NA VALORANT Champions Tour STAGE 1 - Challengers Open Qualifier #2
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About This Event
The VALORANT Champions Tour is the official tournament series in VALORANT esports, with Riot Games partnering with Nerd Street Gamers to operate and produce STAGE 1 of the VCT.
There will be 2 Challenger Open Qualifiers for you and your team to compete in to qualify for the 12-team Challengers Main Event.
Stage 1 of the VALORANT Champions Tour will begin on January 27th with Open Qualifier #1, a 128-team tournament produced and operated by Nerd Street Gamers.
The top 4 teams from the Open Qualifier #1 and the top 4 teams from Open Qualifier #2 will advance to the Stage 1: Challengers Main Event alongside Sentinels, Envy, 100 Thieves and Cloud9 Blue which will take place over the course of 5 weeks. Top teams from the Main Event will then advance to a 2 week Playoff stage.
Breakdown:
- OFFICIAL STAGE 1 RULESET TBD
- TEAM CAPTAIN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR REGISTERING ENTIRE TEAM.
- ALL PLAYERS MUST BE IMMORTAL 1+ in Episode 3: ACT 2 or Episode 3: ACT 3 WITH PROOF PER RIOT RULES
- ALL PLAYERS MUST PROVIDE A CAREER TAB SCREENSHOT OF THEIR RANK IN GAME IN ONE IMGUR POST AND ADD THE URL TO THE REQUIRED TICKET FIELD. EXAMPLE HERE.*
*In order to add more pictures to your initial post on Imgur, you must make the post hidden and then add the remaining screenshots if needed.
- Cap: 128-Team Tournament.
- Dates: Thursday - Sunday (4 day event), February 3rd-6th, 2022
- Challengers Open Qualifier Schedule
- Region: North America
- Cost: FREE
- The top 4 teams get invited to the STAGE 1: Challengers Main Event
Rules:
- Captains must be present for the captains meeting in the NSG Discord 30 minutes before their scheduled match time each day.
- This tournament will be run on the bracketing site Battlefy.
- You and your players will need to create an account on Battlefy to compete in the tournament. Join codes for the VALORANT Challengers Open Qualifier will be sent out to the Team Captain's contact email after a team registers and their ranks are verified. Each team captain will be able to use the code given to them to register on Battlefy. Captains will then have to send the Battlefy links to their teammates and up to 2 subs so they can join the Battlefy roster. Subs will also have to be Immortal 1+ in competitive rank. When these steps are complete, the Captain will then be able to publish the team on Battlefy.
Format:
- The official format for the VALORANT Challengers Open Qualifier will be a Single Elimination Bracket to the top 32 and Double Elimination from the top 32 onward - (all matches are a Best of Three).
- The bracket will be updated in real-time after each game finishes and each team reports their score.
- Map bans, side selection and further tournament rules will be further outlined on Battlefy and Discord.
- Live support will be available during the tournament via Battlefy's "Report Match Issue" on your match dashboard or by using the “Tournament Support” voice channel under NSG Online: VALORANT in the NSG Discord for immediate assistance from tournament admins.
- Upper Bracket Finals and Lower Bracket Finals will not be played. Once we have our top 4, the qualifier will end.
Reporting Scores:
- Registration opens on January 18th at 10am PT and will close on January 31st at 7am PT.
- After each match is complete, team captains are responsible for providing a screenshot of their match summary on Battlefy and submitting their own scores in Battlefy on that same match dashboard.
- After each match is complete, teams will be assigned a match automatically from the Battlefy platform. If no match is assigned immediately, your team will be waiting for your next opponent to finish their respected matches.
Registration Instructions:
- Team captains are required to purchase the free team ticket and fill out the information for each player on their team. If a team fails to fill out the full information required they will not receive their join code for the tournament until they get another ticket and fill it out correctly.
- Team captains are required to join Discord immediately after registering. Each captain will receive a "Valorant Captain" role which gives them access to see the VALORANT channels with further tournament info and updates.
- Battlefy join codes and roles may take 24-48 hours to be updated. If you do not receive your role within 48 hours of registering, contact an admin in the NSG Discord using the #mod-mail system. After registering, Nerd Street will be verifying Riot accounts as well as rank screenshots for each player so be patient if you don't receive your code right away. If there is an issue with your screenshots an admin will reach out to the Team Captain in Discord.
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