When I think about rad af moments in Liquid history, I am sure a bunch of us will come up with similar highlights. The International. MSI Finals. The Grand Slam. HuK’s voidrays.

A new mo just entered my pantheon this month. Daiki, bizerra, isaa, joojina, Jelly, and coach napz won the Valorant Challengers 2026 Brazil Stage 1 Access series. Now that’s a mouth full and not at all a catchy way to explain that by winning this qualifier they have made it to Valorant Challengers Brazil Stage 2. They are now one of 14 teams who are playing for a a spot in the VCT Americas play ins. The only female team. It gives them a direct, but grueling, shot to make Champions this year.

Win Challengers Brazil. Secure top 4 in VCT America Stage 2 Play ins. Make the grand finals of VCT America Stage 2 Playoffs. Head to Shanghai for Champions. I am, clearly, already doing the fantasy booking in my head.

Oh and if that wasn’t enough winning in April. They also casually decided to win Game Changers Brazil Stage 1. That’s the 8th time they have won this trophy since it’s inception. They have held it 9 times. They have 8, of the 9, trophies in existence.

Now in basically any other month; I think the lead story would have been this second one. Liquid Guild won their fourth RWF in a row. In other words they went back, to back, to back, to back. Thanks cpt flowers.

A race that started off a little slow with some questionable leers at Blizzard finished up with an absolute bonkers bang. I mean ya know it’s kinda cool when you get an article from both the LA Times and Kotaku.

Relive, or witness for the first time, the chaos that happened once we found out about the Midnight Falls secret phase:

The TL;DR tl;dr

• 🏆 Liquid Citadel Wins the Ignite 2026 Marvel Rivals America (Preseason)

• 🏆 Magnus Wins the Chess.com Open 2026

• 🏆 EmreYilmaz Wins eDivise 25/26 (EA FC Netherlands League)

• 🏆 Paulo Neto Wins eLibertadores (EA FC South American League)

• 🏆 Two Trophies for Team Liquid Visa Valorant (above)

Full Athletics Breakdown:

League of Legends: The team is currently 5-0, undefeated, and tied for first place in the 2026 Spring Split. They still gotta play C9, who is also undefeated. They didn’t preform as well in the EWC NA qualifiers where they finished 3rd and did not secure the invite. They lost in uppers, and lowers, to Flyquest. TL can still make EWC if they win the spring split.

CS2: IEM Rio 2026 was more of a whimper than a flashbang. Finishing 13-16th for a quick exit for a team who is still looking to grow with a new roster.

Dota 2: Some mixed results here. The team finished 3rd in the DreamLeague S29 WEU QUalifier, which gives them an invite to the event. They finished 5th in Premiere Series, losing to Nigma. And 4th at PGL Wallachia S8, losing to Falcons. They played Wallachia with a standin for Boxi who was takin a lil break.

Valorant: We talked about the Brazil girls up top, but the Europe boys are humming along in EMEA Stage 1. They finished the group stage in 2nd place with a record of 4 and 1. They start in the upper bracket of playoffs against Vitality this week.

R6: Owie owie. The new team had a very promising CFBL group stage. They won their group with a 3-1 record. Then they lost their two playoff games meaning they did not qualify for the Blast R6 major in Salt Lake City.

PUBG: A bit of an uninspiring 12th place finish in the Global Series 26 Circuit 1 Final.

Crossfire: CFBL (Cross Fire Brazil League) 26 S1 Playoffs are going on right now and TL is sitting pretty in the grand final. They went 9-1 in the group stage, and then road the upper bracket all the way there.

Marvel Rivals: As mentioned above, a new trophy for the new team. They finished Ignite Preseason: Americas in first place. Undefeated in groups. One loss in the upper bracket finals to Swamp Gaming, which they avenged in grands. A 9-1 record this month for the team!

MLBB: Regular season is under way for all 3 rosters. Indonesia is in 4th place with a record of 6-5 with three more weeks to play. Ideally they finish top 2, but they need to be top 6. The Philippines team is preforming stronger, topping their group right now in first place with a 10-1 score line. They have two more weeks of games before playoffs. The Athena Cup, female league, team is atop their group undefeated at 2-0.

Overwatch: A 3rd place finish in Stage 1 of NA from a team that has been through a medium to large amount of shuffling trauma , outlined in last month’s newsletter. A podium finish regardless of drama! We’re cooking behind the scenes to be ready, and stronger than ever, for Stage 2!

Starcraft: By my count, Clem won 6 weekly events in April. All little B-Tier online events. But 6 W’s still be 6 W’s. Cure is also playing in GSL S1, He made it out of the first group stage!

Smash: HBOX competed at Full House: Siege. Which, not important, really makes me think about John Stamos playing R6. Mr. Box finished 2nd losing in the finals to Cody.

Apex: ALGS Americas Split 1 is going on right now. It’s two months of Apex, and right now the squad is sitting in 9th out of 30 squads. We’ve still got 2 play days left in the season to pad those stats, look for us to finish strong!

Chess: Yes, Magnus won the Chess.com Open 2026. Yes, he played on his tablet. But also, Fabi placed 3rd in the FIDE Candidates 2026 Tournament. Pragg finished in that same event in 7th place.

Fortnite: Did you know we have some BR Fortnite players again? Persa is back and scored a 23rd place finish in FNCS 26 Major 1 Brazil Grand Finals.

EA FC: The eDivise (NL) league finished up with a grand finals matchup that saw TL vs TL for the trophy. Emre took our teammate Chris for the honor of gold. Over in eLigue (France), teammate Levi and Manu saw their perfect season fall short in the grand finals where they lost and ultimately took 2nd place. Then, finally, Paulo took home another first place trophy for TL in the eLibertadores (Brazil) league. This means that Emere, Levi, Manu, Chris, and Paulo are all qualified for the FC Pro World Championship at EWC this year.

Good god, that was 16 out of 18 rosters active this month. Many of them with impressive results to show for it. Quite the mouth full (eye-full?) if you’re trying to keep up with it all. I spent my weekend with a Liquipedia API key and Claude to see if I can vibe code my way to getting all of this juicy information a bit easier. Which also delayed this a few days. Ooopsie. Sorrie.

Let me know what you do, or don’t, like about these org wide athletic breakdowns. Chat me up on /r/teamliquid or direct to my email joey@teamliquid.com