The tournament saw players on both Xbox One and the PS4 duke it out, using the finals seeing every Ultimate Team player is unlocked by the business so they may be utilised by the occasion’s opponents.
Vitality Shellz and Rocky bested all comers to go one on one together with the pair playing two matches on every one of their favoured games consoles, in the grand final. Vitality Rocky won the very first match his away games console, though Shellz was able to scrape back the shortfall within their Xbox One rematch. At 3-2 down, the aggregate of 4-4 could have ensured that Shellz would happen to be the winner, with him having scored more goals on his away games console. Yet, in the 89th minute a dubious free kick verdict was called, giving the late chance to score an equaliser and go home the winner to Vitality Rocky.
A defensive error saw Shellz losing the ball just outside the box, put away the ball in the trunk of the net in extra time and with Vitality Rocky managing to get control of possession because of this. Shellz didn’t possess time to mount a recovery, with Vitality Rocky taking the top prize and lifting the decoration.
Yet, in spite of finishing in second place as the last eight have each earned themselves a position in the FIFA Interactive World Cup Shellz’s journey isn’t over just yet, a yearly tournament set to happen in London. The FUT Championship Series sees gamers assemble teams made up of the best players in the world - as well as legends from years past - by playing and winning games to earn online cash.
After a long online qualification process, the top 32 players in the world descended on Berlin to play for a weekend prize pot totalling $400,000. Players were drawn into a round-of-16 bracket for each console and had to avoid losing two games to stay alive. The losers in the round-of-16 games dropped into a lower round, where they had to win their next match in order to bounce back up to the main bracket.