After the successful completion of the ‘VALORANT Ignition Series’ the developers are keen to grow the title in Southeast Asia as Riot Games has come forward to announce their 2021 esports and collegiate competitive plans for VALORANT.
Starting next year multiple regional tournaments will provide players from across SEA, Taiwan, and Hong Kong an opportunity to compete in official VALORANT tournaments both at a professional and a collegiate level.
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Riot Games will be joining forces with seven organizations to organize tournaments in various regions across Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. An official competitive structure and schedule of all the tournaments which will be taking place in 2021 will soon be announced.
The partnered organizations which will be working together with Riot Games Southeast Asia to organize the various esports and collegiate tournaments in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Hong Kong are as follows,
These organizers will be taking care of all the official VALORANT tournaments in their respective countries. The pro-level tournaments will act as precursors to the largest regional and international tournaments while the collegiate events will give students a chance to directly experience the thrill of competing in tournaments.
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The partner organizations mentioned above will also be running the regional qualifiers for ‘VALORANT First Strike’ which is a global tournament aimed at crowning the first VALORANT champion of each region. The appointed partners along with the registration dates are as follows,