Valorant Champions Tour

The Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) is a global competitive esports tournament series for the video game Valorant organised by Riot Games, the game's developers. The series runs multiple events throughout each season, culminating in Valorant Champions, the top-level event of the tour. The VCT was announced in 2020, with its inaugural season taking place in 2021.

Valorant Champions Tour
GameValorant
Founded2020; 5 years ago (2020)
First season2021; 4 years ago (2021)
OwnerRiot Games
DirectorLeo Faria[1]
CountryGlobal
Official websitevalorantesports.com

History

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2021–2022: Open-qualifiers era

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In November 2020, Riot Games announced the first Valorant Champions Tour, a tournament series divided into three tiers: Challengers, Masters, and Champions. Challengers would act as the lowest tier, split into seven regions: North America, Brazil, Latin America (Hispanic America), EMEA, Southeast Asia (which later included South Asia and Oceania, becoming the Asia-Pacific region), Korea, Japan. Teams that advance past Challengers would move on to Masters, where teams would not be divided by regions anymore, and the top 16 teams from Masters would move on to Champions, the final tournament of VCT.[2] In February 2021, they announced the VCT Game Changers, a supplementary tournament initiative for women and marginalized genders.[3]

Riot hired esports infrastructure company Nerd Street Gamers as operators and producers for all North American Challengers and Masters events.[4][5] They also hired several third-party companies to broadcast their events, such as Liga de Videojuegos Profesional (LVP) for their Spanish-language broadcasts and LetsPlay.Live for their Oceania broadcasts.[6] The 2021 Champions tournament took place on December 1–12 at the Verti Music Hall in Berlin, Germany, concluding with team Acend defeating Gambit Esports in the grand finals by a score of 3–2.[7][8]

Over 10,000 teams competed in the VCT in 2021. Outside of Champions, VCT saw its highest viewership at the Reykjavík Masters tournament in May, with a peak viewership of 1,085,850. The Champions grand finals match in December reached a peak viewership of 1,089,068, making it the VCT's highest peak viewership.[9][10]

Riot made several changes to the format of VCT for its second iteration. While the overall structure of Challengers, Masters, and Champions remained unchanged, it reduced the number of stages of Challengers and Masters events from three to two. VCT Challengers began on February 11, 2022.[11] The 2022 Champions Tournament took place from September 1 to 18 in Istanbul, Turkey.[12]

2023–present: Partnerships era

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Riot Games announced a new format starting in 2023.[13] The season will be split into three international regions – Americas, EMEA, and Pacific instead of the 7 regions format used in previous years. Each international region will have its own International League that replaces the Challengers to become the domestic competitions to qualify for Masters and Champions. On September 21, 2022, Riot Games announced the thirty teams that had been selected as part of their new partnership format.[14][15]

For China, Riot Games showed favor towards players here by giving Chinese teams a number of direct slots to participate in global tournaments (Masters and Champions) through third parties competitions in Hong Kong server, instead of having to play through Pacific league. In a June 2023 press conference, Riot COO Whalen Rozelle confirmed that Valorant would launch in China in July under the name 无畏契约 (lit.'Fearless Contract'), with hopes to launch a VCT league there in 2024.[16] Shortly after in August, Riot announced an own regional league for China, and raising the number of partnered teams to 40.[17]

Leagues and format

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Franchised leagues

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International Leagues

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As of 2023, 30 teams are selected to be partner teams in International Leagues for five years (to 2027) with 10 teams per region. Non-partner teams compete in many sub-regions of Challengers events to qualify for "Ascension" events. The Ascension events in 2023 and 2024 had one winner per region, which earned them a temporary (initially two-year) promotion into their regions' International League. The promoted teams have a chance to qualify for the global tournaments (Masters and Champions), as well as get benefits provided to other partnered teams. Through the Challengers promotion system, the four International Leagues expanded by one team each, until they reached a cap of 12 teams in each region in 2025 (beforehand this was supposed to be a 14-team cap by 2027).[18][19] From 2025, the two temporary teams per International League can stay up via qualifying for Champions, compete in Ascension to stay in the league if they finished 5th to 8th, or get relegated back to their Challengers region if finishing 9th to 12th; only one of the guest teams per region can stay up via Champions, with the best performer of the two guests taking the spot if both qualify.[20]

Teams in each International League play on LAN in a centralized local: the Riot Games Arena in Los Angeles for VCT Americas,[21] Riot Games Arena in Berlin for VCT EMEA,[22] and Sangam SOOP Colosseum in Seoul for VCT Pacific.[23]

Americas EMEA Pacific
Partner teams
100 Thieves BBL Esports DetonatioN FocusMe
Cloud9 Fnatic DRX
Evil Geniuses FUT Esports FULL SENSE[a]
Furia Gentle Mates[b] Gen.G
KRÜ Esports GiantX[c] Global Esports
Leviatán Karmine Corp Paper Rex
LOUD Natus Vincere Rex Regum Qeon
MIBR Team Heretics T1
NRG Team Liquid Team Secret
Sentinels Team Vitality ZETA DIVISION
Non-partner teams
G2 Esports[d] ULF Esports VARREL[e]
ENVY PCIFIC Esports[f] Nongshim RedForce[g]

China League

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Right from global launch, although Valorant had not been licensed for release in China, Riot Games showed favor towards Chinese players by allowing Chinese teams to participate in global tournaments (Masters and Champions) through achievements in domestic tournaments organized by third parties, played at Hong Kong server.[h]

Since 2024, with Valorant licensed for release servers in mainland, Riot launched the VCT CN specifically for the only country that they considers a pro region on the same level as the three International Leagues for many countries, as well as competition slots for only teams from China at Masters and Champions.[31] They also announced the second Masters event of the year to take place in Shanghai and released a new Chinese agent Iso alongside previous agent Sage.

Similar to three International Leagues, ten Chinese teams are selected to be partner teams in China League for four years (to 2027), and two non-partner teams qualified from the China Ascension. The China League is based at the VCT CN Arena in Shanghai.[32]

Partner teams (2024–27)
All Gamers
Bilibili Gaming
Edward Gaming
FunPlus Phoenix
JD Gaming
Nova Esports
Titan Esports Club
Trace Esports
Tyloo
Wolves Esports
Non-partner teams
Dragon Ranger Gaming
Xi Lai Gaming

Former teams and timeline

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Americas EMEA Pacific China
2Game Esports[i] Apeks[i] BLEED Esports[j]
Movistar KOI[k][b] BOOM Esports[j][l]
Talon Esports[a]

Global tournaments

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Valorant Masters

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The Valorant Masters is a biannual Valorant international tournament organized by Riot Games in the middle of the year since 2021.[34][35] Similar to the Mid-Season Invitational for League of Legends, it is the second most important international Valorant tournament after Champions.[36] There are usually two Masters tournaments each year. Teams must place near the top of their regional league to qualify for Masters.[37][38]

Valorant Champions

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The Valorant Champions is the annual professional Valorant world championship tournament hosted by Riot Games and is the culmination of each VCT season. It includes spots with points earned throughout the year. Teams compete for the world champion title of Valorant esports.

Non-partner leagues as tier 2

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Challengers and Ascension

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Non-partner teams compete in Challengers events of sub-regions in Americas, EMEA and Pacific to qualify for "Ascension", the yearly promotion event to the respective International Leagues. Originally, it was announced that teams would have two-year stays in their International League after winning Ascension, with one team promoted every year until 2026, when two teams would be promoted every year until 2028. The leagues would have 14 teams each, totaling to 42 teams across the three leagues.

On June 21, 2024, Riot announced changes to the Ascension format from 2025, with teams promoted to the International Leagues for one-year stays instead, after which they would be relegated to Challengers again if they did not finish in the top 8 in their region's regional League; if they qualified for Champions however, they get to stay for another year; if they finished in the playoffs of the International League, they qualify for that year's Ascension for a chance to keep their place in the league.[20]

In 2023-24, there are 23 minor regional leagues across the three international territories.[39] From 2025, they got decreased to 15.

Valorant Game Changers

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Valorant Game Changers is a series of domestic competitions for women and other genders within Valorant esports.[40] Teams that finish in top places qualify for the Valorant Game Changers Championship, the world championship event of Game Changers, and also earn the chance to be promoted to their region's Challengers league.

Results

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International Leagues & China League winners

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(*) Non-partner teams in franchise system

Year Event Americas EMEA Pacific China
2023 League LOUD Team Liquid Paper Rex League did not exist
2024 Kickoff Sentinels Karmine Corp Gen.G Edward Gaming
Stage 1 100 Thieves Fnatic Paper Rex Edward Gaming
Stage 2 Leviatán Fnatic Gen.G Edward Gaming
2025 Kickoff G2 Esports Team Vitality DRX Edward Gaming
Stage 1 G2 Esports Fnatic Rex Regum Qeon Xi Lai Gaming
Stage 2 G2 Esports Team Liquid Paper Rex Bilibili Gaming

Global tournaments

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Year Event Location Final No. Ref.
Winner Score Runner-up
2021 Stage 2 Masters[m] Reykjavík Sentinels 3 0 Fnatic 10 [41]
Stage 3 Masters Berlin Gambit Esports 3 0 Team Envy 16 [42]
Champions Berlin Acend 3 2 Gambit Esports 16 [43]
2022 Stage 1 Masters Reykjavík OpTic Gaming 3 0 LOUD 12 [44]
Stage 2 Masters Copenhagen FunPlus Phoenix 3 2 Paper Rex 12 [45]
Champions Istanbul LOUD 3 1 OpTic Gaming 16 [46]
2023 LOCK//IN[n] São Paulo Fnatic 3 2 LOUD 32 [47]
Masters Tokyo Chiba[o] Fnatic 3 0 Evil Geniuses 12 [48]
Champions Los Angeles[p] Evil Geniuses 3 1 Paper Rex 16 [49]
2024 Masters Madrid Madrid Sentinels 3 2 Gen.G 8 [50]
Masters Shanghai Shanghai Gen.G 3 2 Team Heretics 12 [51]
Champions Seoul[q] Edward Gaming 3 2 Team Heretics 16 [52]
2025 Masters Bangkok Bangkok T1 3 2 G2 Esports 8 [53]
Masters Toronto Toronto Paper Rex 3 1 Fnatic 12 [54]
Champions Paris[r] NRG 3 2 Fnatic 16 [55]
2026 Masters Santiago Santiago 12
Masters London London 12
Champions Shanghai 16

Teams' titles

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  *   Team or organization no longer participates in Valorant esports.

Team Region Champions Masters Total
Acend EMEA 1 0 1
Edward Gaming China 1 0 1
Evil Geniuses Americas 1 0 1
LOUD Americas 1 0 1
NRG Americas 1 0 1
Fnatic EMEA 0 2[s] 2
Sentinels Americas 0 2 2
FunPlus Phoenix[t] EMEA 0 1 1
Gambit Esports EMEA 0 1 1
Gen.G Pacific 0 1 1
OpTic Gaming Americas 0 1 1
Paper Rex Pacific 0 1 1
T1 Pacific 0 1 1

Regions' titles

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Region Champions Masters Total
Americas 3 3 6
EMEA 1 4 5
China 1 0 1
Pacific 0 3 3

Ascension winners

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Year Americas EMEA Pacific China
2023 The Guard[d] Gentle Mates BLEED Esports[j] Dragon Ranger Gaming
2024 2Game Esports Apeks Sin Prisa Gaming[g] Xi Lai Gaming
2025 ENVY ULF Esports BBL PCIFIC[f] SLT Seongnam[e] Nongshim RedForce Dragon Ranger Gaming

Valorant Game Changers Championship

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Year Location Final
Champion Score Runner-up
2022 Berlin G2 Gozen 3 2 Shopify Rebellion GC
2023 São Paulo Shopify Rebellion 3 2 Team Liquid Brazil
2024 Berlin Shopify Rebellion 3 0 MIBR GC
2025 Seoul Team Liquid Brazil 3 2 Shopify Rebellion Gold

Awards

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Masters

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The original masters trophy was unveiled by Riot at a May 2021 media preview event in the build up to Masters Reykjavik. It features a metal bottom and a glass top.

The trophy was redesigned in 2023, again by Volpin Props, to be reusable for Masters tournaments in multiple regions.[56] It stands at 18 inches (46 cm) and features a swappable 'Radianite' core. For Masters Tokyo, it featured duelist Yoru's ultimate Oni mask. The body of the trophy is palladium-plated with plastic components.

Champions

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The Valorant Champions trophy was first unveiled ahead of Valorant Champions 2021. Also designed and built by Volpin Props of Atlanta, Georgia, it stands at 2 feet (61 cm) tall and is partially 3D-printed, with 24 karat gold decoration overlaid.[57]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b On November 18, 2025, Riot Games terminated the VCT Pacific partnership slot occupied by Talon Esports, who had been a partner since 2023, for financial insecurity and failing to pay its players and coaches in a timely manner. Their spot will be taken by FULL SENSE, retaining Talon's roster.
  2. ^ a b On September 6, 2025, Riot Games terminated the VCT EMEA partnership slot occupied by Movistar KOI, who had been a partner since 2023, for violating the Team Participation Agreement.[24] Their replacement would be Gentle Mates, who were initially an ascension team, promoted to VCT EMEA in 2024 and relegated after finishing 9th-12th in 2025.[25]
  3. ^ Team had competed as Giants previously. On 14 December 2023, Giants Gaming and Excel Esports announced a merger, forming GiantX.[26]
  4. ^ a b While The Guard won the 2023 Americas Ascension tournament, which guaranteed that they would participate in the VCT Americas League, on August 29, 2023, it was announced that they would not compete in VCT Americas for their stint (2024 and 2025) as they had not agreed to the Team Participation Agreement.[27] On September 22, 2023, it was announced that G2 Esports had acquired all but one member of The Guard's roster, thus taking over their slot.[28]
  5. ^ a b SLT Seongnam earned promotion to the VCT via the 2025 Pacific Ascension. On 12 December 2025, it was announced that SLT would compete as VARREL for the 2026 VCT Pacific season, as Japanese organization VARREL had acquired the roster.[29]
  6. ^ a b PCIFIC Esports earned their spot in VCT EMEA via winning the 2025 Ascension EMEA as BBL PCFIC, an affiliate partnership with BBL Esports.
  7. ^ a b Sin Prisa Gaming earned promotion to the VCT after winning the 2024 Pacific Ascension. On 25 November 2024, it was announced that Nongshim RedForce had bought Sin Prisa, taking with them their guest spot in VCT Pacific.[30] The team won the 2025 Pacific Ascension as Nongshim RedForce.
  8. ^ Although it has the same status as the game had not been officially released locally, in contrast to the favor given to China, Riot Games did not allow players and teams from Vietnam to participate in 2020 First Strike and 2021 VCT stage 1.
  9. ^ a b Relegated to Challengers for 2026 after finishing 9th-12th in their respective International League.
  10. ^ a b c Due to winners of the 2023 Pacific Ascension, BLEED Esports promoted to VCT Pacific League in 2024 and 2025 seasons. However on 4 October 2024, Riot removed them from the VCT Pacific League, citing a "failure to comply with critical reporting requirements and other key obligations under the Team Participation Agreement", and replaced them with BOOM Esports, which were runners-up of the 2024 Pacific Ascension.[33]
  11. ^ Team competed as KOI before. In 2024, KOI and Movistar Riders merged with MAD Lions, forming Movistar KOI.
  12. ^ Relegated to Challengers for 2026 after finishing 3rd in VCT Pacific Ascension; the team finished 5th-8th in VCT Pacific for 2025.
  13. ^ Riot Games did not host an international Masters event for 2021 Stage 1 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, each region had its domestic Stage 1 Masters.
  14. ^ To introduce the new partnership system, Riot Games replaced the first split of International Leagues with a season's kick-off global event called "VCT LOCK//IN" for all 30 partner teams and 2 invited teams from China. The winning team of this event is regarded to have won a Masters title.
  15. ^ Although this event had been named "Masters Tokyo", it was held in Chiba.
  16. ^ The final three days of the tournament were held in neighbouring Inglewood.
  17. ^ The final three days of the tournament were held in Incheon.
  18. ^ The group stage and the majority of the playoffs were held in Évry-Courcouronnes.
  19. ^ Included 2023 LOCK//IN's title
  20. ^ FunPlus Phoenix is competing in China currently. Before 2023, they had competed in the CIS sub-region and EMEA. This roster then mostly competed in Natus Vincere.

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