Earlier today the team at VALORANT announced that they would be partnering with Twitch to bring VALORANT‘s first major tournament event to celebrate the game’s official launch. The Twitch Rivals: VALORANT Launch Showdown will be a global online Twitch Rivals event with a prize of $200,000 going to the winning team. The event will be taking place on the first weekend of the game’s launch and will feature teams with creators from Japan, Korea, Brazil, Europe, LATAM and North America. The tournament is just one of the planned events featured in the Twitch Summer Game Fest, and more information about the tournament and events happening can be found on the Summer Game Fest blog. A recent tweet made by the VALORANT team gave light into just how big the event will be, tweeting that the Twitch Rivals tournament is set to be “the biggest global VALORANT tournament the world has seen so far”.

To celebrate launch, we’re teaming with competitive FPS creators to hold a global tournament and crown 1 winning team from each region. Up for grabs is a $200,000 prize pool and the right to count themselves among the first global VALORANT champs. https://t.co/8KTOqeVsck

— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) May 28, 2020

The 5v5 tactical-shooter VALORANT will be releasing on June 2nd with a new map, game mode, bug fixes, and a new agent that will be available for players. The new game mode will also be released in beta so that VALORANT‘s developers can look for bugs and receive feedback on the mode. The VALORANT team also gave various statistics gathered from the beta in a recent tweet that included information on bug fixes, hackers caught cheating and server issues.

VALORANT Closed Beta was an opportunity for us to learn what worked, what didn’t, and what you’d need from us to have the best experience playing VALORANT. With your help, here’s what we accomplished in the last two months. Thanks to players around the world for joining in! pic.twitter.com/oUWmqcfLiY

— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) May 28, 2020

The upcoming $200,000 Twitch Rivals tournament will be starting on June 5th and will last through the end of the game’s launch weekend. The tournament and summer game fest event will be streamed on Twitch’s gaming channel, which will include exclusive interviews and gameplay from developers.