Mine was V1 vs Envy to qualify to Iceland
I remember mummay Astra op
this is kinda crazy but this was the first time i tried watching any kind of esports and it was the OPTIC vs LOUD champs grand finals live
https://www.vlr.gg/535/team-solomid-vs-cloud9-immortals-first-light-gf
the OG c9 roster was pretty similar to LEV earlier this year
GUILD vs FPX masters 1 2021 i think. it was so fun to watch. For NA is was GENG vs IMT in challengers at some point, and i know that for korea the first match i watched was VS against some random KR team that i cant remember the name of now.
edit: this is why i love guild and more specifically sayf and leo. and why i hate ange1. i was cheering for guild so hard and this boomer comes in and shoots their heads, and i thought who is this ange1 guy i hate him.
not NUTURN, i would have remembered if it was a team like DK, F4Q, TNL, NUTURN or RIO or WGS but it was another team idk what it was. this was after masters 1 2021 so it wasnt T1 or C9 either.
SEN vs FNC Reykjavik 2021
first ever favorite region was EMEA and team was Gambit as I watched them through EMEA stage 3 2021
Don't remember the exact matches, but I started watching pro Val during LOCK//IN.
I don't remember exactly, but I think that it was the Acend 3-2 Gambit in Champs 2021
I didn't even play Valorant when I saw this game, so that's a only a guess, I only remember seeing Acend's logo and the map being Ascent
Sen vs fnatic icebox 2021 rekijavik shroud co-stream. Shahz went crazy that series bro was double updrafting from mid to b main something like that and going aggro on ropes to pipes which was pretty interesting for me who had just started playing the game
I don't remember at all what my first match was, but I do remember being very confused who Victor was (when he changed his name) and I remember looking it up on vlr so it must have been a decent time before victor changed his name off of food
Loud x Vivo keyd.
In 2022 Loud was a "weak team who would choke against big brazilian org".
13 - 3
13 - 0
A massacre from Loud 🦁
SEN vs LG, been a Tenz fan since the "This is his world, and we are just living in it" dropped
Was on and off, but the first was SEN vs FNC grands 2021
Got back into VCT for Optic/Loud in early 2022, loved yay and marved
Then really got invested because I became a PRX fan, and hated the fpx roster after yk what (i love that navi team now, one of my fav emea teams)
Favorite player will always be marved/aspas/f0rsaken/s0m though
i would like to say 100T vs C9 2022 challengers stage 1 but maybe it was a bit earlier
nvm it was a week 1 match so yeah
Not on vlr, but I think it was the finals of the Wave Esports Cup #1 back in 2020, with the original NiP roster
Vod is still up and shit is funny af to see how far even your average player has come (also how bad valo was back then) https://liquipedia.net/valorant/Wave_Esports/Cup_1
copenhagen grand finals prx vs fpx. first vct match i ever watch and started with a heartbreak...
some random match during na first strike, but I do remember the TSM vs 100t grand finals watching myth
ts was funny asl
Liquid vs OXG ( was a scream fan at that time)
The first full match I watched was SEN vs PKS in 2022. Damn, that's crazy bro, I forgot PKS existed for a sec.
BBL vs Bonk
Allied Esports Odyssey
One of the craziest games I have ever watched in VAL history
https://www.vlr.gg/1715/bbl-esports-vs-bonk-allied-esports-odyssey-qual-2-gf
probably most turkish fans first match
Whatever the first na tournament was in beta probs something like the T1 invitational or smth
It was some 100T game during First Strike. The first one I remember was against SEN but I think I watched some prior games too
I started watching in NA LCQ 22. Mostly because shroud joined Sen and after watching Sen I just loved their chemistry and how funny they and the org was
I don’t remember the exact match but it was V1’s run to qualify for reykjavik back when they had Vanity, Penny, Zellsis, and Wippies
first tournaments i remember watching are pop flash and first strike, but the first ones where i was really paying attention and trying to think about the game was probably champs 2021
Acend vs Gambit Champs Grand final only because it was everywhere in valorant.
First Strike NA TSM 2-0 NV was my first game watched.
The game that really got me into VCT was F4Q 2-1 VS in 2021 VCT Korea Stage 2
somewhere in masters tokyo i watched someone i forgor who tho probably eg vs fnatic upper final
gambit vs fnatic. it was the game where nats played sage, I saw nats do the sage wall across tube (icebox) and planted and that was the moment I was invested in gambit, nats and esports
lock in grand finals, I didn't even have a rank then but it was a very good first game