Hey guys, I'm a long time CS player (boomer) and used to play in lots of lans in the early 2000s before e-sports was really a thing. I've been having a lot of fun with Valorant over the last ~year since it came out, and I've always wanted to host tournaments, so I finally decided to do it!

My vision is not just to host tournaments, but to create a community where people of all skills can compete. In other words, have some skill based divisions where silver players can play in a tournament with other silver players, plat against plat, etc.

In addition to that, I also want to create as close to the 'e-sports feel' with these tournaments as we can with amateur talent / limited budget lol. So that means decent stream production, finding casters, etc. To that end, if you are interested in honing your casting skills and getting practice in with the e-sports scene, we would love to have you join us!

I'm starting small with an 8 team / 3 round tournament tomorrow night, mostly to gauge general interest and also to help refine rules / process. It's free to join and $100 winner-take-all 1st place prize. We will use Texas & Chicago servers to start so you will want to have decent ping (that means probably no west coast, sorry)... but we hope that in the future we will be able to have multiple tournaments each week for different regions and skill levels.

For clarity this is not trying to be a business and I'm not making any money (I'm putting up all the prize money myself, don't worry I have a decent job haha), I just want to create a cool tournament community within Valorant!

If any of this resonates with you and you want to get involved, or if you want to be one of the first teams to compete tomorrow night, please join our discord and get in touch! If you don't have a team you can also join as a 'free agent' and we will put together teams from the free agents if we don't have enough teams.

Element Zer0 Discord: https://discord.gg/d988Brt85R

(p.s. we have a website too https://ez0.gg/ but I'm still working on it, you can sign up if you want but you can't really do anything else yet, more to come soon!!)