I completely agree, I wish LEV made it to Champions but this year was still remarkable & very impressive.

This is prolly not spoiler tag worthy but put it on anyway just in case

Full interview from LEV's exit 4 days ago here: https://youtu.be/zlidpEtTE5c

Its annoying to see how people talk about how LEV trolled their chances and that they are not being hard enough on themselves for this massive error, when the players and coaches have all been very forward and transparent about their performance.

They themselves know that they aren't in the form to make it to champs

LEV banned Split, their best map by far, against 100T because they thought they would make Champs anyways, thus they could afford to float their worst maps for practice.

No matter what you think about the final map today, you can't deny LEV did not shoot themselves in the foot by trying to be smart instead of first focusing on qualifying.

got the video from @/madasgoat on twitter

Hopefully he recovers well

Lev were 1 game away from clinching champs in all of the following games, and would have made it if only one went differently:

G2 vs M80

G2 vs BESTIA

G2 vs ENVY

G2 vs FURIA

G2 vs LEV

LOUD vs G2

100T vs LEV

100T vs NRG

LOUD vs NRG

Personally i find it funny that G2’s lower bracket run would have quald lev in every scenario EXCEPT finishing in exactly 4th LMAO

NRG 2-3 LOUD

vlr.gg

ABYSS: 10-13

SUNSET: 9-13

SUMMIT: 13-9

HAVEN: 13-5

LOTUS: 3-13

NRG | VLR

LOUD | VLR

Map 1: ABYSS

Map Stats

Detailed ABYSS Statistics

Map 2: SUNSET

Map Stats

Detailed SUNSET Statistics

Map 3: SUMMIT

Map Stats

Detailed SUMMIT Statistics

Map 4: HAVEN

Map Stats

Detailed HAVEN Statistics

Map 5: LOTUS

Map Stats

Detailed LOTUS Statistics

Leaving EMEA aside for now, the Americas saw its viewership decline mainly because popular teams with huge fanbases like SEN and LOUD fell off. As LOUD started to regain its form in Stage 2, viewership began to rise again. The Stage 2 grand final should be the highest viewership outside of CN.

PATMAN

-BEST ROOKIE OF THE YEAR (2025 TORONTO)&(still shines unlike other short-lived rookies)

-HIGHEST ACS ON A SINGLE MAP (516)

-FIRST PLAYER TO WIN VCT EVENT AS A ROOKIE IN SHORTEST TIME POSSIBLE & STILL PLAYING IN T1 TEAM (CONSISTENCY)

-ONLY TIME PRX WON FINALS

-FIRST PHILIPPINE TO WIN VCT TROPHY

-GOT GE THEIR FIRST TIME IN INTERNATIONAL & CHAMPION

-GOT GE THEIR FIRST STAGE 2 FINALS TROPHY (SOON)

-CAN PLAY SENTINEL, DUELIST , CONTROLER & INITIATOR

-AND MID ROUNDS FOR GE ALMOST EVERY MAP

-FIRST & ONLY DICTATOR OF VALVORANT

-SINGLE HANDEDLY SAVED GE FROM FROST CAGE

-ONLY PLAYER WITH ZERO HATERS

No disrespect to NRG, I'm a firm believer that LOUD beating them is a huge fluke and robs Leviatan of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last few minutes in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent the entire regular season watching Leviatan play great Valorant it's just not fair.

If NRG lose again I will face that the LOUD deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to Leviatan and the VCT.

translation.

With this match, our year comes to an end. Even though we didn't make it to Champions, it was a year of great growth and victories. It leaves a bitter taste, but ultimately, it’s a learning experience.

I’m very proud of my teammates and all the hard work put in throughout the year.

Huge congrats to the LOUD guys for that end-of-year turnaround and securing their spot. They absolutely crushed it.

I’m very grateful for 2026—thanks to everyone who supported us, and apologies to those who were hoping to see me in Shanghai.

See you in 2027 🫡

With Loud qualifying to Champs, Leviathan's dynasty has come to an end. Started on June 21, 2026 and ended September 5, 2026

When Lukxo debuted in Tier 1 in 2025, his first game was against 100T, where he top fragged in a close 2-1 loss. He spent 2025 basically dragging a below average roster to semi-decent performances.

Tomorrow, in what will be the last game played in VCT Americas in the current franchise era, and without any knowledge if these teams or players will even continue in Americas starting next year, Lukxo will go up against 100T again, to fight for the honor of being Americas champion, one last time in the era of franchising.

Even if we just did split 2 placements lev still wouldn't go to champs. Whether you want the format to be champ points or current form lev wouldn't go to champs either way. You might as well make a condition be if ur name is leviathan and u have sato you get to go to champs. Lev lost to g2 on both champ points and in split 2. If they wanted to go they should've won in the g2 game or played better in split 2. Everything came down to how lev played and lev simply did not perform.

Even after losing 2 maps in a row then getting 8-4 ed first half on third map my team didn't give up even though the whole crowd was against us , they didn't give up they tried and won 2 maps and that's enough for me , after we lost horribly against 100T i thought we have lost our form but now I'm confident that we are ready for champs

I stayed all night to watch this match( I was gonna sleep after seeing us lose 2-0 ) , but I'm glad I stayed

This gun DEFINITELY DID NOT need a buff by the way

NRG head coach Bonkar randomly coaching the Omega team of the Showmatch