Tang wins on debut — unranked at the start of the night, champion at the end

Prospect Battles is where careers start, and this one started several. Six of the eight competitors had no ranking at all going in — no ladder battles, no record, nothing.

Tang was one of them, and left as champion.

The bracket

• Quarterfinal — Nirbhay (unranked) def. YF (unranked)
• Quarterfinal — RuLo (#288) def. Duckspam (unranked)
• Quarterfinal — Jahamez (#311) def. Preymta (unranked)
• Quarterfinal — Tang (unranked) def. Synthetik (unranked)
• Semifinal — RuLo def. Nirbhay
• Semifinal — Tang def. Jahamez
• Final — Tang def. RuLo

A perfect debut

Three battles, three wins. Tang enters the ladder at #237 with a 100% win rate — the only unbeaten record among everyone who competed across the last five events.

What the night changed

• Tang — unranked → #237, 3–0, first title
• RuLo — #288 → #233, record 2–1 → 4–2
• Nirbhay — debut, enters at #302
• Jahamez — #311 → #301, first ladder win

Everyone who battled here now has a career page and a place on the ladder, which is the entire point of the format. Full results on the event page.