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The event organizer for the NA Valorant Challengers League, Knights Enviornment, has introduced a brand new relegation system, which can see fewer spots obtainable for brand new qualifying groups in 2024.
Followers of the North America Valorant Challenger League will get to see two new groups play within the league in 2024 as Knights Enviornment has revealed its relegation system. On June 4, in line with the announcement, the underside 4 groups within the league will play in a Play-In Relegation Match with a random seed drawing and a double elimination GSL-style bracket.
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The highest two groups from the event will stay within the league, whereas the underside two shall be relegated from the competitors.
The 2 slots shall be stuffed by groups that end on the high of the winner’s and loser’s brackets from an open qualifier event forward of the 2024 season. For the 2023 model of the open qualifiers, six groups performed via a bracket of event hopefuls to make the league whereas six groups have been invited in.
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NA Valorant Challengers League will solely usher in two new groups
For the 2023 season of the NA Valorant Challengers League Oxygen Esports, Turtle Troop, Moist Moguls, MAD Lions, Disguised, and OREsports all certified via the open system.
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Letting that many groups via the door appears to have been a one-time factor as 2024 will solely have two new faces be part of the league via the open system.
We’re coming into the ultimate levels of #ChallengersNA for the yr, with the highest eight groups securing their spot within the 2024 Challengers League NA. The remaining 4 groups should compete within the Play-In Relegation Match.🔗 https://t.co/DlAqHpY2U1
— VALORANT Esports NA (@valesports_na) May 3, 2023
Groups that have been relegated even have the choice of working it again via the open qualifier system, so they might conceivably each return to the second-tier Valorant league for an additional yr.
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With solely three weeks of competitors left the struggle to complete above the relegation line, and qualify for the Ascension event, is getting tighter for groups. If the season have been to finish right this moment MAD Lions, Disguised, OREsports and Shopify Insurrection could be within the Play-In Relegation Match.