Despite not having massive stocks coming into this series, GIANTX countered a lot of peoples thoughts on them after putting a map in front against the favourites for the tournament, Paper Rex.
GIANTX came into Champions Paris as the 2nd seed for EMEA, and despite making a wonder run to make it to Paris, they still didn’t have many fans wondering if they can do it or if they can even go past groups.
They managed to stun alot of fans in their first series against the face of Valorant Esports, Sentinels, with a 2-1 victory over them confirming their match-up against the formidable Paper Rex after their win over Xi-Lai Gaming.
something topped the scoreboard with 63 frags across the three maps, widely being received as the best player in the world. In his last five series he has gone positive in all on them with a combined +80 across all the 5 series which included the two Champions games and the run in where they won VCT Pacific Stage 2 defeating RRQ in the grand final 3-1.
It seems ever since Toronto, they have just been getting better and evolving as a squad and the core of Jinggg f0rsakeN and d4v41 have kept strong and with the addition of two players in something and PatMen.
The mutual respect from GIANTX’s IGL, Cloud was shown after the series to something in the above tweet. It roughly translates to ‘You’re a beast, bro’ where he then tags something in his tweet.
Cloud and GiantX will now look towards facing the winner of the lower bracket series between Sentinels and Xi-Lai Gaming with China yet to get their first win at Champions as a region, it looks like an opening game rematch could follow between GIANTX and Sentinels.
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