After two days of intense fighting, the group stage of the Valorant Elite Showdown has come to an end. The group stage used a GSL format and out of the eighty teams that came to compete in this online tournament after going through the open qualifiers, only thirty-two remain and will be going into the playoffs bracket.

Results

The teams that made it through are:

• Version1
• YFP Gaming
• NRG Esports
• Professional Malders
• Immortals
• Bait Academy
• ex-Serenity Black
• Complexity
• SoaR
• Project A
• Built By Gamers
• Elysium 
• Ghost Gaming
• Actually Homeless
• Evil Geniuses
• T1 Academy
• Renegades
• Time Out
• Soniqs
• spongebob squarepants
• DarkZero Esports
• Flickbaiters
• Cloud9 Academy 
• Andbox
• Teal Seam 
• Pioneers
• TSM Academy
• Cosmic Divide 
• Akrew
• Knights
• Border Monsters
• The Mafia

And so ends DAY 2 of the $25K VALORANT #EliteShowdown !

Tune in tomorrow at 3PM ET for the spicy, single-elim playoff bracket!

🔗INFO https://t.co/ExG8N8Udkw pic.twitter.com/iiCgnyfjsk

— Community Gaming (@CommunityGaming) November 13, 2021

Upcoming matchups

For the round of 32, all matches will be happening at the same time on November 14, 2021. The upcoming matchups are listed below.

• Version1 vs Knights
• Border Monsters vs Professional Malders
• Evil Geniuses vs spongebob squarepants
• Renegades vs Actually Homeless
• ex-Serenity Black vs Cosmic Divide
• Teal Seam vs Elysium
• SoaR vs Flickbaiters
• Cloud9 Academy vs Bait Academy
• NRG Esports vs The Mafia
• Akrew vs YFP Gaming
• Ghost Gaming vs Time Out
• Soniqs vs T1 Academy
• Immortals vs Pioneers
• TSM Academy vs Complexity
• Built By Gamers vs Andbox
• DarkZero Esports vs Project A

The round of 16 and quarterfinals will be taking place later that day as well. Meanwhile, the semifinals and the grand final will be played on the next day, November 15.

The playoffs are single elimination, so any team will have only one shot to make it all the way to the end for the grand prize of 10,000 USD.

We here at Runitback will continue to cover the rest of playoffs all the way until the ground final. As the Valorant Elite Showdown has a mix of tier 1 teams, academy teams, amateur stacks, and even OCE and Colombian teams, we’re going to be expecting a lot of entertaining games. Make sure to tune in for the rest of the tournament!   

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