XSET beat Fnatic 2-0 in VALORANT Champions 2022 Playoffs

The meeting between XSET and Fnatic ended with the victory of the North American team with a score of 2:0. Not to say that the victory was easy, Fnatic fought to the end on both maps, but luck was on the side of XSET today. With this victory, the XSET team advances further in the upper bracket, the next opponent will be the OpTic Gaming team. As for the Fnatic team, they fall into the lower bracket, where they will meet with Team Liquid.

The first opposing map was Pearl. XSET immediately gained the advantage, the Europeans could not break through their defense, only in 3 rounds the Fnatic team managed to win. After the side switch, we saw a good Fnatic defense, but XSET were on a roll today and they did everything not to drag out this map and quickly move to Fracture. XSET 13:8 Fnatic.

On the Fratucre map, we were in for a very tough fight. On the one hand, we saw not the best defense against XSET, for which they took 5 rounds, and on the other hand, the North Americans attacked very cool. Only one round was not enough for Fnatic to reach overtime, but they lacked quite a bit. XSET 13:11 Fnatic.

VALORANT Champions 2022 takes place from August 31 to September 18 in Istanbul at the Volkswagen Arena. As part of the championship, sixteen teams from Europe, North and South America, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, China and Southeast Asia are fighting for a total prize pool of $1,000,000.