Young Ninjas — Champion WePlay Academy League Season 6
/WePlay Academy League Season 6 has come to an end. As part of the competition, which was held online from October 12 to November 20, fourteen youth clubs from the CIS, Europe and Brazil are fighting for a prize pool of $100,000. The winner of the championship was the Swedish team Young Ninjas , which in the grand final was stronger than Spirit Academy with a score of 2:1 (Dust 2 - 7:16; Vertigo - 16:11; Nuke - 16:8) and earned $45,000.
The Swedish team performed well in the group stage, where they got eight wins and suffered four losses against ENCE Academy (14:16), MIBR Academy (10:16), Spirit Academy (11:16) and Astralis Talent (7:16). However, in the replays, the team managed to get a victory over Astralis Talent (16:13) in order to reach the final of the Play-In stage.
Here, Young Ninjas confidently outplayed compatriots from 00 Prospects (2:0), thanks to which they got into the final stage of the championship.
In the semifinals, the Swedes confidently outplayed NAVI Junior (2:0), but after that they lost to Spirit Academy (0:2) in the upper bracket final and fell into the lower basket. And yet, Young Ninjas managed to pull herself together to outplay NAVI Junior again (2:0), and then take revenge on Spirit Academy (2:1) and become the champion of WePlay Academy League Season 6.
WePlay Academy League Season 6 results
- 1st place: Young Ninjas - $45,000
- 2nd place: Spirit Academy - $20,000
- 3rd place: NAVI Junior — $15,000
- 4th place: MOUZ NXT - $8,000
- 5th-6th place: 00 Prospects and OG Academy - $4,000
- 7th-8th place: Astralis Talent and Fnatic Rising — $1,500
- 9th-10th place: FURIA Academy and BIG Academy - $500
- 11th-13th place: Apeks Rebels, Flames Ascent and ENCE Academy
- 14th place: MIBR Academy