Valorant’s first international tournament of the year is just around the corner. The Valorant Masters: Reykjavík officially unveiled its format and already has almost everyone with their ticket ready for Iceland. Find out when and how it will be played here.
Valorant Masters: Reykjavik is just around the corner and from April 10 to 24 we will be able to experience it on the official networks of the tournament. The first tournament of the year at the international level of this discipline has 11 of the 12 classified already ready with their ticket in hand and the definition for the last ticket will be between Ninjas in Pajamas and the Argentine team Leviathan.
The tournament format is divided into two phases. A first where there are two groups of four members each. The group round has a GSL format, that is, to define it they must define it through a winners/losers bracket. Then, there is an area where there are four teams that are already in phase two of the tournament. These squads are classified with seeds highest in North America, APAC, EMEA, Latin America or Brazil.
The importance of the last classified is Leviathan or Ninjas in Pajamas It is crucial to define who will be the team that can go to phase two of the tournament by skipping the groups. If the Levianet wins, Kru Esports is benefited because it will force LOUD, Brazil’s first classified, to play from the groups. While if he wins PIN, the beneficiaries will be their compatriots because they will make K.R.U. play the first round.
Those ranked at Valorant Masters: Reykjavik So far there are eleven. G2 Esports, Fnatic and TeamLiquid are the three of EMEA. fluid replaces Fun Plus Phoenix due to the Ukraine/Russia war situation. Vision XRD is the envoy from South Korea. The Guard and Optical Gaming They are the ones who got the tickets from North America. Paper Rex and XERXIA are the teams that came to Iceland from APAC Zeta Division is the Japan squad that comes to the tournament again after participating in 2021. Kru Esports and LOUD They hope to meet the last classified who define their pass to the second phase of the tournament.
The series between Leviathan and Ninjas In Pajamas It will be a best of 5 games. It will be played on April 1 at 5:00 p.m. Argentina and will define the twelfth and last classified to Valorant Masters: Iceland.