A mix team featuring various esports personalities – and representing London-based organisation Fnatic – have won Ludwig’s Valorant Brew Battles.
This event hosted by popular content creator Ludwig was billed as a ‘Valorant Crew Battle’, taking the idea from the FGC (fighting game community) and applying it to Valorant.
Crew battles are usually invitationals where single players form one-off squads to compete against one another.
The Valorant Brew Battles event featured a mix of personalities of differing ability levels, representing esports teams including Fnatic, Team Liquid, OTV/DSG, Moist Moguls, Sentinels and NRG.
Each team had a pro player, a women’s Game Changers player, an Ascendant/Immortal ranked player, as well as a Plat/Diamond player and a Silver/Gold player.
As well as US hosts Ludwig and Sean Gares, Brit DDK and G2 Gozen Danish player Mimi also joined as broadcast talent.
The Valorant Brew Battles format featured three phases:
- Round robin 1v1 crew battle – two groups, with the top two teams in each progressing
- 5v5 team deathmatch – best-of-three, single elimination
- Competitive 5v5 – best-of-one
Teams could choose to spin a challenge wheel or pick a map themselves.
Valorant Brew Battles teams and players
Valorant Brew Battles featured the following teams:
- Team Liquid: Tiffae, Jerbifer, Wardell, Alixxa and AverageJonas
- Sentinels: Leendadong, Leena, Doublelift, Jazzyk1ns and Zombs
- OTV/DSG: Babybay, Scarra, Hannah, Brodin and Masayoshi
- Fnatic: Keeoh, Starriebun, Megsoundslikegg, Yinsu Collins and Kamyk
- NRG: Screwface, Jollz, Atlas, Willius and Tupperware
- Moist Moguls: Flyuh, Ludwig, Slime, Envy and mle
Fnatic Meg on Valorant Brew Battles win
Fnatic beat OTV/DSG at the end of the tournament, in what was described on-stream by a host as ‘maybe the worst game of Valorant I’ve ever watched in my life!’
Before the match, the wheel was spun and it landed on ‘Spy’, meaning one player from each team (Scarra on OTV/DSG and Meg on Fnatic) had to sabotage their team and try to help their opponents win.
Fnatic eventually won the Valorant Brew Battles boot trophy after being crowned champions.
After the win, British Fnatic streamer Meg spoke about having to sabotage her team as the ‘spy’: “That was truly terrifying, I knew there was pressure on me to do awfully – I’m good at that normally in ranked but this was on a different level. I’m trying really hard but I’m just bad!
“It was good fun, I picked it up at the end because I realised I was lacking on the comms!”
You can watch the Valorant Brew Battles stream back on Ludwig’s YouTube channel
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.
