![]() ![]() Then, an MIBR coach’s knife kill against 100 Thieves changed everything. Read more: Christine “Potter” Chi is blazing a trail for women in the VALORANT Champions Tour After going 4-5 in the VCT Americas league, another mediocre season for EG seemed all but assured. The fact she is a woman - the only one coaching at the highest levels in VALORANT - certainly didn’t help. EG’s coach, Christine “potter” Chi, was subjected to particularly harsh criticism for roster moves like benching a proven player in Brendan "BcJ" Jensen for the largely unknown Tier 2 player Max "Demon1" Mazanov. Players like Kelden "Boostio" Pupello and Corbin "C0M" Lee were subjected to a lot of criticism after a poor start this year. The org’s innovative 10-man roster was viewed with skepticism. Evil Geniuses are for realĪt every step of the way, Evil Geniuses were doubted. However, if there’s one thing missing from all of these players’ resumes it’s winning Champions, so that will certainly be a motivation for Fnatic come August. Those three have formed the core of a Fnatic team that reached the final of the first global VALORANT event and have consistently achieved excellent results with Fnatic since 2021. ![]() His place in VALORANT history is secure, and Fnatic in-game leader Boaster, duelist Nikita “Derke” Sirmitev and coach Jake “mini” Harris also have impeccable credentials. He and Gambit reached the final of Champions 2021 but lost to Acend. It’s also worth noting that Chronicle has appeared in four global tournaments and reached the final at all four. He won his first with Gambit at Masters Berlin in 2021, and now has two with Fnatic. Somebody who already has three global titles at an individual level is Fnatic’s Timofey "Chronicle" Khromov. Triple crown? Trifecta? Treble? Grand slam? Take your pick, but winning all three global tournaments in 2023 would be an impressive accomplishment, and set the bar incredibly high for future VALORANT teams who would seek to be the best of all time. There’s already been some talk on Twitter about what the accomplishment should be called. Back-to-back tournament wins don’t make a dynasty, but if they were to win Champions in August, then they will rightfully be labeled as a dynasty. Not only that, but they did it in back-to-back fashion, after also winning VCT LOCK//IN earlier this year. Putting that aside though, Fnatic became the first VALORANT team to win two global LAN tournaments in winning Masters Tokyo. ![]() In fact, their only loss all year was in the VCT EMEA final to Team Liquid. The only blemish on Fnatic’s resume this year is not winning the inaugural season of VCT EMEA. Photo credit: Colin Young-Wolff / Riot Games These are just some of the most interesting takeaways from Masters Tokyo. EDG’s run plus the fact the top three was once again teams from three different regions is a testament to the development of strong VALORANT teams all over the world. EDward Gaming showed that Chinese VALORANT teams will be a force to be reckoned with going forward. ![]() Evil Geniuses proved all the doubters wrong in reaching the Tokyo final. Jake “Boaster” Howlett & Co.’s accomplishment will be a memorable part of VALORANT history, and the way Fnatic looked in Tokyo, they’re likely not done winning.īut Masters Tokyo will be remembered for more than just Fnatic’s win. Since the start of the VALORANT Champions Tour in 2021, they became the first team to win two global VCT events, and obviously the first to win two events consecutively too. Garena Free Fire is a popular mobile battle royale game developed by 111 Dots Studio.Īll of the statistics provided above do not include viewers from Chinese platforms.Fnatic won VALORANT Masters Tokyo to win their second consecutive global event. The highest viewer peak of any event was at Free Fire World Series 2021 Singapore with a 5.4 million viewer peak. The match propelled CS:GO ahead of games like VALORANT and Dota 2 in terms of highest peak viewers for a given match.ĬS:GO majors have historically been some of the most-viewed online esports events, sitting only behind large tournaments for games like League of Legends, Dota II, Fortnite and a handful of mobile games. On Twitch alone, more than 1.9 millions viewers tuned in to watch the PGL Major grand finals. With Na’Vi representing the Commonwealth of Independent States region and CS:GO in general being popular in Russia, many of the 2.7 million viewers were watching the event on Russian-language streams. The PGL Major is also the first after an extended two-year hiatus without majors on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many viewers tuned in to see the coronation of Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, who was one of the greatest CS:GO players to have never won a major. ![]()
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