Paper Rex Team successfully emerged as champions in the Valorant Radiant Asia Invitational event. f0rsakeN managed to rise from the lower bracket and defeat DetonatioN FocusMe (DFM) with a score of 3-1.
Before competing in the grand final, the two teams had met in the Upper-bracket Final, where at that time DFM successfully defeated Paper Rex 2-0, while throwing the team strengthened by two Indonesian players, f0rsakeN and mindfreak down to the lower bracket.
Before competing in the grand final, Paper Rex managed to crush the Chinese team, Trace Esports with a landslide score of 3-0. The result made Paper Rex meet the rising team, DFM in the grand final.
Carrying the ambition of revenge, Paper Rex again relied on their aggressive gameplay. Interestingly, Paper Rex was left far behind, 3-9 in the first map which took place in Ascent.
Even so, Paper Rex was able to rise and turn things around when changing sides. f0rsaken was able to bombard the opponent’s defense when they became Attackers. Paper Rex only gave 1 point to the opposing team and closed the first game with a score of 13-10.
Moving to the Haven map chosen by Paper Rex, DFM again dominated in the first half of the match. Becoming the Attacker first, DFM appeared crazy and was far ahead 10-2 in the second half of the match. Not wanting the incident in the first map to happen again, DFM finally secured victory with a score of 13-6 and equalized the score to 1-1.
The defeat in the second game was immediately responded to with aggressive play in the third game which took place on the Abyss map. Relying on Jett and Omen to dismantle the opposing team’s defense, Paper Rex was ahead 10-2 when they became Attackers.
f0rsaken finally closed the third game by winning three consecutive rounds with a final score of 13-2. This victory made Paper Rex’s fighting spirit even stronger.
Pearl became the map of proof and the closing of the grand final match. Having led 5-0, DFM had to swallow a bitter pill again to be comeback by Paper Rex.
Trailing 5-7 when becoming Defender, Paper Rex turned around and bombarded the DFM team’s defense. F0rsakeN Cs managed to perform perfectly and won 8 consecutive points to ensure victory to 13-7 in the fourth game.
