Paper Rex’s disaster start to VCT Pacific 2025 continues with yet another loss, this time coming to the Masters Shanghai winners, Gen.G.

Despite keeping their roster the same for 3 years now, Paper Rex still don’t seem to have a grip on this years meta, with this series having their designated flex player, f0rsakeN, put onto the main Duelist role for the three maps in this series.

Despite teams like T1, DRX and Team Vitality leaning into the double Duelist, one of the teams that always played double Duelist have seemingly moved away from it and more into the Initiator meta that is happening due to Tejo being introduced.

Karon topped the leader board gaining MVP for the series against Paper Rex with a great 58 kills across the three maps on the Controller role that won him the Masters Shanghai trophy last year.

The leader for Paper Rex was f0rsakeN who picked up the Waylay, Neon and Yoru whilst their resident Duelist Jinggg has moved to a full time Controller role for the side. Whilst their secondary Duelist, something, also swapped roles and was on the perma Breach for the series, only getting him 36 frags across the three maps despite his Jett being one of the best in the world.

Whilst this series looked rough for Paper Rex, it looked great for Gen.G with their new additions of Ash and Suggest replacing Yoman and Foxy9 for the series. This might’ve gave them a push to perform to the standard that fans know the core can provide.

We drop today's match [1-2] GGWP Gen.G 🙏🏻

Lotus: 10-13
Fracture: 13-6
Haven: 4-13

Next match:
vs BME
6 April, 4:00PM SGT #VCTPacific pic.twitter.com/le9chsQgTX

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After this win, Gen.G will look towards DFM for their second win of stage 1 hoping to set their record positive and send it to a 2-1 after their shock loss to BOOM Esports in week 1.

Paper Rex will go on to face off against BOOM, who recently beat Gen.G and are looking very good after their surprise promotion to Tier 1 this season. They will hope to get their first win of Stage 1 and start their journey to Toronto in Week 3 of VCT Pacific Stage 1.