Fortress Melbourne to host First Strike qualifier in Oceania

Fortress Melbourne has announced on its social media and Rise of Valour website that it will be hosting a qualifier for the Valorant First Strike Oceanic circuit.

Fortress Melbourne

@FortressMelb

The pathway to Riot’s international First Strike tournament begins with #RiseofValour’s next event

Test your skills and rise to be the best in Oceania, on the road to the world VALORANT stage 🌐

Pre-register to go into the draw for 9,750 Val Points → fortressmelbourne.com/riseofvalour

No information regarding the event has yet been provided, however pre-registration for the event is available, which includes a drawing for 9,750 VALORANT Points.

The Rise of Valour x First Strike event will be the second Valorant event to be run by the Melbourne-based organizer, as well as the second Riot-sponsored event for the company. Their first event, Rise of Valour, was the second and final Ignition Series event for the Oceania region, boasting a $15,000 AUD prize pool.

So far, it is the first tournament organizer to announce affiliation with the new Riot-sponsored global circuit, which was unveiled by the publisher on Wednesday.

Who in their right mind would give Fortress a second shot at this after what was probably the most poorly run event I've ever been apart off.

Fortress literally made AEL and IESF tournaments look gold Tier, that is how bad Rise of Valor was.

They had 1 poor admin trying to look after everyone, the discord chat was chockers and they were struggling.
The coverage was absolutely terrible, how does Order, an esports organisation put on a better broadcast and coverage then a venue boasting the top technology around which one of its sole purposes is to host esports event... It doesn't make any sense at all.
For the games that were streamed half the kills were missed.
No personal hate against the commentators but they seemed to change up alot and they got worse as the tournament progressed.
Don't even get me started on the format...