After unveiling its strategy to develop esports on Valorant, Riot Games began to conclude partnerships with esports organizations around the world. North America had its own tournament hosted by T1 and Nerd Street Gamers. It took place June 26-28.
Team SoloMid finally won the competition by defeating T1 in the Grand Final. reltuC and his team left with the $50,000 promised to the winners and the title of champions of the T1 x Nerd Street Gamers Valorant Showdown, the first major tournament since the official release of Valorant.
Guest teams
- T1
- Gen.G
- Sentinels
- Immortals
- SoloMid
- Team Ninja
- Cloud9
- Mixup
- Code7
- 100 Thieves
- FazeClan
Qualified teams
- Charlotte Phoenix (Community Qualifier)
- together we are terrific. (Qualifier 1)
- Prospects (Qualifier 1)
- Spot up (Qualifier 2)
- Echo 8 (Qualifier 2)
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Former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro-player Oscar "mixwell" Cañellas Colocho announced that he will join the Spanish organization.
