Paper Rex

VCT Masters Copenhagen resumed today with the upper bracket final between NA's OpTic and APAC's Paper Rex. This match marked an important moment in VALORANT ...

Paper Rex will now move to the VCT Masters Copenhagen grand finals, where they will get a massive advantage with two map bans. Paper Rex initiated with this expected speed on Fracture, and the first few rounds were over in the blink of an eye. Unfortunately for OpTic, Paper Rex got the better of them today and became the first team to secure a spot in the grand final with their 2-1 victory. Benkai continued dominating on Breach with his flashes and stuns to secure his team a 9-3 half. Paper Rex took the first map of Haven with their signature attack-oriented playstyle that has caused teams to fumble so far in Masters. The Chamber duel between yay and f0rsakeN was exhilarating and close. The teams moved to Fracture, another map where Paper Rex have excelled in Masters so far.

Paper Rex, the ultimate underdog, managed to take down the best team in North America, OpTic, to reach the Valorant Masters Copenhagen finals.

You could cleary tell OpTic was lacking the confidence and aggresiveness to close out rounds like the used to. As it turns out, Paper Rex had to overcome one of the aforementioned LAN finalists - the winner of Masters Reykjavik at that, OpTic Gaming, doing so in convincing fashion. It all started on Haven, where Paper Rex showed an absolute dominant facet of their game, led by f0rsakeN's historic performance on Chamber, accruing 18 kills to only 10 deaths - more impressively, somehow he managed an outrageous 67% headshot accuracy.

After a short break of four days, the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) Stage 2 Masters Copenhagen is set to resume once again tonight.

Fans can enjoy the Lower Round 3 tie of the VCT Stage 2 Masters Copenhagen Playoffs between FunPlus Phoenix and Fnatic live at the Forum in Copenhagen by purchasing tickets. The EMEA champion has won the last two games against FunPlus Phoenix and will be looking to score a hat-trick tonight. Two back-to-back thrilling matches are lined up for tonight at the VCT Stage 2 Masters Copenhagen. Paper Rex will face OpTic Gaming in the first game of the day to be the first team to qualify for the Grand Finals on July 24, 2022.

Much like their run at the previous Masters, OpTic Gaming and their loss to Paper Rex starts another lower bracket run in Stage 2 Masters.

On that same path, they lost to Brazilian team LOUD in the upper bracket finals to beat them in the grand finals. “With Paper Rex, it wasn’t a lack of awareness that led to our loss; it was a lot of good lurks and timings,” FNS said. They didn’t beat them in their first rematch but did so at Stage 1 Masters on their way to the title. Firstly, from 2022 Stage 1 Challengers, OpTic lost to The Guard in the upper bracket finals. One could assume this would lead to some trouble for the team, but losing in the spot they did has gained them an international championship. This is the fourth time in 2022 that OpTic have lost an upper bracket final match.