On the 5th day of the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) Stage 2 Masters occasion in Copenhagen, Denmark on Thursday (Bastille Day) observed the playoffs in the end kick-off.
Singapore’s Paper Rex squared off with EMEA’s Guild Esports. With APAC’s pinnacle dogs making brief artwork of their fighters in a 2-0 sweep to enhance to the semifinals.
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Here’s How The Game Went Down
Paper Rex 2 – 0 Guild Esports
As the champions of the APAC Stage 2 Challengers event. Paper Rex skipped the Masters Copenhagen employer stage and earned a proper away seed to the playoffs.
Meanwhile, Guild Esports earned their playoff berth via blitzing through Group A.
The EMEA group dissatisfied Masters Reykjavik champions OpTic Gaming in their beginning in shape then defeated Argentina’s KRÜ Esports to take the pinnacle seed of Group A.
Game one: Ascent
The healthy opened in Guild’s map choose. In which they regrettably quickly misplaced the primary pistol and eco spherical to Paper Rex.
Guild finally notched a score within the 3rd round. But just as they have been rearing to make a comeback. PRX all once more retaliated with their hyper-aggressiveness to win six rounds in a row. All whilst the kills had been flippantly allotted throughout their roster.
Aaron “Mindfreak” Leonheart, particularly, exemplified the Singaporean organization’s confidence. As he seamlessly clutched a 1v2 in the route of round eight, setting PRX in the lead at 7-1. This was shortly found with a Frenzy 4K from Benedict “Benkai” Tan. As Paper Rex continued to widen the distance between them and Guild.
Fortunately for Guild, the crew did manage to prevent the bleeding for multiple rounds, However, the first half ended with PRX up the usage of 8-4.
Come the second half, the momentum first-class stored swinging in Paper Rex’s route.
With another 3 rounds inside the bag, Jason “f0rsakeN” Susanto ultimately turned into giving his arms to an operator. The usage of it without issue executes his lurks and traps Guild through surprise.
After f0rsakeN was given a clean commencing choice, Wang “Jinggg” Jing Jie located it up together with his Raze, picking off the contributors of Guild one after the alternative to vicinity the EMEA crew at an insurmountable deficit.
Guild attempted to maintain off, but, the map ended at thirteen-4 with Paper Rex fantastic.
Game 2: Fracture
For recreation, the movement took to Paper Rex’s map pick out, Fracture.
Here, the APAC powerhouse quickly obtained the pistol spherical, way to a 1v1 take maintain of Mindfreak. Paper Rex also acquired the following two rounds, with a chaotic 5v5 on round three showcasing how well the group worked collectively.
But simply because the map commenced out going into Paper Rex’s way again, Guild in the long run decided their footing. Foregoing their slow playstyle, Guild began playing greater aggressively to form their combatants, winning a thrifty way to Saif “Sayf” Jibraeel and Leo “Leo” Jannesson earlier than additionally winning the following three rounds.
However, Paper Rex got here properly-prepared, and managed to win rounds earlier than a brief backward and forward with Guild, completing the primary 1/2 at a 6-6 tie.
PRX drew first blood inside the 2d pistol spherical, however, Guild took the next three.
From right here, each team went on a frantic back and forth that went in desire of no man or woman. PRX would possibly strike, and the Guild may want to resolve with aggression, even handling to gain double digits before their opponents.
With no result in sight for each organization, the map turned into regarded as destined for past ordinary time.
At 12-11, Guild took healthy points and seemed set to pressure the gathering to a decider. However, Paper Rex has become able to relax a defuse via spherical 24, sending the map to additional time.
Here, Paper Rex wasted no time securing the 2 rounds they wanted off the again of a grasp from Khalish “d4v41” Rusyaidee to quit the map at 14-12 and comfortable the two-zero series win.
What’s Next For PRX and Guild?
With nowadays’ consequences, Paper Rex is superior to the higher bracket semifinals. There they’ll face EMEA pinnacle seed Fnatic, who swept close by combatants FunPlus Phoenix in their personal quarterfinals matchup.
Meanwhile, Guild falls into the decrease bracket, where they will face FunPlus Phoenix in the in shape’s first spherical of playoff removal fits.
Masters Copenhagen will see 12 of the top VALORANT teams from all over the international clashing with every other from 10 to 24 July, eager about the danger to reign effective as the Copenhagen champions and declare a niche in VALORANT Champions 2022 in Istanbul come September.
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