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The first season of the French VRL of Valorant is off to a good start. The competition is raging and it is still difficult to precisely define the level of the 8 rosters involved. However, three structures are a scarecrow: Team Vitality, Team BDS and OG. These names weigh in the middle and their great experience also speaks for them.
But in the VRL Revolution, it’s another team that catches the eye and more than 30,000 viewers for its matches. This is the team mandatory, the Zerator team. It is unclear where to place MDR, consisting of “retired players” and a “animator“(Jbzz) as Zera likes to repeat, to take off as much pressure as possible. Obviously, the team is better than that and yesterday won its first point. It was also really close to doubling the lead against Team BDS.
Mandatory withstood the crash test well
The calendar of mandatory was not easy to start, since the team had to stuff themselves at the opening OG to then continue on Team BDS. Many wondered about the level of the MDR roster, which had never played competitively together. And then we also have to talk about the elephant in the room: Jbzz. Julo the animator, a former pro League of Legends and Fortnite player, caused some skepticism from the community. But even if his first match started badly against OG (2-12 to wink at Solary) he quickly recovered to show the extent of his talent. Yesterday, he was even elected MVP of the match against Team BDS with 40 kills and one ACS of 258.
Unhappy on Haven against OG where Zerator took a moment karma, Mandatory took his revenge by winning the map this time with a narrow score of 13 to 10. In defense, MDR matched with BDS and the two teams went blow for blow. But it was in the attack phase that the difference was made with very good aggression from Jbzz and APO. This first point unlocks the team’s counters and is good for confidence for the future. The team could even have won a second point on Ascent yesterday, but they finally lost after an interminable overtime (15-17). Captain HyP chained the frags, but juseu did very very poorly with 32 kills on this card alone. The beautiful game was at the rendezvous and the two teams leave on good terms by sharing the points.