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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 of attention on the squad.

Leviatan, a super team in their own right, absolutely dominated NRG last night with NRG only allowed to take 8 rounds from 2 maps, an even more impressive and overwhelming victory than Sentinels against MIBR on Saturday. NRG having only played teams that you could call ‘not contenders’ and when they play world class teams they seem to crumble against Sentinels and now Leviatan.

Stats Courtesy of vlr.gg

NRG really had a shocking performance against the LATAM giants who just came off the back of a 2-0 win over Sentinels aswell.

Demon1, who was the MVP of VCT Champions 2023, dropped 13 kills across the two maps instead of dominating like he did last year. aspas, who has been called the GOAT of Valorant, dropped 34 kills and looked unbothered that he was striking down the MVP of Champions 2023.

NRG have started to create a reputation for themselves for being toxic and super confident in themselves despite not having the results to back it up. Victor, before the game said that it was going to be easy, and it ended up being somewhat the opposite and it seemed that Leviatan took control of map control, rotations and even NRG’s aim seemed off during the matchup.

Before the matchup, Demon1, said in an interview that

”I will take care of aspas”

Those words came back to bite him as the ended the match with 2 first kills and 15 first deaths across the two maps.

NRG now look ahead to their next game against MIBR which should be an easy game, and Leviatan look ahead to G2 Esports which seems straight forward after the results they got against Sentinels and NRG over the past 2 weeks.

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 Lotus, was 19-17 with Aspas breaking the kill record in VCT by dropping 47 kills on the Raze. He has put his name in the record books once again with his outstanding performance against the most in form team in the world. With this performance he beats out ZETA Dep’s record of 42 by 5 kills and he does it in a game where he had to perform to the best of his abilities to win the game.

The game came off the back of SEN beating 100T 2-0 and LEV losing to Cloud9 2-1 with the momentum going the favour of Sentinels. Despite this, it was a rare off-day for Zekken who normally tops the server with kills and it was aspas who stole the show going +34 in the two maps.

With aspas’ 47 kill map on Lotus, they went into Icebox hoping to take the game 2-0 and that is what they did. With Sentinels being known that their ‘jett‘ maps aren’t their strongest as Zekkens, Raze is top 3 in the world however his Jett has some work to do. With Icebox being a Jett map, Sentinels eventually ended up losing the map 13-11 leaving their first loss of VCT Americas Stage 1 starting against Leviatan who have got their first win against Sentinels.

It should also be noted that aspas’s 47 kill map on Lotus had more kills than ANY other player in the server across the two maps. kiNgg on LEV came close with 46 and Zekken with 41 but aspas dropping more on just one map tells the story on how impressive he was in this series and even in the series against Cloud9 he topped the server despite losing the game.

SEN go onto to face off against MIBR on Saturday 20th April at 10pm BST, with MIBR losing their opening game against KRU 2-0 where Sentinels will hope to get a win back and go on to gain their points for Masters Shanghai. Whereas Leviatan will go on to face the inform NRG who are coming off the back of a 2-0 win over FURIA.

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 Breeze leaving the deciding game up to Bind which is known as being aspas’ ‘playground‘ whilst also being one of SEN’s best maps with TenZ on Yoru.

Despite both of those players playing well it was the 18 year old Zekken that took over and dominated across the three maps dropping 57 frags and delivering the final blow to the LATAM side with a double kill with the ShowStopper to end the hopes of aspas going to another Masters event.

This win sends Sentinels into the play-ins where they will play a 3 way round robin against G2 and MIBR who came second in their respective groups. SEN are favourites however, to make it to the play offs to fight for a spot into Madrid but they do have to overcome the hurdle approaching them tonight.

The winner of the round robin will go into the play-offs to face either NRG, LOUD or Evil Geniuses.

If Sentinels make it through the play-ins they cannot play LOUD due to bracket restrictions allowing for either them to play NRG or Evil Geniuses with SEN fans hoping for the latter choice as NRG are looking very dominant with their superteam ripping apart group A.

They play their games for the play-ins tonight at 8pm against MIBR and then at 2am against G2 Esports for a place in the play offs. The games will be streamed on Twitch and co-streamed by personalities such as Tarik, s0m and FNS.

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 as –

  • Aspas (duelist)
  • Tex (Sentinel/ Second Duelist)
  • c0m (Initiator)
  • King (IGL)
  • Mazino (Smokes)

With his departure from last years Champions winning, Evil Geniuses, side he has become the 4th player to leave the team after troubles within the organisation. With reports of Evil Geniuses possibly leaving the E Sports space by the end of 2024, they offered huge pay cuts to their Valorant side despite just winning them the VALORANT Champions Tour in 2023.

The only player left in the Evil Geniuses side is Jawgemo after Boostio joined 100Thieves earlier this week with Demon1 and Ethan joining NRG. The team has broken apart completely with EG giving Potter, the head coach, the challenge of building a roster from the bottom up and trying to re create the success they got last season.

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 that he was officially removed from the team.

The current rumours are that since the World Champion winner EG c0m has become available, they are looking into signing him for the upcoming season with that Champions winning roster falling apart.

Despite this, the star player of the Americas league and new LEV player aspas, has come out on X and stated – ”I’m not a member of the organization, I’m just a player. I hope you understand”.

This is interpreted as, it wasn’t his decision to kick him from the roster and he is seemingly upset by this as he never really speaks his mind on matters like this publicly.

With Nozwer gone from the side they need to find a new player and c0m seems to be the perfect fit for the LATAM side.