FunPlus Phoenix has been crowned the champions of Valorant Champions Tour 2022: Phase 2 Masters Copenhagen, obtaining defeated the APAC (Asia Pacific) initial seed Paper Rex in the most powerful sequence of the circuit with a stellar staff-huge functionality. The EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) representative took the crown back again from the North American region, profitable the organisation’s to start with intercontinental trophy.
Paper Rex, on the other hand, was a single action away from having their names in heritage textbooks, owning been the initially APAC workforce to qualify for the grand finals in an worldwide tournament. They removed the defending winner, OpTic Gaming, in the upper bracket finals, but their fairy tale finished at the arms of FunPlus Phoenix.
The grand closing collection could not have been far better, as both equally groups were being equipped to proceed competing irrespective of the two of them taking losses during the activity. At the close of the day, it was FPX who were being in a position to occur out victorious. On FPX’s map decide of Bind, they won eleven rounds in a row. Paper Rex could not resist the endless strain as FPX wasted no time closing the map to just take the sequence to the next match.
Paper Rex remained aggressive
In match two, FPX had been dominated on their opponent’s map decide. Paper Rex bounced again just after their discouraging reduction, exhibiting the team’s psychological strength. After securing four defence rounds in the next half, Paper Rex brought the collection to a third map, Fracture.
Paper Rex commenced greater on Fracture by profitable the pistol round. Having said that, FPX took the guide starting off from the fifth spherical with potent performances from Dmitry ”SUYVETSU” Ilyushin. However for Paper Rex, the next 50 percent of Fracture was the same as the very first 50 % of the opening map. FPX won 8 of ten rounds to conclude this gruelling war, capturing the guide once again in the series.
Haven would have been the conclude for Paper Rex devoid of the talent of their gamers Jing Jie “Jinggg” Wang and Jason ”f0rsaken” Susanto. They shined on both equally assault and defence, primary their teams to victory in a dominant trend in the next fifty percent. The sequence was again where it begun, but the two groups ended up out of chances to drop.
The deciding sport five
Breeze was back again and forth as the two groups found various advantages by winning consecutive rounds. FPX secured the initial three rounds, but Paper Rex was swift sufficient to solution with five-spherical wins in a row. From there on, the subsequent eight rounds had been split in 50 percent between the two teams. FunPlus Phoenix finally ended the 5-recreation intensive collection by profitable 6 attack rounds in a row.
With their epic final victory more than Paper Rex, FunPlus Phoenix attained $200,000 for their organisation along with netting 1,000 circuit details for Valorant Champions qualification. Paper Rex, on the other hand, will have a chance to get their revenge on FPX in Valorant Champions Istanbul, which is scheduled to start off on September 9.
