Team Subroza Wins Lil Bro Cup Valorant Tournament

Content creator and streamers Tarik "tarik" Celik and Ludwig Ahgren teamed up to organize a Valorant tournament titled “Lil Bro Cup” featuring 20 Valorant stars. The tournament was announced by Sentinels on 30th November. Sentinels wrote in a tweet, “20 Valorant stars. 2 questionable hosts. 1 Tournament to decide everything. Announcing the Lil Bro Cup.” The tournament featured four superstar teams – Team Subroza, Team Rossy, Team Zander, and Team BcJ – competing at the highest level on 5th December (IST). However, Team Subroza emerged victorious and took away the cash prize of $7,000 USD. 

Team Subroza had the following players:

• Yassine "Subroza" Taoufik

• Hunter “BabyJ” Schline

• Jimmy "Marved" Nguyen

• Sam "s0m" Oh

• Timothy "iiTzTimmy" An

Announcing the winners, tarik wrote, “Thanks to @LudwigAhgren for being a W co-host, and @sapphiReGG + @priusOBS for observing for the event. Massive love to all the players who participated as well. Should we do this again? 👀”

Tarik added that he had a blast hosting the event and that he definitely plans on “running it back with better production”. He added, “Ludwig x Tarik in Jan[uary] up next,” teasing another potential collaboration on the line.

Pros that participated in Lil Bro Cup

The following are the pros that took part in the Lil Bro Cup:

Team Rossy

• Daniel "Rossy" Abedrabbo 

• Corey "corey" Nigra

• Anthony "gMd" Guimond

• Hunter "SicK" Mims 

• Braxton "brax" Pierce

Team Zander

• Alexander "Zander" Dituri

• Ryan "Shanks" Ngo 

• Kevin "poised" Ngo

• Drake "Exalt" Branly 

• Zachary "zekken" Patrone

Team BcJ

• Brendan "BcJ" Jensen

• Jordan "AYRIN" He

• Alexander "jawgemo" Mor 

• Marc-Andre "NiSMO" Tayar

• Rahul "curry" Neman

Team Subroza wins Lil Bro Cup

The Lil Bro Cup featured three best-of-three (BO3) series: two semi-finals and one final. However, there was also a best-of-one consolation final during the tournament. 

In the semifinals, Team Rossy went up against Team Zander and won 2-0 while Team Subroza won against Team BcJ with a 2-1 series score. However, it was a clean series for Subroza’s team in the grand final where it won 2-0 against Rossy’s squad. Meanwhile, Team Zander and Team BcJ played a consolation final, and Zander’s squad won with a 13-11 score. 

After winning the Lil Bro Cup, BabyJ wrote, “In case y’all forgot, I still got it. Shoutout to my teammates for carrying me in the finals. This kid @iiTzTimmy is good at every game he plays.”

Meanwhile, iiTzTimmy tweeted, “Lil bro cup MVP 🥶 maybe I should go pro.”

According to vlr.gg, the prize pool of the tournament was $10K USD and the following was the split between the top teams:

• Team Subroza: $7,000 USD

• Team Rossy: $2,000 USD

• Team Zander: $1,000 USD