UK-centric Valorant side Team Liquid won the Valorant EU Stage 3 Challengers 2 final today to qualify for the Challengers playoffs.
Liquid, whose roster includes UK talents Soulcas, Kryptix and L1NK (plus coach Sliggy), as well as Belgian player ScreaM and Finnish player Jamppi, beat Giants Gaming 3-1 in the final today.
Liquid had beaten Fnatic, another side featuring UK talent (Boaster, Mistic and coach mini), 3-2 in the lower bracket final yesterday. Each game was very close, and Fnatic fought well but didn’t manage to get the victory.
This result means that Fnatic have failed to qualify for the EMEA Stage 3 Challengers Playoffs, and because of this, cannot make it to the Stage 3 Masters LAN in Berlin, which takes place in September.
It must be gut-wrenching for Fnatic, who qualified for the previous Masters event in Iceland with Liquid, and went on to reach the Stage 2 Masters Grand Final, where Fnatic lost to Sentinels.
Other UK teams that took part in EU Stage 3 Challengers 2 included Tenstar and Rix.GG Thunder. The latter managed to beat Alliance, while Tenstar picked up wins versus Team BDS and Rix before falling to Fnatic.
While Liquid made it through, it’s a little disappointing for UK as a region overall, which has an abundance of talent in Valorant, as few will be playing in Berlin. There will be Liquid’s UK players, Fire Flux’s UK coach Salah, and UK organisation Guild Esports, who have an all-Swedish Valorant roster.
The full list of teams taking part in the EMEA Stage 3 Challengers Playoffs from August 12th include Acend (who won Valorant VCT Europe Stage 3 Challengers 1), G2, Guild, FunPlus Phoenix, SuperMassive Blaze, Oxygen, Gambit, Navi, Liquid, Giants, Fire Flux and forZe.
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Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
