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Top North American teams invited to Challengers main event

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January 18, 2022

According to Nerd Street and a news post from Riot, Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #9 Xeppaa Erick Bach v1c Victor Truong mitch Mitch Semago neT Michael Bernet OXY Francis Hoang , Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #3 N4RRATE Marshall Massey bang Sean Bezerra Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid , Envy Envy Inactive Marved Jimmy Nguyen Victor Victor Wong crashies Austin Roberts FiNESSE Pujan Mehta yay Jaccob Whiteaker , and 100 Thieves 100 Thieves North America Rank #8 zander Alexander Dituri Cryocells Matthew Panganiban eeiu Daniel Vucenovic Boostio Kelden Pupello Asuna Peter Mazuryk will receive direct invites to the Stage 1 Challengers main event.

The four teams finished in the top four of the North American rankings following the conclusion of Valorant Champions. Of the four teams, only 100 Thieves did not attend Champions after a defeat at the hands of Cloud9 in the NA LCQ lower bracket final.

Tournament play for the open qualifier will take place from January 27 - January 30. The main event will begin the week after, beginning on February 11 and concluding on March 27. Additionally, Neon—Valorant's newest agent—will be playable in the tournament.

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#1

KiwisAreAwesome

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W post W hudsen

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Hunden more W

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noona_jennie

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Honestly don't bet against 100T. With babyj and ec1s they can do really well. Ethan and asuna obviously insane.

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LordJJJ

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Well deserved by all

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squush

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good

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Mjtchell

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I kinda wish 100T weren't invited so they had time to play actual games with the new roster. Obviously it's well deserved, but I feel it would be better for the team.

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true and i also wanna see them play

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Ryan9500

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hiko said on stream they want to play in the NSG weeklies but they're waiting for ec1s to fly out to dallas before they start entering tournaments

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Mjtchell

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That's sick

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They would not have been invited if they had replaced 3 of their players. That's the rule apparently

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Mjtchell

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which makes sense. to keep circuit points you need to keep a core of 3 players

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Sheesh

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yandexx

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"Only two North American teams will receive berths to VCT Stage 1 - Masters"

NA gets two slots this time, not three as was in Masters 3 last time.

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LouBag

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I think they had 3 because the winners of Iceland are auto qualified. NA has always had 2 slots.

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Cap my friend, they had 3 slots

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youngblood

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i think its iceland style again with 10 teams instead of 16 which makes sense having 2 slots

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harriman

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Where did you see that?

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Icland had only 10teams bc of covid

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coguyy

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TSM will join them soon 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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copium too strong

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KEKW

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DrWolfisAlpha

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2 open quals LFG

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bucketz

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why is main event a month and a half

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No seeding matches? And 2 open qualies?? And ro32+ is double elimination??? This format is nice af!

Basically, if you don't make it to the main event, you REALLY just didn't deserve it that time and should brush up in the tier2 tourneys till stage 2.

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Where are you seeing ro32+ is double elim?

#39

1king

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In the NA post itself on the main valorant esports website: https://valorantesports.com/news/2022-vct-stage-1-challengers-na-primer/

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TSM ??????

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