G2 Esports and T1 undergo unhealthy begin at VALORANT Masters Santiago

Day two at VALORANT Masters Santiago noticed VCT Americas big G2 Esports and Pacific’s T1 undergo 0-2 sweeps of their opening matches.

In the meantime, Paper Rex (Pacific) and Staff Liquid (EMEA) scored their first victories in Chile and can face NRG and Mild Mates of their respective Swiss Stage winners’ matches on March 2nd.

The day kicked off with an iconic match-up between three-time VCT Americas 2025 champion G2 Esports and Masters Toronto winner Paper Rex. These two rosters have confronted one another at numerous world VCT occasions, with Paper Rex popping out on prime this time round (2-0).

Map one noticed G2 lose momentum regardless of good begins in each halves on Cut up. On its assault, the Americas’ second seed transformed its bonus spherical, however swiftly misplaced management of the map after an early Paper Rex timeout. From there on, PRX appeared fearless in its quick web site retakes and defender-side aggression (8-4). While G2 went on a five-round win streak within the second half, hero performs from Paper Rex in the end price the Americas facet the map (9-13).

On G2’s map choose, Corrode, Paper Rex had one other sturdy first half, leveraging its defence-sided Vyse utility. In the meantime, its opponent may solely scrape 5 rounds collectively thanks to some impactful mid-round calls in addition to overextension from Paper Rex. Within the second half, nonetheless, G2 appeared significantly disjointed. Paper Rex transformed its attack-bonus spherical and shortly secured the collection 13-5.

The Pacific third seed’s flex participant, Jason ‘f0rsakeN’ Susanto, went on a tear throughout each Corrode halves while displaying his Viper for the very first time in professional play. With a KDA of 41/26/16, he was additionally the highest-rated participant of the collection.

Within the second collection of the day, VCT EMEA’s Staff Liquid pulled off a 2-0 upset towards Masters Bangkok champion T1.

Staff Liquid selected Breeze as the primary map of the collection, the place EMEA’s third seed outclassed T1 by way of macro gameplay. Throughout its defence, Staff Liquid combined aggressive set strats with ratty performs. T1, however, relied closely on particular person hero performs to transform rounds, while displaying underwhelming final utilization throughout each halves. Off the again of an 8-4 half, Staff Liquid confidently secured its map choose 13-8.

Haven began off with a extra aggressive first half. Whereas T1 struggled towards Staff Liquid’s oppressive double dives, impactful frags and Fade utility from Kim ‘stax’ Gu-taek helped the crew conclude its defence half 7-5. The Pacific facet then overwhelmed its opponent on the assault. Nevertheless, Staff Liquid ultimately discovered easy methods to shut down T1’s pushes and gained the collection 15-13 in extra time.

With the primary spherical of Swiss Stage video games concluded, Masters Santiago is now heading into the winners’ and losers’ matches.

The draw for the following set of video games occurred after the opening spherical concluded; nonetheless, it was held once more 5 hours later on the resort on account of a mistake throughout the broadcast.

Because of this, the next Spherical 2’s larger matches will happen on March 2nd, beginning at 6 PM BST:

On March third, the decrease seeds will then combat for survival within the event:

All Swiss Stage matches might be broadcast by way of the official VALORANT esports Twitch and YouTube channels.