The AfreecaTV Valorant League group stage — part of Riot's Pacific OFF//SEASON events — inches closer.
The league has hosted multiple events over the years, but their most recent one sees a prize pool that dwarfs their previous awards. The event will be offline and will bring together all participating teams in a LAN environment.
Format
The group stage will take place over the course of December 5 to 8 as the eight teams present will slowly be whittled down to four, with the victors advancing to the playoffs. Each of the two groups will utilize a Bo3 double-elimination bracket to increase the chances of different matchups and victors.
Playoffs will take place from December 9 and 10, and will use a single-elimination, Bo3 format up to the grand final, which will be a Bo5. The winner of the event will take home $25,000 USD, a generous chunk of the prize pool.
Two of the eight teams earned their chance to represent their region through their own respective qualifiers, with the rest of the teams being invited to showcase their new rosters.
The two groups will foster the following teams:
Group A:
- Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #4 TenZ Tyson Ngo Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid Sacy Gustavo Rossi (Invited)
- Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #1 mindfreak Aaron Leonhart Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov (Invited)
- FULL SENSE FULL SENSE Asia-Pacific Rank #2 JohnOlsen Chanawin Nakchain PTC Kititkawin Rattanasukol Leviathan Thanyathon Nakmee foxz Itthirit Ngamsaard Sushiboys Panyawat Subsiriroj (TH Qualifier)
- DRX DRX Korea Rank #2 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) Foxy9 Jung Jae-sung (정재성) BeYN Kang Ha-bin (강하빈) (Invited)
Group B:
- Fancy United Esports Fancy United Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #8 YESicaN Đinh Đình Đạt Kishi Ngô Trường Huy Crus Lư Tiến Huy f1cio Hoàng Ngọc Sơn gin Phan Văn Gin (VN Qualifier)
- Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #15 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin Enzo Enzo Mestari Mistic James Orfila Keiko Georgio Sanassy (Invited)
- T1 T1 Korea Rank #3 Sayaplayer Ha Jeong-woo (하정우) Rossy Daniel Abedrabbo Carpe Lee Jae-hyeok (이재혁) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) xccurate Kevin Susanto (Invited)
- EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) Muggle Tang Shijun (唐时俊) CHICHOO Wan Shunji (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) Haodong Guo Haodong (郭浩东) (Invited)
Streams
The tournament will be streamed on AfreecaTV and Douyu on different channels, which have been listed below:
The event will be hosted in Seoul's Sangam Afreeca Colosseum, a stadium in South Korea and target destination for the teams flying out to participate in the tournament.