EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE EIGHT VRLS HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN EMEA VALORANT REGIONAL LEAGUES?

Everything you need to know about the preliminaries of the eight VRLs We detailed the 2022 VALORANT esports EMEA changes recently and announced eight VALORANT Regional Leagues: VRL DACH, Turkey, CIS, France, MENA, Northern Europe, Spain, and East. We are excited to witness these VRLs, which represent the enthusiasm and spirit of the countries they represent, showcasing their talents in the VALORANT EMEA esports ecosystem, which are the fundamental building blocks of our VALORANT EMEA esports ecosystem. All VRL regular seasons will start in the week of February 14th, but there is still some time until then. Regional open qualifiers are about to begin, so let's take a look at the dates and formats where we will determine the teams competing in the VRL regular seasons. VRL DACH: Evolution — Organized by: Freaks 4U Gaming An open qualifier will be held from January 24th to 30th for the VRL including teams from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Open qualifiers will be limited to 128 teams and will be conducted in BO3 group stages using a double elimination system. If more than 128 teams apply for the open qualifiers, a BO1 round will be held before the 128-team groups. The top eight teams in the open qualifiers will advance to the VRL regular season tournament. You can follow VRL DACH here: For the latest news and important moments of Evolution, check out Twitter. VRL Turkey: Unity — Organized by: ESA Esports Open and closed qualifiers will take place in Turkey VRL from January 25th to 31st. To be more specific, those joining VRL will first participate in two open qualifiers (January 25th - 26th), followed by a closed qualifier (January 27th - 31st). All open qualifiers will be conducted in BO1 format, switching to BO3 for the last sixteen teams in the first open qualifiers and the last eight teams in the second open qualifiers. Eight winners from the first open qualifiers and four winners from the second open qualifiers will advance to the closed qualifiers, along with four directly invited teams (2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place from VCT Qualifiers), forming a 16-team arena. In the closed qualifiers of VRL Turkey, these 16 teams will be divided into 4 groups of 4 teams each and compete in BO3 format against each other. A total of 8 teams, the top 2 from each group, will earn the right to compete in the VRL Turkey: Unity league. You can follow VRL Turkey here: For the latest news and important moments of Unity, check out Twitter. VRL CIS: Milestone — Organized by: GIG Me Open and closed qualifiers will take place in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) VRL from January 26th to 30th. Open qualifiers, limited to 256 teams, will be conducted in single elimination format, with a BO3 group system, and the top four teams will advance to the closed qualifiers. In the closed qualifiers, four directly invited teams based on VCT Qualifiers results will compete with the four open qualifier teams for the right to participate in VRL. During the closed qualifiers, teams will compete in a shortened double elimination format in BO3 tournament style. Only the first two rounds of the upper and lower brackets will be played as the top four teams will advance to VRL. You can follow VRL CIS here: For the latest news and important moments of Milestone, check out VK. VRL France: Révolution — Organized by: Freaks 4U Gaming The open qualifiers for the VRL in France will take place from January 26th to 30th, limited to 128 teams and conducted in BO3 group stages. If there are more than 128 teams applying for the open qualifiers, a BO1 round will be held before the 128-team groups. The top two teams in the open qualifiers will advance to the VRL France regular season. Here, they will compete with six directly invited teams to represent their region in the EMEA Promotion Tournament. You can follow VRL France here: For the latest news and important moments of Révolution, check out Twitter. VRL MENA: Resilience — Organized by: Calyx Gaming The VRL open qualifiers for the MENA region will be held from January 26th to 31st. Due to the size of the region, MENA has been divided into two sub-regions: Sub-Region #1 - Gulf Cooperation Council Countries + Iraq Sub-Region #2 - Levant and North Africa Each sub-region will conduct its own open qualifiers, divided into two stages. The first stage will involve 64 teams divided into eight groups of eight. The top two teams from each group will advance to the next stage of the open qualifiers. In the second stage, the remaining 16 teams will compete in single elimination format, with BO3 group systems. The group winners will then be matched with the second-placed teams from the other groups. The top four teams from these matches, i.e., a total of eight teams from both sub-regions, will earn the right to participate in VRL MENA. You can follow VRL MENA here: For the latest news and important moments of Resilience, check out Twitter. VRL Northern Europe: Polaris — Organized by: Promod Esports The open and closed qualifiers for VRL Northern Europe, covering Scandinavia, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, will take place from January 26th to 30th. Teams will start in the open qualifiers with single elimination format and BO3 tournament style. The winners of this stage will advance to the closed qualifiers, where a 16-team double elimination tournament will be held with BO3 matches. The top eight teams from the closed qualifiers will advance to the VRL Northern Europe regular season. During the selection of these eight VRL teams, only the first two rounds of the upper and lower brackets of the closed qualifiers will be played. You can follow VRL Northern Europe here: For the latest news and important moments of Polaris, check out Twitter. VRL Spain: Rising x Mediamarkt and Intel — Organized by: LVP There is one slot available for a 10-team VRL regular season in Spain, with the other nine slots being filled by directly invited teams. Teams aiming to secure this single slot will compete in open and closed qualifiers from January 26th to 31st. In the open qualifiers (January 26th - 27th), teams will go through single elimination, starting with a BO1 format and transitioning to BO3 in the 64-team round. The top four teams from the closed qualifiers (January 26th - 31st), along with four directly invited teams, will compete in single elimination, BO3 group format. The winner of this group will earn the right to participate in VRL Spain. You can follow VRL Spain here: For the latest news and important moments of Rising Mediamarkt e Intel, check out Twitter. VRL East: Surge — Organized by: FRENZY VRL East covers a wide region including Poland, Romania, Greece, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, and one team from each of these five countries will be directly invited to the regular season. The remaining three slots will be filled based on the results of three open qualifiers held from January 24th to 28th. The winner of each double elimination will secure a VRL East ticket. You can follow VRL East here: For the latest news and important moments of Surge, check out Twitter.