Riot has announced this year's post-Champions 2025 schedule.

Champions, which is set to run from September 12 to October 5, will mark the end of the competitive season for the top tier of Valorant.

Ascension

Each region's respective Ascension tournament will run in the following weeks, with the schedule as follows:

  • Ascension China: October 11-19 in the VCT CN Studio
  • Ascension Pacific: October 13-26 in Bangkok, Thailand
  • Ascension Americas: October 17-26 in the Riot Games São Paulo studio
  • Ascension EMEA: October 19-26 in the VCT EMEA Berlin studio

Relegation and extensions for Ascension teams

Riot also reiterated rules surrounding Ascended teams in VCT, which include G2 Esports G2 Esports North America Rank #1 jawgemo Alexander Mor trent Trent Cairns valyn Jacob Batio JonahP Jonah Pulice leaf Nathan Orf and 2Game Esports 2Game Esports Brazil Rank #8 gobera Vitor Gobo lz Luiz Reche spike Rodrigo Lombardi silentzz Caio Morita in Americas, Gentle Mates Gentle Mates Europe Rank #173 Proxh Yusuf Emre Tunc Veqaj Sylvain Pattyn ComeBack Berkcan Şentürk Minny Patrik Hušek kamyk Maks Rychlewski and Apeks Apeks Europe Rank #27 MOLSI Michał Łącki AvovA Auni Chahade batujnax Mehmet Batu Özaslan in EMEA, Nongshim RedForce Nongshim RedForce Korea Rank #4 Rb Goo Sang-min (구상민) Persia Yang Zi-on (양지온) Francis Kim Mu-bin (김무빈) margaret Kim Ji-woo (김지우) Dambi Lee Hyuk-kyu (이혁규) Ivy Park Sung-hyeon (박성현) and BOOM Esports BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #4 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani Shiro Hildegard Arnaldo NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra BerserX Rizkie Adla Kusuma in APAC, and Dragon Ranger Gaming Dragon Ranger Gaming China Rank #10 Flex1n Lo Rui (罗瑞) vo0kashu Ilya Ushakov Cangshu Zheng Yujun (手郑宇峻) Akeman Zhang Haoran (张浩然) Nicc Shao Yi-qun (邵逸群) SpiritZ1 Lin Dingyu (林定宇) and Xi Lai Gaming Xi Lai Gaming China Rank #3 Midi Zhang Jiajun (手张嘉俊) Viva Lifan Ran (冉立凡) Rarga Arthur Churyumov happywei Deng Minwei (邓闵维) coconut Colin Patrick Chung (钟弘祖) in China. The paths to earning extended stays or relegation are below.

Ascended team extends stay in VCT:

  • By qualifying for Champions 2025

Ascended team defends their slot at Ascension:

  • If they qualify for Stage 2 playoffs but fail to qualify for Champions
  • If they are top 8 in Champions Points but fail to qualify for Champions
  • If they are the lower-performing of the two Ascension teams who qualified for Champions

Acended team relegates directly to Challengers:

  • If they do not meet any of the criteria listed above

Game Changers Championship heads to Seoul

Riot announced that the Game Changers Championship for 2025 will take place in Seoul, South Korea at LoL Park from November 20-30. The event will showcase the best Game Changers teams from around the world, and is Seoul's first international event after hosting Champions 2024 last year.

VCT Partner Series

This offseason, Riot is introducing VCT Partner Series.

"With VCT Partner Series events we'll work to recognize these events, create schedule alignment during the planning stages, support TO's with sourcing VCT teams, and explore open qualifiers that will grant opportunities to Challengers and Amateur teams to clash with partnered teams," their release said. "These events are just the first batch of tournaments to look forward to in the post Champs period, and we'll be sharing additional details and updates closer to Champions."

This year's Partner Series lineup is as follows:

Red Bull Home Ground World Final: November 14-16

  • Taking place in the Americas, Red Bull Home Ground World Final will feature top VCT teams and qualified teams battling their way towards the finals, which will take place in New York.

SOOP VALORANT League Pacific: December 1-7

  • Top teams from around the world will face off, providing a preview of how new rosters stack up ahead of the 2026 season.

Project Blender: October - December

  • Taking place across EMEA, The Blender is a new VALORANT tournament with groundbreaking rules, welcoming every tier of play through an open qualifier of up to 1,024 teams; through successive stages teams from VRC, Premier, Challengers, Game Changers, VCT EMEA and any other team of the ecosystem will fight for advancement with the best will clashing in December to crown the inaugural champion.