Trace Esports and FunPlus Phoenix will meet in the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: China Qualifier in the bottom-feeder quarterfinals, where they will fight for the right to not be eliminated from the qualifying championship.
Trace Esports is slightly less in question so far, especially as their opponent does not acquit itself in any way. On the other hand, it's too early to discount the FunPlus Phoenix, because the boys can still prove themselves at the tournament.
In general, even despite the unexpectedly strong Long Corner from Trace Esports, the opponents have much more experience in total. So here I would lean on the FunPlus Phoenix team to win.
Trace Esports uniforms
The sixth ranked Chinese team was quite confident in the recent VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: China Preliminaries, where it picked up three wins over Team Weibo, NTER and Douyu Gaming.
What's more, Trace Esports unexpectedly came out on top in the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: China Qualifier, where they handled Four Angry Men and then sensationally defeated Attacking Soul Esports.
On the other hand, the day before, the Chinese team clearly didn't make it to the semi-finals of the top grid, where they suffered a very disappointing defeat at the hands of Bilibili Gaming and fell away to the bottom grid.
Trace Esports' latest results:
- A 2-0 win over NTER.
- A 2-0 win over Douyu Gaming.
- Victory over Four Angry Men, 2-0.
- Beat Attacking Soul Esports 2-1.
- Defeat by Bilibili Gaming 0-3.
Trace Esports' best wins:
- Bind - 100% wins.
- Split - 50% wins.
- Ascent - 50% wins.
- Pearl - 50% wins.
It is worth noting that the Trace Esports team does not risk appearing on the Fracture map.
FunPlus Phoenix form
The fifth ranked Chinese team showed nothing in the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN São Paulo, where they lost straight from Long Sogpega to the deadly Karmine Corp and went home.
Further on, the Chinese team failed at the FGC Valorant Invitational 2023: Act 1 and the FGC Valorant Invitational 2023: Act 1, where they failed to perform at their best, both times finishing in fourth place.
Furthermore, FunPlus Phoenix had an unsuccessful run at the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: China Qualifier, where they managed to edge TYLOO but still managed to beat Team Weibo.
Latest FunPlus Phoenix results:
- A 2-1 win over Team Weibo.
- A 0-2 loss to Bilibili Gaming.
- Defeat to EDward Gaming by a score of 0-2.
- 0-2 defeat by TYLOO.
- 2-0 win over Team Weibo.
Best FunPlus Phoenix scores:
- Split - 100% wins.
- Ascent - 86% wins.
- Pearl - 64% wins.
- Lotus - 57% wins.
- Haven - 50% wins.
In turn, the FunPlus Phoenix team does not risk appearing on the Haven map.
Trace Esports - FunPlus Phoenix encounter statistics
Previously, the teams have not met.
Prediction for the match Trace Esports - FunPlus Phoenix
We should probably say that the lineup of FunPlus Phoenix may be one of the strongest teams in the region. But in reality it turns out to be an empty shell that fails to live up to expectations.
On the other hand, from Trace Esports a priori nothing is expected, because the team came out of nowhere. Therefore, in this case, I would recommend betting on FunPlus Phoenix to win.
