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LOUD BENCH Less After Bombing Out Of VCT Play-Offs

After missing their first Major tournament in the organisations history, LOUD have reportedly benched arguably their best player, Less, shortly after losing 2-0 against 100 Thieves. After bombing out of the VCT Americas Stage 1 play-offs, a tweet was released by a very reliable and credible Brazilian VALORANT journalist, @Noynvlr on X. The tweet above…

LOUD Shatter Sentinels Chances of Masters Shanghai

Sentinels’ chances of Masters Shangai is now up in flames with LOUD getting their first win of the split against the current champions. Sentinels going down to LOUD now means that their chance of their qualification mainly lands into the hands of other teams losing with them needing NRG and G2 to lose BOTH of…

KRU Stay UNDEFEATED in VCT Americas After 2-0 LOUD

Lionel Messi’s Co-Owned VALORANT team, KRU Esports, has retained their unbeaten record. They are the only team in the world of VCT that has remained unbeaten going into week 5 of VCT, with VCT China still awaiting their Week 4 of games. KRU Esports went 0-9 in their regular season last year in VCT with…

Evil Geniuses SHOCK Masters Champions in VCT Americas

Sentinels are now under huge pressure with a 2-1 loss to Evil Geniuses give them their second loss of the split making their play-off chances slim after a dominant kick-off tournament and then taking the Masters Madrid trophy back home. After a ridculous 9-3 comeback on Lotus, Sentinels took the map and went up 10-2…

Leviatan DOMINATE NRG During Superweek

The ‘Super Team’ of VCT Americas, NRG, got humbled against Leviatan, after hyping up the team and their chances of winning it all, NRG are looking below par of what they are used to indivdually. Demon1 no longer is showing the firepower that he had last year on Evil Geniuses despite now being the centre…

Cloud9 SHOCK LOUD With 2-1 Victory

Cloud9 now go 3-0 in Stage 1 of VCT Americas after shocking the Brazilian giants, LOUD, 2-1 in a banger of a match between the two sides that got 1st and 2nd place in VCT Americas League last season. Cloud9 but up an admirable fight on Bind but eventually lost the map 13-11 to LOUD…

Sentinels Take Down MIBR in Comfortable 2-0 Fashion

Sentinels kick-off the VCT Americas Superweek with a well furnished 2-0 victory over MIBR with Zekken taking the MVP of the series grabbing himself 40 kills across the two maps. It was just smooth sailing for the Masters Madrid winners only allowing the Brazilian side to get 10 rounds across the two maps with Lotus…

Aspas Obliterates Sentinels With 47 Kills on Lotus

Week 2 of VCT Americas kicked off on Friday with the first game between 100T vs G2 and then the game that was on everyones minds, SEN vs LEV and it did not disappoint with a 2-0 victory to LEV taking down the Masters Madrid winners. Despite it being a 2-0, the first map on…

Sentinels Take Down 100 Thieves in First Match of VCT Americas

The Masters Madrid Champions return back to VCT Americas to play their first game of Split 1 against their long term rivals, 100 Thieves in a game that they took by storm and dominated showing despite their lack of practice, they are still on the top of VCT. There were questions on whether or not…

NRG Crush LOUD 2-0 In Redemption Game Back in Form

After bowing out of VCT Kick-off, NRG with their superteam had to come back and make a statement out of their first opponents of the VCT Americas stage 1. Their first opponent ended up being LOUD, their cores long term rivals with the OPTIC and NRG core facing off against LOUD for years. However, they…

Runi Returns to Cloud9 Alongside moose To Round Out Roster

After Cloud9 announced the departures of wippie and jakee, there were two spots left to fill on the roster. It has been decided that the return of Runi to the roster will be implemented and Moose will make his VCT debut for the NA side. Runi, was dropped from the roster for the start of…

Jinggg Makes Shock Return To Paper Rex Starting Roster

The MVP of Paper Rex’s run in VCT 2023, has made a shock announcement saying that he will return to the Paper Rex starting lineup after retiring last year due to mandatory military service. In a tweet released by @pprxteam on X, they announce that due to ‘medical reasons’ Jinggg has been exempt from Military…

Cloud9 Release jakee Before the Start of VCT Americas

Cloud9 have parted ways with Jake “jakee” Anderson ahead of VCT Americas Stage 1. This leaves only three players currently on the Cloud9 roster: Erick “Xeppaa” Bach, Francis “OXY” Hoang, and Anthony “vanity” Malaspina. After coming in 2022 as the ‘yay’ replacement, fans werent expecting much from the rookie on his debut year of VCT however, he defied all expectations and odds and…

Sentinels Become Champions Once Again At Masters Madrid

It took 1,029 days but the Sentinels VALORANT side have won their second Masters trophy becoming the only organisation in VALORANT history to have TWO Masters trophies to their name. They defeated GenG in the repeat of the Upper final game however this bout went blow for blow with both teams winning their map picks…

LOUD Obliterate EDG To Make Top Four At Masters Madrid

The Brazilian kings, LOUD, had a statement game with a complete domination of Edward Gaming only allowing them 5 total rounds across the two maps in this crucial knockout game at Masters Madrid. LOUD once again brought the pheonix comp to Sunset with quick going 38-19 across the two maps showing fans that even without…

LOUD Eliminate FPX From Masters Madrid

After a disappointing early loss to Gen.G, LOUD bounced back against China’s second seed. A relatively quick 2-0 sent them into the decider round of the Swiss stage, one win away from playoffs. LOUD completely dominated their map pick, converting Sunset 13-5 in a game that wasn’t even as close as the final score suggested. FunPlus Phoenix finally put up…

Paper Rex Eliminate Team Heretics From Masters Madrid

A gruelling match up between two teams that are on form this season battled it out for a spot in the 1-1 bracket and to fight for survival in this tournament and the outcome was one that upset the home fans in Madrid as the crazy style of Paper Rex was too much for Team…

GenG Join Sentinels In Play-Offs With 2-1 Victory Over Edward Gaming

The second team to make it to the play-offs for Masters Madrid has been confirmed as GenG defeat Edward Gaming in convincing fashion after dominating 2 maps. Despite the incredible performance from Zmjjkk on the EDG side, it seemed to be just Kang Kang who was turning up for the game and wanted to win.…

GenG Takes Down LOUD in an Incredible 2-1 Win

The international Veterans, LOUD, put up a strong fight but the number 1 seed from APAC were too much for the Brazilians to handle with a 2-1 victory sending LOUD one game away from elimination. Despite Less having the most frags across the three maps, he alone wasn’t enough to defeat GenG who seemed formidable…

Karmine Corp Kick Off Masters Madrid with 2-0 Victory Over FPX

The first game of VCT Masters Madrid has kicked off with a statement 2-0 victory over Chinese side FPX. The number 1 seed from EMEA takes down the number 2 seed from the Chinese league asserting their dominance on the international stage for the first time since Lock-In last year. N4RRATE put up huge numbers…

Who Were The Top 5 Players Of VCT EMEA Kick-Off?

With the upcoming Masters Madrid only days away, now is a good time to look back at the VCT Kick-off tournaments across the world and this article will focus on EMEA which had massive upsets leading to FNATIC not making Masters Madrid despite how dominant they were last year. Two new kings have risen from…

Who Were The Top 5 Players Of VCT Americas Kick-Off?

With the upcoming Masters Madrid only days away, now is a good time to look back at the VCT Kick-off tournaments across the world and what better than to start with Americas where Sentinels took the crown this year. There were so many changes in this league with no teams staying the same over the…

Sentinels Drop pANcada And Sign Curry as 6th Man

The VCT Americas Kick-Off Champions have dropped their world champion controller player, pANcada after being in Brazil for the start of the season away from the team. After the signing of Zellsis, he was supposed to just be the substitute for the team but after an illness left pANcada out of the team for a…

Top Players To Watch in The Upcoming VCT Masters Madrid

With all the teams finalised for the first Masters of the 2024 VCT Season, there are many players that are making their first international LAN debut with many teams from across the world including 4 out of the 5 from Team Heretics. In this article, we will list 5 players to keep an eye on…

Sentinels Take Down LOUD to Become VCT Americas Kick-Off Champions

After 7 games in the Kick-off event, Sentinels are crowned the VCT Americas Champions with a 3-2 victory over LOUD. They beat the team that knocked them down to a lower bracket run with an incredible 5 map series where their old ‘GOAT’ of VALORANT, TenZ got the MVP with 84 frags across the 5…

Sentinels Make it To Madrid After DOMINATING NRG

After 932 days, Sentinels finally make their way back to an international LAN event with a 2-1 victory over NRG after closing out the matchup in a 13-3 destruction on Split. It took over 600 rounds for Sentinels to make it to play offs and take their great players into Masters Madrid. Fans are exhilarated…

EDG And FPX Make it To Masters Madrid From VCT China

The 5th and 6th team to be confirmed for Masters Madrid are named after VCT China is coming to an end with Edward Gaming and Fun Plus Pheonix make it through to the grand final of VCT China kick-off confirming their spot. The international favourites to win the tournament, EDG, showed up today with their…

Double UPSET As FNATIC and NAVI Eliminated From Kick-Off

An incredible day of games in EMEA saw the best team of 2023, FNATIC, and the old Masters winning side, NAVI, both get 2-0’d and lose their positions in Masters Madrid. Karmine Corp and Team Heretics make it all the way and qualify for masters Madrid overcoming huge obstacles in their way and defying all…

Sentinels Knock Leviatan Out Of Kick-Off in Thrilling 2-1 Victory

Sentinels take out one of the GIANTS of the VCT Americas after taking down Leviatan 2-1 in the final game of the group of death after 100 Thieves were knocked out by Sentinels earlier in the month. After a complete domination on Split with 13-3 to Sentinels, Leviatan clapped back with a 13-6 victory on…

Paper Rex Named as The First Team At Masters Madrid

Paper Rex take down T1 in the semi-finals of the VCT Pacific Kick-Off event to confirm their spot at Masters Madrid later in the year. After winning their game 2-0 they become the first confirmed team to make it to Masters after the conclusion of the Pacific kick off event sends GenG there alongside them…

Sentinels Knock 100Thieves OUT Of Kick-Off Defeating Them 2-1

The most clouted game in Valorant happened once again early this morning with Sentinels facing off against 100 Thieves in an elimination match from the VCT Americas kickoff tournament. Sentinels took the win in a close game that gave fans more hope in Sentinels making it to play offs after their next game. The match…

LOUD Drop Sentinels To Lower Bracket In 2-0 Fashion

After all of the hype around this new squad, they once again failed to deliver the goods and live up to the hype that they bring towards the squad by losing 2-0 to a new LOUD side. LOUD lost their star player aspas to his new side Leviatan in the off-season and replaced him with…

Zellsis Fires Back At Fans After Backlash Over Replacing pANcada

Sentinels star Zellsis has been receiving backlash over taking a spot in the starting roster for Sentinels and putting World Champion pANcada to the bench for the foreseeable future. Despite never publicly announcing it, the current perception is that Zellsis has been moved from the bench to the starting roster as their flex player as…

5 Players To Keep An Eye On During VCT Americas Kick-Off

With the kickoff to the 2024 VCT season only a week away there are notable changes to teams across the Americas league with the MVP of last year moving teams and the leading kills for last year not even in the VCT! Today we will list 5 players who fans will definitely need to keep…

Sentinels, Leviatan, 100Thieves and LOUD In Group Of Death

The VCT Americas kickoff format has been announced and due to last years rankings, a group of death has been determined with the favourites to win the entire tournament, Leviatan, the most in form team in the league, Sentinels, and the fallen kings, LOUD and 100T. With the grouping being based off of last year…

VCT Pacific Kick-Off Tournament Format Announced

With matches starting in less than a month, the format for the kick off tournament in APAC has been announced with Paper Rex getting the advanced spot with their success in last years VCT. After coming second in Champions and third in Masters Tokyo, they guarantee themselves a spot into playoffs if they can beat…

pANcada Announces He Will Return To The Top Again

After a lacklustre season from Sentinels in VCT 2023, they are looking very strong coming into the new season after a win at the Afreeca TV League. The difference is, pANcada is on the bench. The Brazilian ,who is known for his meme ‘why pANcada doesn’t miss!?’ has has a less than successful time in…

Potential EG Lineup Leaked for VCT 2024

After releasing 4 of the 5 Champions winning players, Evil Geniuses are looking weak coming into the up coming 2024 VCT season compared to last year. The only player left standing is Jawgemo, their flex player who was notably outstanding on Raze during their Champions run in LA. However this year he is teamed up…

Cloud9 Knock 100 Thieves Out Of Ludwig x Tarik Invitational 2

After a long fought overtime match against 100 Thieves, Cloud 9 come out on top against this new roster beating them 2-1 in the lower bracket taking them out of the tournament completely on day 1. Both of these tier 1 teams took losses in their first games to tier 2 opponents leaving them with…

Leviatan Announce The Signing Of c0m From Evil Geniuses

After the dropping of Nowzer from their roster, they have signed the current World Champion c0m. On the 9th of January, they announced that they are bringing in the Champion winning initiator player into the team rounding out their team for the upcoming 2024 VCT Americas season. Their roster has been finalised for the season…

100Thieves Round Out Roster With Boostio

100T Valorant have announced their 5th man with World Champion Boostio who has signed from EG. As NRG sign Demon1 and Ethan, the EG roster is falling apart even more with their IGL Boostio leaving to join 100T. Their roster is now completed with – Despite signing the current Champions winning IGL, the hopes are…

Leviatan Release Nozwer From Starting Lineup

VCT Americas side Leviatan, have released their initiator player Nozwer from their line-up just a couple months before the official VCT season starts. There were rumours of him leaving the squad after the 24th of December he removed any indication of Leviatan from his X account and then only a few days later their announced…

NRG Announce Their 2024 VCT Roster

NRG, after a long wait, announce their VCT Roster for the upcoming VCT season. They have parted ways with s0m, FNS and ardiis, who have all respectively moved on from NRG with only ardiis comfirmed to be competing in the new season for NAVI in EMEA. In replacement, they have signed Marved from Sentinels, and…

FC Barcelona To Join Valorant With A Challengers Side In 2024

The legendary football club, FC Barcelona is set to take part in the VCT 2024 challengers season in Spain by fielding their own team of 5 pros to compete to reach Ascension and then reach the VCT EMEA in 2025. The official start for the Challengers tournament is January 15th where 8 teams will battle…

Real Madrid Superstar Vinicius Jr Becomes Co Owner Of LOUD

After Leo Messi became co owner of KRU Esports with Sergio Aguero, Vinicius Jr has followed in their footsteps to become a co owner of huge esports organisation LOUD. LOUD are a Brazilian Esports organisation that is well known for being the best and biggest Brazilian org in the scene. They are currently most known…

Sentinels DOMINATE Paper Rex in Grand Final

Sentinels defeat Paper Rex 3-0 in commanding performance from the NA side with the entire roster showing extreme talent. The game streamed on AfreecaTV at 08:00am this morning, ended much faster than fans expected from these two powerhouse teams with a 3-0 scoreline. The 6-man roster of Paper Rex fell short on the final day…

Sentinels Defeat Team Liquid To Make Grand Finals

Sentinels advance to the Grand Finals of the AFREECATV Valorant League to face off against Paper Rex after beating Team Liquid 2-1 in the Upper Finals. After a dominant performance all tournament long, Sentinels have reached the grand final to face off against the team they opened the tournament against. The two teams faced off…

TenZ Drops 32 Kills On Omen For Win Over DRX

Sentinels beat DRX 2-0 in the AfreecaTV Valorant League today at 05:00am GMT. Sentinels recently defeated Paper Rex 2-1 and advanced to the upper brackets to face off against DRX for qualification to the playoffs. They won the game 2-0 over DRX on Bind and Split with Bind being comfortable 13-8 for Sentinels and then…

Sentinels DEFEAT Paper Rex In 2-1 Victory in AFREECATV Tournament

Sentinels kick-off the AFREECA TV Tournament with a victory over the favourites, Paper Rex. The game between the two big shots, started today at 08:00am GMT streamed exclusivley on Afreeca TV, the biggest streaming service in Korea, where this tournament is being held. The three maps chosen for this game were Breeze, Sunset and Haven.…

Shopify Rebellion Win Champions After RECORD Breaking Florescent Performance

After fans predicting from game one of the tournament, Shopify Rebellion become champions of the world after 3-2 victory over Team Liquid in Sao Paulo. Florescent drops a world record 114 frags across the 5 maps smashing Demon1’s previous record of 101 kills with her performance here at Game Changers Champions. With SR fielding two…

World Champions G2 Gozen Knocked Out From Champions Sao Paulo

After being dropped to losers bracket by Shopify Rebellion, they bow out of the tournament to a 2-0 defeat to Team Liquid in their home country of Brazil. They finish 3rd in the tournament winning themselves $80,000 with the Grand final coming up today between Shopify Rebellion and Team Liquid at 6:00pm GMT. Despite being…

SHOCK Exit From Evil Geniuses In Game Changers Sao Paulo

With The VCT Game Changers Champions currently going on in Sao Paulo, teams are being eliminated quickly, with Evil Geniuses(NA number 1 seed), being the FIRST team to departure from Brazil. Evil Geniuses GC came into this tournament with their star player ‘keenc’ being removed from the organisation for outside allegations. Coming into the tournament,…

florescent Debut Leaves Fans Stunned after 400 ACS Performance

The heavy favourites coming into this tournament, Shopify Rebellion, had their debut game against Edward Gaming GC on the 29th of November with SR dominating the opponent. The game was only a Best Of 3 however it only took 2 games for SR to tear apart EDG only dropping 3 rounds across 2 maps with…

SEN TenZ Set To Release Personalised Mouse For Sale

World wide superstar Tyson, TenZ, Ngo is a professional Valorant player for the team SENTINELS who grew to fame in early 2020 with his incredible mechanics where he set the rule on how Jett was played in the gamespace. Over the years, his performance has dropped from his record breaking run in Masters Reykjavik, where…

Who Are The Favourites For Game Changers São Paulo?

With VALORANT Game Changers in São Paulo coming up on the 28th of November the brackets have been revealed, but who is the favourite to win it all? Image courtesy of vlr.gg With the brackets being revealed there are 8 teams invited to this championship where teams will battle it out to become the best…

Ex-Cloud9 Coach mCe signs for Collegiate Team for 2024 Season

Matthew Elmore, previously coach for Cloud9 and The Guard where he had good results with both teams. Especially with The Guard which landed him a franchised spot in VCT Americas with Cloud9. However, this year, mCe had an overall disapointing year with Cloud9 after releasing the best Esports player of 2022, yay, from the roster…

SEN TenZ vs PRX something

The upcoming Afreeca TV tournament is coming to our screens from 5th of December until the 11th of December. This tournament has a range of teams including 6 of the 8 teams being franchised tier one teams. One match that fans and spectators are very excited to see is the opening game of the tournament…

5 Players To Watch This VCT Season

The VCT 2024 season is kicking off soon with most teams already solidifying their rosters and getting practice in so that they can have the most success. There are players that are seasoned veterans at this point in Valorant however, there are new players joining the VCT who need to be kept under the watch…

Who Were The TOP 5 Players From The APAC Region in 2023?

VALO2ASIA is the voice for APAC Valorant where they vote every year for the best 20 players in the region for the most recent VCT year. This year was the first year of the regional leagues where APAC shined through with their star team Paper Rex making it to two finals at Masters and Champions.…

Brazilian Superstar pANcada not seen in Sentinels starting line up in scrims

Sentinels have been spotted practicing without Brazilian superstar Bryan ”pANcada” Lua in their line-up and instead practicing with ex- Cloud9 player Jordan “Zellsis” Montemurro. Sentinels have played a bunch of Off-Season games this year including a showmatch against ‘Team Tarik’ where pANcada was playing against Sentinels rather than with them and lost 2-1. According to…

Lionel Messi & Sergio Agüero Become Co-Owners Of KRÜ Esports

Lionel Messi joins Sergio Aguero in becoming owners of Esports organisation KRU. The official announcement came from the X account @KRUEsports. South American Organisation KRU have had a range of success throughout the last year of competing, and with the current financial problems occurring across the Esports world this came at the most crucial time.…

Valorant World Champion Demon1 Nominated For Best Esports Athlete 2023

Evil Genius star player, Max ”Demon1” Mazanov, has been nominated for Best Esports Athlete of 2023 after a magic debut year in Tier 1 Valorant after winning the VCT Champions tournament in Los Angeles in August of this year. He originally started playing for EG as a substitute player for Brendan “BcJ” Jensen as EG…