First details of First Strike: CIS by Valorant

Riot Games continues to generate excitement around the First Strike tournament. This time they turned to the CIS public, telling the first details of the upcoming championship.

First, about the format: the tournament will start with the usual open qualifiers, which will be held from 9 to 22 November. In total, two qualifications will be played, at the end of which 8 teams will advance to the main tournament: 4 from each qualification.

The main part of the tournament will start on December 6th. There will be battles between the 8 best teams that will compete for the title of champion and 4 million rubles. The distribution of the prize fund is as follows:

• 1st place - 1.6 million rubles
• 2nd place - 1 million rubles
• 3-4th place - 500 thousand rubles
• 5th-8th place - 100 thousand rubles

First Strike is the first official Valorant tournament sponsored by Riot Games. More information can be found in the official announcement from Riot themselves.