Riot Games’ answer to Overwatch and Counter-Strike: GO, called Valorant, is accessible right now to a few lucky players and pros in US and Europe right now. Naturally, people are hyped about this team-based shooter that will make the buzz in the esports scene if Twitch numbers are of any indication.

Roughly 1.7 million people are watching Valorant being played on Twitch. This is considered an all-time record-breaker considering Fortnite’s concurrent viewer numbers are around that point during its 10th season.

How did this happen? Easy: because Riot Games are giving the codes out to people who are watching the streams. People like free stuff, so they’re gathering in droves on Twitch to get lucky with early access. Eager players are setting up multiple linked Riot and Twitch accounts in order to increase their odds of getting a key.

How To Get Valorant Closed Beta Key

Just like we mentioned above: just participate on a Twitch channel that’s playing Valorant. Get a Twitch account and a Riot account, link the two, and then watch some Valorant streams. Riot Games will only be dropping codes to specific streamers.

Of course, with this particular method of code distribution comes some log-in issues. Riot Games is doing its best to fix login and timeout errors.

We've deployed a fix that should, well, fix the error 43 problems. For those of you in, let us know (sorry for those of you who aren't.) When we're confident this is the fix, we'll also turn on drops and more Closed Beta entitlements!

— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) April 7, 2020

Is Valorant Closed Beta available in Southeast Asia?

Short answer: not yet. According to the Riot Games video, executive producer Anna Donlon said that the company will attempt to get the beta out to as many countries as possible despite the current pandemic slowing things down a notch.

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