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Riot announces VCT 2025 details

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August 21, 2024

Riot has unveiled details on the 2025 Valorant Champions Tour calendar and changes to the overall circuit. The revamped system includes new formats, an expanded calendar spanning from January to October, and will implement the new Ascension changes. Additionally, Riot has revealed the next locations for Masters and Champions, as well as announced plans for new in-game cosmetics based on the VCT.

In 2025, Bangkok and Toronto will each host a Masters event, while Champions will take place in Paris. Riot also confirmed Champions will be held in China for 2026 and the Americas for 2027.

VCT 2025 calendar VCT 2025 will run from January through October with a reworked format

The 2025 season will begin in January with Kickoff. The new year brings a new format, as each region will seed their 12 teams directly into a double-elimination bracket, forgoing the group stage and play-in stage from 2024. The top two teams from each tournament will qualify to Masters Bangkok.

For the regular season, Stage playoffs will expand to eight teams, compared to the six from 2024. In Stage 1, the top three teams from each region will qualify to Masters Toronto, for a total of 12 teams. Unlike this year, Stage 1 results will not affect the Stage 2 standings. Eight teams will advance to the playoffs, with the top teams qualifying directly to Champions 2025.

The final Champions slots from each region will be determined based on championship points, which have been reworked for 2025. Riot will confirm further details on their points system at a later date.

Finally, Riot will update the Classic skins for team bundles, as well as release a new capsule similar to the LOCK//IN skins from 2023.

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toronto is lowkey W

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egann

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fns needs to win toronto

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incidmoir

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FNS has passed away from old age

Thousands come to his funeral to honor him

Saadhak shows up in a wheelchair to pay respects to his old rival

The funeral attendant tells Saadhak to open the casket to say goodbye

He opens the casket but only a note is left

"I'm not dead. I rotated B. Get owned."

Saadhak yells at Aspas to go grab his Operator

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Bro overcooked

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xD

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inlucid

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tears are running down on my face

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Aayan

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You should be the one writing the valorant lore

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unilarity

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he cooked with this one 🔥🔥

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champ2k21

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nah u cooked with this one fr

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wholeegun

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bro is a chef

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toronto and paris will be exciting

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ArterieX

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u underestimating bangkok?

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Dejvudd

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Snakes jumping out of toilets and shi, yea I’m excited

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Aayan

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W (mostly, will see how they distribute championship points)

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W

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tickets will be sold out in Toronto, i can almost gurantee that.

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100% agree they will sell fast too.

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kanyefan4238173

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Gonext win

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kfox

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W Toronto. But why tf is kickoff still a thing. 8 teams is criminal for an international tournament, especially when we only have 3 major tournaments a year.

Also two teams make champs by winning in split 2??? I think I liked 3 teams making it through points better. That favors consistency over a good run.

Shorter off-season hella nice tho

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GambleNats

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only 1 team made it through points in 2024.

Kickoff is a thing because its optimal to having a masters without an overlly long time of qualification. The masters being 8 teams is also to make the event shorter.

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Thanks for the correction on points, forgot about that.

I understand your point about about masters being shorter, but I still really don't like that. I would rather there be a full split to start the year and full 12 team tournament. Wasting one of three majors we get a year is a horrible decision.

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Think it boils down to money. Riot doesn't wanna do more than they're already doing. Viewership tanked in League of Legends and so they're probably afraid it'll eventually happen to Valorant too.

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riot also kinda cant, throughout the entire year there is something riot related, they literally dont have extra time in a year

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GambleNats

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Problem with that is, your the need to miss a qualification for another event, and then cram all the work to compensate for the longer masters or you stream multiple games at the same time.

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kfox

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Agreed. I think then I would prefer something like lcq for champs instead of the split two. But that comes with it's own issues

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I wish they had a lock in event in January

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we're getting new designs for the team classics?

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Itz_Ayat

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As far I heard yes (plus they showed some regional knife skins)

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crysencio

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The regional knifes from Lock IN were really good, hopefully they make something similar like that. And it's a good thing that the bundles get a fresh design too

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dont think so

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whats the capital of thailandd

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bronzil_enjoyer

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a. bang cock
b. bang dick
c. bang pussy
d. bang tits

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Aayan

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for those who don't know

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bronzil_enjoyer

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these people don't even know memes 😭

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arin2016

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I have to visit Canada next year so this is an absolute W for me. I pray Riot lines up the dates perfectly. Holy shit

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it looks like its just june

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arin2016

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Damn I hope it starts late June or at least it's a month long event.

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1 Pacific, 1 EMEA, 1 Americas. Every region viewer base gets 2 neutral timezone. W allocation.

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Aus still nothing even up till 2026 :C

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ArterieX

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ppl barely exist in AUS

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aw man

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ArterieX

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ayo how is ur haunted forest did it catch any fire ? ( just playing )
u guys took our WC tho

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GambleNats

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"how is ur haunted forest did it catch any fire ?"

is this some sort of reference? because I dont get it T_T

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ArterieX

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aus forest fires and the wildest creatures

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sergueiessenine

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paris crowd should go hard

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French crowds are the best in the world

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sergueiessenine

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if KC somehow makes it to champs itll be way toooo hype

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Ryzmii

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i rly hope they host it in the bercy arena its like 20k capacity, both worlds 2019 finals and csgo major 2023 were hosted there, both were bangers

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TM06Nick

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Doesnt KC owner have his own large arena?

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Ryzmii

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its 3k capacity iirc LUL

fr tho i think he should talk to rito about having KC play their vct regular season games there, would be good crowd finally

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TM06Nick

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they should do EMEA playoffs there but i guess its annoying to travel just for that

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nah i agree with you we need roadshows for regional playoffs like in league, they already did have those for pacific and cn playoffs top 3 teams, not sure why not for EU and NA

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I need to see the format of both stage before taking a decision

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W moves

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aquaa018

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toronto??? make sure not to step in some needles.....

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Shuaaaa

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Try Vancouver if ur worried about stepping in Needles.
Anywhere near Toronto arenas/sports venues is fine.

Maybe Masters will be hosted in a building on Jane & Finch, only if we're lucky....

But I actually do wanna know the venue. No way it'd be scotiabank/Roger's, right?

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The Grand Finals and lower finals might be in scotiabank arena thats what they have done so far where the first set of games are in a lesser arena but the lower and grand finals are in the cities main venue

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The league NALCS finals back in like 2015 was held in Scotiabank. So probably there again

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TM06Nick

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I didn't know Tucker Carlson was a vlr user

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8 teams masters is still a joke honestly.

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melonmusk0

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Paris huh!
The phrase "get shit on" would be quite literal I see

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ironic really

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Clucker

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At least we dont got a 6 month off season anymore

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GambleNats

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that was to compensate for chia

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CanadaMan

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MASTERS TORONTO BABY

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bronzil_enjoyer

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will u attend it canadaman

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CanadaMan

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Yes, I will be going to multiple days with a different sign each time, one of the signs will say "I Love boilin_cock"

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bronzil_enjoyer

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pls include my name somewhere too 😔

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CanadaMan

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I will try it depends on how many games I will be able to go to since I already promised the boilin_cock one as well as a "TMV Hates NA" sign

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You could do a vlr.gg sign with names of pleasant users (wink wink)

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cloudberry

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Someone wants a shoutout on the main broadcast

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geospliced

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I was going to do one for y'all but I couldn't catch a China LAN.

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LouBag

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8 team tournament for a 48 team league.

Incompetence

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I also want to say this: Why can't we let more league teams participate in the Masters? It would be more interesting.

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because time

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There are 48 league teams, but we can only see a very few teams competing in the Masters and Champions. I personally feel quite disappointed. I hope there is a LOCK//IN every year.

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well if people didnt shit on lock//in, we mightve had a second one, but atp I dont see them ever doing it again

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W moves but why classic ? just change it to ghost or maybe shorty or even knife

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TM06Nick

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Because free gun possible to have every round with no economic sacrifice

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nyc snubbed of another live event smh

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Mumbai pe chahiye

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When do tickets usually release for masters events? I NEED to go to masters toronto and I know it is gonna sell out and sell out fast

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masters shanghai sold out in 33 seconds, champions seoul still has tickets for certain games. so basically you are good unless the tournament is in china. Americas will probably sell out but youve def got some time, its not gonna be a china situation

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Next year may actually be decent. Great locations and new changes. Hopefully the teams that make Champs entertains the crowd a whole lot.

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Nehtiqs

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No one is talking about it but 4 split for challengers in 2025??

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Guys when will Toronto Masters be? The dates or month?

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June 2025, dates aren’t announced yet but it’s somewhere in that month , most likely late june consider champs is from september-october

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