FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #7 xeus Doğan Gözgen MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak AtaKaptan Ata Tan cNed Mehmet Yağız İpek qRaxs Doğukan Balaban have taken home their first crown of the partnership era with a towering win at Convergence 2023, dropping just two maps across three matches on their way to a tournament victory.

Convergence consisted of six teams, of which five were invited, split in two three-team groups. The final slot was awarded to True Rippers True Rippers Asia-Pacific Rank #94 Ri0 Atharv Ahire Marcai BatmaN R0meo WAT Lewis Watson RvK Rishi Vijayakumar , who won the invite-only Indian Closed Qualifier, narrowly beating out the likes of Reckoning Esports Reckoning Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #34 123 aplycs Aqil Azfar Mojo Thong Tao Jian Deadly10 Saksham Aurangabadkar Garv ghostxD , Grayfox Esports Grayfox Esports Inactive Hoax Aman Yadav Kohliii Pranav Kohli Venka Venkatesh Sharma FOX Tanmay Verma , and Medal Esports Medal Esports Inactive Excali Karan Mhaswadkar Kibojn Jayesh Negi psy Simar Sethi LilBOii Vishwaratn Srivastav tryst Jit Choudhury . In the main event, the winner of each group at the end of the Bo3 round robin then moved on to the Bo5 grand final.

FUT were placed in Group B alongside Gen.G Gen.G Korea Rank #1 Foxy9 Jung Jae-sung (정재성) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범) yoman Chae Young-moon (채영문) Karon Kim Won-tae (김원태) and True Rippers. The Indian squad struggled to make a mark on LAN and gave up two wins to their opponents, which set up FUT and Gen.G for a final group showdown to decide the first finalist of Convergence. Gen.G kicked off that match with a 13-4 on Haven, but FUT dealt back two blows (Ascent 13-6; Lotus 14-12) that put the Turkish squad into the finals.

qRaxs at Champions 2023 qRaxs was FUT's best-rated player at Convergence. (Photo by Yicun Liu/Riot Games)

Over on Group A, Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #8 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso dominated the competition with back-to-back 2-0 victories over Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #39 patrickWHO Mark Musni UdoTan Go Kyung-won (고경원) Kr1stal Savva Fedorov kellyS Kelly Sedillo Papi Federico Evangelista and FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #5 mwzera Leonardo Serrati havoc Ilan Eloy Khalil Khalil Schmidt , dropping under 30 rounds across four maps. The final Group A match pitted Global against FURIA to decide second and third place. Global secured a 2-1 win in front of their home crowd.

The grand final between FUT and Vitality kicked off with a bang, as the former made Ascent a close 13-11 bout that ended up swaying the Golden Hornets' way. MrFaliN and co. replied with that same result on Sunset and Lotus to place themselves on match point heading into Vitality's Haven pick. Both teams ended the first half of Haven tied up, but cNed paved the way for his team on attack, opening up five crucial rounds that allowed his team to seucre a tournament-winning 13-8.

With their 3-1 over Vitality, FUT secured their first trophy in over a year and took home USD $25,000. The last time the Turkish roster struck gold was in August 2022, when they bested a different Vitality roster 3-2 in the VRL Finals. FUT will travel to Cairo, Egypt in January to participate in the Superdome 2023: Egypt, their final event before the 2024 season.