GWENT-Challenger-NEWS

First GWENT 100K Tourny Winner Announced

CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series of games, announce that Adrian “Lifecoach” Koy won GWENT Challenger — the official tournament of GWENT: The Witcher Card Game.

The finals of GWENT Challenger took place on May 13th. Winners of community qualifiers Mikhail “Fion56” Yastrebov, Alexey “Oikumena” Raspopov, Alexander “ProNeo” Shpak and Barret “Vishra” Goss took on professional gamers Jeffrey “Trump” Shih, Adrian “Lifecoach” Koy, Peter “ppd” Dager, and Kacem “Noxious” Khilaji. The tournament’s prizepool was $100,000.

After a series of fierce duels, Adrian “Lifecoach” Koy and Kacem “Noxious” Khilaji advanced to the final match to battle it out for the title of GWENT Challenger Champion. Taking it all the way to game five of the match and having performed an incredible reversal, Adrian “Lifecoach” Koy emerged victorious.

The final tournament standings are as follows:
Adrian “Lifecoach” Koy — $60,000
Kacem “Noxious” Khilaji — $20,000
Peter “ppd” Dager — $10,000
Mikhail “Fion56” Yastrebov — $10,000

CD PROJEKT RED would like to thank the community for participating in GWENT Challenger qualifiers, as well the finalists for providing a gripping spectacle of sportsmanship. We’d also like to thank everyone who joined us live to watch the finals of GWENT Challenger on Twitch — we hope you enjoyed the show!

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John Breeden II
John has spent his journalism career covering just about everything, from small-town meetings and crime scenes to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Congress. He got his start writing about games and technology with a computer column called On the Chip Side, which grew to more than 1 million in circulation and ran in newspapers across several states. Today, John is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek and many other publications, and he writes a regular technology and government column for Nextgov/FCW and hosts security and educational webinars for FedInsider. He is also the founder of the Tech Writers Bureau and the chief editor of GameIndustry.com. He still loves disappearing into games, whether that means crawling through Baldur’s Gate dungeons deep into the night or planning one more big offensive in the latest wargame.