Riot Games Officially Announces First Tournament For Valorant Game!
If you follow the development of the game industry, of course you already know about the latest FPS game made by Riot Games, yes, this game is Valorant. Now the popularity of the latest FPS game made by Riot Games has immediately skyrocketed.
To introduce the game to the general public, Riot Games has just announced an Esports tournament for its new game. The tournament entitled “Ignition Series” will be the beginning of the journey of the Valorant game in the esports scene. In addition, Riot Games also wants to build an active e-sports community for its competitive 5v5 character-based tactical shooting game.
“We are looking forward to bringing together the best from the world of gaming and e-sports to present a program that will showcase VALORANT on a global scale.”
said Whalen Rozelle, Senior Director of Esports at Riot Games
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Collaborate with 20 Esports Organizations
To make this Valorant game’s inaugural tournament a success, Riot Games partnered with more than 20 E-sports organizations. This collaboration will later present a variety of unique competitive events around the world.
Based on the information shared, there will be two Ignition Series tournaments to be held. Where the first tournament that was presented with G2 Esports could only be participated by teams from EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa). As well as the second tournament presented by Rage for the Japanese region.
In addition, in the future Ignition Series events will be produced for fans in North America, Brazil, Latin America, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, Oceania, Europe, Russia, Turkey, and the Middle East.
While the event for Southeast Asia is scheduled to be held in early July and mid-August. More details will be released in the coming weeks.
Ignition Series Schedule
Later, each organizer will operate a separate Ignition Series tournament. It will include a mix of open qualifiers, show matches and competitive invitational championships alongside a line-up of top players, celebrities and aspirational amateurs.
Both tournaments will be held online from 19 to 21 June 2022. Riot Games will also announce one more Valorant tournament for the EMEA and NA regions which will be held from June 26-28.
The arrival of the inaugural Valorant tournament proves that Riot Games is serious about making the Valorant game a competitive game. However, it can also be played casually by some other gamers.
Seeing the action of this game, Valorant itself has made history on its first day. Where Riot Games’ flagship FPS game managed to break the audience record with a total of 34 million hours of viewing in one day, and more than 1.7 million the highest number of concurrent viewers.
We have to wait and see how the inaugural Valorant tournament will go. For that, make sure you continue to monitor Dafunda Game to get other interesting information about the game world.
