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Valorant Champions Tour 2022 format revealed

teja

December 10, 2021

As the inaugural season of the Valorant Champions Tour comes to a close, Riot has detailed changes to the format for the upcoming 2022 year.

Tournament Structure

The schedule will be condensed down to two Masters events (from three) and run from February through July, with Masters 1 and Masters 2 being held as international LAN events in April and July respectively. Champions will be held in September.

Challengers will adopt a new format entirely, with a single open qualifier being held for each split. The qualified teams will then compete in multiple weeks of league-style play, culminating in a tournament to decide the winner.

Country-based Leagues

Riot will begin the rollout of national leagues with the intent to foster local talent, as first alluded to in an earlier report. Europe will be the first region to feature these leagues, with more regions expected to join in time.

Third-party events in offseason

The condensed VCT format will allow for third-party events in the offseason in the same vein as the Ignition Series events. This period will run from October through the end of the year.

Game Changers

Game changers will now include a Champions analogue and culminate in an international LAN event in December, featuring the best teams from each region.

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crazy_igel_fan

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exciting times

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trembolonaRage

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nice

bstrdd vs meL who wins

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Sprouts

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Excited for leagues and the return of the ignition series

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KyLZi

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Me too, I love watching VCT but I want to see other teams like TSM, T1, and FPX more.

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Larry

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To be fair, the teams you mentioned could be in VCT. They just aren’t good enough to qualify for the event.

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KyLZi

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I know, but I would still like to see them play more than we saw them this year. I hope these new events and tournaments will evolve more of these Tier 2 teams.

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Those teams are in the VCT lmao...

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Oui Oui

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Mbappe

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What would the Europe leagues look like? Scandinavia, UK, Fra-Benelux-Ger, Spain-Ita-Por, East EU. Hope they give more attention to the east EU countries, they produce more talent then Italy, Portugal, Netherlands even Germany

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someone leaked FR will have their own league

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Mandeep

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Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, and the UK have always been grouped as UKIN (UK, Ireland, and Nordics)

The league will likely follow this style.

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And where would the international teams like acend or fnatic play?

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derkele

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most probably either where the majority of players are from or where the org is from

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Kobel

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In LOL its:

DACH (Germany+Austria+Switzerland)
Northern Europe (UK + Nordics)
Spain
France
Poland and Baltics (formerly those 2 were separate, but starting in 2022 it's one region)
Balkans
Greece and Cyprus
Italy
Benelux
Czechia and Slovakia
Portugal

I'd assume the overall layout (or what they are aiming to achieve) will be similar, maybe with some more countries merged initially (like Spain and Portugal making up Iberian region etc.)

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ayo since when were u a geng fan boi

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Mbappe

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Since I started watching pro val, like february

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blicey

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damn really, the only other geng banner ive seen is asphyxia

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Excited for Game changers international event. Hope C9W takes it home.

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idiotbasket

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ratio

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crazy_igel_fan

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#33

ShadowisBAD

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counter + VCT 2022 format Owns u

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Would the game changers Lan events do well viewership wise? I only usually see around 7-10k for any given tournament or game.

I find it hard to see the viewership being as good when C9W cant get out of the T2 NA scene.

Good for them making a LAN tournament though.

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Tbh I don’t know. I don’t know anyone who genuinely Cares about female Valorant. I remember female cs had a bunch of hype around it but eventually they made their scene into a meme and everyone stopped caring.

The best female Val team like you said is a t3 team overall.

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Decati132

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Yeah. I just hope this doesn't turn out like the Female League of Legends squad in the Russian circuit. I Just am concerned that the numbers they think they will get wont be there.

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Larry

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It probably won't be there. Who cares for female val, overtime they will realize people won't care lol. CS was the same situation. The difference with female val is there are a lot of men claiming to be female playing in the leagues.

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Decati132

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oof.

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OmO

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its better than having nothing at all.

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Larry

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Assuming NA will just be a league of its own. Don’t see a reason to have a Canadian and American League considering most teams have a mix between them.

Interesting to see how this will go and how teams are supposed to qualify.

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did they not say it was regional leagues?

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Larry

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Idk I didn't watch the video. The title of the sub headline says "Country-based." I don't think there are enough Canadians to make an all Canadian league especially those vs west coast and east coast. Same can be said with the states. NA is just too big.

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When and where do you sign up for a qualify for challengers?

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Kobel

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I like leaving the place for 3rd party tournaments.

The only thing I don't like is having just ONE open qualifier for each split. You slip up once - and you're out for the next 3 months. Wow.

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I think there has to be a catch? Like letting more teams qualify? Otherwise, its gonna be more extreme than this year. Not playing for a long ass time.

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I hope so, no way they make it a single elimination qualifier

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League style tournament? I dont watch league. Can someone explain?

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Kobel

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League style as in league play, not League of Legends.

You know, round-robin schedule with everyone playing everyone and best teams qualifying for playoffs.

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game changers international LAN. i like this

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Game changers lan is actually hype af, can’t wait to see what it brings.

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A guy down fragged you for supporting women lmaooo

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Happy for the third party events but who cares about female valorant

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OxZ

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Seems Valorant is rising!!
Let's go Liquid!

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