Insights

Can FULL SENSE pull out the impossible and make a statement that their run in the APAC LCQ is not a fluke?

This year, Team Secret wrote themselves into VALORANT history by becoming one of the Southeast Asian representatives in the most prestigious VALORANT tournament of the year, VALORANT Champions 2021. But can they carry the momentum from their fabulous VCT Stage 3 run into the remainder of this year?

We caught up with Shara “Ayaaa” Koshikawa from Nigma Galaxy Female to hear about her early journey in VALORANT and the preparation so far heading into the new season of VCT Game Changers next year.

NUTURN Gaming has announced Keun-chul “solo” Kang’s retirement from competitive VALORANT, bringing an end to a career that began in 2005 and spanned across four different titles: Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike Online, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and VALORANT. 

The sole representatives of Korea at Champions will soon face the other fifteen teams in the most prestigious VALORANT competition this year. Can they bring back the glorious days of South Korean FPS in VALORANT?

Elian “Imcarnus” Lopez of Kantic Gaming recounts his path from the start of his career with CERBERUS Esports to establishing Kantic Gaming, a unique team composition of international players presently residing in Vietnam, and by far the only English-speaking team in the upper-echelon of Vietnam VALORANT. 

Velocity Gaming has signed Tejas “rite2ace” Sawant to a one-year contract extension that will see his existing deal gain an additional year, keeping him under contract with the organization at least until September 2022. 

Bren Esports VALORANT sat down with VALO2ASIA ahead of the Filipino team’s journey to Berlin, and touched on the impact of their mental coach, the Filipino community and what changes they feel have had the biggest impact on their improvement since VCT Stage 2.

Despite being a one-year-old game, VALORANT has brought so many new names to the light. As Stage 3 draws to a close, sixteen of Southeast Asia’s finest teams will show what they’ve got so far in order to earn a spot at Masters 3 Berlin. With this high caliber of VALORANT professional matchups happening soon, VALO2ASIA has prepared a list of names that you should keep a close eye on.

We sat down with Alter Ego Celestè’s in-game leader to learn more about the team, particularly their opinion about the team’s success so far, which is frequently compared to Cloud9 White’s dominance in North America.