new venture, as it might require him to come out of his comfort zone.

Scump is worried about doing Valorant streams

Valorant is a first-person tactical hero shooter game that has become extremely famous in the last few years. It is one of the most-played games on livestreams across Twitch and YouTube. It won’t be wrong to say that every big-name streamer has done Valorant streams.

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In a recent livestream, Scump was playing Call of Duty: Warzone with the 100 Thieves co-owner Nadeshot. During that stream, the latter advised the recently retired Call of Duty elite to try his hands on Valorant and stream it. The 26-year-old showcased interest in this FPS hero shooter, “I’m down to run some Val.”

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However, Scump still has some worries about streaming Valorant and it is actually related to his audience. “I don’t know if people would watch me play Val though,” he shared with Nadeshot on the livestream. It isn’t wrong for him to worry. After all, his audience has known him for playing Call of Duty.

Nadeshot was a supportive friend to Scump and advised him that he was now on the same level as Shroud. So his audience would enjoy seeing him play whatever games he wants to play. The 100 Thieves co-owner further said, “You might not have 20,000 viewers, but that number would slowly but surely go up.”

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Hearing the supportive words from Nadeshot, the former Esports professional claimed he would try to get over this fear of trying other games. It would be interesting to see how well Scump does in Valorant.