The first Marvel Rivals Invitational NA has ended on Sunday, with 100 Thieves managing to defeat every opponent and lifting the trophy. After more than a week of intense fighting on the best maps NetEase’s new hero shooter can offer, they faced FlyQuest, and proved they were the best team in NA in a spectacle of a Grand Final.
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100 Thieves Lineup
- Huu”Billion” Ngo
- Anthony “delenaa” De La Rosa
- Harvey “hxrvey” Scattergood
- James “SJP” Parker Hudson
- Eric “TTK” Arraiga
- Marschal “Terra” Weaver
- Vincent “Vinnie” Scarantine
100 Thieves Win Marvel Rivals Invitational North America
Stomping The Group Stage
It became clear very quickly that the players of 100 Thieves were cut above the rest, as they were the best squad of the Group Stage. They faced Rad Esports for their opening match, but they didn’t drop a single point against them – and that’s counting maps that are not simply 1-0’s. Then, they faced FlyQuest, and while the soon-to-be-finalists proved to be a bigger challenge in the second map, after Shin-Shibuya, 100 Thieves left the arena unscathed. In Round 3, they seemed to have found their match in sentinels, who were the only ones capable of taking a game off them, but they couldn’t win the series.
The Group Stage Rankings turned out as such:
- 100 Thieves 3-0
- FlyQuest 2-1
- Sentinels 2-1
- ENVY 2-1
- SHROUD-X 1-2
- Rad Esports 1-2
- NTMR 1-2
- Shikigami 1-2
Cruising Through the Elimination Stage
100 Thieves could start the Knockouts from the Upper Bracket – and they never left it, making a run to the Grand Finals without a lost series. ENVY was their first opponent, and while the storied North American esports organization snagged a victory on Midtown, it was a hard-fought 3-2, while most of the series was very Thieves-sided.
In the Upper Bracket Final, Vinnie and co. faced the winners of the first ever Marvel Rivals Invitational NA, Sentinels, who signed the players of NTMR after they managed to win the 2024 event. However, Chassidy “aramori” Kaye and his teammates were unable to take a single game off of the Thieves, flunking out 0-3, then getting knocked out by FlyQuest – who they beat in the Semis.
It was Grand Final time, with the first and second strongest teams in the tournament facing off. It should’ve been a showdown, but the writing was on the wall after 100T defeated FLY in the second round of the Group Stage. FlyQuest did much better than they or Sentinels did, leading the series 2-1 at one point – but after Hell’s Heave, Midtown and the final Shin-Shibuya (which was an 3-0 stomp), they had to bow down before the strongest team in NA.
Marvel Rivals esports is starting to ramp up with new organizations – like Michael “shroud” Grzesiek’s SHROUD-X entering. New rivalries are forming, and NetEase doesn’t seem to let the hype go anywhere.
