Geekay Esports emerged from the lower bracket and took down Team Liquid 4-3 in the grand final of the Overwatch Champions Series 2025 — North America Stage 2 on Sunday.
Geekay swept NTMR 3-0 in the lower-bracket final earlier in the day to advance to face Team Liquid. It was a rematch of the upper-bracket final, in which Liquid handed Geekay its first loss of the tournament (3-1) after Geekay went 7-0 during the regular season.
After Team Liquid opened Sunday with a 2-0 victory on Ilios Control, Geekay took the next three maps — 3-2 on King’s Row Hybrid, 3-2 again on Circuit Royal Escort and 132.24m-105.67m on Runasapi Push.
Team Liquid evened the best-of-seven series at 3-3 by winning 3-1 on Suravasa Flashpoint and 3-0 on New Junk City Flashpoint.
The decisive seventh map was Oasis Control, where Geekay prevailed 2-0.
In the lower-bracket final, Geekay defeated NTMR 2-1 on Oasis Control, 3-2 on Circuit Royal Escort and 3-0 on New Junk City Flashpoint for the sweep.
Despite his team’s third-place finish, Rocco “Kronik” Iacobacci of NTMR won the most match MVP awards of the tournament (five) and was named the OCWS NA Stage 2 Super Star.
The regional playoffs were a double-elimination bracket that featured the top six teams from the regular season, which ran from May 10 to June 15. The bottom two teams, seventh-place Supernova and eighth-place DhillDucks, went to promotion/relegation for Stage 3.
The top three teams — Geekay, Team Liquid and NTMR — advanced to the Midseason Championship and North America Stage 3. Geekay received $30,000 for first place.
Overwatch Champions Series 2025 — NA Stage 2 prize pool:
1. $30,000, Midseason Championship — Geekay Esports
2. $20,000, Midseason Championship — Team Liquid
3. $14,500, Midseason Championship — NTMR
4. $10,500 — Spacestation Gaming
5-6. $7,500 — Sakura Esports, Extinction
7. $5,000, Promotion/Relegation — Supernova
8. $5,000, Promotion/Relegation — DhillDucks
–Field Level Media
