Team Heretics are your Valorant First Strike EU Finals champions

The Finals for the Valorant First Strike EU tournament has wrapped up seeing Team Heretics take the title, at Riot's tactical-shooter's first major event. Seeing stellar engagement from fans across the globe, First Strike has proven that Valorant is looking to be a top-tier esport, making 2021's Champion's Tour all the more exciting.

For this weekend's event, we saw a variety of match-ups since the quarterfinals we reported on, on Friday. In the semis, Team Heretics knocked out G2 Esports in a 2-1 close series, with SUMN FC taking out FunPlus Phoenix on the other side of the bracket, also in a 2-1 fashion.

For the Finals event between Heretics and FPPhoenix, the series became a stellar showing of what future Valorant holds. To start the match off, the teams traded blows, resulting in a 1-1 stalemate after the first two maps. After this however, Heretics showed their strength, and took down FPPhoenix in two back-to-back maps, winning the series 3-1, and securing the championship.

Taking the victory, Heretics landed a meaty $40,000 prize pool, alongside seeing one of their stars, Christian "loWel" Garcia Antoran take home the Finals' MVP nod, capping off a great tournament for a team that was not regarded to be the favourite.

Did you watch the First Strike Finals, and what did you think of the event?