The teams faced each other at the start of their tournament run, and DRX earned a win in that close match. Now, the battle is crucial: one team advances to the Playoffs, and one goes home.
Both Team Liquid and DRX experienced ups and downs at VALORANT Champions 2025. Beyond their opening match, DRX couldn’t achieve another win. In the advancement battle, they lost to NRG — even if the games were super close.
Team Liquid had to go to overtime versus EDward Gaming to save themselves from elimination. In the final match of the Group Stage, the Liquid players face their demons once again.
Putting the first match result aside, DRX and Team Liquid have been achieving pretty similar placements at big international VALORANT esports events. This makes their Champions 2025 battle even more interesting.
Stream: Watch DRX versus Team Liquid at VALORANT Champions 2025
All the Group Stage matches of VALORANT Champions 2025 are on the official YouTube channel. You can watch the DRX vs TL stream below.
In the second match of this tournament day, GIANTX and XLG Esports battle for one Playoffs spot in Group A.
DRX versus Team Liquid: Details, stats, score
Check out the details from the VALORANT Champions 2025 match DRX vs Team Liquid in this section. You’ll find here info on the Agents, game stats, map scores, and brief recaps of each game.
DRX 2:0 TL — DRX wins the series and advances to the Playoffs at VALORANT Champions 2025
Map 1, Corrode, TL pick | Map 2, Abyss, DRX pick | Map 3, Bind |
|---|---|---|
| DRX 13:8 TL | DRX 13:7 TL | - |
Agents
DRX Picks | DRX | Team Liquid | TL Picks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omen (G1) Omen (G2) | Kim "MaKo" Myeong-kwan | Ayaz "nAts" Akhmetshin | Waylay (G1) Cypher (G2) |
| Vyse (G1) Cypher (G2) | No "freeing" Ha-jun | Georgio "keiko" Sanassy | Omen (G1) Omen (G2) |
| Waylay (G1) Waylay (G2) | Song "HYUNMIN" Hyun-min | Kamil "kamo" Frąckowiak | Neon (G1) Jett (G2) |
| Fade (G1) Sova (G2) | Kang "BeYN" Ha-bin | Patryk "paTiTek" Fabrowski | Fade (G1) Kayo (G2) |
| Yoru (G1) Yoru (G2) | Cho "Flashback" Min-hyuk | Nikita "trexx" Cherednichenko | Vyse (G1) Sova (G2) |
Map 1, Corrode
Team Liquid gambled a lot in this opening game: with the map pick and the team composition.
- TL picked Corrode, taking notes from NRG, who defeated DRX on this map.
- nAts picked Waylay, a duelist Agent, for the first time in his career, and that is 506 games.
Taking two duelists worked relatively well on the attacking side for Team Liquid. They successfully took control over Mid in most rounds and won many direct combats on bombsites.
Still, considering the defense-sided nature of Corrode, going to the side swap with 6:6 did not feel like a win for TL.
DRX had great moments throughout the first half: like freeing winning a 1v1 versus keiko in Round 5 or MaKo defusing at the last moment in Round 7.
As attackers, DRX dominated the map! They looked more coordinated, and their scenarios felt truly powerful. TL were somewhat desperate closer to the end. They sure won Round 16 on low buy, but that was one of only two for them in the second half.
Aiming for the top 6 again?
The competitive record of DRX and Team Liquid at big international events is not bad but not too good either. Liquid has a slight advantage of attending more such tournaments.
DRX
Since its formation in 2022, DRX has been regularly hitting the top 6 at VALORANT Masters. At the same time, the esports organization skips events disturbingly often.
The Champions 2025 roster of DRX competed at Masters Bangkok 2025 as well, where the team finished 5th-6th.
Team Liquid
Alongside reaching the top 6, VALORANT Team Liquid has been experiencing more disappointing results. However, being 9th-10th at Masters Toronto 2025 is probably better than not qualifying for the event at all.
In 2025, Liquid attended both Masters tournaments, which feels like a big progress after not being present at the international scene in 2024.
VALORANT Champions 2025 is the first tournament for trexx as a Team Liquid player. He replaced Maikls “SerialKiller” Ždanov in July.
Sure, both teams want more than the top 6, but only one of them can achieve this. The Playoffs Stage of VALORANT Champions 2025 starts on Sept. 25.
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