As VALORANT Champions is starting less than one week away, we would like to take a closer look at 5 of the 26 Asian players playing in the most renowned VALORANT competition of the year, and why you should too.

This year, Team Secret wrote themselves into VALORANT history by becoming one of the Southeast Asian representatives in the most prestigious VALORANT tournament of the year, VALORANT Champions 2021. But can they carry the momentum from their fabulous VCT Stage 3 run into the remainder of this year?

We caught up with Shara “Ayaaa” Koshikawa from Nigma Galaxy Female to hear about her early journey in VALORANT and the preparation so far heading into the new season of VCT Game Changers next year.

BOOM Esports claimed the EPULZE Royal SEA Challenge title by defeating South Built Esports in the best-of-five grand final 3-0 (Ascent 13-8, Haven 13-8, Bind 13-7). They also take home the grand prize of US$6,000, with South Built Esports walking away with half of the first-place reward. 

With Saturday Spike Club coming to a close this month, it’s time to present the VALO2ASIA x EPULZE’s Saturday Spike Club Wrap Up and take a look at how the community event went over the course of twelve weeks. 

Riot Games have made public the groups for the year’s most stacked tournament, VALORANT Champions 2021, which is set to kick off on December 1.

Zeal Esports have announced the benching of Dominique “N1CO” Tul-id and Vince “Flash” Medado, with Craig “craigys” Salgado moving to the starting lineup after serving as the team’s sixth member since May.

Yoon “Hyeoni” Hyun-seok, the most recent addition to NUTURN Gaming’s active lineup, has been released from his contract, the Korean organization announced on Tuesday. 

NUTURN Gaming has announced Keun-chul “solo” Kang’s retirement from competitive VALORANT, bringing an end to a career that began in 2005 and spanned across four different titles: Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike Online, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and VALORANT. 

“I think the reason for that is just because esports, in general, isn’t a very viable career option in Asia. Because basically, if you’re Asian and you have Asian parents, you either become a doctor or a lawyer, or you’re just trash.