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To expand opportunities for Game Changers players to reach higher tiers in the VALORANT Champions Tour ecosystem, Riot Games has unveiled a series of new policies aimed at making it easier for GC players to reach Challengers and the international leagues. Included in these new Riot policy changes is a more direct path for the best VALORANT Game Changers teams to qualify for their region’s Challengers circuit. Teams that qualify for the Game Changers Championship, the yearly world championship event for Game Changers, will receive an automatic invite to their region’s Challengers qualifier. This year’s Game Changers Championship will even…

Riot Games is implementing a handful of new policies with the goal of getting Game Changers players into both Challengers and the VCT international leagues, and with those changes comes an opportunity for organizations to expand their reach in VALORANT. Going forward, organizations that currently compete in VALORANT at the VCT international league or Challengers level can field an additional roster “within other tiers” if the second roster is composed primarily of Game Changers players. G2 and Liquid are just two of the orgs that compete in Game Changers and VCT. Photo by Bruno Alvares /Riot Games In a press…

North American League of Legends fans now officially know the location of the 2024 LCS Championship. Los Angeles’ YouTube Theater, with a capacity of 6,000, will host North America’s finest as they battle for the Summer Split trophy from Sept. 6 to 7, Riot Games announced today. Although an LCS finals has taken place in Los Angeles in the past, this is the first time the Summer Split finals will be decided in L.A. The 2024 LCS Spring finals were played in the 300-seat Riot Games Arena, the same venue as the regular season. Are you excited about the 2024…

Following the duelist balance changes implemented in VALORANT Patch 8.11, all eyes are on VCT to see how the revamped Iso, Neon, and Reyna will affect pro play. But while Sentinels’ Jordan “Zellsis” Montemurro claims to live for the chaos, he’s not so sure many teams are willing to adapt. “I don’t think there are many teams besides LOUD or [Evil Geniuses] who will heavily shake up the meta,” Zellsis told Online Esports prior to the start of VCT Americas stage two. “Americas has always played the meta to a T, besides a couple teams here and there who will…

NRG made big changes to its VALORANT team, but 100 Thieves’ Boostio isn’t sold on benching his former Evil Geniuses teammate and Champions 2023 MVP Demon1. The VALORANT world has been discussing the move since VALORANT News mentioned Boostio briefly talked about NRG’s roster swaps on-stream back on June 9. During the stream in question, 100T’s IGL told his Twitch streaming chat he wouldn’t have benched Demon1 on the new NRG team with Victor, crashies, Ethan, and the return of FNS and s0m. Instead, Victor would’ve been Boostio’s primary pick to bench. Demon1 finds himself on the bench after a…

The North American League of Legends is back on June 15 with the beginning of the 2024 LCS Summer Split. A few teams changed their rosters, like Dignitas, who added Spica, and the jungler revealed he wants to defeat one particular player in the competition. For Spica, signing with Dignitas marks a return to competition after a half-year hiatus. Previously, the Chinese League jungler was benched on FlyQuest, with which he spent a year and a half. During his latest break, the player was active in solo queue, which sparked his desire to take down Team Liquid’s mid laner, APA,…

The illustrious Counter-Strike Major tournament is returning to the U.S., for the first time since 2018 and the launch of the CS2, in June 2025. BLAST announced today that the organizer will be bringing the CS2 Major state-side to Austin, Texas at the Moody Center arena next year. The announcement today confirms reports from the past month that said BLAST was heavily considering both the U.S. and Austin, Texas in particular for the 2025 Major. U.S. fans already showed their hunger for more CS2 action after a raucous crowd in Dallas earlier this month cheered on G2 Esports as they…

The International Olympic Committee announced on June 14 that it is currently in “advanced discussions with a potential host” for the upcoming first Olympic Esports Games, but fans are skeptical of the event’s success after a largely lackluster edition of the Games last year. The development comes after IOC President Thomas Bach asked the IOC Esports Commission last year to “study the creation of the Olympic Esports Games” and announced it in the IOC session in Mumbai, India, last October. According to the Associated Press, the dates for the first Olympic Esports Games should be announced soon after the July…

Spirit won the CIS derby in straightforward fashion as Aleksib’s terrible record in best-of-five grand finals continued to expand unabated. With this result, donk and co. became the only team to win two top-tier events so far in 2024. The winners of IEM Katowice and the first CS2 Major clashed for all the marbles in the grand final of the BLAST Premier Spring Finals in a marquee matchup, the first time the tournament featured a best-of-five format for its ultimate decider. Happier times. Image via PGL NAVI beat out FaZe and Astralis in the group stage to earn a straight…

One of the League Championship Series veterans, Jensen was on the verge of losing a spot to play in the 2024 LCS Summer Split after getting replaced on the FlyQuest squad despite having one of the best performances in the tournament. He’s now revealed his thoughts in a wide-ranging interview. “[Offseason] between Spring and Summer is already hard, but [it] didn’t help that I felt like FLY already made the decision pretty early on, but they didn’t really tell me. I had to find out from other people, which was pretty weird,” Jensen said in an interview with NAmen on…