VALORANT is a game designed to be a great esport from a viewer's perspective, with visual clarity and endless possibilities when it comes down to exciting, late-round plays.The thing that will keep it away from reaching its potential, though, as mentioned in previous articles and videos on ESPN, is the spectator mode. Each participant will be streaming their perspective on their own channels. When the series was at its tipping point, it wasn't Brax that starred but the player he personally asked to play alongside as part of T1, Keven "AZK" Larivière, that took over. Before the 12th agent is added, expected sometime this summer season, I hope we get another map.The more maps VALORANT has in its portfolio, the better its esports scene will be.During the course of Twitch Rivals North America, we saw every agent at least played ten times. Twitch Rivals will showcase 8 tournaments of VALORANT for 8 different regions.

The Twitch Rivals final was a barnburner, but with more practice time and the two sides at their best, we could see an instant classic.This isn't a shocking statement to anyone who is a fan of Counter-Strike or other first-person shooter esports, but having a plethora of maps always makes competitive play better. That's incredible, as seeing only a few weeks ago it felt like every game needed a Sage, Cypher, Brimstone and Breach or they would get rolled over. To celebrate, Twitch Rivals is collaborating with Riot to execute the first set of competitive events for Valorant on its grand opening weekend. Over the weekend, streamers grouped up for 5v5 matches, and recorded their perspective. Although that was true in the case of eventual winner T1, TSM was only playing with four of its starters, with team captain Myth being the deviation. It's not to say Ascent is perfect -- if your team doesn't have anyone good at the Operator, have fun losing -- but bringing a new one into the fold gave Twitch Rivals an edge that previous tournaments were lacking. His Breach play was impressive the entire event, but it was really the final map of the final where he had his apex moment, turning a one-on-two situation on its head to claw out a round that propelled T1 to the championship.For now, T1 can bask in their first victory as a starting-five with the recent addition of former Counter-Strike world champion Tyler "Skadoodle" Latham. Twitch Rivals is an event that takes place in the Valorant community presented by Twitch. Twitch Rivals is a series of competitive events designed from the ground up for Twitch streamers and viewers. Though they dispatched Team sh0ts in a fairly straightforward fashion, their final against Team Myth, composed of TSM's VALORANT starting roster and TSM streamer Ali "Myth" Kabbani, was anything but. T1's lineup was built to be the best team in North America and to be a world championship contender. Tomorrow, they'll start grinding again, knowing the next time they take the field their opponents won't be mixed rosters of pros or have popular streamers rounding them out. Twitch Rivals will showcase 8 tournaments of VALORANT for 8 different regions. All world champions have to start somewhere, and for T1, this could be theirs.If it was your first time watching VALORANT and didn't have any idea who any of the players were in the final, you would believe both teams were full starting-fives of pro players. On Friday, each Twitch streamer will play back their perspective of the match, in realtime, together. T1's full star-studded lineup made its debut at this weekend's $200,000 Twitch Rivals VALORANT tournament and didn't disappoint, only dropping a single map en route to the first of what could be many more trophies in the franchise's future.While T1 was the lead story, they weren't the only ones, with a number of upsets in the group stages and relative unknowns grabbing the spotlight throughout.Here are five things we learned following the conclusion of North America's Twitch Rivals VALORANT tournament.When Braxton "Brax" Pierce's squad was announced for Twitch Rivals, consisting of the entirety of his T1 starting five, they instantly became heavy favorites to win it all. Brandon "Aceu" Winn, Michael "dapr" Gulino, Jared "zombs" Gitlin, Shahzeeb "ShahZaM" Khan and some guy named Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski. Instead of the face greying out or, you know, just vanishing as it does in a first-person player perspective, the face gets a red "X" over it, making it hard to figure out who is still alive at first glance.It's going to take a year before we can make any true assessment on VALORANT's place in the esports hierarchy and if it has the potential to break into the tier-one scene alongside the likes of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2 and its sister game League of Legends, but until there is a better spectator mode, they won't get there.

Please email your feedback to The North American Valorant Twitch Rivals is about to start in a few hours, and we have selected our top 5 teams. 2020 will include over 100 event days featuring new formats, games, interactive extensions, and millions of dollars in prize money. Each region will run a Group Stage and Playoffs phase, with the top 1 or 2 teams (based on each region) from each group advancing to their region's Playoffs. 2020 will include over 100 event days featuring new formats, games, interactive extensions, and millions of dollars in prize money.

While it seems as if she will get some buffs in the upcoming patch, it might take more than a few tweaks to make her a prominent face in high-level tournaments.When the games were close and things were getting heated between the top players, people tuned in, with no beta key drop needed for them to care. Myth pops off and TSM are for real. Juni der Twitch Rivals: Showdown statt. Matthew "Wardell" Yu in particular was on fire for a majority of the event, utilizing his new main agent in Jett to offensively push with the Operator to great effect.The next time T1 and TSM clash, both sides will hopefully have their full rosters. Im Rahmen des diesjährigen Summer Game Fests launcht Twitch einen neuen Kanal namens “twitchgaming”.