The VALORANT Champions 2024 is the season’s most important event of all VALORANT competitions. Teams from across the world, including teams from each of the four VCT Leagues, participate. The event will begin in August and last 25 days.
The VALORANT Champions 2024 will be held in Seoul, South Korea. Some parts of the tournament will take place at the COEX Artium, Seoul, and INSPIRE Arena, Incheon, which can hold a maximum of 15,000 spectators. We have seen during VCT Masters Shanghai that VALORANT fills stadiums like these during the playoffs.
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Fans of VALORANT esports can watch the culmination of the VALORANT Champions Tour on various platforms. Riot Games will broadcast VALORANT Champions 2024 through their official YouTube and Twitch channels. Given the global nature of the competition and what they have done in the past, one can expect multiple online and offline watch parties.
Another point to note is that as it is one of the international tournaments from the VCT circuit, fans can expect it to be streamed in various languages, such as Japanese, French, and even Hindi.
Despite VALORANT’s competitive scene continuing to grow and expanding to a total of 4 VCT leagues this year, the 2024 VALORANT Champions continue to host 16 teams, ideal for a two-stage competition.
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The first phase of the tournament will be the group stage. Within this, there will be four groups, each of four teams. Each group will have one team from a given region. During this event phase, each match will be a best-of-three series. Each group will have a double-bracket format. Teams must lose two games during the group stage to get eliminated. There will be winners’ and losers’ finals, from which two teams will qualify for the playoff phase.
The winners of the opening matches will advance to the Winner’s Finals, while losers are sent to the Elimination match. Each winner from the winner’s finals will advance to the Playoffs, while losers are sent to the Deciders match.
The winners of the elimination match will advance to the Deciders match, while losers will finish 13th – 16th place. The winners of the deciders match will advance to the Playoffs, while the losers will finish 9th – 12th place.
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There will be a draw once each group has completed the winner’s finals and decider matches. Teams in the same group won’t be facing off against each other in their first match of the playoffs phase.
Playoffs will be played similarly to previous VALORANT Champions in a double bracket format. Matches will be played in a best-of-3 format until the Lower Bracket Final and Grand Final.
The Lower Bracket and Grand Final will be played in a best-of-five series. While a best of 3 may seem on the lower end with such high stakes late in the competition, this is due to playoffs being a double-elimination bracket, which already provides a second opportunity for those who might stumble on the first hurdle.
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The Prizepool for VALORANT Champions 2024 is the same as that for VALORANT Champions 2023. It is equal to $2,250,000, which is spread among all participants. Additionally, VCT partner teams that are part of VALORANT Champions 2024 are paid 50% of all Champions 2023 Skin sales, which was much better received than the skins bundle for 2024. First place will take home almost 50% of the purse, set at $1M.
The sixteen qualified teams are shown below:
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
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The schedule is as follows:
Group Stage: 1st to 11th August
Playoffs: 14 to 24th August
Grand Finals 25th August
FNATIC
Bilibili Gaming
DRX
KRU Esports
Gen G
Sentinels
FunPlus Phoenix
Team Heretics
Leviatan
Talon Esports
Team Vitality
Trance Esports
EDward Gaming
FUT Esports
G2 Esports
Paper Rex
This tournament has had three iterations thus far. VALORANT was only officially released on June 2, 2020. Riot initially used a gradual development process for the VALORANT esports scene. At first, privately organized events were welcomed to kickstart the scene before moving on to joint partnerships like First Strike before the launch of the Valorant Championship Tour and the four partnership leagues.
Acend lifted the 2021 Valorant Champions trophy, while the 2022 Championship went into the hands of LOUD. During the 2023 competition, Evil Genuis went on to lift the trophy.
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