In the biggest upset of the VALORANT Champions 2023 group stage up to day three, Bilibili Gaming swept NRG 2-0 yesterday, putting one NA team on the brink of elimination. What made this so surprising is how the BLG players did it: by talking some trash on stage and using one of the lowest-skill guns in the game to its best possible professional capabilities.
On the second map of Split, BLG’s duelist player Wang “whz” Haozhe consistently pulled out the Judge, both to play defensively and aggressively against the experienced core of NRG. With a combination of regular ratty spots and satchel jumps to one-shot enemies, the second seed from NA couldn’t even comprehend how that gun handily beat them.