Valorant's ZETA Hits #1 Twitter Trend After Making Playoff Bracket

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ZETA DIVISION, a Japanese esports team competing in the first-person hero shooter Valorant, made massive waves after qualifying for playoffs. Riot Games' free-to-play title combines hero shooters like Overwatch with tactical shooters like Counter-Strike, making for incredibly exciting professional play. While talks of esports in the Olympics have not gone far, the Valorant playoffs are now guaranteed to be a truly international event thanks to ZETA DIVISION.

First launched in 2020, Valorant quickly established its own professional scene thanks to its unique strategic gameplay. The title features a wide variety of playable agents, each possessing their own unique abilities, alongside a buy menu that lets players customize their arsenal at the start of each round. This combination of mechanics lets players mix-and-match powers and weapons to create unique tactical loadouts, ensuring that esports events are always innovative and surprising. The first-ever international Valorant Champions tournament was held in December 2021, with Brazilian team Vivo Keyd using a Cypher Camera exploit that resulted in a forfeit.

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As reported by Twitter user The Esports Writer, ZETA DIVISION has become the first Japanese team to qualify for an international Valorant playoffs event. The Valorant Masters match between ZETA and Brazilian team Ninjas in Pyjamas was intense, with the Japanese team winning 13 rounds and Ninjas scoring 12. Competitive matches require that victors win by two points, which ZETA was able to do thanks to masterful gunplay from Koji «Laz» Ushida. ZETA will now be the first Japanese team to progress into the next stage of the Valorant Masters playoff tournament, with