APAC talent looking for recognition in Copenhagen
The region of APAC is constantly underappreciated, but coming into stage 2 of VCT ‘22 we have two of the strongest teams in the region's history looking to do damage on the Copenhagen stage. This is APAC’s event-to-win and Paper Rex and XERXIA are in Denmark to give the title of a major region to APAC.
The teams that will be representing our region this Masters are; XERXIA eSports, one of the most storied teams in our region winning Masters 1 ‘21 as well as making it to playoffs in Champions ‘21. Joining them as our number #1 seed is Paper Rex, consisting of some of the most mechanically gifted players in the world jinggg and f0rsaken. That iconic duo took Paper Rex to the top, placing 4th last Masters event and showing promising signs in groups of Masters Berlin.
More on the Teams.
Paper rex is a singapore-based eSports team started by former CS:GO professional for FNATIC Harley "dsn" Örwall. Paper Rex’s VALORANT division began with the signing of Tier 2 talent, but when that team eventually fell through Paper Rex made the decision to move their CS:GO team consisting of d4v41, f0rsaken, benkai, mindfreak and Kumersan “Tommy” Ramani. Tommy was later dropped in wake of the signing of jinggg and shiba. Former players Tommy and Shiba.
Paper Rex found immediate success with their new roster placing third in SEA Challengers (now APAC challengers) and second at the following challengers giving them a slot in Masters Berlin. The following year Paper Rex was in good form. With little competition after a disappointing performance from APAC rivals Team Secret in their own regional challengers. This stage their only true rival would be that of XERXIA eSports.
XERXIA has had a storied past in VALORANT, after winning SEA Masters and making it to the quarterfinals of Champions, placing them among the top 8 teams in the world. XERXIA has had a long standing rivalry with the current world champions OpTic Gaming with playing four matches between each other in their match history. At Champions ‘21 and at Masters Reykjavik ‘22. They have a 2-2 match history between them that goes back to the days of ENVY and X10 Crit.
There are twelve people going to Copenhagen representing our region those people are:
Sushiboys (XERXIA)
Foxz (XERXIA)
sScary (XERXIA)
Surf (XERXIA)
Crws (XERXIA)
Zeus (XERXIA coach)
Benkai (Paper Rex)
Mindfreak (Paper Rex)
D4v41 (Paper Rex)
Jinggg (Paper Rex)
F0rsaken (Paper Rex)
Alecks (Paper Rex coach)
These people will be showing the world what our region can do. Let’s show them some love. We know what Paper Rex is capable of and we’ve seen it. Time to see if XERXIA can break the tie against OpTic Gaming.
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