The second week of VCT Americas Stage 2 has concluded, with the gap widening between each group's leaders and their remaining winless teams after every match finished 2-0.

Week 2 ended with the following results:

The first day pit the region's two Ascension teams against each other, as 2Game Esports 2Game Esports Brazil Rank #9 gobera Vitor Gobo lz Luiz Reche spike Rodrigo Lombardi silentzz Caio Morita pryze Luis-Henrique Viveiros took on G2 Esports G2 Esports North America Rank #2 jawgemo Alexander Mor trent Trent Cairns valyn Jacob Batio JonahP Jonah Pulice leaf Nathan Orf , still playing with substitute BABYBAY . The North American team took the win in just under 40 rounds overall, with JonahP stepping up to top the scoreboard with a 1.44 rating and 38 eliminations total.

This regular season match was quietly important for both teams, as 2G needs all the help they can get to qualify to playoffs, and Champions, with hopes of retaining their VCT slot. Should 2Game accomplish the feat and join G2 in Paris, whichever team out of the two Ascension Americas rosters places highest at the marquee event will retain their spot in VCT, while the other descends to Ascension. Otherwise, G2 guarantees a return to VCT 2026, while 2G still needs to finish in the top eight of either Stage 2 or the Championship points table in order to make Ascension and potentially return to VCT next year.

Closing out the day, Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #1 N4RRATE Marshall Massey bang Sean Bezerra Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid defeated FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #35 heat Olavo Marcelo basic Luis Henrique Ferlin Tessaro Palla Davi Alcides adverso Benjamín Poblete stand-in Urango Victor Rodrigues tuyz Arthur Andrade with a resounding 2-0. They opened the series with a 13-4 victory on Sunset, and capped off the day with the region's second-ever 13-0. Unfortunately for FURIA, the team was missing head coach shaW and initiator player basic, and will look to the new acquisitions' arrivals to turn their luck around and end the year with more favorable results.

Sentinels ran rings around FURIA on Icebox

Group Omega continued in similar fashion, with their North American teams taking 2-0 wins against KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #2 keznit Angelo Mori Dantedeu5 Jesús Federico Larrosa Mazino Roberto Rivas Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro and LOUD LOUD Brazil Rank #7 lukxo Lucca Travaioli Virtyy Leandro Moreno RobbieBk Robbie Boerkamp pANcada Bryan Luna cauanzin Cauan Pereira . 100 Thieves 100 Thieves North America Rank #5 Kess Drew Lee zander Alexander Dituri Cryocells Matthew Panganiban eeiu Daniel Vucenovic Asuna Peter Mazuryk continues its honeymoon phase with new acquisition, Kess , while NRG NRG North America Rank #3 s0m Sam Oh brawk Brock Somerhalder mada Adam Pampuch skuba Logan Jenkins Ethan Ethan Arnold found their first win of the Stage after making quick work of LOUD on Haven and defeating the Brazilian squad on both teams' first Corrode appearance.

100 Thieves is now the top Group Omega team, being the only lineup in the group without a loss so far. In the overall Championship points table, the victories let 100T gain ground on fourth-place KRÜ, while NRG's win prevented LOUD from closing the gap between the rival organizations.

Finally, Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #8 Xeppaa Erick Bach v1c Victor Truong mitch Mitch Semago neT Michael Bernet OXY Francis Hoang and LEVIATÁN LEVIATÁN North America Rank #16 tex Ian Botsch Okeanos Anthony Nguyen Sato Eduardo Kenzo Nagahama Sato kiNgg Francisco Aravena C0M Corbin Lee rounded off the week with 2-0 wins of their own, propelling Cloud9 to the top of Group Alpha and granting LEVIATÁN their first win of the Stage. Both teams also earned their first victories of the year against their respective opponents, as Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses North America Rank #18 Derrek Derrek Ha NaturE Nicholas Garrison supamen Phat Le icy Jacob Lange yay Jaccob Whiteaker had previously knocked Cloud9 out of the Stage 1 playoffs and LEV had lost both of their previous encounters against MIBR MIBR Brazil Rank #3 artzin Arthur Araujo xenom Eduardo Soeiro cortezia Gabriel Cortez Verno Andrew Maust aspas Erick Santos earlier in the year.

v1c capped off Cloud9's Haven comeback with a clutch

In terms of statistics, LEVIATÁN's in-game leader, kiNgg , finished at the top of the week's leaderboard, with a 1.83 rating and 2.75 KDR placing him just over Sentinels' N4RRATE . With the hurdle against former teammate aspas cleared, LEVIATÁN will look for similar heroics in the future in order to qualify to Champions: Paris.

The loss means MIBR is currently winless, a dark cloud hanging over the team since Masters: Toronto. They can still qualify to Champions, but the team faces a narrowing margin of error as four different teams are within a couple of points of the Stage 1 bronze medalists.

Americas Stage 2 will continue with the following matches: