2021 Valorant Champions

The 2021 VALORANT Champions was an esports tournament for the first-person shooter video game Valorant. It was the first ever edition of VALORANT Champions, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer Riot Games. The tournament was held from December 1 to 12 in Berlin, Germany.^[1] Sixteen teams qualified for the tournament based on their result via 2021 VALORANT Masters: Stage 3, the regional Circuit Point standings in year, and the regional Last Chance Qualifiers.

Division of slots[]

Number of slots for each region was based on the level of development of the countries/regions.

• Rich countries/regions (like North America, Brazil, Japan, South Korea) that have potential development in Valorant with huge player base, huge viewer base, will be given priority slot to attend directly, and teams just compete only in their local VALORANT Challengers to qualify for VALORANT Masters and accumulate points for a local Circuit Point standings.^{[citation needed]}
• On the contrary, teams from less developed countries/regions must compete in their local competition at first to qualify VALORANT Challengers, then have to compete with foreigner teams in a larger area (like some countries in EMEA, Southeast Asia and Latin America) to qualify for VALORANT Masters and accumulate points for a shared Circuit Point standings.^{[citation needed]}

Qualified teams[]

Pools are based on teams' achievements in competitions of VALORANT Challengers and VALORANT Masters, their Circuit Point Standings, and estimated strength for each region in FPS esports.^[2]

Group stage[]

Sixteen teams were drawn into four groups with four teams in each group based on their seeding. Teams of the same region could not be placed in the same group. The group stage consisted of four double elimination brackets. All matches were best-of-three. The team that wins on Winner's bracket qualified as Seed #1 of that respective group in the knock-out stage, while the team that won in loser's bracket qualified as Seed #2.^{[citation needed]}

Brackets[]

Knock-out stage[]

Eight teams were drawn into a single elimination bracket. The Seed #1 team of each group was drawn against the Seed #2 team of a different group. The teams from same group were be on opposite sides of the bracket, meaning they could play each other until the Finals. The knock-out stage consisted of one single elimination bracket. All matches were best-of-three, except for the finals, which was is best-of-five.^{[citation needed]}

Bracket[]

Winnings[]

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