FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #3 MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak AtaKaptan Ata Tan cNed Mehmet Yağız İpek qRaxs Doğukan Balaban have taken home their first crown of the partnership era with a towering win at Convergence 2023, dropping just two maps across three matches on their way to a tournament victory.

Convergence consisted of six teams, of which five were invited, split in two three-team groups. The final slot was awarded to True Rippers True Rippers Asia-Pacific Rank #11 Techno Shravana Kumar Sahoo Aryu Philip Vergara d1srupt Nereus Lico GauRanG DEATHMAKER Debanjan Das hellff Sagnik Roy , who won the invite-only Indian Closed Qualifier, narrowly beating out the likes of Reckoning Esports Reckoning Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #24 RvK Rishi Vijayakumar DOXZ3R Soumyadeep Dey LBY Eisuke Kuraoka Anq Ilya Matyash karam1l Norbu Tsering , Grayfox Esports Grayfox Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #23 Hoax Aman Yadav Kohliii Pranav Kohli Venka Venkatesh Sharma sayoo Willy Ivandra FOX Tanmay Verma adrnking Adrian Setiawan , and Medal Esports Medal Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #70 Excali Karan Mhaswadkar Kibojn Jayesh Negi Deadly10 Saksham Aurangabadkar vibhoRR Vibhor Vaid psy Simar Sethi . In the main event, the winner of each group at the end of the Bo3 round robin then moved on to the Bo5 grand final.

FUT were placed in Group B alongside Gen.G Gen.G Korea Rank #2 Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) Meteor Kim Tae-O (김태오) Lakia Kim Jong-min (김종민) Karon Kim Won-tae (김원태) and True Rippers. The Indian squad struggled to make a mark on LAN and gave up two wins to their opponents, which set up FUT and Gen.G for a final group showdown to decide the first finalist of Convergence. Gen.G kicked off that match with a 13-4 on Haven, but FUT dealt back two blows (Ascent 13-6; Lotus 14-12) that put the Turkish squad into the finals.

qRaxs at Champions 2023 qRaxs was FUT's best-rated player at Convergence. (Photo by Yicun Liu/Riot Games)

Over on Group A, Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #14 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Kicks Kimmie Laasner runneR Emil Trajkovski ceNder Jokūbas Labutis Sayf Saif Jibraeel dominated the competition with back-to-back 2-0 victories over Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #65 blaZek1ng Gary Dastin Lightningfast Abhirup Choudhury Polvi Niko Polvinen Benkai Benedict Tan Russ Russel Mendes and FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #8 kon4n Vitor Hugo mwzera Leonardo Serrati havoc Ilan Eloy Khalil Khalil Schmidt nzr Agustin Ibarra , dropping under 30 rounds across four maps. The final Group A match pitted Global against FURIA to decide second and third place. Global secured a 2-1 win in front of their home crowd.

The grand final between FUT and Vitality kicked off with a bang, as the former made Ascent a close 13-11 bout that ended up swaying the Golden Hornets' way. MrFaliN and co. replied with that same result on Sunset and Lotus to place themselves on match point heading into Vitality's Haven pick. Both teams ended the first half of Haven tied up, but cNed paved the way for his team on attack, opening up five crucial rounds that allowed his team to seucre a tournament-winning 13-8.

With their 3-1 over Vitality, FUT secured their first trophy in over a year and took home USD $25,000. The last time the Turkish roster struck gold was in August 2022, when they bested a different Vitality roster 3-2 in the VRL Finals. FUT will travel to Cairo, Egypt in January to participate in the Superdome 2023: Egypt, their final event before the 2024 season.