Curve + Higgsǃ: fourth place, earned on foot

Twelve games, one ledger

The shape of their weekend is right there in the strip: a monster open, a long grind, one hole, one late surge. Of their 525 points, 176 came from eliminations (33.5%) — the rest was placement, collected the hard way. In the final NAC table they sat 4th on 525, with third (GEN aj + XSET veno5x) at 561 and fifth (DТ Rise + XSET Muz 7ǃ) at 520.

Inside the duo, the split was no mystery: Curve carried 65.4% of the workload (half damage share, half elim share). His 31 eliminations on Epic's kill counter ranked #4 of all 200 players and #2 in NAC, and his 7,771 damage ranked #10 in the field. Higgs added 14 elims and 4,777 damage — but his one big swing, 1,086 damage in Game 1, was the biggest single-game number either of them posted all weekend, and it came in the game that defined their event.

The signature: what only this duo did

1. The 113-point opener — the biggest game of the whole Major

Game 1, Day 1: a Victory Royale with 12 team eliminations for 113 points — the highest-scoring single game by any duo in either region across all 24 Grand Finals games. It was also the weekend's only 12-elim game that actually ended in a win: the other 12-bomb, by an AUR duo in EU Game 12, placed 23rd. Curve took 8 of the elims, Higgs 4 with that 1,086 damage. One game in, their event already had a spine the rest of the weekend could lean on — see the full winner ledger in the NAC deep dive.

2. The iron-men grind: #2 and #4 movers of all 200 players

Across 12 games, Curve covered 67.05 km — second of all 200 Grand Finals players, behind only reеtǃ at 69.52 — and Higgs covered 64.72 km, fourth. Both members of one duo inside the field's top four for ground covered; no stat says "iron men" louder. The survival clocks back it up: Curve spent 223.3 minutes alive (9th in the field), Higgs 218.6 (17th). The full 200-player grind table lives in the Grand Finals stats hub.

3. NAC's worst storm luck — by a distance

All that walking wasn't a lifestyle choice. Measuring storm tax — meters caught outside each freshly locked circle from phase 3 on — Curve and Higgs paid 9,492.6 m across the series, 791.1 m per game, against a field median of 378.4 m. That's the 5th-unluckiest of all 99 measured duos, and the four duos above them were all EU — making this the worst storm luck any NAC duo endured. More than double the median tax, every single game, and they still banked five top-10s. The circle-by-circle autopsy is in the zones & map analysis.

4. Alone at Lifty Lodge — with the commute to prove it

Their drop was a model of discipline: a spot near Lifty Lodge, 144 m from the POI marker, with an average landing spread of just 26.2 m — and not one other NAC duo's median landing within 250 m of it. Zero contest, all loot. The catch was the address: zone 5 came to Lifty Lodge exactly once all weekend — in EU Game 3, a lobby they weren't in — and never in NAC. NAC rotations from the POI averaged 1,026.7 m to zone 5 (vs 863.1 m in EU), and its single worst haul of the weekend was 1,848.9 m in NAC Game 10. Free real estate, expensive commute — the two halves of their iron-man weekend in one drop pick. Endgame addresses for every POI are in the zones & map analysis.

One more texture note from the kill-steal ledger: Curve had 3 of his knocks finished by other teams against 2 steals of his own — enough to make the weekend's most-robbed table — while Higgs was robbed twice and stole none. Even the third-party economy taxed this duo.

The arc: Day 1 sprinted, Day 2 crawled

The replay profile calls them a spike duo, and the days split cleanly: 10.33 average placement on Day 1, 15.83 on Day 2. The best game needs no introduction — Game 1, 113 points, the event's biggest. The worst was its mirror: Game 7, the Day 2 opener — 36th place, zero eliminations, zero points, and just 222 duo damage, their quietest game of the weekend.

What keeps the arc from reading as a fade is Game 11: 4th place, 8 elims, 80 points — their second-best game of the series, late on Day 2, with Higgs out-fragging Curve 6 to 3 for the only time all weekend. A housekeeping note for anyone checking the official board: Higgs renamed his account mid-event, so his Day 2 games appear under a different display name. Same epicId — every number on this page follows the player, not the name.

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