If you love a good sports redemption storyline, go ahead and pop the champagne. Just twelve months ago at the 2025 Esports World Cup, the trio of Anthony “Anziety” Moran, Ashton “Bigman” Ezard, and Aarondeep “Cythe” Dhami hit absolute rock bottom, finishing in an embarrassing 17th place and missing out on the grand final entirely.
Fast forward to Paris for the 2026 Warzone Resurgence Series Championship, and that exact same squad just outlasted 31 other elite trios in an 11-match marathon to lift the trophy, bag $250,000, and claim 1,000 crucial EWC Club Championship points for G2 Esports.
Refusing to Roster-Shuffle Paid Off
In a battle royale scene where teams drop and swap teammates after a single bad weekend, G2’s roster stayed loyal to each other for four straight years. They endured internet roasting, inconsistent tournament placings, and the sting of last year’s total collapse.
When G2 signed the trio back in February, few analysts pegged them as the outright favorites heading into Paris. But after cruising through Group B with 235.2 points, the squad entered the match-point grand final looking like absolute operational machines.
The 11-game final was pure blood-pressure-raising madness. Five different teams ended up on match point heading into the final map, creating an absurd high-stakes showdown where one mistake meant losing everything. G2 left zero doubt in Map 11, dropping a terrifying 26-kill masterclass to seal the victory and finish with 210.4 total points, nearly 30 points clear of runner-up T1.
Anziety Takes the MVP Cash and Bigman Calls it a Scrim
Across the entire 11-map final, G2 only placed outside of the top five twice, leading the entire field with a ridiculous 150 total kills. That sheer aggressive dominance earned Anziety the Sony MVP award, adding a sweet $25,000 bonus to his championship earnings. After screaming his voice out during the final circle, he admitted he was completely speechless at how perfectly they closed out the final map.
Bigman summed up the feeling best, reflecting on how crazy it felt to go from dead last at rock bottom to lifting the trophy in a single year, joking that the final match felt like just another casual scrim. Cythe was equally thrilled to send a direct message to all the doubters who wrote them off after last summer.
A Huge Lift for G2’s Club Championship Hopes
Beyond the giant check and personal redemption, this win injects 1,000 massively needed points into G2’s standings for the overall EWC Club Championship. Meanwhile, pre-tournament favorites Team Falcons suffered a complete catastrophe, finishing at the bottom of the final leaderboard and leaving empty-handed without a single point.
By refusing to blow up their roster when things got tough, G2 proved that chemistry and long-term trust can still beat out hype squads in the most chaotic lobby on the planet.
