The main event of the year, Valorant Champions 2025, should demonstrate the highest level of organization and equipment for the players. However, even such a grand event was not without problems, which Kim “Meteor” Tae-oh encountered during his first match.

Comments from Meteor

As a reminder, yesterday Meteor played his first match as part of T1 in the group stage of Valorant Champions 2025. The team defeated Dragon Rangers Gaming 2-0, moving them into first place in the group. However, the match itself was not without technical problems, as reported by the T1 players. During the match, there was a 30-minute technical break, which, according to Meteor, was due to bugs and game crashes.

The match was full of incredible things. My computer was lagging, so I asked to pause the game, but I was told to continue playing on the first map with FPS display enabled.

In addition, his teammate Kang “DH” Dong-ho also experienced problems. The latter's computer shut down more than 10 times, and he regularly encountered blue screens with errors.

The second technical pause was for DH — blue screen, rebooted, and tried to log in, but couldn't log in at all. Even the new PC continued to receive an error code, and, to be honest, the game crashed about 10 times. After many attempts, he was finally able to log in and restart the round, but his computer also started to lag and freeze. And I couldn't concentrate at all. The PC will constantly shut down

Despite this, T1 still won on two maps and is now the main contender in Group D for the playoffs. Riot Games has not yet commented on these issues, but this is not the first time that equipment problems have arisen at major tournaments.