An all South American tie ended with KRU taking down LOUD in a reverse sweep 2-0 after previously losing to them 2-0 in the Upper Bracket earlier in the season.

LOUD go out of VCT Americas Kick-Off in 5th-6th place after having a more than impressive run through the bracket after fans had the idea in their head that they were near the bottom of VCT Americas.

Despite dominating in the reverse fixture in the upper bracket, KRU have bounced back with their new roster and seem to have regained their 2024 form after knocking out Kick-Off favourites, NRG Esports and now LOUD.

Melser took the top spot in the Leaderboard with an incredible KD of 45/25 on the controller role. Whilst pANcada led for LOUD with a 32/32 KD. This series was the battle between Controller players, and the new talent, Melser, came out on top.

After being one of the strongest Duelist players in Kick-Off this year, LOUD DGZ had a poor start to the series with only 13 kills on Bind on the Raze, he did however, bring it back on the second map on Jett dropping 23 kills.

VALORANT CHAMPAGNE @veelaskez #VCTAmericas pic.twitter.com/Mw0RSZWnw2

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With this win under KRU’s belt, they advance to the semi-final of the Lower Bracket and will go on to face off against MIBR after they just beat Leviatan in a nerve wrecking 2-1 series. They will fight for a spot for Masters Bangkok, only being 2 wins away.

For LOUD, they will be out of VCT Kick-Off and out of competition until VCT Americas Stage 1 kicks off where all of the teams will play a standard league type format of games against all the other teams in the league.