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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 on Bind with most fans saying it was just another standard win for SEN City. However, it wasn’t meant to be with a shocking comeback from Evil Geniuses took them to map 3.

Map 3 was Sunset where it was very back and forth between the rounds and they were extremely shared with the two most recent international winners.

Stats Courtesy of vlr.gg

With jawgemo coming back to Champions form on the Raze, he took over the first map which ended up going in the favour of Sentinels despite dropping 23 kills in the first half. He then had a steadily great performance across the next three maps where he was consistently great.

After going down 2-0 to Leviatan, SEN now go down 2-1 to Evil Geniuses who have shown that it wasn’t a fluke last year with the remaining Potter and jawgemo still creating greatness with a new roster.

To make play-offs comfortably now, Sentinels need to take down LOUD and FURIA whilst they need the other teams in their group to have poor games for the remainder of this split.

Sentinels next game is against a poor LOUD side who are currently sat 0-3 in their group despite being one of only two teams that made it to Masters Madrid with the trophy eventually coming back to Americas but to Sentinels rather than LOUD.

Paper Rex Knock Out Karmine Corp From Masters Madrid in MEGA Match

One of the surprise teams of VCT 2024, Karmine Corp, have been eliminated from Masters Madrid by the APAC international kings, Paper Rex in a 2-1 banger of a match.

It took the team 3 maps and a nail biting over time on the final map to secure the winner and send home the French side from Masters Madrid after their dream run in the playoffs.

The game ended with the so called ‘flex god‘ f0rsaken returning as Raze but also playing 3 different roles across the 3 maps to pretty much secure his team the win and bring them over the line in the final map with a ridiculous 3k to send Karmine Corp back to EMEA.

Monyet quietened the haters with his performance on Bind sending them in the right direction with a round 4 Ace putting the hopes of Paper Rex fans high despite the criticism he received after the previous game against Team Heretics.

Despite the seriousness of the tournament and the pressure that they are under, Paper Rex played their usual style and seemed to be having fun which is what the essence of Paper Rex is. They will always be smiling and laughing whilst destroying some of the best teams in the world.

They will go on to face GenG in the play-offs for a chance to finally win an international event after coming 2-3rd place so many times now that it is just a given that Paper Rex will go far in the tournament and reach at least the Upper Finals.

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 aspas, LOUD are a force to be reckoned with especially on their Sunset where quick went 24-7 on the Phoenix after a complete blowout on Icebox.

Unfortunate as it is, Zmjjkk wasnt enough to bring down the LAN Veterans in LOUD as they dominate Icebox 13-2 with the Chinese superstar going 4-15 and then ending Sunset 13-14 despite having quite a strong run of form coming into this game.

LOUD solidified their spot in the play-offs for the Grand Final with an utter domination of the Chinese side sending a message to their next opponent, Sentinels, that they are a force that wont go down easily despite losing their best player to Leviatan.

The draw for the play-offs was done after the two knockout games ended, with the two regions fighting within each other allowing for an upper bracket game and a lower bracket game to be NA vs APAC.

LOUD will play Sentinels on the 21st of March at 6pm after the Paper Rex vs GenG game concludes setting up for a huge match that went 3-2 in the way of Sentinels the last time that they met.

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. They get sent down to the 1-1 bracket in the Swiss System where they will go on to play LOUD, who they lost to 2-1 in last years Champions.

Edward Gaming took the first map on Icebox 13-8 with an unfortunate time for Lakia on the Gekko going 3-18 which ultimately led to Edward taking the map quite comfortably despite then going on to getting a combined 11 rounds across the next two maps.

Once again, Zmjjkk putting up ridiculous numbers which puts him currently in the top 5 performing players of the entire masters so far. Despite losing the game, they are still in the tournament where they will battle to try and make it to the play offs to possibly rematch GenG and try and make history for the Chinese VALORANT scene.

GenG go on to the play-offs joining Sentinels where they will wait 3 days for their matches but they will find out the remaining two teams and see who will join them in getting closer to the Masters Madrid title.

Sentinels Take Down Team Heretics and Karmine Corp To Make Play-Offs At Masters Madrid

Sentinels dominate Americas and now they have dominated EMEA by taking down both EMEA teams at Masters Madrid.

They become the first team at the event to make it to play-offs after back to back wins going 2-1 against heretics and 2-0 against Karmine Corp.

It has been a long wait to see TenZ and Sentinels on the Masters stage but the wait has been well worth it. In the first round of his International return, he hit a huge Ace to send the motivation in the way of the Sentinels lads.

They went on to win the game 2-1 and beat the EMEA second seed and were sent to face off against the other side from Europe, Karmine Corp who were looking like tournament favourites coming into this Masters.

However TenZ really showed up when his team needed him the most, reminiscent to his Masters Reykjavik. He then ends the Karmine Corp game, a crucial play off game, with 42 kills on omen going +21 on his K/D which set Sentinels up for success and go on to beat the French giants to make it to play offs.

It is only the second team that Sentinels have beat 2-0 since MIBR of the play-ins. All of the other teams that they have faced have gone the distance including a 3-2 victory over LOUD in the Americas Kick-Off grand final.

The next game for Sentinels is yet to be drawn but they send Karmine Corp down to the 1-1 in the Swiss stage to face off against another team who will win or lose their next game.

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 maps on the flex role playing Omen, KAY/0 and Yoru.

They won the tournament in astonishing fashion beating every single team put in front of them despite having heavy doubts amongst fans in NA. They beat the two so called ‘superteams’ that were poised to make it through by themselves knocking both NRG and Leviatan out of the tournament in pretty comfortable fashion.

Despite having a rocky start to the season going down 2-0 to LOUD in their first game, they bounced back and won all of their following games including the rematch against LOUD where they went 2-0 up in the first two maps but took it all the way to a dominant map 5 where they closed it out on Lotus 13-4.

Their Split still seems unbreakable with Sentinels destroying LOUD 13-3 which set up for a possible 3-0 but it wasn’t meant to be as they lost Icebox in a close 13-11 map with fans biting their nails to the close game that has occured.

After so much speculation and criticism, TenZ really showed up when it was most needed in their 2-1 victory over NRG to secure Madrid and now in the Grand Final where he managed a 1.21 rating on vlr.gg ahead of his teammate Zekken who has been frying all teams this Kick-Off.

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 with the defeat of super team NRG leaving fans wondering if they are even all that.

It took the introduction of JohnQT to really turn this team around and bring them to their first international LAN in over 3 years. It has been a long journey for fans of the organisation and Zellsis has become a core part of the team throughout the process of building this roster.

TenZ really turned up for this crucial matchup with his insane Omen playstyle especially on Sunset where he dropped 30 kills and then on Split where he pulled out the Operator and was hitting ridiculous shots onto the world champions Demon1 and Ethan.

The final team has been announced for Masters Madrid with the VCT Americas league ending off with their two teams in Sentinels and LOUD.

The eight teams to make it to Masters Madrid are –

  • Paper Rex
  • Gen-G
  • Edward Gaming
  • FunPlus Pheonix
  • Karmine Corp
  • Team Heretics
  • LOUD
  • Sentinels

It is set to begin on the 14th of March with the matchups yet to be announced.

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 the odds.

Team Heretics take down NaVI in a very close matchup between the two giants with an overtime win on sunset and a run through on Breeze leaving fans shocked as the once great, FPX, have been defeated by a very young squad with 4 of the players under the age of 20.

KC then obliterated FNATIC off the face of VCT with a commanding 2-0 victory not allowing FNATIC to reach double digit rounds in either game. After clear favourites to make it all the way to masters and possibly even win it, FNATIC lose only their second game of VCT this year in dramatic fashion.

The team that was almost unstoppable last year winning 2 out of the 3 LAN events, have fallen at the first hurdle of 2024. KC have shown the VCT world that they aren’t an unbreakable wall, they are a team to be knocked down a step.

After these huge upsets, fans turn their attention towards VCT Americas with SEN vs NRG and LOUD vs EG set to play on the weekend with fans hoping for another upset with Sentinels making it to their first LAN in 2 years and even Evil Geniuses showing fans they aren’t a shell of their former selves.

Sentinels Advance To Play Offs After Over Ruling Performance in Play-ins

After 5 games Sentinels finally make it to the Play-offs for their spot at Masters Madrid after dominating the play-ins.

With a very easy and comfortable 2-0 over mibr, SEN only needed 1 map against long time rivals G2 Esports after they lost their game against mibr. All that was needed was 1 map in a 3 map matchup and they got it instantly winning the sunset 13-8 after being down 8-4 at the half.

Zekken and TenZ really showed up in these matches with both of them dropping over 70 kills across the 3 maps. TenZ, who has taken up the Omen role, has taken his own look on it AWP-ing and sometimes entry with the controller agent. Zekken is once again showing why he is a top 5 NA player with his ridiculous movement on Raze and his AWP-ing on Jett.

After dominating mibr 2-0, TenZ was full of confidence alongside the team as they were looking forward to a timeless classic matchup against G2 Esports with the newly re-vamped Sentinels roster, and johnqt transforming the team into something that is to be feared across the Americas league.

They cleared through the play-ins as expected and then once the draw was announced, fans were questioning the truth behind the ‘random’ draw that was done behind closed doors.

SEN could only play one of Evil Geniuses or NRG as they already lost to LOUD in groups. SEN fans were hoping for EG to be their matchup as NRG are looking hot fire this year with their new additions to the roster. However, all good comes to an end with SEN having to face off against this superteam in NRG on the 3rd of March 2023.

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.