FS Esports defeats Team Valor in the Grand Finals of the Marcos Invitational Cup

FS Esports defeats Team Valor in the Grand Finals of the Marcos Invitational Cup

FS Esports defeats Team Valor in the Grand Finals of the Marcos Invitational Cup

FS Esports faced Team Valor in the Finals of the Marcos Invitational Cup. This tournament consisted of over 8 Valorant teams based in India. Team Valor were quite the favourites to win the tournament after defeating the likes of God particle and True Rippers in the quarter and semi-finals respectively. FS Esports spectacularly won the Grand Final defeating Team Valor 3-1 in the best of 5 series.

Before the match Team, FS Esports had announced that their team member Fs Cactus was set to depart from the team. Due to this, the odd wasn’t in the favour of the team due to one of their famous and known player’s departure. During the match selected to ban the maps of Fracture as well as Breeze. While this made it seem like an old school bout between the teams. With the newly released maps out of the way, FS Esports selected the maps of Ascend and Icebox while Team Valor was in favour of the smaller maps Haven and Split.

The roster of FS Esports was as follows:

  1.  FS BadmaN
  2.  FS B2
  3.  FS Kohliii
  4.  FS DominiK
  5. FS CortezZ

While the roaster of Team Valor was as follows:

  1. BuLL3T
  2. Busterrr
  3. Pashasahil
  4. Hoax
  5. JN

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First Map on Icebox between FS Esports and Team Valor

FS Esports defeats Team Valor in the Grand Finals of the Marcos Invitational Cup

The first match on Ascend began with style with FS Esports taking the pistol round as well as the second round. It was stated by the commentators that if FS were able to take more than 5 rounds of attack, they would win the map. Due to Team Valor being well known for their aggressive and calculated attack. The first half of the map ended at 9-3 to FS Esports who looked clear to win the game. But Team Valor fought within them and tried to come back with all guns blazing taking the score to 12-10 but losing on the ground giving the map to FS. FS DominiK and BuLLeT were the top fraggers on the map both taking 22 kills each.

Second Map on Haven between FS Esports and Team Valor

FS Esports defeats Team Valor in the Grand Finals of the Marcos Invitational Cup

Team Valor on their choice on the map was about to start with a bang but the opponents decided to spoil the party. By winning the first two rounds. But Valor tried to change the tide to their favour by winning the next two rounds in a row. But it was all FS until the end of the round being brilliant on the defence ending the first round on 9-3 as well.

Since the last map it could be seen that the 9-3 curse within Valorant could be true as on the defence Team Valor made the comeback taking the score to 12-11 but again lost the last round taking it to overtime. In Overtime FS Esports were able to defuse the spike in the first round and win the second on attack propelling them to a 2-0 lead. Pashasahil from Team Valor was the Top Fragger from the Map with 26 kills and 9 assists with an impressive ADR of 202.

Third Map on Icebox between FS Esports and Team Valor

FS Esports defeats Team Valor in the Grand Finals of the Marcos Invitational Cup

The map of Icebox while being the choice of FS Esports was stated to be the map where Team Valor is at its best. It did seem that way as well as Team Valor on defence were brilliant being able to stop most of the plants before the spike was planted. Team Valor for the first time during the Tie was leading a map during halftime with the score being 8-4 to Team Valor.

FS Esports following the break were on a different level being able to win the first two rounds and then turning the lead to themselves making the score to 10-11. While for many it seemed like the end of the series with Valor not having the momentum on their side, they were able to make the comeback and win the tide 13-11. Busterrr ended the map with being the Top Fragger with an impressive 23 kills and 4 assists with an immense Headshot% of 37%.

Final Map on Split between FS Esports and Team Valor

FS Esports defeats Team Valor in the Grand Finals of the Marcos Invitational Cup
FS Esports defeats Team Valor in the Grand Finals of the Marcos Invitational Cup

While the next map was Split and it was the pick of Team Valor. In this map as well as the previous map the Character picks between both teams were mirrored. On this map, both the team coms consisted of Sage, Killjoy, Kay/o and Astra. The only difference is the choice of Duelist with FS going for Raze and Valor going for Jett. From hindsight, it might seem that the difference in duelist is what helped FS Esports win the Map.

At halftime, FS was in the lead at 8-4 on defence. During this best of five, it must be stated that FS were brilliant on defence and the post-plant as well. The match ended on 13-10 to FS Esports with Valor winning the first 4 rounds of the second half and then losing the next 4 in quick succession. On kills the Top Fragger of this map would be BuLL3T with 23 kills and 8 assists and an ADR of 179. The man of the map was DominiK who took 21 kills and 16 assists with an ADR of 178.

The tournament ended with FS Esports being the inaugural Winners of the Marcos Valorant Invitational Cup. With this won Team, FS Esports are in the top 115 teams in the Asia Pacific zone of Valorant according to vlr.gg. While one wasn’t able to see these two teams face it off on the new maps in-game the finals didn’t want to make anyone leave their seats till the end of all the maps.

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