FORZE - champions of CCT Online Finals #1

The team FORZE has become the champion of the latest tournament by CCT called CCT Online Finals #1! In the final, they defeated the team ECSTATIC with a score of 2:0.

The first map of the confrontation was Ancient, which was the pick of the FORZE team. They had some difficulties but managed to secure it with a score of 19:15.

And then came NUKE, which the FORZE guys easily took with a score of 16:9.

By the way, it's worth noting that the teams had already met in the championship's upper bracket final. Back then, ECSTATIC easily defeated their opponent with a score of 2:0 (Inferno 19:17, NUKE 16:3).

Alexander "Shalfey" Marenov received the award for the Most Valuable Player of the tournament! His average rating at the end of the tournament was 6.7.

For their victory in the championship, the team earned $100,000 and also secured a spot in the CCT Global Finals.

Throughout the tournament, FORZE did not lose a single game. In all of their 4 matches, they only dropped 4 maps.

Leading up to the final showdown, FORZE defeated HAVU (2:0), Bad News Eagles (2:1), Into The Breach (2:1).  

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It's worth noting that FORZE participated in a total of 11 tournaments from the Champion of Champions Tour. However, they had only won once before, specifically in the CCT Central Europe Series #2!

Reminder: CCT Online Finals #1 took place from May 23 to May 30. The participating teams competed for a prize pool of $200,000!