BIG has officially became the champion of Gamers Without Borders 2021. BIG, which won $600,000 in prize money, said they would donate the money.
GWB, which has 2021’s biggest prize pool as of yet, closed with the Grand Finals on Sunday. Big showed an outstanding play-off performance, and they defeated FURIA 2-1 in the Grand Final. Xantares was especially fierce during the competition.
Final series was played with a Bo3 format. BIG made an interesting choose and chose the Mirage map, which they bad stats. Despite leading the first half on this map, they could not avoid falling back 1-0 in the series, unable to hold their bombing zones in the second half. In the Inferno chosen by FURIA, the match went to overtime. BIG, who won the overtime 19-16, showed everyone that they were serious in getting the championship tittle.
The final map was BIG’s stronghold, Vertigo. However, FURIA played well on this map as it closed the first half 9-6 ahead. BIG, caught a great streak in the second half. However the match still went to overtime. In the end, BIG won the match with a score of 22-20. The team, who scored 2-1 in the series, became the champions of the tournament and won the $600,000. BIG’s latest transfer, k1to, announced on Twitter that they would donate this money.
Gamers Without Borders 2021 Champion BIG’s most striking player was İsmailcan “Xantares” Dörtkardeş. He played with a K/D ratio of 79-71, and had a rating of 1.15/2.0 at the end of the match. In addition, Xantares ranked second in his team with an average of 83.3 per round. The leader was tabseN, the team’s captain, with 87.4.
The team did not ignore Xantares’ great performance. Stating on their official Twitter account that it wouldn’t be a BIG match without XantaresPeek, the account also shared a video.
