KRÜ Blaze won the VCT Game Changers Championship on Sunday, 1 November, beating Gentle Mates GC 3-2 in a best-of-five grand final. The title was decided on a fifth map that lasted 45 minutes.
Gentle Mates took map 1 in 40 minutes. KRÜ levelled the series with a 38-minute map 2. Map 3 ran 61 minutes before KRÜ won it. Gentle Mates won map 4 in 44 minutes, forcing the decider.
The source says Gentle Mates had not dropped a series before the final, so this was their first Championship defeat. KRÜ reached the final from the lower bracket. They lost 2-0 to Shopify Rebellion Gold in the upper semi-final, then won their next three series, including a 3-1 win over Shopify Rebellion Gold in the lower bracket final.
Gentle Mates were ranked 4th in the Elo power rankings at 1828, with a 33-8 record in 41 rated matches. KRÜ were ranked 16th at 1757, with a 64-21 record in 85 rated matches.
The KRÜ champion roster is mmonch, antG, micaela, poniX, nonee, dods and tok1o. The Gentle Mates roster is Marti, Nami, Wens, tokameite and berryx.