Rivals Fight Night #13: Has Virtus.pro finally met its match?

Marvel Rivals Struggle Night time #13 has concluded. Whereas a brand new champion has been topped over in North America, Europe is beholden to probably the most spectacular win streaks within the esports scene.

100 Thieves reclaimed its spot as one of the best workforce in NA, whereas Virtus.professional earned its twelfth win within the EU collection. Nonetheless, it confronted its first true problem since getting into the Marvel Rivals.

Struggle Night time #12 was received by ENVY, nevertheless, the workforce didn’t take part this week. This left the earlier week’s winner, 100 Thieves, to step in because the ‘champion’ this time round after a one-sided remaining with Shroud-X.

Shroud-X was capable of defeat Citadel Gaming, who had been taking part in Struggle Night time for the primary time, with a slender 3-2 victory within the Challenger’s Match. Nonetheless, the identical couldn’t be stated for the finals, as 100 Thieves left with a 3-0 sweep in opposition to Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek’s workforce.

Here’s a full breakdown of the finals match between Shroud-X (SDX) and 100 Thieves (100T):

In the course of the finals livestream, NA commentator Andrew ‘ZP’ Rush stated: “Put up-Shroud Gauntlet, I do suppose you will have a bit of little bit of a stratification the place prime of NA for me proper now are ENVY and 100 Thieves. And I do suppose they’ve made a bit of little bit of a niche between them and the opposite groups.

“Though Shroud-X has performed 100 Thieves shut up to now, I didn’t essentially suppose it might be the case tonight. Total, among the intestine feels ended up being true.’

Virtus.professional as soon as once more got here out on prime, topped the Struggle Night time victor as soon as once more. This time, nevertheless, it didn’t come fairly as simply as earlier weeks. Brr Brr Patapim (BBP) gave the highest workforce the problem of a lifetime, and the underdog squad was very shut to creating historical past.

After BBP received in opposition to Al Qadsiah 3-0 within the Challengers Match, the workforce then confronted Virtus.professional within the finals. The final time the 2 groups confronted off was in Fight Night #9, the place Virtus.professional left with a 3-0 sweep. Nonetheless, this time was lots nearer than anticipated.

Right here is the complete breakdown of the finals match between BBP and Virtus.professional (VP):

Regardless of Virtus.professional finally successful, commentators had been impressed with BBP’s efficiency, because it was presumably the primary actual problem that Virtus.professional had confronted within the collection.

In the course of the final livestream, EU commentator Jacob ‘JAKE’ Lyon stated: “They’re [Virtus.Pro] simply indomitable, proper, with the ability to return time and time once more, face all challengers. And for now, for the primary time, they had been pushed to the brink, they usually struck again simply as exhausting.

“VP as soon as once more are going to say that title belt, however now the gauntlet has been thrown down, there’s a true challenger in Europe. We are able to’t take away from what Brr Brr Patapim has completed.”