The G2 Esports women’s Valorant team have made history today after winning their third Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) Game Changers final in a row.
They beat UK esports organisation Guild Esports’ Guild X team in the EMEA Series 2 grand final 3-0, but it wasn’t a complete thrashing. Guild put up a solid fight, losing 13-8 on Breeze, 15-13 on Ascent and 13-10 on Icebox.
G2 swept aside their opposition in the tournament, beating Tenstar Nova, Nomads, Guild X and Rix.GG Lightning all 2-0, before beating Guild again in the final to be the back-to-back-to-back champions of the Game Changers women’s tournament series.
It was a repeat of the VCT Game Changers EMEA Series 1 grand final, where G2 beat Guild 3-1 before cheekily demeaning their opposition in their post-match interviews.
“We are VCT Game Changers champions! I’m so happy, my teammates are insane, this org is insane, I’m literally so fucking grateful.”
Glance, G2 Gozen
In this Series 2 tournament, Guild went on a solid run in the lower bracket, beating SuperMassive Blaze, Futbolist Jeff and fellow UK organisation Rix.GG Lightning to reach the grand final versus G2 Gozen.
Guild were also hit with a competitive ruling from Riot Games for accidentally forfeiting a map using the in-game surrender option.
G2 Gozen also won the final VCT Game Changers of 2021. Prior to that, UK org Tenstar had won two VCT Game Changers tournaments in a row with their Tenstar Nova Valorant team.
But tonight was Gozen’s time to shine – we’ll leave you with a selection of tweets from G2 players and staff as well as host Yinsu.
The G2 Gozen roster currently consists of juliano, zAAz, Petra, mimi (who was recently among the Forbes 30 Under 30 European esports talent) and Glance. Tibalt is team manager and Carcass is coach.
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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.
