Four teams secured their spots in VCT NA Stage 3: Challengers 2, the final Challengers event of the year.

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This weekend's qualifier served as a final opportunity for most teams to advance one step further to a pair of LAN events that will end the first year of the Valorant Champions Tour. The VCT season is over for all of the teams who fell short of qualification for S3 Challengers 2, sans Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #7 Xeppaa Erick Bach v1c Victor Truong mitch Mitch Semago neT Michael Bernet OXY Francis Hoang and NRG Esports NRG Esports North America Rank #1 FiNESSE Pujan Mehta s0m Sam Oh Verno Andrew Maust mada Adam Pampuch Ethan Ethan Arnold . Those two teams currently remain within the top 10 in VCT NA circuit points, which is a high enough placing to guarantee a spot in the Last Chance Qualifier for the end-of-year Champions LAN.

The weekend's high stakes proved to be enough to spark intense matches throughout the weekend.

FaZe secured its spot in Challengers 2 by narrowly edging out Ghost Gaming Ghost Gaming Inactive koalanoob Gianfranco Potestio NiSMO Marc-Andre Tayar aproto Alex Protopapas brawk Brock Somerhalder johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid in back-to-back maps. The first map of the match ended 14-12 in favor of FaZe, and the second map ended 13-11. Each team finished with a 1v3 clutch to their name by the end of the match: Danny "HUYNH" Huynh secured one in the first map and Andrej "BABYBAY" Francisty had one of his own in the second map.

TSM needed to survive a pair of tough matches to make it into the final Challengers event of the season. The team went toe-to-toe with Andbox Andbox Inactive oderus Chad Miller mummAy Anthony DiPaolo Lear Dayton Akau Jonaaa6 Jonard Penaflor vice Daniel Kim in the Ro16, securing the match with a marathon third and final map: 20-18. Their next match, with DarkZero Esports DarkZero Esports Inactive , proved to be a nailbiter of its own after DarkZero won the first map. TSM needed overtime to stave off elimination in the second map, winning 14-12, before handily winning the final map 13-8 to take the match.

TSM has qualified for two Challengers events this year and finished just outside the top four in both of them.

Both T1 and LG finished their qualifier runs with fairly comfortable 2-0 victories, although LG's match in particular was not without excitement. LG's sweep of C9B was with the help of three aces, the first two being just two rounds apart and Diondre "YaBoiDre" Bond earning one on each map.

The main event is set to begin this week. Pick 'ems are open for the event.