Dragon Ranger Gaming began VCT Threshold China by beating Rare Atom 2-0 on the opening day. The win keeps alive their bid to return to the league through one of the event's 2027 places.
The best-of-three Week 1 meeting started at 12:00 UK time. THE HUB Performing Arts Center is hosting the event, which runs until 1 November.
The result went against the rankings. Dragon Ranger Gaming are rated 1461 on Elo, ranking them 208th, with a 49-54 record from 103 rated matches. Rare Atom sat at rank 74, rated 1622, with a 22-11 record in 33 matches.
Rare Atom picked Summit in the veto and Dragon Ranger Gaming chose Lotus. Sunset was left as the decider but was never needed. Summit took 46 minutes, and Dragon Ranger Gaming needed 48 minutes to finish the job on Lotus.
The stakes are high for Dragon Ranger Gaming. The team held a VCT China guest slot but was not chosen as one of the region’s partners for 2027-2028, Sheep Esports reported. VCT China will have eight partner teams instead of ten in that cycle. Partner status has been removed from four teams: FunPlus Phoenix, Nova Esports, Titan Esports Club and Wolves Esports.
In China, Valorant Challengers has given way to Threshold, which now brings the Nationals season to a close. The 2027 China Kickoff will feature eight partner teams, two visitor teams and two teams from the Open Qualifier.
The Week 1 bracket includes five VCT China teams and seven national teams.
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