ENVY has secured a spot within the 2026 VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) by successful yesterday’s VCT Ascension Americas 2025 Grand Remaining.
The staff achieved a 3-1 victory in a rematch towards VALORANT Challengers North America Stage 3 champion, TSM.
North American esports organisation ENVY is a veteran of the esports trade, having competed in VALORANT from 2020 to 2022. Nevertheless, the model was solely re-established earlier this yr following its re-acquisition by Mike ‘Hastr0’ Rufail.
The present ENVY roster was introduced collectively by former 100 Thieves Hunter ‘encourage‘ Schliner. Recognising the potential of a bunch of fellow ranked gamers and streamers, encourage shaped a Premier staff, RANKERS, which later certified for VALORANT Challengers.
Forward of this yr’s Challengers North America season in March, the RANKERS roster was acquired by ENVY. Regardless of a tough begin in Stage 1, ENVY bounced again to win Stage 2 and attain second place in Stage 3.
ENVY’s Ascension to VCT 2026
ENVY kicked off the VCT Ascension Americas Swiss Stage with a 2-0 victory towards 9z Group. However after shedding 1-2 to TSM, the squad needed to defeat Stellae Gaming 2-1 to outlive within the match.
From thereon, ENVY recorded a powerful Playoffs run. The staff took down Group Stable (2-1) and secured revenge towards TSM, not solely as soon as, however twice. The primary recounter was within the Higher Bracket Remaining (2-1), which noticed TSM descend to the decrease playoff bracket.
The ultimate showdown yesterday started with two shut maps. ENVY claimed the primary map, Abyss (13-11), whereas Sundown went to TSM (13-11). Nevertheless, ENVY in the end got here out on prime with two dominant showings on Bind (13-6) and Ascent (13-5). Furthermore, 4 of its members scored greater than 60 kills all through the sequence.
The best-performing participant was duelist prodigy, Alex ‘canezerra’ Banyasz, who delivered a kill-death ratio (KDA) of 77/65/26 and 167 common injury per spherical (ADR).
Sadly, each canezerra and Ayan ‘ion2x’ Rastogi received’t be a part of ENVY for VCT subsequent yr. The 2 gamers are underage and subsequently usually are not eligible to compete in VALORANT’s franchised tier-one circuit.
Canezerra must wait till March subsequent yr, whereas ion2x can solely start his VCT profession in 2027.
Who Are the Different VCT Ascension Groups?
With all VCT Ascension 2025 tournaments concluded throughout the globe, six Ascension groups will be a part of VCT’s companion groups for the 2026 season:
VCT followers must wait till January to look at the newcomers carry out within the annual Kickoff competitions.
