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Argentina it is once again the site of an event of relevance to e-sports (esports). After what happened in April with the final of the Latin American League of League of Legends in Tecnópolis, the Valorant tactical video game will start this Thursday, from 16:00, at two Argentine teams in the regional qualification of the LATAM Champions Tour Towards the World Cup in Denmark.
From 23 to 26 June, KRÜ Esports and Leviatán Esports will play the finals of Phase 2 of VCT Latam 2022 and their venue will be Coastal center of Salgueroin Buenos Aires, in what will be the first of this type of event in which 1,000 participants are expected on each of the four days.
“For sure, the Argentine public shows a very strong passion, as you well know in the fans in what is football and in traditional sport. It’s a very passionate audience, “she said. Nicola Yentzen – Riot Games LATAM esports product manager. Leader of eSport Valorant – newspaper Clarione.
He added: “We were also lucky enough to see him last year at the Argentina Game Show when KRÜ Esports finished in the top four of the 2021 Valorant World Cup. This was also a great incentive to say we have to be in Argentina. “, he said
The Valorant Challengers LATAM table, the Latin American tournament that will classify a team at the Valorant World Cup.
During this event, the international representative who will participate in the Valorant Masters 2 in Denmark and will add points for representation in the Champions at the end of the year will be defined.
The four qualified for this instance is the representatives of the North and South region competing in the Valorant universe. Two teams from each hemisphere earned their respective places in the playoffs: KRÜ Esports and Leviathanboth Argentines, against the qualifiers Fusion and E-xolos LAZER from North America.
The crossing that will initiate the action at Costa Salguero will be between Leviathan and Fusion at 4:00 pm in a best-of-five scheduled series. Three hours later it will be the turn of KRÜ Esports and E-xolos LAZER. Sergio “Kun” Aguero’s team is the first candidate to keep the only direct ticket to the European event.
However, the team that will get the second place will have one more chance to enter the World Cup: on 30 June they will face the best of Brazil for a second step to Masters 2.
Both campuses whose organizations are based in the country have mainly Chilean players, one of the best in the region in Valorant. Only KRÜ Esports has an Argentine in its ranks.
“With VALORANT Esports we have already achieved greater market penetration in Chile, since the vast majority of top-level players are Chilean, but in Argentina was still a little further behind with that highly transcendent story of Counter Strike and we saw that the transition was a bit slower, “acknowledged Nicolás Yentzen.
What is Valorant and how is it played?
Valorant is a team-based first-person shooter that combines elements of Counter Strike and Overwatch.
League of Legends creators, Riot Games, waited ten years to announce a new action game in October 2019. Valorant, as he was dubbed, adds elements of Overwatch and the famous Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to classic shooters tactical. CS: Go).
It is a multiplayer first person shooter (FPS) game in which two teams of five players are measured through rounds between those who attack and those who defend.
Krü Esports won with fourth place at the Valorant Champions 2021 in Berlin. Source: Riot Games.
The main game mode, “Search and destroy”, it is very similar to CS: GO. The goal of the attacking team is to plant a bomb (called a spike) and detonate it, while the defending team tries to prevent it.
Regardless of whether you decide to go out and speculate, if a team is eliminated before other victory conditions are met, the opposing team will win.
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Source: Clarin
