The VALORANT Champions Tours have had global showdowns with the 2024 one being no exception. This year’s championship is set to be held between the world’s top VALORANT teams, with Seoul, South Korea – serving as the center stage for all the action.
From August 1st to 25th, the best of the best will be battling against each other for the ultimate title with the tournament split into the COEX Atrium in Seoul and the INSPIRE Arena in Incheon, where the latter is capable of hosting a staggering 15,000 fans.
Given the atmosphere at events like VCT Masters Shanghai, expectations for packed houses are high more than ever this year.
The first phase is the group stage where one team from each region will be selected, with the best of three style selections. Each group will have double bracket formats and the teams to drop two matches will be eliminated.
The losers will battle it out in the lower brackets, where winners will move on to the decider match, where they can get a chance to move to the playoffs.
There will also be a draw once each group has gone through the rigorous winner’s finale matches and the decider matches. This is where the playoffs come into the picture, where they will be played in a best-of-3 format until the lower bracket finale and the Grand finale.
The Lower bracket and the grand finale will be played as best-of-five series matches. While the best of 3 series sounds like low effort in such later stages of the tournament, this is due to the playoffs being double elimination rounds which already provide wild card opportunities for the teams that ended up stumbling in the earlier stages of the tournament.
Where to watch the Valorant Champions 2024 Live
For fans who want to witness peak VALORANT gameplay, Riot Games will be broadcasting the action live from the mainstage on their official YouTube and Twitch channels. With a worldwide audience, you can expect to see watch parties popping up everywhere, both online and offline.
And for global audiences like you, the tournament will be streamed in multiple languages, including fan favorites like Japanese, French, and even Hindi!
In case you are wondering what teams are set to go to the Valorant Champions 2024 & what the prize pool for the tournament is, don’t worry we’ve got you covered.
Valorant Champions 2024 Prize Pool & the Invited Teams
The prize pool this year for the Valorant Champions 2024 is the same as last year, which is a whopping $2.25Mn ($2,250,000) that is split up in ratios across different positions in the tournament.
Additionally, the VCT partner teams that have collaborated with Riot for the Valorant Champions 2024 are paid 50% of all proceedings received from the Champions 2023 skin sales, meaning the first place will take home somewhere around 50% of the pool, sitting at $1Mn+!
Here is a list of the sixteen qualified teams as of the time of writing this article:
- Leviatan
- G2 Esports
- KRU Esports
- Sentinels
- FNATIC
- Team Vitality
- Team Heretics
- FUT Esports
- Team Heretics
- Gen G
- DRX
- Paper Rex
- Talon Esports
- FunPlus Phoenix
- EDward Gaming
- Trace Esports
- Bilibili Gaming
Valorant Champions 2024 Schedule
The schedule for the tournament is as follows:
- The group stages start on the 1st of August continuing till the 11th of August 2024
- The playoffs will be starting from the 14th till 24th of August
- And the Valorant Champions 2024 Grand Finale is set to be held in Seoul on the 25th of August!
With that, here are the groups set for the initial group stage matches:
GROUP A
FNATIC
Bilibili Gaming
DRX
KRU Esports
GROUP B
Gen G
Sentinels
FunPlus Phoenix
Team Heretics
GROUP C
Leviatan
Talon Esports
Team Vitality
Trance Esports
GROUP D
EDward Gaming
FUT Esports
G2 Esports
Paper Rex
History of the Valorant Champions till now
The tournament has a track record of three consecutive iterations so far, ever since the game’s initial launch on June 2, 2020.
Riot initially used a gradual development process for Valorant when it launched with privately organized events where select teams were invited to kick the tournament / pro-esports scene off before moving on to joint venture events like the First Strike, VCT, and even the four partnership leagues.
Team Acend lifted the very first trophy in 2022, after which the next cup went into the hands of LOUD in 2022. During the 2023 tournament, Evil Geniuses were the most recent team to get their hands on the trophy.
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