The esports club GIANTX kicks off this Tuesday at Berlin his career in the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT)The Valorant Champions Tour, the most important Valorant circuit in the world and one of the most relevant in the universe of professional video game competitions. The Valorant Champions Tour faces in 2024 its second year of life and GIANTX returns to the scene with a clear objective: to go to a World Cup again to which he went last year and improve on those historic results. Fitinho, Redgar, Hoody, Cloud, Nukkye, Pipson, and Milan. are ready.
The professional teams of the Malaga and London organization are in full swing. One of the three seasons in which the League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC); the LoL Super League is now at the halfway point of its spring campaign; Valorant’s women’s team has started to compete in the Game Changers; y SisquiGIANTX’s representative in fighting video games, has a busy schedule of events in Super Smash Bros Ultimate.
GIANTX experienced an unforgettable debut with the first year of the Valorant Champions Tour. After showing good flashes in Sao Paulowhich hosted the initial event, in regular league play achieved a fourth placebeing first in the ‘league of mortals’ after Fnatic, NaVi and Team Liquid. He got into ‘playoffs‘, where he missed out on the Tokyo Masters. He swept the ‘Last Chance Qualifier‘: victory and qualification for the World Cup. The World Cup, called the Valorant Champions, was held in Los Angeles and on U.S. soil the Giants managed to become the best Spanish-speaking Valorant team, with a top 9-12 at the event that crowned Evil Geniuses. To round off 2023, GIANTX was proclaimed champion of the Crossfire Cup which closes the national competitive calendar.
The VCT, promoted by Riot Gamesbrings together the most impactful esports organizations worldwide around a title, Valorant, which in the last month has registered almost 24 million users active users. It is divided into regions, they are EMEA, Pacific, Americas and Chinawhich was incorporated this year with its own division. GIANTX belongs to the division covering Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EMEA). Each division has eleven participating teams. GIANTX is one of the Spanish representatives together with Movistar KOI and Team Heretics.
GIANTX starts with a quintet of guarantees that gives continuity to the project started in 2023. The duelist Adolfo Gallego ‘Fitinho(Vigo, 2000), the only Spanish player of the VCT circuit and symbol of GIANTX, returns to lead on the server a roster that was reinforced with a top elite player like Igor Vlasov ‘.Redgar‘ (Russia, 1997) last October. Redgar arrived to fill the vacancy of Emir Muminovic ‘ (Russia, 1997).Rhyme‘, which announced a career stop at Valorant. Redgar has won international titles and has been runner-up in the world. He will be GIANTX’s IGL. Aaro Peltokangas ‘Hoody‘ (Finland, 1998), Žygimantas Chmieliauskas ‘Nukkye‘ (Lithuania, 1997) and Kirill Nehozhin ‘Cloud‘ (Russia, 2003) complete the quintet. At the helm of the coaching staff, one of Valorant’s most reputable coaches, Daniil Meshcheryakov ‘Pipson‘, who will be joined by Milan de Meij ‘Milan‘ as assistant coach.
The VCT starts strong for GIANTX, which from today, Tuesday, is playing for its presence in the first big event of the year. The top two finishers from the initial EMEA tournament will go on to the Madrid Masterswhich will host the first international tournament of the year at Valorant in March. The 2024 fiscal year consists of a kickoff tournament, the so-called ‘kickoff’; the aforementioned Madrid Masters next March; the first regular league; the Shanghai Mastersa second regular league; and the Valorant Championsconsidered as the World Cup of this videogame.
From February 20 to March 1 this kickoff is held. GIANTX has been placed in Group A along with FUT, Heretics and Karmine Corp.. The quintet led by Fitinho kicks off its competition against KCorp today tuesday, february 20 at 20:00. There are three groups and the leader of each group moves on to the playoffs. The runners-up of each group play each other and the best one becomes the fourth qualifier to the knockout phase. All matches are played over three maps. The final is played over five maps.