The competition, which consists of two seasons per year (spring and summer), will be made up of 10 professional teams and will have MediaMarkt and Intel as collaborators.
2022 will have a regular VALORANT professional league in Spain, following the agreement reached between LVP and Riot Games.
The new league, which will organize and produce LVP and which will have the support of MediaMarkt and Intel as main collaborators, will be called Rising and will be launched at the end of January. As in the League of Legends Super League, the Rising will be made up of 10 professional teams, whose names will be announced in the coming days, and each year will have two seasons: spring and summer. In 2022, the first will take place between the months of January and March, while the summer course will start in May and end in early July.
The ten teams that will make up the first edition of the Rising will be incorporated in two ways: nine teams selected by LVP from its professional ecosystem; and the tenth, which will be chosen in January through a qualifying tournament to be played at ArenaGG and for which registrations have already been opened.
With the announcement of the new VALORANT national competition, LVP completes a bet that began with the launch of the game’s beta, in April 2020. Then, LVP supported the first tournament held in Spain organized by commentator Ulises Prieto , King of the Beta. Shortly after, LVP launched the Genesis Cups, a set of VALORANT tournaments that gave Spanish teams and players the opportunity to make themselves known to the shooter community. Only a few weeks later the Rising Series was presented, the most important VALORANT circuit in Spain that has been developed throughout 2021 and which concluded with the triumph of the Acend team in a spectacular face-to-face final played at the CCIB before more than 1,500 spectators.
«We thank Riot Games for the trust they have shown in LVP for the development of the VALORANT professional scene in Spain. The growth of the game, in just a year and a half of life, is spectacular. We closed the Rising Series with 4 million accumulated viewers and we are convinced that the natural step for the scene is to consolidate a professional league at the national level, as we have done with the League of Legends Super League ”, explains Jordi Soler, CEO of LVP.
«Our commitment to gaming has led us to be one of the main points of reference for many players in our country, and we are proud that they come to MediaMarkt to get the latest news. Therefore, with this new collaboration, we take another step in our commitment to eSports with Intel«, Has commented Francisco Valiente, Head of Marketing & Digital of MediaMarkt Iberia.
A special first season
The first season in the history of Rising will be special in terms of competition format. In the first place, it will have an open qualifier to select the tenth participating team that will be played in the month of January and in which four teams will qualify, who will access a second closed qualifier where they will face off with four other invited teams. The winner of this tournament will take the last place in the Rising.
On the other hand, for calendar reasons the first season of Rising will be played in a single round: nine days that will conclude in a playoff phase with six teams to choose the winner of the competition and in a relegation phase, with the last four classification teams, from which a team could fall to the Radiant League of the Storm Circuit. The second season of the year, which will take place between May and July, will have a more traditional format: two rounds and simple playoffs (first and second go to the semifinals and from third to sixth they fight for the other two places).
every week three days will be played (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) of Rising, which can be followed ‘online’ in the canal de Twitch de LVP and on television through UBEAT.
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