The Thai team is the second team to be eliminated from the tournament. Group C is now halfway complete as we venture into the Elimination match between KRU Esports and XERXIA. It was all over by round 17 as KRU comfortably won the map 13-4. Haven was a respite for XERXIA as they mounted an offensive campaign against KRU. They turned the table around and led the way with a straight six-round win from the start....
They defeated Xerxia in a very close match that could have ended the other way. The match started off withFracture, and it was a close game we can tell you that much.
The North American team continue to show why they deserve to be at the top of the leader board. The winds of change blew the other way in the last map, Breeze.
Boom Esports, unfortunately, became the first team to be eliminated from Champions 2022. The two were knocked to this match byLOUDandOpTiC Gamingrespectively. By the end of the first half, ZETA led the way with a four-point lead. BOOM picked up a second wind in the second half and went on the offensive. It took all the way to Round 24, but they managed to come from behind to win 13-11....
VALORANT Champions 2021 and 2022 both featured $1 million prize money. The third placer will be awarded $250,000 while the fourth placer will get $130,000. The rest will be spread out to the remaining teams. There are 16 teams vying for the VALORANT Champions 2023 title. It took a while for the prize pool of the biggest tournament of the year to be revealed. Before VCT Masters Tokyo, its iterations had prize pools that varied from $600,000 to $690,000....
All matches in the group stage will be a best-of-three series. Those will be a best-of-five series instead. To put that into perspective, that was the total prize pool for the past two VCT Champions. Be sure to catch all the action on the officialVALORANT Twitch channel.
The last match before the Grand Final sawDRXfacingOpTic Gamingin the first Best of Five in the tournament. How will this clash of the titan fair? The North American team then gained a two-point lead by the end of the first half. The two teams are now tied. Haven, the fifth map, is where everything counts for both teams. OpTic started strong with a trio of wins, which DRX easily matched by round six....
Many interesting statistics were gleaned from the biggest VCT event for 2022. With the end of Champions Istanbul, we sawLOUDcrownedas the winner of the tournament.
The four teams we have here today are the wild card teams; we have seen thehot teamsat Champions. They also beat teams likeFaZe ClanandCloud9to book their place. Our Prediction:Quarter Finals at the minimum. This year, they emerged as champion at theEMEA Stage 2 Challengers, and also placed 4th atMasters Copenhagen. Our Prediction:Fnatic will last until the semi-finals before facing tougher competition.
We explore the hot teams that will be playing at the upcoming tournament in Turkiye. Our prediction:We will see them play in the semi-finals. Our prediction:OpTic will be in the top eight teams playing for Champions. The team has delivered consistent results ever since they started playing VALORANT. Our prediction:Paper Rex will be facing FunPlus Phoenix for a grudge match for Copenhagen. Our prediction:LOUD will be in the top six teams for Champions....
The first-ever VCT China Stage 1 franchise league is set to start tomorrow until May 12th. Of course, it was FunPlus Phoenix and EDward Gaming who had the opportunity instead. As for the first runner-up, they will be in group Omega, which is a six-team group. Only the two winners will join the number-one seed from the group stage in the double-elimination bracket. Nova Esports as well as Wolves Esports make up the rest of the group....
They finished in the top six at Masters Madrid, followed by a top-eight ending at Masters Shanghai. And despite all that, EDG had still managed to win both the VCT China Kickoff and Stage 1. Both will now be single round-robin groups with all games being a best-of-three series. From there, they will face the teams that finished first and second in a double-elimination bracket. VCT China Points will also not be taken into account at this stage of the season....
The VCT EMEA League Kickoff is set to begin later today! TheVCT Americashad its start a few days ago, followed by theVCT Pacifica day later. Even GIANTX could be a dark horse once more after it managed to qualify for Champs the year before. All matches will be a best-of-three series with the top-placed team getting a direct spot to the playoffs. All second-placed teams will head to the play-in stage, which is a three-team single round-robin....
