https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1945012926470853107

Tencent will add a new test for VAL Mobile on July 17th, which meant to test buying stuff using Premium Currencies and allows Top up

They will gave out free currencies for you to try, but if you chose to Top up during this test, you will get 1.5x return of the amounf when the game is officially launched in China. This is quite common trope in Chinese Games where they will make a special test dedicated to MTX then rebating at launch

The interesting part is they have confirmed this test will bring over a new skins exclusive to mobile version translated to the Overdrive set on Jul 19
apparently this is also not the Overdrive Collection from PC version either.

Previously Riot&Tencent both confirms Mobile will contain stuff that PC ver. doesnt, up to things like Mobile Only Skins and game modes (atm it already includes a mode not exist in PC, and two maps also not exist in PC albeit its a TDM map)

Club Championship is the model where orgs compete for extra set of prize, based on points given in all 25 games

Despite Heretics winning (and likely will net them a prize money finish from here) they are ineligible at the moment (and Heretics needs their COD team to finished Top 8 to make their org eligible)

https://liquipedia.net/esports/Esports_World_Cup/2025/Club_Championship_Standings

at China National Competition (PC Version), a brief look at VALORANT Mobile Esports plans in China was announced by TJ Sports

https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1944319659513348454

Summary

• They are committed to built an Esports plans in China by welcoming Mobile version to their National Competition and College Competition program
• Mobile will have in-game competition center where you can form a team and compete directly, like Premier
• They'll keep doing linkage and cross promotion through PC events
• The ongoing WattSHOW Cup will continue for 3 more months then VALORANT Mobile will get its first China National Circuit the same way as PC Version

In a sense after September, VALM in China will have similar structure to PC except only the Professional League is not there yet

Tomorrow is final day of the China National Competition LAN event, which is a PC Tournament to determine Ascension teams

a Showmatch for the Mobile Version will be played before finals, Previously noted by the game's official Weibo has hinted that they're planned to have "Esports news update" for the Mobile version during the showmatch as well - https://www.vlr.gg/505331/valorant-mobile-esports-news

Presumably an official roadmap for at least the Chinese region

Tencent has recently opened up jobs for Esports operation for VALM few weeks prior as well.

https://x.com/EsportsCharts/status/1942615796662063403

ESCharts expects VAL EWC to break over 1M, with 500K-1M range all being Mobile games (due to unlike VAL, they offer Champs spots)

(in 2024, it finished with Mobile Legends being the most watched one, only game with 2 million+)

probably not so much for format, the silver lining being they get the largest venue option out of all 5

Yeah probably that + the rotating venue make it super cramped

https://liquipedia.net/esports/Esports_World_Cup/2025#Venues

All games shared 5 venues + TV studios to rotate, so each game needs to finish in time (or make it 2-week) before handing it to the next game. One of the reason behind wacky formats

(excluding LCQ, Only DOTA and Mobile Games are 2-week events with the exception of Mobile Legends being the only 4-week event due to they had a Female tournament)

Yes the pre register is only for the Chinese server (tho its possible for foreigners to pre-register Chinese servers while living outside CN, but that meant its provided you have things like a Chinese WeChat/Weibo account and know how to do one so its a very minuscule %)

https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5184461961363542

The game has hit total of 40 million pre-registers ahead of the game's launch, and this is still around 4 months away before the game launches (VALM estimated launch date is November 25 according to iOS store in China)

For comparison when Wild Rift had their Pre Reg period it was around 20-30M only, and when COD Mobile has one they broke 50M+

Tencent's Job opening sites in China updating a large list of Job openings for VALORANT Mobile
but Specially one extra were added yesterday: "Esports Operation for VALORANT Mobile" job, with 2+ years experience requirements

seems to be clear that Tencent wants to commit an Esports plan for the mobile version.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gun-gFhXgAAPCtX?format=png&name=900x900

Back when the previous list update happened around few months ago, this one wasn't there so Tencent recently added this one on specific

Most if not all events now had their EWC schedule and starting times up - https://esportsworldcup.com/en/schedule
as well as VALORANT

TL;DR That site is in Riyadh timezone, mostly afternoon EU matches

They wont suceed, They do won the first World Championship for CODM but then the next two year their performance fall apart really quick, they won simply because the rest hasnt take it seriously yet

If we use CODM logic to apply as an assumption the order of top regions would be China >> SEA >> South America >> Russians >> Rest

that said in CODM EU (plague with DQs and players not reading rules) and JP (lack of teams) are two of the worst performed regions, not NA

Very simple, take a look at winnings from this two team

• https://liquipedia.net/honorofkings/AG_Super_Play/Results
• https://liquipedia.net/crossfire/All_Gamers/Results

These two alone far surpassed any team's earnings in VALORANT

the second I realize this was on Pc sadge

KAY/O, Fade, Harbor, Gekko, Deadlock, Iso, Clove, Vyse, Tejo, and Waylay is not available in the Mobile version yet

Omen and Chamber and Icebox just got added yesterday

Not sure if this is already in PC Version
https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1938536702643232775

The Free Camera in Spectator Mode for VALORANT Mobile has a 1-click button that allows you to warp your camera to a specific point in the map, including bombsites, middle of the map and spawns

This is now the actual main event in Riyadh so yes Streamed LAN, I think first days could be multiple match at the same time so multiple streams (they did that with games where 2+ match running same time)

EWC splits their account into @EWC_Extra where match results, group draws are separated to that one so you won't see most of these live updates on the main account

A: G2 BLG PRX KC
B: XLG SEN BBL DRX
C: RRQ Heretics NRG Titan
D: FNC GenG EDG 100

https://x.com/EWC_Extra/status/1937918789427036435/photo/1

It's expected given the limited freedom in controls (as you're on touch screen vs kbm)

The $92K China tournament that I mentioned previously is already underway, each streaming platform held their own qualifier to determine 1 team to play in Weekend Finals

Fortunately, Huya does stream their matches so if anyone wants to see how Mobile teams in early competitive (Riot calls this test as Close Beta 2) looked like

https://www.huya.com/27502942

Fun note: NOVA failed to show up in time in the first match, so they lose a walkover 8-0 to Wolves

I think they need more maps in the pool as well because right now you have exactly 7 in the pool, so they need few more that teams could ban couple of it out

Bo7 probably only works in Mobile version where its MR8 in all modes even ranked, instead of 13 (up to 10 rounds less in each game)

But even with that the ongoing Chinese tournament still on BO5

on MR13 Bo7 would be incredibly exhausting for the players

That reminds me of that one time where a Mobile MOBA "Arena of Valor" had to either

1. Briefly paused the regular season halfway to let teams compete in Asian Games or SEA Games
2. Reschedule only for the team that represents country at those event to only start their Regular Season after they return from those events

yeah but like where was this part being mentioned at, was it in the video that they posted on the weibo?

where was the big news at NatComp being mentioned was it in their video introductioin?

Next week will kicked off the $92,000 4-Week tournament series for VALORANT Mobile in China where both Pros and Creators compete
https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1936003929764249603

a Shortlist of participants that represents each of the 5 Platforms has been revealed, and including multiple organizations already having a Mobile team, These are the following notable ones. The format of each week is basically each platform qualifies to get 1 team each, then winner of each platform plays the weekend finals, this is streamed live in China as well

Bilibili group

• AgFox: old chinese org, previously compete in PUBG Mobile
• MTG: competes in Honor of Kings

Douyin Group

• APC: mostly known competing in Hyper Legends, Tencent's APEX Mobile clone that they re-develop after EA closed down APEX Mobile

Douyu Group

• RV: Wild Rift Chinese league

Huya Group

• LKG: Formerly competes in PUBG Mobile's China secondary league
• AG, NOVA, Wolves are in here
• EP or Evolution Power is a very popular CrossFire orgs, they won the CrossFire Mobile league for 4 Seasons. AG is known for their PC CrossFire dominance while Mobile version its EP. You may have heard this org under the name Super Valiant Gaming before, they renamed

Kwai Group

• For some reason EDG is competing here with a weird logo, not sure if this is the same EDG
• T7 is a team from Tencent's own Tarkov clone Arena Breakout
• TJB is currently a franchised team in the PUBG Mobile chinese league

Might need them to win, this will surely skyrocket them into Top Trending, to my recall when EDG won Champions they went as far as 4th or 6th in Weibo's hottest trending topic by the time they won. With the top topics at that moment is still political stuff

https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1935216973090275606

Wolves announced they are building their own new permanent home stadium in the city of Chongqing, China, with investment worth over 200 Million CNY ($27M) plus extra 10M CNY they earned from an Investment company

The stadium is expected to be 2000 capacity and opens at the end of this year,

While its unlikely they will use this for their VCT matches, this will at least housed Wolves KPL team in Honor of Kings, which earned over $12,000,000 in cash prize winning from the single team alone (https://liquipedia.net/honorofkings/Wolves).

In the KPL league in China, many teams have their home venue like how Homestand venues are in Overwatch league

If getting official competition years so late behind everyone and can still finished top

Just how far they could be on Mobile version, now that the entire world is years behind them?

yeah but I mean the sea of people outside the stadium really gives you football vibes (too many people they cannot fit in a venue)

FOUR MILLION CONCURRENT VIEWERSHIP - https://escharts.com/tournaments/mobile-legends/mpl-indonesia-season-15 in the ongoing league finals between what basically is GenG/T1 of Indonesia playing each other (

(ONIC = GenG, RRQ = T1 but majority ot their fans are football ultras instead of kpop stans)

The first season to break 4,000,000 people watching at the same time

Stadium so full they cant even fit all the people in and they had to have a monitor outside the stadium, something straight out of FIFA World Cup - https://x.com/mplidofficial/status/1934254179784310854?t=MYyVT_tqewxbZy2W2ka1Tg&s=19

fucking insane by numbers alone

They are effectively the first esports org to sign a VALORANT Mobile team, so fast this is actually ONE DAY before Beta starts lol.

https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1932762557192024263

There will be a $90,000 Mobile tournament series across 4 weeks from June 23 where Pros & Content Creators in China compete in weekly series

Edit: I'm pretty sure some of these are ex-CrossFire Mobile (CrossFire Legends) player but I have no info

This is the showmatch which was played during the same event that TenZ was invited to https://www.vlr.gg/496985/tenz-in-a-val-mobile-event (TenZ was invited to mostly doing gameplay tests but not in the full showmatch)

Showmatch highlights include various round gameplay and even how player controls their movement on phone's touchscreen
https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1932494397410807816

All matches currently in VALM, even in ranked is MR8 not 13. Devs double down on this on their interview, to avoid a match being too long for a Mobile game, which is what Wild Rift actually got criticized on: Match lasts too long

Matches are mostly CN Content Creators but some other game pros are participated as well e.g. DANK1NG formerly competes in CS and the PeRo player are active PUBG PC pro

Beta Test server in China for VALORANT Mobile is going live tomorrow

he's probably struggling with the mobile gameplay.

Theres a clip of TenZ reviewing (not playing) gameplay from one of the more proper players which is probably the more accurate representation of good players in this version: https://x.com/DramicGaming/status/1931742105912627440

This week for VALORANT MOBILE in China is a Shanghai Demo event where players could try the game before the playtest this week, including a series of Showmatches and 1v1s featuring various content creators and some VCT CN Pros. As far as KennyS and TenZ being in this event as well

The event were affected by rain during this but didnt stop the event from having a packed crowd

Some Pictures of the event:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gs_OPylbwAEO-Zp?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gs_OS1va0AAe5qr?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Gameplay of TenZ playing it: https://x.com/Maqsad123/status/1931784516181320016

Gameplay of KennyS playing it: https://x.com/Maqsad123/status/1931560136268759452

"City Representation" model find its way from Mobile games and LPL to VCT

Another VCT CN org spotted with their VALM activity

this one is so far the only VCT CN org to already create a separate Weibo account for their Mobile version team - https://weibo.com/u/5311868935

So far among chinese orgs reported to be making one, here's how it looks for their VALM rosters

• AG: Already got players
• TEC: Account created
• Wolves: Recruiting for Content Creators, apparently also got players
• LGD: Looking for players
• NOVA: Looking for players
• RNG: Looking for players

In a realistic way Heretics having VALM team isn't too actually far fetched either (Spain were among one of few EU countries that were quite into mobile competitive teams)

Hard to say because no one knows global beta when, but I think do expect pros from CODM and games like Critical Ops, Standoff to try it out given these three are the closest archetype of game to VALM. but all of them shared the same trait lack of proper esports scene

CODM's esports roadmap currently is so bad that current valorant T2 looks good all of sudden

The Mobile version which is about to have Beta in China next week, is having their first tournament series in two weeks time, the series will last for a full month + an offline showmatch

it appears that someone had discovered potentially players for VALORANT Mobile's division of All Gamers, one of the teams in VCT CN.

Additionally, It's also being reported that TEC LGD RNG and NOVA are also currently building one ahead of it as well.

https://x.com/Daychen7/status/1929988684784513337

While details of this is still scarce, screenshots of the event seemingly surfaced ahead of its announcement

Basically this is a Content Creator-based tournament for VALORANT Mobile in China, that gave out total of $91,000 in cash across 4 weeks (to put the money in perspective - the highest prize pool in a Challenger League is only $70,000)

https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1928821701032198495

I really need to get a new keyboard with another typo, recommend me one

Sounds like their response to people saying the game has too many abilities flooding in a round?

Apparently "Replays", "Moving to Unreal Engine 5", "Ability Overload", "Smurfing" and "Esports" are topics in that dev diary later tonight

https://x.com/ValorantUpdated/status/1928254544061837653

Nice typing skills that I have by the way "Potentian"

I dont think they intend to toppled those two viewership, given how three of them are different genre so different audience

And they had a shot at popping off:

• No competitor at MLBB level to compete
• CODM having the esports roadmap that would make today's VCT that's already bad, look like godsent in an instant
• Ubisoft freezing R6 Mobile forerver

From my experience handling all mobile games on Liquipedia, if to put every region in order of how well invest, interested, committed to Mobile esports the range goes from here (Most to Least)

China, SEA, South Asia, India >> South and Latin America >> East Asia >> CIS >> Turkey/MENA/Africa >> EU >> NA >> (OCE non existent)

Easier to happen but Tencent were quite strict and harsh when it comes to punishing it as well (at very least their top Chinese Mobile league [PUBGM, HoK, CrossFire, CODM] hasnt seen matchfixing reports in the league)

Given this is actually Tencent announcing it (not Riot China directly. Only Tencent staffs appear at OnePlus's event), plus its a Mobile game, in China. They probably planning long term on the competition.

Console was already hard to grasp any market to begin with because its technically limits to just NA in general, while Mobile can simply get all the regions VCT have (with NA being the smallest of bunch)

OnePlus announce partnership with Riot to have OnePlus Ace 5 supreme as the "Official Phone Device" for VALORANT Mobile
normally in Mobile games they tend to have an "Official sponsored phone" for their esports events

During VALORANT Mobile partnership announcement,
Tencent announces that in July they will ran the inaugural "National Open Tournament" for VALORANT Mobile in China.

Effectively the game's first official esports event only a month after their first public beta test

https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1927338707121586541