Welcome to Week 29 of the Arena of Valor news roundup! Taking a slightly different approach to this week’s events, rather than write this piece up first thing in the British morning, we’ve pushed the schedule back to make the most of the EU-friendly stream times of the ongoing Arena of Valor International Championship.
With Day 1 officially done with, we’re able to talk shop with fresh results for the first time in a long while! But don’t worry, AoV novices; there’s plenty of other topics to cover this week, too!
AIC Week 2 Begins With Allegiance Defeat

Week 2 of the Arena of Valor International Championship kicked off today. Taking place all the way over in Vietnam, our EU and NA teams are subject to the radically different local timezone in the area, meaning while EU viewers can expect to catch the matches during usual work hours, Americans rooting for Team Allegiance need to survive through the night. Today?s matches are already over, so it?s time to talk results! Before Nova took the stage, Week 2 was nothing but clean sweeps across the board, with one team always dominating the other in a 2-0 slam down. Allegiance sadly continued the trend after AHQ?s 2-0 victory over Swing Phantom, losing the whole set to J Team in the second match of the day. Overclockers fell to a similar fate against Bazaar Gaming shortly after, leaving Nova EU?s face-off against Diamond Cobra as the day?s last chance to see a match go to three rounds.
And, sadly, Nov...