Act 2 of Episode 3 dubbed as “Reflection” has been postponed, Valorant announced today on Twitter. A string of constraints have been cited by the Developers ahead of the launch of Act 2, pushing the launch of the latter to September 8. The exact time of the launch is yet to be decided by Riot as they now look forward to providing the community with Episode 3 Act 2 with a better “quality bar”.
We think Act II is gonna be a banger, but we’ve hit some constraints while getting it to the quality bar you deserve. So, we’re slightly adjusting Act start timings. Here’s the new schedule and what it means for you:
This announcement further explains the ongoing Valorant Act 1 which has been extended for two more weeks followed by Competitive and progression adjustments due for the near future. Act 1 ends on September 7 as per the updated terms tweeted by Valorant. In the wake of the former, the current Battlepass has also been extended with Act 1 and will be a bonus for those who haven’t yet fully progressed the same.
TLDR; Act I is now 2 weeks longer and Competitive and progression adjustments will follow. Episode 3 Act II now kicks off on or around September 8, exact times TBD.
About the Battlepass, players can now use the daily and weekly missions to progress. Each day would give you 2 missions while each week would have 3 new missions to unlock. In the process, players get a total of 20 new missions if they are looking to round up their Valorant Battlepass.
You can use those extra 2 weeks to unlock more tiers on the Battlepass with the help of the extended daily and weekly missions! So, each extra day gets the usual 2 daily missions, and each week gets the set of 3 weekly missions (6 total).
The ongoing Valorant Act 1 brought us the brand new Agent KAY/O along with a Battlepass featuring the K-TAC weapon cosmetic collection.
As mentioned above, Valorant tends to propel the Quality bar of Act 2 which could add up to the hype at the Stage 3 Masters Berlin event, starting from September 9. The Stage 3 Masters is a part of the Valorant Champions Tour Circuit and the winner at the same would qualify for the Ultimate Champions event (the venue is yet to be decided).
Earlier, the timer of your Battlepass was set to expire in 13 days which now has been changed to an updated figure of 28.
With the launch scheduled on September 8, Valorant and TalkEsport advise you all to follow your region’s timezone for keeping tabs on the same.
CSGO Majors never fail to attract the competitive FPS player base into watching and enjoying the same. Known to be a part of the Valve Major Championship tier, these tournaments are held twice a year after the DreamHack Winter 2013 major where it was held thrice in 2014-15. Counter-Strike Major tournaments fall in the S-tier list whereas the others are divided into A, B, C respectively.
In order to qualify for these major tournaments, teams would need to play in a Qualifier event in order to get the ticket to the main event but as mentioned above, they would first need to get out of their regional qualifiers dubbed as “Minors”.
The teams making it out of the minor qualifier would then compete in the main qualifier event, a group stage from which just 8 teams advance to the playoff. It was after the ELEAGUE Boston Major 2018 when the Main qualifier was named as the “Challengers Stage”, the Group stage as the “Legends Stage” and the playoff stage as “New Champions Stage”.
Till now we have witnessed 15 Major tournaments held across various venues across the globe among which is the ELEAGUE Boston Major where Cloud9 secured the first-ever Major win for the North American region by beating FaZe Clan in the Grand Finale in 2018.
The first ever inaugural Major tournament was held in Jönköping, Sweden, hosted by DreamHack in November 2013
It was won by Fnatic, a grand finale derby between the former and Ninjas In Pyjamas, a formidable Swedish side. Fnatic was then led by Markus “pronax” Wallsten, now a retired CS professional.
CSGO Majors
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EMS One Katowice (March 2014), ESL One Cologne (August 2014) and DreamHack Winter (November 2014)
Photo credits: HLTV.org
Post-DreamHack 2013, we saw 3 majors played across the year 2014 of which two events were hosted by ESL and the other by DreamHack. EMS One Katowice and the ESL One Cologne were both organized by ESL followed by the DreamHack Winter 2014 held in March, August and November respectively.
These three major events were won by different teams including Ninjas In Pyjamas who were on a redemption journey from their grand finals losses in 2013 and EMS One in Katowice, Poland. The Swedes were successful in going past Fnatic at the ESL One Cologne 2014 held in Germany.
The year 2014 also saw Virtus.pro win a major on their home soil at the EMS One Katowice’14 where NiP ended up as runners-up in two consecutive majors, as mentioned above in 2013 and Poland. The last major of the year, DreamHack Winter, held in November was won by the Frenchmen from Team LDLC.com led by Nathan “NBK-” Schmitt.
ESL One Katowice (March 2015), ESL One Cologne (August 2015), DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca (October-November 2015)
Across the majors held in 2015, Fnatic rose to dominance by bagging two consecutive major championships, one at the ESL One tournaments held in Katowice and at Cologne in Germany. Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer Gustafsson and Robin “flusha” Rönnquist were honoured with the MVP award from ESL One Katowice and ESL One Cologne respectively.
The DreamHack Open major of 2015, played on Romanian soil, was claimed by ex-LDLC men who then played under the banner of Team EnVyUs after beating Natus Vincere.
2016: The year of Brazilain Supremacy
Natus Vincere was yet again denied by Luminosity Gaming a major championship as the latter breezed past through the CIS tacticians in the Grand Finale giving Brazil their first-ever major championship at Columbus.
Soon later the LG squad was picked up by SK Gaming and went on to win yet another major at ESL One Cologne in 2016, to become the second team to have won two majors in succession.
ELEAGUE Major: Atlanta (USA), PGL Major: Krakow (Poland) (Year: 2017)
The ELEAGUE Major held in the United States was won by Astralis, a team of multi-talented Danes who quickly rose to prominence in the Counter-Strike scene. Led by Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander, Astralis quickly found success at the major, eventually setting himself and his team up for an unassailable future. They beat Virtus.pro in the Grand Finals, denying the latter their second major win.
The last major of 2017 was organized by PGL in Krakow, Poland and was won by a CIS team, Gambit. This major was indeed the birthplace of the graffiti on Inferno, after the infamous play made by Mikhail “Dosia” Stolyarov in the Grand Finals.
2018: Cloud9 does it for North America
No one would ever have seen this coming, but this was the year when North Americans rejoiced. Yes, Cloud9 who were deemed to be the heavy underdogs of the ELEAGUE Boston Major tournament made their way through to the Grand Finals and brought home the first-ever major for North America (NA Region).
They knocked Astralis, G2 Esports and SK Gaming out of the majors to face FaZe Clan in their debut major finals. With their minds going berserk, the European Mixture was tamed by Cloud9 and won the series 2-1.
The Danish Syndrome
As mentioned above, Astralis’ win at the ELEAGUE Atlanta major was just an illusion, going forward from that point. From the second major of 2018 onwards (organized by FACEIT in London), they quickly rallied to success which saw them secure 3 consecutive majors at IEM: Katowice in 2019 and at the StarLadder Major held in Berlin.
At the IEM 2019 major, an underdog team from the CIS region made their way to the rankings, Avangar who were later acquired by Virtus.pro.
This feat made them the first-ever team to have won four majors and still remain to be the defending champions in Valve’s Major Championships tier.
Since the IEM: Katowice 2019 major, no major was played due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, forcing the ESL One Rio major to be cancelled by the parent organization despite the fact that teams actually played a regional qualifier (Regional Major rankings event).
In January 2021, Valve announced the dates for their next major, to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, hosted by PGL and would determine teams according to their standings on the Regional major rankings (RMR) table.
The recent announcement that TV and movie streaming giant Netflix is to offer video games as part of its subscription package has sent shockwaves through the entertainment and gaming industries.
Although the company has yet to reveal full details of the original games it hopes to produce, or confirm a timescale, the rollout looks to be Netflix’s most significant expansion since it first started to present its own programming in 2012. Netflix began streaming television programming and films on demand in 2007 and currently has around 200 million global subscribers.
For a television platform considering a move into gaming, esports are a natural stepping stone, as they combine video games with televised spectator sport. Much like football, basketball, and baseball, spectators also have the chance to win money if they can predict who will come out on top – and Best Odds have some of the best betting odds for sports should you fancy your chances. Unlike rivals such as Sky, Disney, Warner, and Amazon, Netflix does not currently offer any sports programming or have access to live sports events. This means that Netflix loses out on the huge sports betting market.
League of Legends
Will Netflix’s move into gaming include esports coverage? The company already has a deal with League of Legends developer Riot Games and has produced or commissioned original television content based on the online multiplayer battle arena game. This has included the 2018 documentary series 7 Days Out, which followed four teams through the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS), as they competed to reach the finals in Miami.
In 2019, Netflix screened the exclusive documentary League of Legends Origins, and the animated event series Arcane, produced by Riot Games,is due to premiere in fall 2021. This is set in the League of Legends universe and tells the origin stories of several well-loved characters. Netflix adapted another esports video game into an animated series in 2021 with DOTA: Dragon’s Blood, based on Valve’s massive online battle arena game DOTA 2.
There are other Netflix properties that cross over into the video game world. The hugely popular fantasy show The Witcher is also a highly successful trilogy of games, though both are based on the novel series of the same name rather than each other, and Netflix has no connection with the gaming franchise. Several Netflix shows have been adapted into games, most notably Stranger Things,but again, these have not been done in-house.
Mike Verdu
Netflix has hired Mike Verdu as Vice President of Game Development, reporting to its Chief Operating Officer Greg Peters. Verdu was previously Facebook’s Vice President of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Content. This entailed him working with developers to adapt games and other content for the Oculus VR headsets. Before this, he worked at Electronic Arts, dealing with mobile gaming franchises including TheSims, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, and Plants Vs. Zombies, and was Chief Creative Officer at Zynga from 2009 to 2012. His background also takes time working at gaming companies Kabam and Atari.
Netflix apparently intends to first offer ad-free mobile games first. These will be available as part of its existing subscription service at no extra cost, hopefully within the next year. Games will be included within the Netflix library as a new programming genre and may be used to justify subscription price increases in the future. The games will not be available for streaming or download as a separate product.
New initiatives
The expansion into gaming is the most dramatic step so far in a series of initiatives designed to keep Netflix ahead of rivals such as Disney+. The company gained 5.5 million subscribers in the first half of 2021, its worst first-half performance since 2013. Subscriptions were boosted by the pandemic but have fallen as people start to go outside again. Netflix’s share prices also tumbled recently.
Other new ventures have included an online shop to sell merchandise, expanded children’s programming, and an approach to film producer Steven Spielberg to create exclusive content. Netflix already has many original properties suitable for adaptation into games, and although offering games as part of the existing subscription package may not boost profits directly, it will be a highly effective branding and marketing exercise.
Whether dedicated esports programming will be included in this expansion remains to be seen. Given Netflix’s relationship with Riot Games, it would seem a logical move, but perhaps the company will test the water with regular video games adaptations first. By offering TV viewers video games as part of a subscription bundle, they will raise awareness of gaming among non-players, for whom watching esports may be more appealing than attempting the games themselves. As ever, time will tell.
Season 5 of Warzone is set to release on 12 August with tons of fresh content such as new Operators, Multiplayer Maps, Modes, Perks, and Weapons.
COD Black Ops Cold War Season 5 Game Modes
Season 5’s biggest attraction is the introduction of the new Double Agent game mode. In Double Agent, 10 players will be assigned to one of three roles; Operatives, Investigators, and Double Agents. The Investigators and Operatives must work together to find and hunt Double Agents before they plant explosive charges on the map and each role will offer a unique experience thanks to their custom perks and load-outs. Along with Double Agent, players can expect Demolition game mode to return later in Season 5.
According to Call of Duty’s recent blog post,
Two teams battle it out as attackers attempt to destroy a pair of active bombsites, while defenders must prevent the detonations. All-out chaos ensues when time is extended after the first bomb site is destroyed, and you’d better be prepared with plenty of Scorestreaks and squadmates for backup should one final bomb be planted at the last second.
COD Black Ops Cold War Season 5 Maps
Players can expect a total of 5 new maps this season, with 3 of them releasing on launch with Season 5 while the other two will be added down the line.
COD Black Ops Cold War Season 5 Weapons and Operators
The Season 5 update adds four new weapons to the game, with the EM2 Assault Rifle, TEC-9 SMG, and the Cane melee weapon being accessible as soon as Season 5 begins while the Marshal secondary weapon will be added later to the game.
The EM2 Rifle will be unlocked at Tier 15 of the Season pass while the TEC 9 will be unlocked at Tier 31. Players can unlock the Cane and Marshall by completing a challenge or by purchasing a blueprint bundle from the in-game store.
Season Pass owners will also get access to one of the three new operators – Kitsune. Kitsune will be unlockable at Tier 0 and her ultra-rare skin will be unlockable at Tier 100 while Stryker and Hudson will be a part of Season 5’s in-game store bundle which can be purchased using COD Points.
COD Black Ops Cold War Season 5 Release date and time
The new season will be unlocked “following updates to Black Ops Cold War on August 10 at 9 PM PT and Warzone on August 11 at 9 PM PT.”
To find out more about upcoming Perks, Changes, and the Mid-Season event, head to Call of Duty’s blog.
Fnatic on Twitter have announced the addition of Jamie “keita” Hall as the strategic coach of their CSGO division while Andreas ‘Samuelsson’ Samuelsson will transition to a managerial role within the Swedish organization.
It was Complexity whom Keita represented for almost two years before signing up Fnatic before the Texas-based organization decided to part ways with William “RUSH” Wierzba and mutually with the 28-year-old Brit in the wake of lacklustre showings across tournaments in 2020. The addition of Keita to their CSGO division will be Fnatic’s third signing in less than a week after they decided to go international by signing Alex “ALEX” McMeekin as their IGL and William “mezii” Merriman. Previously, they parted ways with Jesper “JW” Wecksell and Maikil “Golden” Selim as a part of their roster overhaul.
With Keita on board, Samuelsson will now focus on the development of the Main and Academy team and assist the newly appointed Brit. Keita would now work with the team’s new captain ALEX going forward in a bid to claim the lost grounds in terms of rankings.
ALEX and mezii both joined Cloud9 as a part of Henry “HenryG” Greer’s project dubbed as the “Colossus” in the second half of 2020 alongside Ricky “floppy” Kemery, Ozgur “Woxic” Eker, and Patrick “es3tag” Hansen. Across their time at Cloud9, the team had their own ups and downs, which resulted in putting the CSGO division on hold.
In a press release, Samuelsson stated:
With Jamie joining as our new strategic mastermind and his responsibility directed towards our in-game performance, I will be responsible for the Fnatic CSGO division and move to a more managerial role. This will mean I’ll be responsible for managing a number of aspects of the team, including but not limited to, the holistic structure, staffing, and new development within the team. It will be my responsibility to ensure as a team, we always stay on top, evaluate day-to-day work, oversee the development of our academy team, always be scouting and identifying new talent, whilst also maintaining daily contact with all the players currently associated with Fnatic.
The new-look Fnatic will debut at the upcoming ESL Pro League Season 14 and have been drawn in Group C alongside heavyweights like FaZe Clan, Natus Vincere, Mousesports, and Evil Geniuses. They will play their opener against NaVi on August 27.
Fnatic are now:
Freddy “KRIMZ” Johansson
Ludvig “Brollan” Brolin
Jack “Jackinho” Ström Mattsson
Alex “ALEX” McMeekin
William “mezii” Merriman
Jamie “keita” Hall (Strategic Coach)
CSGO Update: As our transformation continues, we are proud to welcome Jamie '@keitaCSGO' Hall as Strategic Coach.
Jamie brings with him ten years of professional experience to help propel Fnatic CS:GO into the future.
The Valorant Conquerors Championship commenced on 20th August with the best teams from South Asia competing for a spot in the Valorant Champions Tour APAC Last Chance Qualifier and for a massive prize pool of $33,000. This November, Riot Games will hold the Valorant Champions Tour 2021, where the best teams from around the world will battle for the title of world champion.
South Asian teams, on the other hand, can only qualify for the Challengers 2021 by winning the APAC Last Chance Qualifier. On Pak and Afghan qualifiers 2, Team Exploit Defeated Team Arrow and book a slot in the Grand finals playoffs of VCC 2021. Here are the best moments from the finals of Pak and Afghan Qualifiers 2.
After losing a pistol round, Team Arrow engaged with Team Exploit at site A, TEStorax took the opening of Arrowgothchild making it 4V5 in favor of Team Exploit. However, Team Arrow’s Darrkky took 2 instant picks of shooter and king and thrashed Team Exploit man advantage. HSB took trade of Darkky but Arrow’s Prota insane Ghost’s headshot with 3 kills turnaround the round in favor of Team Arrow.
Team Exploit in their Eco round decides to push from Haven to B side. HSB caught MSK off guard and takes full control of Haven’s side. Team Arrow gothchild picked HSB and soulm8 and took this round in their favor.
Team Arrow approached A side for planting. Arrowgothhild picked K1ng beside screens and this created immense pressure on Team Exploit since 3 of their men were still rotating from the B side. However, Team Exploit Storax came as a savior for his team, picking 4 kills within a stamp of 3 sec with his Frenzy completely turn the table.
Team Arrow as an attacker side decided to rush A but got traded by solid defense from the side of Team Exploit. Storax with his operator was guarding B long to counter-rotation of Team Arrow. Storax picked 3 players with his operator making the last player jivix vulnerable from both sides, ultimately shut down by TEshooteR.
Stroxx got punished on B main by Arrow MSK with his spectre. Jivix back-to-back marshal shots picked HSB and SoulM8 reached 1 hp, finally shut down by Prota’s shock dart at yellow container making it 1v3 in favor of TA. But K1ng insane 1v3 clutch helped Exploit to pull this round in their favor.
Discord has partnered with YouTube and is giving away 3 months of YouTube’s Premium subscription to Discord Nitro Subscribers. The promotion starts from August 9, 2021, 9:00am PT until October 30, 2021, 11:59pm PT. Nitro users are no strangers to complimentary subscriptions, as they were previously given three months of Xbox Game Pass for PC last year.
Discord Nitro x Youtube Premium
Nitro subscribers can enjoy 3 months of Youtube Premium on us. Head to your Gift Inventory on Desktop to claim them before October 30th. pic.twitter.com/UIgiJjhdhj
This offer is only available for new YouTube Premium subscribers and the code won’t work if you had previously subscribed to YouTube Premium or any other Google service such as YouTube Music Premium and Google Play Music trial.
How to claim YouTube Premium for free?
To claim YouTube Premium, you must be subscribed to the $9.99 Nitro plan. (Nitro Classic users are ineligible.)
Launch Discord and click on the settings icon.
Click on ‘Gift Inventory’ under the ‘Billing Settings’ section.
Enter a payment method and click on ‘Try 3-Month Trial’.
Congratulations, you’re now subscribed to YouTube Premium. However, once the free trial ends, your current subscription will be converted into a paid and recurring membership unless you manually cancel it.
Benefits of YouTube Premium
YouTube Premium members can enjoy ad-free videos on all compatible devices, play videos in the background or while the screen is off. Premium subscribers will also get access to YouTube Music Premium as well as YouTube Originals.
While you can claim the code by October 30, 2021, the last day to redeem is December 1, 2021.
Blizzard’s class-based PvP shooter, Overwatch, took the world by storm in 2016 and quickly became the best-selling game the same year. In 2019’s Blizzcon, a sequel, Overwatch 2 was announced and is set to feature an updated game engine, at least four new heroes, maps, game modes, and PvE co-op.
Since then, Blizzard has been sharing development updates as well as new info regarding the sequel. The game will be shifting its focus to 5v5 rather than the traditional 6v6 gameplay as players on both teams will be restricted to a single tank in their teams. In a recent earnings call, Activision Blizzard president and COO Daniel Alegre stated:
The extended Overwatch team is similarly making strong progress on Overwatch 2 with development passing an important internal milestone and recently, after great response to the recent community update, the team is looking forward to revealing more of the game in the coming months as they approach the later stages of production.
This seems to indicate that Overwatch 2 might see an early 2022 release, however, according to a recent leak by Metro, an Overwatch streamer, the game might be facing internal issues with development, and that it is “taking longer than expected”. He further went on to say that “a release in 2022 does not seem likely anymore.”
OW2 News
I've heard from multiple people close to my original source with OW2 that the development is taking longer than expected. From what I can gather a release in 2022 does not seem likely anymore. I hope this is false and I'm proven wrong.
This seems to contradict Activision Blizzard’s statements earlier regarding the game’s development, which seems to make sense as Activision Blizzard is in turmoil after the recent lawsuit related to “frat boy culture” in the company. This has also impacted Overwatch League’s sponsorships as T-Mobile, Kellogg, and State Farm have all retracted their sponsorship from the league.
Still, it is best to take such leaks with a grain of salt as Blizzard has stated that they are “looking forward to revealing more of the game in the coming months as they approach the later stages of production”, which could mean that a release date announcement might be happening sooner rather than later.
While the entire Valorant fan base has been waiting eagerly for the arrival of patch 3.03, it seems like it has brought some bad news for Yoru mains out there.
So far, it can easily be said that Yoru has been a rather underwhelming agent when compared to the other duelists available in the tactical shooter. It has a significantly low win rate in pubs and is rarely seen being picked up in professional Valorant games.
Because of these reasons, Riot Games had promised the players that they’d be shipping out some changes to Yoru in the near future at the time of the release of patch 3.0. However, in a recent blog post, the developers have confirmed that there has been a change in plans.
“Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the team is going to have to indefinitely delay the Yoru updates,” Valorant Character Producer, John Goscicki, said in a statement. “We’re in a situation at the moment where certain resources needed to do this work are unavailable to us. As soon as we get a clearer picture of when we can ship these changes, you’ll be the first to know. Sincere apologies to everyone who has been looking forward to these.”
Apart from this, Patch 3.03 brings with it a number of changes to the title including a Viper bug fix, additional customizations to crosshair alongside multiple crosshair profiles, network updates, and a lot more. Players can check out the official Valorant 3.03 patch notes here.
At the end of May, Riot had announced its collaboration with Nodwin Gaming to give the South Asian region its first-ever official Championship event and to be a part of the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) Circuit.
The Conquerors Championship event will lead the winner to the APAC Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) and from there onto the VCT Champions event, to be held later in November. As of now, North American side Sentinels are the only team who have qualified for the Champions event after winning Stage 1 & 2 in the Masters division.
Valorant Conquerors Championship is a framework of the VCT Circuit which would further help teams and their players from the South Asian region make an impact alongside the rest teams from across the globe. Nodwin in a press release stated that VCC will have a prize pool of 25 Lakhs INR ($33,700 USD approx)
Let us talk about the ongoing Conquerors Championship tournament powered by Nodwin Gaming. Five regional qualifiers along with a wildcard event had been decked up by the event organizer out of which, five teams have already been determined for the former main event. As added, the last and final qualifier will be a wildcard entry for those who ended up as runner-ups in their regional qualifiers.
The list of the six qualifiers are as follows:
1. India Qualifier (IN)
2. Nepal and Bhutan Qualifier (NP/BT)
3. Pakistan and Afghanistan Qualifier (PK/AF)
4. Bangladesh Qualifier (BD)
5. Sri Lanka and Maldives Qualifier (LK/MV)
6. Wildcard Qualifier
It all started with the Indian Qualifier #1 which was won by Velocity Gaming (VLT) over Global Esports as they were the first team ever to advance onto the VCC Finals. This was followed by the Pakistan and Afghanistan Qualifier where a total of 8 teams signed up to stay in contention for the main VCC occasion. Salt Esports came out on top from the PK/AF region to join VLT Gaming at the main event.
Nodwin Gaming were indeed generous in providing the regions India, Pakistan and Afghanistan with two sets of qualifiers in a bid to accommodate every team willing to compete for the ultimate battle and due to their past historic presence in Esports.
Moving on, Damaru Gaming from NP/BT region, Crash Landin on You from the LK/MV region and Exceeli Esports from the BD region made it past their opponents and have booked their berth at the Conquerors Championship ahead of APAC Last Chance.
In the second leg of Indian Qualifier, we got to witness a couple of new faces in the Round of 16, but in the end, it was Global Esports who triumphed over Team XO after a successful shot at redemption from their loss in the previous one. Team XO led by Simar “Psy” Sethi has now been relegated to the Wildcard event, and will lock horns with Legion, a team based in Nepal.
Team Arrow from Pakistan were yet again denied a spot further towards VCC as they fell to Team Exploit in the Grand Finals. They too have been relegated to the Wildcard event and would go against Lexious Gaming today in the Round of 16.
Update: Enigma Gaming from India have been given a wildcard slot after two consecutive Semi-final appearances.
The Wildcard event kicks off today with 8 teams who were unable to go past their regional qualifiers will be given one final passage towards the ultimate Valorant Conquerors Championship.
