The T1 x Nerd Street Gamers VALORANT Showdown is set to kickoff this weekend. Widely considered as the biggest event in Valorant to date, the tournament features a mixture of North America's biggest teams, influencers and squads that made their way through the open qualifiers. They will compete for their share of the $50,000 prize pool, the largest of any Valorant event so far.

Format

16 teams have been split into four groups of four and will compete in a round robin group stage, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the playoffs. All group stage matches will be a best-of-three maps. The playoffs will be played out via a double-elimination bracket. Upper bracket matches will be a best-of-three maps, lower bracket matches will be a best-of-one and the grand final will be a best-of-five matches with the victor of the upper bracket receiving a map advantage.

The $50,000 USD prize pool will be allocated as detailed below:

  • 1st: $25,000 USD
  • 2nd: $15,000 USD
  • 3rd: $5,000 USD
  • 4th: $5,000 USD

Broadcast

Talent

  • Derek "wtfmoses" Moseley (Host)
  • Chris "Puckett" Puckett (Commentator)
  • Lauren "Pansy" Scott (Commentator)
  • Arten "Balla" Esa (Commentator)
  • John "Blu" Mullen (Commentator)
  • Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez (Commentator)
  • Dan "Gaskin" Gaskin (Commentator)
  • Mark "boq" Wilson (Commentator)
  • David "Simo" Rabinovitch (Commentator)
  • Alex "Vansilli" Nguyen (Commentator)

Stream

twitch.tv/t1esports

Teams

Group A

Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #6 Xeppaa Erick Bach v1c Victor Truong mitch Mitch Semago neT Michael Bernet OXY Francis Hoang - Invited

FaZe Clan FaZe Clan Inactive POISED Kevin Ngo mummAy Anthony DiPaolo TiGG Tanner Spanu BABYBAY Andrej Francisty supamen Phat Le - Invited

Prospects Prospects Inactive JoshRT Josh Lee Daft tetchra Howard Lebright contii Norman Yeung duck Chris Dutoit - Qualifier 1

together we are terrific together we are terrific Inactive c4Lypso Abdo Agha mummAy Anthony DiPaolo LeviathanAG Aleko Gabuniya PureR Bryce Lovell LenX Andy Collins - Qualifier 1

Group B

Immortals Immortals Inactive - Invited

TSM TSM North America Rank #5 Recoil seven Johann Hernandez gMd Anthony Guimond vora sym Tyler Porter - Invited

Charlotte Phoenix Charlotte Phoenix Inactive anger Todd Williams Spirit Adam Wills Ksiaze Justin Goszczynski sh0ts William Griffith ChurmZ Corey Koch - Community Qualifier

Spot Up Spot Up Inactive HIA Eric Boggs Rustun Rustun Lusk - Qualifier 2

Group C

100 Thieves 100 Thieves North America Rank #7 zander Alexander Dituri Cryocells Matthew Panganiban eeiu Daniel Vucenovic Boostio Kelden Pupello Asuna Peter Mazuryk - Invited

T1 T1 Korea Rank #1 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-oh (김태오) Sylvan Go Young-sup (고영섭) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) - Invited

  • Braxton "brax" Pierce
  • Keven "AZK" Larivière
  • Austin "crashies" Roberts
  • Tyler "Ska" Latham
  • Victor "food" Wong
  • Daniel "fRoD" Montaner (Coach)

100 Blifted 100 Blifted Inactive Morgausse Austin Etue Grego Gregory McAllen Ninja Tyler Blevins - Invited

Code7 Code7 Inactive robwiz Rob Kennedy Nicolas Nicolas Aubin Tork Jake Lepoff pho Mike Panza payen Nathaniel Lopez - Invited

Group D

Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #4 N4RRATE Marshall Massey bang Sean Bezerra Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid - Invited

Gen.G Gen.G Korea Rank #2 Foxy9 Jung Jae-sung (정재성) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범) yoman Chae Young-moon (채영문) Karon Kim Won-tae (김원태) - Invited

MIXUP MIXUP Inactive aproto Alex Protopapas Hoppin Charles Clapper fiziq Lucas Blow stellar Brenden McGrath thief Brady Dever - Invited

Echo 8 Echo 8 Inactive AYRIN Jordan He Brando Brandon Parker - Qualifier 2

Coverage

As always, you can keep up with the schedule and latest matches on our homepage or the T1 x NSG Showdown event hub. We'll be updating match stats (even on non-streamed games) as close to real-time as possible and you'll be able to check overall tournament performance of the players here.