The Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) 2023 Masters Tokyo is presently in progress, with eight teams competing in the playoffs. Many heavy-weights like NRG and Fnatic are duking it out to win the total prize pool of $1 million. This 10-day tournament is going to conclude on June 25. However, fans have already witnessed the biggest upset.

This tournament began after VCT LOCK//IN Sao Paulo. The Sao Paulo event was epic in its own right too. Ultimately, Fnatic took the trophy home after defeating LOUD. Now the Tokyo event has once again stirred up the debates on a curse with the finalist dropping out early.

LOUD drops off early in the Valorant Champions Tour Masters Tokyo

The finalists of the Sao Paulo event, LOUD, have become the unfortunate recipient of an early exit at Masters Tokyo. They were defeated by Evil Geniuses in the upper bracket quarterfinals. Then they were eliminated from the tournament by EDward Gaming in the lower bracket round one. With this loss, they have landed at the 7th-8th position in the tournament. This exit gave rise to the talks about the second-place curse in Valorant.

Unfortunately, LOUD has fallen for this curse twice, like OpTic Gaming. And the curse has worked all seven times on VCT. For those who don’t know this curse, the theory is something that the fans have crafted. In this, whenever a team places second at an international LAN event, the same team ends up departing the next tournament fairly early on and has little to no success.

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The fans have come forward to comment on this unfortunate exit from LOUD, voicing their reactions to this event via their tweets.

Furthermore, fans have also started speculating which team will be the next recipient of this curse.

Although the fans of LOUD will be upset about their elimination, they have still something to look forward to. After the untimely death of a Valorant pro, the community came together to donate for every Shorty kill at Masters Tokyo.

What are your thoughts on this curse popularized by fans for the second-place team at the Valorant LAN events? Let us know in the comments section below.

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