Sentinels has received the SEN Metropolis Basic 2025 Off//Season event by defeating ENVY 2-1 in in the present day’s Grand Ultimate.
With this end result, SEN’s new roster for VCT 2026 has additionally secured the lion’s share of the event’s $20,000 (~£15,200) prize pool.
North American esports organisation Sentinels first launched the SEN Metropolis Basic event in the course of the 2024 VCT OFF//SEASON. The inaugural occasion was received by reigning VALORANT Champions 2025 winner, NRG.
This 12 months’s version noticed SEN face off towards fellow VCT Americas group Cloud9, Americas Ascension 2025 champion ENVY and Sentinels’ academy group, Cubert Academy.
The brand new SEN roster options former MIBR participant Gabriel ‘cortezia’ Cortez in addition to former Cubert Academy members Mirel ‘Kyu’ Hrustemovic and Yassin ‘reduxx’ Aboulalazm, along with veteran Amine ‘johnqt’ Ouarid and 2025 signing Marshall ‘N4RRATE’ Massey.
Like final 12 months, SEN Metropolis Basic was hosted by SEN streamer Tarik ‘tarik’ Celik and the corporate’s Chief Working Officer (CEO), Rob Moore. Former Sentinels duelist Zachary ‘zekken’ Patrone additionally made visitor appearances all through the printed.
Sentinels’ SEN Metropolis Basic 2025 Run
From November sixth to eighth, the 4 invited groups battled by means of a single-round-robin Group Stage, with the highest three advancing to the single-elimination Playoffs. All matches have been best-of-threes (BO3s).
Sentinels emerged from the Group Stage as the one undefeated roster, having defeated Cubert Academy (2-0), Cloud9 (2-0) and ENVY (2-1). Whereas rival ENVY needed to first survive towards Cubert within the Semifinal earlier in the present day (2-0), SEN had earned a direct bye for the Grand Ultimate.
The rematch between Sentinels and ENVY delivered an in depth back-and-forth Grand Ultimate with each map that includes an ACE: first reduxx on Chamber, then Alex ‘canezerra’ Banyasz with Odin and eventually NARRATE on Raze.
SEN and ENVY performed the identical three maps as of their earlier face-off – Sundown, Pearl and Cut up – albeit in a unique order. Following Sentinels’ 13-8 victory within the first sport, ENVY introduced the sequence to a 3rd map, with a 13-8 efficiency on Pearl.
Nonetheless, SEN dominated on the ultimate map (13-3) to safe the SEN Metropolis Basic 2025 title. Cortezia was the highest-performing participant, scoring a 52/32/10 KDA.
Sentinels’ subsequent low season occasion is Pink Bull Dwelling Floor, going down in New York Metropolis from November thirteenth to sixteenth.
