Japanese Valorant is back on the menu as the main stage of the ¥5,000,000 ($46,400~ USD) RAGE Japan Tournament kicks off today. The tournament features eight Japanese teams that won their group in the tournament's open qualifier.
Absolute JUPITER Absolute JUPITER Inactive makiba Miyamoto Akatsuki Laz Ushida Koji crow Maruoka Tomoaki barce Takebayashi Ryo takej Takemori Shogo Reita Oshiro Ryu will aim to defend their title won in June's RAGE Invitational. Given their recent dominance, Jupiter are the hot favorites to take home the ¥3,000,000Y ($28,593~ USD) first place prize.
Format
Teams will compete in a single-elimination playoffs bracket that includes a bronze final. The quarterfinals, semifinals and bronze final will be played in Bo1 matches and the grand final will be a Bo3 series.
The prize pool will be distributed as detailed below:
- 1st: ¥3,000,000 ($28,593~ USD)
- 2nd: ¥1,000,000 ($9,531~ USD)
- 3rd-4th: ¥750,000 ($7,148~ USD)
- 5th-8th: ¥250,000 ($2,383~ USD)
Broadcast
Talent
- Taiga Kishi
- OooDa
- yukishiro
- KeNNy
- k4sen
Stream
Teams
- SCARZ SCARZ Japan Rank #12 MrTenzouEz Lumo Maxim Demianovskikh tixx Nick Quinn Yotaa Yota Kaouachi Yoshiii John Yoshiharu Kawakami
- BlackBird Ignis BlackBird Ignis Inactive popogachi Souta Morita oitaN Masayuki Takahashi poem Yumeki Shibasaki (柴﨑 夢輝) RIPablo Shuma Ikeda Pepper Shoki Banjo
- Sengoku Gaming Sengoku Gaming Japan Rank #4 Gwangboong Kim Gwang-won (김광원) Jinboong Kim Jin-won (김진원) NOBITA Misaya gatorada Hideki Nishida
- LAG Gaming LAG Gaming Inactive
- DetonatioN FocusMe DetonatioN FocusMe Japan Rank #5 Medusa An Min-cheol (안민철) neth Yusuke Matsuda Meiy Ibuki Seki SSeeS Tomonori Okimura Anthem Yoshitaka Enomoto
- SunSister Rapid SunSister Rapid Inactive kreamer Takamasa Suzuki AmeKen Kenji Hisano Peasy Kosuke Kosuke Nishida Niero
- Absolute JUPITER Absolute JUPITER Inactive makiba Miyamoto Akatsuki Laz Ushida Koji crow Maruoka Tomoaki barce Takebayashi Ryo takej Takemori Shogo Reita Oshiro Ryu
- REJECT REJECT Japan Rank #3 GangPin Chae Jung-moo Akame Yu Gwang-hui (유광희) muto Hals BRIAN
Coverage
Keep up to date on matches with the RAGE Japan Tournament event hub and our homepage. We'll update player stats as soon as they're made available to us and you'll be able to follow how well individual players are doing on our events stats page.