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Shopify Rebellion sends Cloud 9 White home

As the first international VALORANT Game Changers competition nears its grand finals, 3 teams were fighting in the lower bracket to hopefully push their way to the grand final.

The first match was the extremely exciting all North American matchup betweenCloud 9 White and Shopify Rebellion, a bout that fans in the community have been looking forward to this time around. Even though Cloud 9 has shown dominance in the region by winning every single Game Changers event in NA, Shopify has recently pushed their potential ceiling to new heights.

Shopify player photo by VCT Japan
Shopify player photo by VCT Japan

This match was one if not the closest series in the entire competition thus far, but Shopify was finally able to beat their demons, taking the series 2-1 in a huge upset.

Shopify picked Fracture as the first map of the match. Both teams have completely different strategies when handling this map. While Shopify prefers Breach as their stable initiator, C9 decided to place Bob on KAY/O. Bob has come out with impactful performances on the agent, making it a solid pick specifically for her.

While both initiators played rather well in the first map, Jazzyk1ns’ Neon was the true star of the game, speeding around the map and getting kills left right, and center. Shopify was in a tough situation with a pretty big round deficit, 8-4 by the half.

At that point Shopify showed why they preferred to play Breach as their initiator, flowerful picked up the pieces and started creating opportunities for her team. She stepped up for her team at the correct time and Shopify were able to push the map into unexpected overtime. Nevertheless, Cloud 9 was able to close the first map, stringing rounds to win over time.

C9 as usual picked Haven as the second map. This map has been C9’s playground throughout the whole year, and Shopify has struggled before to finish out games on it as well.

Shopify started off the map quite strong by winning the first two rounds getting some early positive economy going. This was the best start Shopify has had against C9 on Haven this entire year.

Shopify continued to push together on their enemie’s map pick. KP was the MVP for the team on Haven, getting 19 assists through the map and being an important part of her team closing the game 13-9. This was the first time C9 has lost Haven at a Game Changers event in all of 2022.

Final map was Icebox, which has been a permanent ban for C9 in NA this year. Flowerful once again had a huge game on her staple Chamber, and Shopify stayed cool-headed to take Icebox 13-9 thus ending the dreams of Cloud 9 White for the year.

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