Valorant First Strike North American event to feature $100,000 prize pool

After immense success of Valorant Ignition Series, which was organised by third party organisations and teams, Riot Games anunced its first official Valorant tournament - Valorant First Strike. Riot anunced it would be organising several qualifier tournaments across all major regions, which would still be in association with or organisations. inaugural Valorant First Strike event will serve as main event to qualifiers and will be hosted solely by developers with a hefty prize pool on line.

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Earlier this week, anuncement for Valorant First Strike rth American qualifiers was me, which outlined complete schedule, including format of competitions to be held in month of October and vember. rth American qualifiers for Valorant First Strike will be produced by Riot Games in association with Nerd Street Gamers (NSG) and Engine Media (UMG).

online qualifying tournaments will start on October 26 and will conclude on vember 22. Two separate tournaments will be hosted, each having ir respective qualifiers. 

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Valorant First Strike schedule, format

open qualifiers for first event - NSG Tournament - will begin on October 26. A total of 128 teams will compete in qualifiers, of which only 16 will vance to main event. Scheduled for vember 4 to 8, top teams from main event will directly qualify for First Strike, while teams placing five to eight will vance to main event of second string tournament - UMG Tournament.

Sixteen teams will compete in UMG Tournament, of which top four will vance to First Strike.

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Valorant First Strike will be held in first week of December. Valorant First Strike prize pool for eight-team main event will be a whopping $100,000. Teams will also be competing for bragging rights to be crowned inaugural Valorant champions of rth Americal. 

Schedule

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(Im Credits: Valorant Twitter)