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The match organizer for the NA Valorant Challengers League, Knights Area, has introduced a brand new relegation system, which can see fewer spots accessible 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 Area has revealed its relegation system. On June 4, in response to 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 match will stay within the league, whereas the underside two will likely be relegated from the competitors.
The 2 slots will likely be stuffed by groups that end on the prime of the winner’s and loser’s brackets from an open qualifier match forward of the 2024 season. For the 2023 model of the open qualifiers, six groups performed by way of a bracket of match hopefuls to make the league whereas six groups had 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 by way of the open system.
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Letting that many groups by way of the door appears to have been a one-time factor as 2024 will solely have two new faces be a part of the league by way of the open system.
Groups that had been relegated even have the choice of working it again by way of the open qualifier system, so they might conceivably each return to the second-tier Valorant league for an additional 12 months.
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With solely three weeks of competitors left the battle to complete above the relegation line, and qualify for the Ascension match, is getting tighter for groups. If the season had been to finish at the moment MAD Lions, Disguised, OREsports and Shopify Riot can be within the Play-In Relegation Match.