Riot Ga🌺mes has revealed an esports tournament series 🎀for VALORANT, the developer’s new first-pe🥀rson tactical shooter. VALORANT’s esports 💃potential has been a topic of discussion since the game went into closed beta earlier this year. Now in partner🍌ship with over 20 esports organizations, Riot looks to make VALORANT the next big esport with the Ignition Series.
Wh🎐alen Rozelle, Riot Gam𒁃es’ Senior Director of Global Esports, detailed the VALORANT Ignition Series in a . Alongside VALORANT Esports Str🧸ategy Lead Kasra Jafroodi, Rozelle explains that the Ignition Series is the first step in building a “robust competitive ecosystem for VALORANT.” The game repo🅺ဣrtedly saw hundreds of tournaments during the closed beta, and Riot Games hopes to build on that competitive interest following the recent full launch.
The two explain how the VALORANT Ignition Series was born out of a need for an easy-to-follow competitive circuit. “We want to celebrate VALORANT competition globally by making it easier to follow the sport through a more organized cadence of events.♐”
To kickstart the VALORANT Ignition Series, Riot Games 🧸has partnered with ove🀅r 20 esports organizations, each of which will host their own VALORANT events. Regional events will take place in Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, Oceania, and many more. The blog post expresses Riot’s desire for players to “begin buildཧing their region’s competitive legacy” through the Ignition Series.
Each event is meant to be unique, with each tournament organizer implementing their own competitive flavor. The tournament series will include 𝓡invitationals with the game’s top talents, open qualifier circuits with rising amateurs, and will provide organizers the space to explore their creativity. The VALORANT Ignition Series is slated to begin on Friday, June 19th, with the European G2 Esports 🍰Invitational and t🍰he RAGE VALORANT JAPAN Invitational.
“We are ready to open the VALORANT Ignition Series and continue the success of the G2 EU Brawls in an all-out entertainment-filled invitational,” said G2 Esports CEO Carlos Rodriguez. “Our partnership with Riot has helped make the European League of Legends community the force it is today and contributed to the success of the LEC, and I have no doubt that we will do the same for VALORANT.”
Riot Games, having also produced the world’s top esport in League of Legends, is noꦿ stranger to crafting a globaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚl competitive scene. “VALORANT is a fantastic game and Riot has accomplished what many have tried by finding the sweet spot between casual fun and a hardcore competitive experience,” Rodriguez continues. “Through this Series the world will see exactly what the VALORANT hype is all about."
Each week, Ignition Series tournament🥂s will be promoted through Riot’s social channels and supported by a . Riot assures that feedback from each week will be used to further develop future tournaments within the Series.
VALORANT, a 5v5 tactical shooter, is very similar to other popular esport titles such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Rainbow Six Siege. VALORANT is out now, only on PC.
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