{"id":1564,"date":"2018-03-26T17:59:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T01:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aovpro.net\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2024-11-14T22:16:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T06:16:53","slug":"valor-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hthgaming.com\/aov\/esports\/valor-series-1564.html","title":{"rendered":"Arena of Valor announces Valor Series in NA & EU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arena of Valor is launching its inaugural competitive season with the Valor Series in both North America and Europe on April 11th. The Valor Series will consist of 6 consecutive weekly tournaments that will see the regions\u2019 strongest teams compete against one another to qualify for each regional Playoff and a prize pool. <\/p>\n

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The prize pool is $50,000 per region, split across the weekly tournaments and the Playoffs. The winning team from each Playoff will advance to the Arena of Valor World Cup and have a chance to compete for the $500,000 prize pool that is up for grabs in July in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\"Valor<\/p>\n

The Valor Series weekly tournaments will be preceded by an open online qualifier on April 7th & 8th to determine the participating teams. The weekly tournaments will be broadcast on the YouTube Gaming, Facebook Live and Twitch platforms. Each week, the two lowest-placed teams in the tournament will be relegated and 2 new teams will have the opportunity to compete for a spot in the Playoffs via a weekly open qualifier.<\/p>\n

Start signing up for the tournament now by clicking esl.gg\/ValorSeriesNA or esl.gg\/ValorSeriesEU! The site also contains detailed information on dates, eligibility and tournament rules.<\/p>\n

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Qualifiers<\/h2>\n

Format<\/h3>\n

Each region will have 2 single elimination brackets that will award points<\/p>\n

At the end of the 2nd bracket, the 8 teams with the most points in each region will be the first teams to receive byes into the 8 team bracket of the Valor Series<\/p>\n

Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 7th<\/p>\n

April 8th<\/p>\n

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Regular Season<\/h2>\n

Open league with top 6 teams held over from the previous week each week getting byes into the 8 team finals bracket the following week<\/p>\n

7-8th place teams must requalify via the weekly open qualifiers<\/p>\n

Weekly open qualifiers will determine replacements going into top 8 bracket each week<\/p>\n

6 weeks of regular season play.<\/p>\n

Week 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • April 11th<\/li>\n
  • April 14th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Week 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • April 18th<\/li>\n
    • April 21st<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Week 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • April 25th<\/li>\n
      • April 28th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Week 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • May 2nd<\/li>\n
        • May 5th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Week 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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          • May 9th<\/li>\n
          • May 12th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Week 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

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            • May 16th<\/li>\n
            • May 19th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Each week will have an 8 team single elimination per region<\/p>\n

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              • Day 1 is quarterfinals and 1 decider match to determine 5-6 and 7-8 places<\/li>\n
              • Day 2 is the 2nd decider match to determine 5-6 and 7-8, semi-finals and finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Top 16 teams overall will be given points each week<\/p>\n

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                • Points accumulate over 6 weeks with the top 4 teams per region will move on to the Playoffs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                  Tencent Games has announced new competitive tournament Valor Series in both North America and Europe. The winning teams will advance to the Arena of Valor World Cup and have a chance to compete for the $500,000 prize pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hthgaming.com\/aov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hthgaming.com\/aov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hthgaming.com\/aov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hthgaming.com\/aov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hthgaming.com\/aov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hthgaming.com\/aov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hthgaming.com\/aov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hthgaming.com\/aov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hthgaming.com\/aov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hthgaming.com\/aov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}