Turkey's best VALORANT players compete in the First Strike, where the prize pool is 400,000 TL, in order to become the first champion and write their names in esports history! However, First Strike 3rd and 4th Open Qualifier registration continues!
In order to participate in the tournament, you need to know the following before applying; - You must login to the site with an ESL account. - All players must be 16 years of age or older. - All players must be at immortality 1 tier or higher. - Before registering for the tournament , make sure all of your players have played the placement matches in ACT 3 and are immortality 1 or higher! - At least three (3) of the players in the team must be citizens of the Republic of Turkey.
- In order to register for the tournament, you must have an ESL Play account and be logged into ESL Play with this account.
- After logging into the site with an ESL account, you must be on a team or create a team on ESL Play .
- You can visit the My Teams page to create a team or see the teams you are registered with.
- After creating a team, you must have invited all your teammates to this team before registering for the tournament. In order to invite your friends to the team, you can share the link under Invite players to your team with your friends after clicking the Team Control Center link at the bottom right of your team page. If your teammates are logged into ESL Play, they will automatically join your team.
- When you are sure that all players have entered their age, VALORANT ID and residence information correctly, it is enough to go to the tournament page you want to join, select your team from the panel on the right and click the register button.
- When registering your Valorant ID, you must also type #000 next to your Nickname. Example Valorant ID
- If the registration button cannot be clicked even though you have selected a team, you can see which players are missing information by clicking on the team status under the team not ready option. When players with missing information complete their information, you can register for the tournament.
- An ESL Judge must review your application in order for teams' registrations to be approved. This may take several days.
- All players must have entered their VALORANT ID correctly and all players must be at immortality 1 tier or higher as stated in the rules.
- If a team has a player who does not meet the requirements, the team application will not be accepted and the team will be deregistered.
- We will send a code via ESL Play to the captains of the teams whose registration has been confirmed. Captains will be able to take the role of the elimination they joined by typing these codes into the code-enter section on our Discord channel.
- Confirmation of your registration does not mean final registration. In order to play in the tournament, a team player must enter the tournament page and click the check-in button at the check-in time specified on the tournament page. Teams that do not check-in will definitely not be included in the tournament tree.
- Matches will be determined at the tournament time. At the start of the tournament, you can see your opponent from the panel on the tournament page or from the My Matches section at the bottom right of your ESL Play account. Remember! If you have not checked in, you will not be in the tournament tree.
- All qualifiers' matches will start at 17.00 on the dates specified on the qualifier pages.
- Don't forget! The matches in the qualifiers will be played on consecutive days. When you participate in a qualifier, you must attend the qualifier knowing that you may have to play a match every day until the final.
- In qualifying matches, the matches must be played on the specified dates and times. Teams cannot request the change/postponement of these dates or times.
- How many matches will be played each day will be announced by an ESL Referee on the Discord channel according to the requirement of the number of participation.
- After your opponent is determined, start the map ban from the match chat section in the menu on the right as specified in the rules.
-All bans and selections must be made via ESL Play Chat. Objections made after the matches are played will not be accepted as a result of not making the elections here and playing on the wrong map.
- The team on the left side of the tournament page will start the Map Ban/Selection.
- After Ban/Selection is over, the team on the left side of the tournament page will set up the lobby and invite their opponent. Take a screenshot of the lobby after all players have entered the lobby.
- All players must be ready in the lobby 10 minutes after the map selection is complete and the match must begin.
- If your opponent has not come to the lobby after 15 minutes or does not allow the match to start, go to your match page and create a protest ticket and wait for the referees to respond to this ticket.
- Before starting the match, both teams must confirm the correct lobby settings and start the match as such. Objections to lobby settings after a match has started will not be considered.
- After your match is completed, take a screenshot as examples given below and upload it to your match page.
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Correctly taken screenshot: [ 1 ], [ 2 ]
- The winning team must enter the score of the match. The losing team must confirm the result of the match after the score has been entered. Please do not leave the tournament without confirming the result!
- If the opposing team does not approve the match result, the referees will automatically approve the results of the matches, whose match result has been proven with the screenshot, after a certain period of time.
- If the match result has not been entered, the screenshot has not been uploaded, or the referees have not been notified about the status of the match. After a while, ESL referees can disqualify teams.
- You can access the rules from the rules section on the tournament page.
- Don't forget! All players participating in the tournament are deemed to have read, understood and accepted the rules stated here. ESL referees make decisions according to the rules here and the fact that players have not read the rules will not change or affect this decision.
- For more information and announcements, you must join the Discord channel. However, keep in mind that any issues that may arise during the tournament should be resolved via ESL Play with protest tickets, not Discord!
