Valorant: What Will First Strike Groups Be Like for North America?

What will First Strike bands look like? What date will it start? Details are in the article.

As Valorant First Strike North America x Nerd Street Gaming's open qualifiers conclude, the last 16 teams will advance to the First Strike Regional Finals. Despite some notable teams like Cloud9, Envy, TSM, and T1, the open qualifiers were disappointed as major teams like Immortals and FaZe Clan failed to qualify for the Regional Finals.

Valorant First Strike Groups For North America The excitement couldn't be greater for the Valorant tournament hosted by Riot Games

, with the top 16 teams from the Open Qualifiers making their way into the Regional Finals starting Nov. The 16 teams playing in the Regional Finals for Nerd Street Gaming x Valorant First Strike North America:

sentinels
Envy
Cloud9 Blue
Team SoloMid
Gen.G
100 Thieves
XSET
Dignitas
Complexity Gaming
Luminosity
Built By Gamers
T1
The Slimy Boogerman
renegades
Spot Up
equinox

Cloud9 Blue marks the win against Envy in the Open Qualifier final, and Team SoloMid takes revenge on Gen.G for their League of Legends World Championship 2020 defeat. The final standings for the Regional Finals have been determined.

[First Strike | #VALORANT ] @Cloud9 Blue are your NSG First Strike NA Open Qualifier champions, taking down @Envy in the final!

11-13 Ascent
13-7 Split
13-5 Bind pic.twitter.com/qSHAilZr4X
— Valorant News (@ValorantUpdates) October 31, 2020

Fans in the region are already starting to speculate on what the North American Regional Qualifiers might look like.

I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS HOW IT'LL WORK

But this is what the First Strike Groups COULD look like based off seeding! pic.twitter.com/DPVIobFrS6
— RyanCentral | HITSCAN (@RyanCentral_) October 30, 2020

This means that most teams in the group stages of regional qualifiers will only face other teams once. All of the above remains speculation, as the official schedule and groups for the Regional Finals have yet to be announced. But with the regional finals scheduled to begin on November 7 , the four groups are likely to be announced soon.

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