Overall, the competitive VALORANT year has kicked off in a major way thans to the VALORANT Challenger regional leagues. Accordingly, while we’ve previewed a few regions, Korea is next on our radar. Indeed, feel free to read on to learn How to Watch the VALORANT Challengers 2023 Korea Split 1 below!
Event Background
With regards to the event background, for those unaware – VALORANT Challengers is different this year compared to last year. Moreover, while last year it was the Tier 1 competition, VALORANT Challengers is now the Tier 2 face of VALORANT.
Specifically, each region will allow the best teams not in the Regional Leagues to compete and fight for a limited number of spots available to Ascension – a teams chance to compete with the best of the best.
Taking place from 26th January to 25th February, the top 8 teams in the Korea Challengers league will be competing as listed below:
Invited
- Dplus
- Nongshim RedForce
- CNJ esports
- Maru Gaming
- WGS X
- OPGG
Open Qualifier
- Shadow Corporation
- Rio Company
Apart from the $60,000 prize pool, teams will be fighting for unannounced seeds available once Riot Games announces them. Read on to learn more about this event below.
Format
With regards to the format, there are two stages to this competition.
Firstly, we’ll have the Regular League running from 26th January to 10th February. In this stage, 8 teams will compete in a double round robin – this means that teams will face one another twice in BO3 matches. From this stage, the top 6 teams will advance to the Playoffs.
Once here, the top 6 will compete ina double elimination bracket from 16th February to 25th February. Within this double elimination bracket, teams will compete in BO3 matches except for the Lower Bracket Final and Grand Final – these will be BO5.
For those unaware, the double elimination bracket involves teams competing through a double sided bracket. On the Upper Bracket, a loss results in demotion to the Lower Bracket. Meanwhile, a loss in the Lower Bracket means elimination from the competition.
Schedule for the VALORANT Challengers 2023 Korea Split 1
With the competition one day away, below you’ll find a snippet of the action with the full schedule for Week 1 in the CET timezone:
January 26th 2023
- Nongshim RedForc vs Dplus (08:00)
- Shadow Corporation vs Maru Gaming (10:00)
January 27th 2023
- Rio Company vs CNJ esports (08:00)
- World Game Star vs OPGG (10:00)
January 28th 2023
- Maru Gaming vs Dplus (08:00)
- Shadow Corporation vs Nongshim RedForce (10:00)
January 29th 2023
- World Game Star vs Rio Company (08:00)
- OPGG vs CNJ esports (10:00)
For the remainder of the schedule, we recommend visiting the official VALORANT esports page here.
Watch the VALORANT Challengers 2023 Korea Split 1 on esportsguide
You can also watch the event live stream via our very own website. Providing an extensive list of the biggest esports together with streams for each esports match live today or upcoming matches.
Predictions
So, just like the other regional leagues, we haven’t even this region compete since VCT Korea Stage 2 Challengers. Here’s how teams finished back then:
- #1 – DRX
- #2 – Maru Gaming
- #3 – DAMWON Gaming
- #4 – World Game Star
Bearing this in mind, with DRX out of the picture, Maru and DAMWON Gaming are the favourites here.
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