Paper Rex loses to Team Liquid and leaves VALORANT Champions 2022

The first meeting of the game day started on the Haven map, which became the choice of the European team. At the same time, the teams showed an equal fight, keeping the audience in suspense. As a result, they had to play overtime, where Team Liquid players turned out to be stronger — 14:12.

The teams then moved to the Pearl map, which became the choice of Paper Rex. However, no struggle was foreseen here, since the team from Southeast Asia immediately seized the initiative and took advantage of the opponent's mistakes. As a result, Team Liquid came up with nothing against the opponent, while Paper Rex scored a quick rout and equalized the score in the series — 13:4.

Everything was decided on the map Ascent, the first half of which ended with a twofold advantage in favor of the European team. However, switching sides did nothing to help the Paper Rex players, who never managed to wake up. As a result, Team Liquid got a comfortable victory on the destroyer, thus knocking out Paper Rex from the championship — 13:8.