Paper Rex vs EDward Gaming Result VALORANT Masters London 2026

Paper Rex defeated EDward Gaming 2-1 in the VALORANT Masters London 2026 Upper Final at the Copper Box Arena in London. PRX advance directly to the Grand Final on June 21, where they will face the winner of the Lower Final. EDG drop to the Lower Final where they face the winner of Team Vitality and Leviatán. The win secures PRX's spot in Sunday's Grand Final and locks in a double map ban for that match, while also confirming Paper Rex as the first team to qualify for VALORANT Champions 2026. It marks PRX's third Masters Grand Final appearance within the last year, following Masters Santiago and Masters Toronto.

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Match result

The series lived up to its billing as the long-awaited meeting between two of VALORANT's most gifted mechanical players, Ilya "something" Petrov and EDG's roster, facing off at a VCT event for the first time this tournament cycle. After a relatively even start to the series, EDG gave up a five-round run to PRX's attack before finding their own answers on the attacking side. PRX looked poised to close out the opening map, but EDG's response kept the series alive and pushed it to a full three-map distance that never settled in either team's favour until the closing stretch of the decider.

The decisive moment of the series came on Fracture, the deciding map, where EDG came agonisingly close to closing out the series themselves before Paper Rex's system found the rounds it needed in the highest-pressure moments. invy and something combined for 58 kills across the series for PRX, while Smoggy posted 56 and CHICHOO 53 for EDG, individual outputs from the Chinese side that were ultimately not enough to overturn PRX's collective execution in the rounds that decided the series.

Top performers

invy and something were the standout individual contributors for Paper Rex, their combined 58 kills across the series giving their system the carry depth whose competition-window activation across three maps was decisive in the tightest stretches of the series. Smoggy led EDG's individual output with 56 kills, with CHICHOO contributing 53, their performances confirming EDG's system remained competitive at the highest pressure the bracket could produce even as the result ultimately went against them.

Was EsportScanner AI correct?

EsportScanner free AI Valorant predictions gave Paper Rex a 68% win probability entering this match based on their dominant recent form and head-to-head history against EDG. The prediction landed. PRX won 2-1 with invy and something's combined 58 kills and their composure across the Fracture decider proving the decisive factors.

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