Fnatic's First Loss at VALORANT Champions 2023

VALORANT Champions 2023 playoff matches are in full swing! One of yesterday's most anticipated matchups was Fnatic against LOUD. Fnatic surprisingly lost to their opponent, suffering their first-ever match loss in VCT history. Let's take a close look at yesterday's match results:

VCT 2023 Fnatic vs LOUD Match Result

Fnatic have been truly excellent at VCT international events in 2023. The EMEA squad started the year by going through VCT LOCK//IN, winning the tournament with five straight series victories. They followed that up with a similar performance at VCT Masters Tokyo, dropping just one map on their way to the tournament title.

Fnatic went unbeaten through the VCT EMEA regular season with a 9-0 record. Still, the team stumbled at the finish line, losing 1-3 to Team Liquid in the grand final. That, however, was the only loss the team had suffered up to that point.

LOUD Beat Fnatic at VALORANT Champions 2023!

Fnatic easily swept VCT Pacific's ZETA DIVISION and China's Bilibili Gaming, both 2-0. But things started to look a little different once the playoffs arrived. Matched up against LOUD, Fnatic lost the first map, Ascent, 11-13, then dropped the series on Lotus, 6-13. This went down in history as the loss that ended Fnatic's 11-match win streak at a 2023 VCT international event. As a result, Fnatic will continue their run in the lower bracket for the first time.

FUT Esports Matched Up with Fnatic

In the lower bracket, Fnatic were matched up with Türkiye's representative FUT Esports, who closed out their match against Paper Rex with a 2-0 loss.

Looking Back at Fnatic's 2023 VCT Results, Here's Where They Took Their First Loss:

• Fnatic 2-0 Sentinels
• Fnatic 2-0 FURIA Esports
• Fnatic 2-0 100 Thieves
• Fnatic 3-0 NAVI
• Fnatic 3-2 LOUD
• Fnatic 2-0 NRG Esports
• Fnatic 2-0 Paper Rex
• Fnatic 2-1 Evil Geniuses
• Fnatic 3-0 Evil Geniuses
• Fnatic 2-0 ZETA DIVISION
• Fnatic 2-0 Bilibili Gaming
• Fnatic 0-2 LOUD