Geekay topples Liquid to win OWCS NA Stage 2 grand final

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