How to watch Valorant Challengers NA Open Qualifier: Teams, schedule, stream

The final six teams for the North American Valorant Challengers league will be decided through two Challengers NA Open Qualifiers. Here is everything you need to know about the qualifying events before they kick off.

The Valorant Challengers NA league is the tier-two league below the VCT Americas league that features teams that have partnered with Riot Games. Teams who prevail in the league will participate in Challengers Ascension for a chance to enter into the partnered league. But, to make it into NA Challengers, teams need to be invited or qualify through a gauntlet of over 250 signed, free-agent and amateur teams in these upcoming tournaments.

The format is reminiscent of the previous Valorant Champions Tour tournaments in North America from 2021 and 2022 in which teams would battle through an open qualifier to make a Challengers tournament to qualify for international events. With the new league system, however, teams only need to qualify for the Challengers league to be locked into one split of competition before competing in another open event.

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Below you can find all you need to know about the Valorant Challengers NA Open qualifiers.

Valorant Challengers NA Open Qualifier: How to watch

The open qualifiers will be streamed on the Knights Arena Twitch channels. Not all of the matches will get a stream, even from co-streamers, so some fans will have to follow their favorite team on the tournament page.

Many of the lower bracket matches will not be streamed, according to the tournament page, so fans should expect the broadcast to dedicate most of its time to the top teams in the upper bracket.

Other streams for the event include:

• twitch.tv/valorant_northamerica

• twitch.tv/knightsarena_a

• twitch.tv/knightsarena_b

• twitch.tv/knightsarena_c

Challengers NA Open Qualifier: Format and schedule

The schedule and format of the open qualifiers will be as follows from the tournament page:

Challenger NA Qualifier #1 Day 5 (January 13th)

6:00PM EST Lower Round 6 Game 1

8:15PM EST Lower Round 6 Game 2

Challengers NA Open Qualifier: Teams

Over 250 teams have registered to compete in the first open qualifier, so almost every organization that wants to be in North American Valorant that isn’t already a VCT partner or a Challenger League invitee will be represented.

Here is a list of some of the major teams – from women’s squads and free-agent teams to signed rosters – that will battle it out for spots in NA Challengers.