Twitch Rivals just started a new Valorant series with eight teams composed of popular streamers, with the prize pool totaling $50,000. The roster for each team varies, but there are some names Valorant fans may notice.
Each of the Twitch Rivals Valorant teams consists of five total players, some of which are professional esports players, but most are not. Each of the players has been playing and streaming Valorant since the game's Beta back in 2020. The tournament format is Round Robin, Best-of-3 Matches, with four teams playing in two different groups. The top three teams from each group advance, while the playoffs will be Best-of-3 Matches in a 6-team Single Elimination Bracket. The event will run over the course of three different days: February 24th, March 3rd, and March 10th.
The teams are all named after their team captains, though there is currently no additional information available on the process of team formation or captain selection. As far as the prize pool goes, each team will earn $1000 per match win and $1000 for placing 3rd or 4th, $1400 for placing 2nd, and $2000 for coming in 1st place overall.
Team aceu
Members: aceu, TenZ, blaustoise, kyedae, Red
Team RayC
Members: RayC, nvK, tenzin, harmful, ezpk
Team FearItsSelf
Members: FearItsSelf, keeoh, granted, ispotyoudrop, rongchotv
Team Sonii
Members: Sonii, Seangares, Laski, Shiphtur, Timmy
Team Tiffae
Members: Tiffae, ricesoo, Pterodactylsftw, yassuo, flexinja
Team ploo
Members: ploo, deky, Jake’N’Bake, agito, kyro
Team moczy
Members: moczy, SmaceTRON, ludwig, n0thing, byung
Team QuarterJade
Members: QuarterJade, Masayoshi, starsmittens, joshizzle, Hira
Player Breakdowns
Thirty-three of the thirty-nine players hail from the United States;Kyedae, Kyro, Red, Shiphtur, TenZ are from Canada; and Tiffae is from Taiwan. The groups have been split into Group A, containing Team ploo, Team Sonii, Team QuarterJade, and Team FearItSelf. Group B consists of Team Aceu, Team RayC, Team Tiffae, and Team moczy.
A majority of the Twitch Rivals participants are amateur players who have been streaming Valorant since its public beta. When it comes to the few professional players, the fourteen players play for the following esports teams:
- NRG: aceu, flexinja
- Cloud9: TenZ, keeok
- Evil Geniuses: FearItSelf
- Sedated: branted
- Overtime Gaming: Spot
- Counter Logic Gaming: bENITA
- Dignitas: starsmittens
- Gen.G Esports: sgares, ploo
- Tempo Storm: Jake'N'Bake
- Immortals: Pterodactylsftw
- 100 Thieves: yassuo
These players are not representing their respective esports teams during Valorant Twitch Rivals.
About Twitch Rivals
Twitch Rivals puts streamers from the platform in head-to-head competition in some of the biggest esports on Twitch. There are currently over 100 events happening across 200+ days in 2021. Some of the games featured on Twitch Rivals are Fortnite, Rocket League, Minecraft, Valorant, Chess, Counterstrike Global-Offensive, and Fall Guys. Some competitions offer foreign language broadcasts on localized Twitch Rivals channels.
Valorant is available now on PC.