Simply final weekend, on Could twenty eighth, Malaysia-Singapore’s Paper Rex took home the VCT Pacific League’s inaugural trophy and had been topped the VALORANT champions of their area.
Nevertheless, the crew achieved this feat with out one among their most well-known gamers, and the league MVP trophy went to their latest participant, one thing. The crew appeared implausible with their new addition this season, however this leaves one veteran left behind when Paper Rex journey to Masters Tokyo subsequent week.
On Sunday afternoon Korean time, Paper Rex introduced by way of a prolonged tweet that the crew would formally transfer Benkai to the inactive roster.
Benkai captured hearts all over the place all the best way again at Paper Rex’s first worldwide look at VCT Masters Berlin in 2021. All through the 2022 season, he continued to attach with followers via his in-game management and enjoyable antics. From strolling onstage wearing a Tyrannosaurus Rex costume to pulling enjoyable pranks on his teammates, Benkai at all times lit up the environment.
Benkai began the 2023 season on Paper Rex’s beginning roster and performed with the crew in LOCK//IN, the primary huge worldwide match of the yr. Simply earlier than the beginning of the VCT Pacific league, Paper Rex made an enormous transfer in signing something, the Russian player who had proved himself beforehand within the Japanese VALORANT scene.
One thing appeared like he could possibly be a fantastic addition to the crew, however the query remained: which one among Paper Rex’s different gifted gamers would sit out?
Whereas all partnered VCT groups will need to have six gamers on their roster, the sixth participant typically serves as a real substitute. For Paper Rex, the primary few weeks of the season had been spent determining how their roster would alter to this.
Benkai performed his final match with the crew on April fifteenth, the place they misplaced 13-5 on Ascent in opposition to DRX. He was substituted for the following map, which was then performed by what would turn out to be Paper Rex’s final beginning roster—f0rsakeN, mindfreak, Jingg, d4v41, and one thing.
This roster went on to play DRX twice after the match on April fifteenth, beating the Korean crew each instances and taking residence the VCT Pacific League trophy.
Although Benkai is now on the inactive roster—that means he is not going to be touring with Paper Rex to compete in Tokyo later this month—the crew remains to be required by the VCT to have six gamers on their roster. Their new sixth participant is CGRS, who has been signed with the crew since October 2022. He has performed two official matches with the crew since then.
Of their Tweet, Paper Rex additionally talked about that one thing could not have his journey paperwork ready in time for him to play throughout the crew’s opening matches in Japan. The crew is getting ready for CGRS to step in if wanted.
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