Riot has released the schedule for the upcoming 2024 VCT EMEA Kickoff tournament. The event will run from February 20 to March 1st as two teams aim to stamp their tickets to Masters: Madrid.

Groups

Similar to the recently-announced Pacific Kickoff, EMEA's event will feature 11 teams spread throughout three groups. Two-time major champions FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #3 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder will receive a BYE, most likely due to their performance last year.

The three groups and their teams are as follows:

Group A:

• FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #6 xeus Doğan Gözgen MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak AtaKaptan Ata Tan cNed Mehmet Yağız İpek qRaxs Doğukan Balaban
• Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius
• GIANTX GIANTX Europe Rank #17 purp0 Semyon Borchev Cloud Kirill Nehozhin runneR Emil Trajkovski westside Miłosz Duda tomaszy Tomás Machado
• Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #30 saadhak Matias Delipetro Avez Hazem Khaled Elite Efe Teber SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin marteen Martin Pátek

Group B:

• Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #19 ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky Ruxic Uğur Güç hiro Emirhan Kat koalanoob Gianfranco Potestio
• BBL Esports BBL Esports Europe Rank #33 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen sociablEE Volkan Yonal chiwa Egor Stepanyuk PROFEK Dawid Święć LewN Burak Alkan
• Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #20 paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski kamyk Maks Rychlewski nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin Keiko Georgio Sanassy kamo Kamil Frąckowiak
• KOI KOI Europe Rank #40 grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko sheydos Bogdan Naumov Filu Dawid Czarnecki flyuh Xavier Carlson soulcas Dom Sulcas

Group C:

• Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #7 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso
• Gentle Mates Gentle Mates Europe Rank #21 K4DAVRA Thomas Johner RobbieBk Robbie Boerkamp Minny Patrik Hušek Zyppan Pontus Eek Click Haydem Ali
• FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #3 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder

Schedule

Just like Pacific, EMEA's Kickoff will have three stages: Groups, Play-Ins, and Playoffs. Riot have announced their schedule for the group stage as well as playoffs, but have yet to release their plans for play-ins.

The public schedule for groups and playoffs can be seen below:

Tuesday, February 20 (Groups)

• 11:00 AM EST | 6:00 PM CEST | 1:00 AM KST - Group A: FUT Esports vs. Team Heretics
• 2:00 PM EST | 9:00 PM CEST | 4:00 AM KST - Group A: GIANTX vs. Karmine Corp

Wednesday, February 21

• 8:00 AM EST | 3:00 PM CEST | 10:00 PM KST - Group B: Natus Vincere vs. BBL Esports
• 11:00 AM EST | 6:00 PM CEST | 1:00 AM KST - Group B: Team Liquid vs. Movistar KOI
• 2:00 PM EST | 9:00 PM CEST | 4:00 AM KST - Group C: Gentle Mates vs. Team Vitality

Thursday, February 22

• 11:00 AM EST | 6:00 PM CEST | 1:00 AM KST - TBD vs. TBD
• 2:00 PM EST | 9:00 PM CEST | 4:00 AM KST - TBD vs. TBD

Friday, February 23

• 8:00 AM EST | 3:00 PM CEST | 10:00 PM KST - TBD vs. TBD
• 11:00 AM EST | 6:00 PM CEST | 1:00 AM KST - TBD vs. TBD
• 2:00 PM EST | 9:00 PM CEST | 4:00 AM KST - Group C: FNATIC vs. TBD

Sunday, February 25

• 8:00 AM EST | 3:00 PM CEST | 10:00 PM KST - TBD vs. TBD
• 11:00 AM EST | 6:00 PM CEST | 1:00 AM KST - TBD vs. TBD
• 2:00 PM EST | 9:00 PM CEST | 4:00 AM KST - TBD vs. TBD

Monday, February 26 (Play-Ins)

• TBD

Thursday, February 29 (Semifinals)

• 11:00 AM EST | 6:00 PM CEST | 1:00 AM KST - TBD vs. TBD
• 2:00 PM EST | 9:00 PM CEST | 4:00 AM KST - TBD vs. TBD

Friday, March 1 (Grand Final)

• 11:00 AM EST | 6:00 PM CEST | 1:00 AM KST - TBD vs. TBD

Tickets

Riot will begin selling tickets to the first VALORANT games to be held at their new Riot Games Arena on February 2 at 17:00 CET (11:00 AM EST | 6:00 PM CEST | 1:00 AM KST).

Coverage

VLR.gg will be covering all of the VCT Leagues in our event hub. Additional information (streams, pick'ems, etc.) will be updated upon release.