Name: VALORANT Lockdown 2 | Online Qualifier 1
Start: 2023-04-17T22:00:00.000+00:00
End: 2023-04-20T02:00:00.000+00:00

Nerd Street is hosting a 64-team, online VALORANT tournament on April 17th-19th with up to a $2,000 prize pot. This tournament is part of the VALORANT Lockdown 2 Series where teams are able to compete weekly to gain points to qualify for the $10,000 Finals LAN at Localhost in Philadelphia on August 5th-6th. 

VALORANT Lockdown 2 Series: Teams can compete in all 8 Online Open Qualifiers to gain enough points to qualify for a spot in the $10,000 LAN at Localhost Philadelphia on August 5th-6th. The top 10 teams on the leaderboard will be invited directly to the Finals LAN.

Each Online Qualifier will also feature a Resurrection Bracket where teams that are knocked out on Day 1 and 2 can sign up to compete again in a single elimination bracket where the 1st place team will qualify for the online Resurrection Qualifier on June 10th - 11th. To register, teams will have to create a #mod-mail ticket in the Nerd Street Discord and an admin will get you signed up.

Top 2 teams from the Resurrection Qualifier will be invited to the $10,000 LAN at LH Philadelphia!

Online Qualifier 1: April 17th-19th | 64 teams | $2,000 Prize Pot

Online Qualifier 2: April 24th-26th | 64 teams | $2,000 Prize Pot

Online Qualifier 3: April 30th-May 2nd | 64 teams | $2,000 Prize Pot 

Online Qualifier 4: May 8th-10th | 64 teams | $2,000 Prize Pot 

Online Qualifier 5: May 14th-16th | 64 teams | $2,000 Prize Pot

Online Qualifier 6: May 20th-22nd | 64 teams | $2,000 Prize Pot

Online Qualifier 7: May 28th-30th | 64 teams | $2,000 Prize Pot

Online Qualifier 8: June 4th-6th | 64 teams | $2,000 Prize Pot

Online Resurrection Qualifier: June 10th-11th | 10 teams | 2 LAN Invites


Finals LAN at LH Philadelphia: August 4th-6th, 2023 | 12 invited teams + 32 team Open Bracket | $10,000 Prize Pot


This tournament is open to all players and teams, with spots given to the first 64 teams that have signed up in full teams of 5 (teams may register up to 2 substitutes on their Nerd Street team as well as Battlefy). 


REGISTRATION OPENS ON MARCH 26TH AT 12PM ET
(ALL PLAYERS NEED TO CREATE/JOIN A TEAM BEFORE REGISTERING)

Dates: Monday-Wednesday, April 17th - 19th, 2023
Start Time: 3:00PM PT / 6:00PM ET each day
Region: North America

Only available to teams who played in the Online Open. 

To buy a ticket reach out to an admin using #mod-mail in the Nerd Street Discord

*This event will not issue refunds/resale of team tickets.

Lockdown 2 Leaderboard Points: Points are given to individual players when they compete in an Online Qualifier (only 5 players from each team). Players will be given a 20% point penalty each time they play on a roster that does not maintain 3 starting players from the most recent tournament they competed in. The top 10 teams at the end of the 8 Online Opens will be invited to the Finals LAN.

Groups - GSL Groups of 4 (Bo1) with top 2 teams advancing to Playoffs

Playoffs - Single Elimination Bracket (Bo3) 

5pm ET start time on Wednesday, April 19th

Captains and/or team managers must be present for the Captain Meeting in Discord at 2:30 PM PT / 5:30 PM ET, 30 minutes before the tournament starts on Monday.

This tournament will be run on the bracketing site Battlefy. All players will need to create an account on Battlefy as well as create a team on the website. Nerd Street will be sending out join codes to the Team Captain's email after they register with instructions on how to create a team for the tournament and join. When these steps are complete the Captain will then be able to see their team on the Battlefy Participants.

After groups finish, teams that advance to the playoff bracket will play their first match on Sunday with the rest of the playoff bracket continuing on Monday with Semifinals and Finals taking place on Tuesday.

The bracket will be updated in real-time after each game as teams report scores.

Map bans, side selection and further tournament rules will be outlined on Battlefy and Discord.

All team captains must be present via Nerd Street Discord throughout the tournament .

Live support will be available during the tournament via Battlefy's "Report Match Issue" on your match dashboard or using the “Tournament Support” Discord voice channel under the VALORANT category.


After each match is complete, team captains are responsible for reporting scores on the Battlefy Match Dashboard which is linked to your most recent matches.

After each match is complete, teams will be assigned a match automatically on Battlefy. If no match is assigned immediately, you will be waiting for your opponent to finish their respective matches.


Register your team by selecting your team ticket and clicking "Register" at the top of the page.

Team captains are required to purchase the team ticket and fill out the information for each player on their team.

Join Nerd Street Discord. Each captain will receive a "Valorant Captain" role which gives them access to see the VALORANT channels.

Battlefy join codes are sent daily so please be patient if you don't receive it right away!

Teams must maintain 3 core players from the initial registration. Teams will forfeit their spot with no refund if unable to meet this requirement (Please make sure your team is available prior to registering).

If you have any questions regarding VALORANT tournaments, please create a #mod-mail ticket in the Nerd Street Discord and an admin will get to your ticket during the hours of 10am-8pm ET.


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Create a #mod-mail ticket in the Nerd Street Discord to purchase a ticket for the Resurrection Bracket. Starts at 5pm ET on April 19th

Resurrection Bracket

Top Seed will create the custom lobby and will invite the opposite team captain via Riot ID after sending it to your opponent in your Battlefy Chat Box. Team Captains will then invite their players to the lobby.

Server selection for matches will be decided based on the lowest Ping Differential between the two teams on the available servers.

Ping Differential is determined by taking the 5 player's ping on one team, dividing it by 5 and then comparing that average ping to the opposing team's average ping on the same server.


Seeding for this tournament will be determined by previous official events. Other tournament placings will also be considered along with VLR rankings.
There is seed-stealing on the bracket so you will carry your seed number from the initial bracket unless you beat a team seeded higher than you.
Exploits

VALORANT has some bugs, exploits and glitches. Some of these are being hot fixed routinely. Most of these exploits pertain to certain agents. All agents will be available, KNOWN exploits and glitches will be listed in Discord.



Each team is allowed TWO, 1 minute Tactical Timeouts each map by typing "/timeout" in the game chat or by selecting timeout from the Menu with at least 20 seconds left in the buy phase.

Each team is only allowed to call one tactical pause per half.

In the event of overtime, each team is allowed one (1) 60-second timeout in OT. 

Unused timeouts do not roll over to the next half or overtime.

Technical Timeouts can only be used for Technical difficulties. If someone DCs you will use the Timeout during the Buy round phase at the start of a round.

If a Technical Timeout is used, the team with the issue is required to communicate issue with admins in Discord as well as their opponent when they pause the game. All players must remain seated and not communicate with spectators or coach.

Each team is allowed a coach in the coaching slot for their matches as long as the coach is on the Battlefy and their information submitted to Nerd Street by roster lock deadline.

Coaches are only allowed to communicate with their team before the first round starts, halftime, the first buy phase of OT and during tactical timeouts during a map.

Battlefy will be used for bracketing, match assignment, team communication, vetoes and disputes.

The dispute feature will be used to ping admins but Discord is better for a quick response from admins.


Map Pool:
Haven
Pearl
Ascent
Icebox
Fracture
Split
Lotus

VETOES AND SIDE SELECTION

Best of One: Top Seed can choose to be Team A or Team B at the start of vetoes

Team A - Ban 1 map
Team B - Ban 1 map
Team A - Ban 1 map
Team B - Ban 1 map
Team A - Ban 1 map

Team B - Picks Map
Team A - Side Selection


Best of Three: Top Seed can choose to be Team A or Team B at the start of vetoes

Team A - Ban 1 map
Team B - Ban 1 map

Team A - Picks Map 1
Team B - Map 1 side selection
Team B - Picks Map 2
Team A - Map 2 side selection

Team A - Ban 1 map
Team B - Ban 1 map

Remaining map is played
Team A - Map 3 side selection

VALORANT Lockdown 2 | Online Qualifier 1

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