The first somewhat upset of Masters Santiago comes from the EMEA 3rd Seed, after their incredible showing against T1, who came into the tournament looking promising after their dominant 3-0 win over RRQ in VCT Pacific Kick-Off.
Map 1 took centre stage on Breeze, with Team Liquid leaning more into the MiniBoo Neon alongside a kamo Yoru, differing very much from the start of the season where they had MiniBoo on Yoru and purp0 was on Jett. They have seemed to have understood how much impact he brings and how impressive MiniBoo is on the Neon.
Team Liquid managed a comfortable map with a 13-8 scoreline despite stax putting up 21 kills on the sova, it just wasn’t enough for T1 to even compete in this series where MiniBoo was running rampant across the map, ending up in the enemy spawn at some points.
Map 2 went to Split, where purp0 really came alive on the Skye, which seems to be his comfort Initiator, where he was really able to let loose and deliver multiple rounds of multi-kills to help his team cross the line.
The series went all the way to Overtime, which each team having no signs of giving the series up easily. However, it was purp0 and Team Liquid who ended the series on top, with an incredible 15-13 overtime win, starting their Masters Santiago journey off with a win for the new roster.
Despite stax doing everything he could on the side of T1 in the fragging department, it just wasn’t enough to stop Team Liquid from running away with the series and MiniBoo securing yet another win on the Neon.
A terrifying stat for Team Liquids future opponents, is that MiniBoo, when on the Neon is currently 10-0 in maps, with no team even coming close to being able to shut down his Neon.
Team Liquid will take this win in their stride as they await to see who they will draw in their series in the 1-0 partition of the Masters Santiago Swiss stage.
Valorant Digest 
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