Asian Teams Crumble at Groups, Only DRX Left Standing

The Valorant Champions 2022 group stage is ending at this time on eighth September with Teams C and D taking part in their remaining decider collection to find out the second seed. After at this time, solely eight groups will transfer on and battle to get their fingers on the coveted Valorant Champions 2022 trophy and title. Six groups have already punched of their tickets and after at this time’s collection, the final two groups will be part of the others. Nonetheless, issues aren't wanting nice for the groups from the Asian areas. With solely DRX left within the operating, the opposite groups will head again dwelling and take inventory of the scenario.

The next are the Asian groups that participated in Valorant Champions 2022:

• Singapore - Paper Rex (Valorant Champions Tour [VCT] Asia Pacific [APAC])

• Thailand - XERXIA (VCT APAC)

• Japan - ZETA Division (VCT Japan)

• Korea -DRX (VCT Korea)

• Indonesia - BOOM Esports (VCT APAC)

• China - EDward Gaming (EDG) (VCT East Asia)

Three groups from APAC and one group every from Japan, Korea, and East Asia attended the event, and all groups, besides DRX from Korea, bought eradicated in teams.

In Group A, issues had been wanting optimistic for the squad of Paper Rex (PRX) that received its opener towards EDG with a 2-1 scoreline. Nonetheless, it dropped the higher bracket collection towards Leviatán, and on seventh September, PRX faltered and misplaced to Crew Liquid, thus ending its Valorant Champions 2022 journey. Notably, PRX rewrote VCT historical past at Grasp Copenhagen after being the first-ever APAC group to make it to a world LAN remaining.

BOOM Esports certified for Valorant Champions 2022 via the APAC Final Likelihood Qualifier and was seeded into Group B. The group went 0-2 in teams after dropping to each OpTic Gaming and ZETA Division.

XERXIA, the second APAC group to qualify for Valorant Champions 2022, additionally had a disappointing event in Istanbul. The group was pitted towards the likes of XSET, FunPlus Phoenix (FPX), and KRU Esports in Group C. Notably, XERXIA misplaced its opener towards XSET with a 0-2 scoreline and subsequently bought eradicated by the fingers of KRU Esports.

ZETA Division fought for its Valorant Champions life

ZETA Division from Japan was seeded into Group B however didn't make it to the playoffs after dropping to LOUD Esports within the decider match on seventh September. The group had a shaky event. ZETA misplaced the opener towards LOUD, received the elimination match towards BOOM, however then misplaced to LOUD Esports once more.

EDG places up a robust efficiency in first worldwide LAN

Valorant Champions was the and its consultant EDward Gaming (EDG). Followers lastly witnessed the much-discussed aggression of the Chinese language powerhouse that received the East Asian Final Likelihood Qualifier (LCQ) and made it to Istanbul. Most groups at Valorant Champions 2022 said that they had been excited and searching ahead to taking part in towards EDG and the group was arguably dubbed the darkish horse of the event.

Nonetheless, the group couldn't make it previous the group stage. In reality, it was the primary group to be eradicated from Group A. Regardless of getting booted early from the event, the group put up a robust efficiency and examined its opponents. Notably, the matchup between EDG and Paper Rex on thirty first August grew to become essentially the most considered opening match throughout all VCT occasions up to now with over 760,000 peak concurrent viewers tuning in, in keeping with information from Esports Charts.

With all 5 groups eradicated, the hopes and goals of Asia at Valorant Champions 2022 solely relaxation on the Korean squad of DRX. The group will face Group C’s second seed within the playoffs higher bracket on ninth September.

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