G2 Gozen and Team Liquid Brazil will play in the upper bracket final of VCT 2022: Game Changers Championship
/Teams G2 Gozen and Team Liquid Brazil picked up the opening wins of the VALORANT Champions Tour 2022: Game Changers Championship, making it to the Upper Bracket Finals to qualify for the Grand Finals. Despite the changes in the schedule, the championship was filled with intriguing confrontations, which are definitely worth talking about.
G2 Gozen
The first participant in the upper bracket final was the European team G2 Gozen. At the start of the championship, the team extremely confidently outplayed X10 Sapphire and made it to the next round of the competition.
In the semi-finals, G2 Gozen faced the representatives of Cloud9 White. At the same time, the series started on the Ascent map, which became the choice of the North American team. And yet, the "cloudy" seized the initiative on the server, thereby taking the first card - 13:7. Next, the teams moved to the Breeze map, which became the choice of G2 Gozen. Here the European team managed to impose its own rules of the game, thus equalizing the score in the series — 13:6. Everything was decided on the Pearl map, where there was no fight as such. As a result, G2 Gozen confidently closed the desider and made it to the finals of the upper bracket of VALORANT Champions Tour 2022: Game Changers Championship — 13:3.
Team Liquid Brazil
The next participant in the upper bracket final was Team Liquid Brazil, which started the championship in Berlin with a victory over FENNEL Female.
In the semi-finals of the event, which was postponed for a day due to scheduling difficulties, Team Liquid Brazil faced the representatives of Shopify Rebellion GC. The first pick, which became "native" for "liquid", went to the treasury of the North American team, which showed an excellent game on the Fracture map — 13:10. However, already at the choice of an opponent, Team Liquid Brazi managed to survive in overtime and take the series to the destroyer — 14:12. Everything was decided on the Icebox map, where the Brazilians immediately seized the initiative and did not let the opponent go until the very end. As a result, Team Liquid Brazil managed to win the series and made it to the next round in the upper bracket — 13:7.
Matches history: VCT 2022: Game Changers Championship
VALORANT Champions Tour 2022: Game Changers Championship takes place November 15-20 in Berlin at LEC Studio. As part of the championship, eight women's teams from Europe, Asia, Japan, North and Latin America are fighting for a total prize pool of $500,000.
VALORANT Champions Tour 2022: Game Changers Championship Prize Pool Breakdown
- 1st place: $180,000
- 2nd place: $110,000
- 3rd place: $80,000
- 4th place: $50,000
- 5th-6th place: $25,000
- 7th-8th place: $15,000