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Valorant Champions Tour 2021, held in Reykjavik, concluded on May 30, 2021, with the North American side, Sentinels, taking the crown after a dominating performance during the tournament.
The champions skipped the Play-In stage and faced Fnatic in the first round, where they kicked off their bid for a clean sheet during the tournament. After dropping Fnatic, they repeated the feat against Team Vikings and NUTURN Gaming in the following two rounds and eventually reached the finals without losing a single map.
Meanwhile, Fnatic conquered the bottom side of the bracket and paved their way to the finals, resulting in a repeat match against the Sentinels. Instead of the best-of-three format from the rounds leading up to finals, we would witness an epic best-of-five, which ended with a clean sweep for Sentinels.
It probably sounds crazy that a 3-0 match where the champions didn't lose a single point during the entire tournament would sound like a close affair but it truly was. Not a single map was a dominating performance and two of them went into overtime.
The three maps played in the finals were Split, Bind and Haven. Split ended up with 14-12 in favour of Sentinels, with Bind having an even closer result of 16-14. By the time Haven rolled around, Sentinels' display in two high-intensity bouts seems to have prevailed and broken Fnatic's morale as this one didn't go into overtime and the scoreboard showed 13-11 in the end.
Those one million viewers were in for a treat even though the finals ended with 3-0 but this sets an interesting precedent for future international tournaments as other regions will try to improve and take the crown or at least make a dent in Sentinels' armour.
