The format and schedule has been released for China's Champions qualifier playoffs, which will be held from July 3 to 16 in Shanghai.
Twelve teams will compete for three coveted Champions slots in the China's first LAN event, just ahead of the official launch of Valorant in the region.
Format
The bracket features a single-elimination knockout round which feeds into a standard eight-team double-elimination bracket.
The knockout round, upper bracket semifinals, and first two lower bracket rounds will be Bo3, while the rest of the matches will be Bo5.
The top three teams will represent China in Champions Los Angeles later this August.
The Champions China qualifier bracket. Image from @AlanGai
The eight teams playing in the knockout round qualified through their performance in the Preliminary Stage in June. These teams are:
- Trace Esports Trace Esports China Rank #2 LuoK1ng Zhang Zhanpeng (张展鹏) Kai Lu Zhinan (卢智楠) FengF Song Xuefeng (宋学锋) heybay Ho Shun Hei Biank Zhong Jianfei (钟剑飞) Zhao
- TYLOO TYLOO China Rank #15 Ninebody Ding Yi (丁毅) coldfish Pengzhi Xiang (向鹏志) hfmi0dzjc9z7 Zhang Juncheng (张峻程) Eren Yang Zhengwei (杨曾威)
- Weibo Gaming Weibo Gaming China Rank #14 TryTryz Lu Shiwei (卢世炜) Star1og Jun Chao Liang (梁竣超) DRK R1ckLeexD Li Xu (李旭)
- Monarch Effect Monarch Effect Inactive Babyblue Geng Haoran (耿浩然) Cyah Deng Enping (邓恩平) aluba Zhong Haojun (钟皓钧) Link Wen Xuan Zhong (钟文轩) FFs Leung Cheuk Nam (梁卓南)
- Royal Never Give Up Royal Never Give Up Inactive HaTo Wang Rui (王睿) 4ErWa Xiaonuo
- Four Angry Men Four Angry Men Inactive suyjing Wang Sicheng (王斯澄) XuAN Zhang Luxuan (张陆轩) WsLeo Huang Pinwei (黄品维)
- Dragon Ranger Gaming Dragon Ranger Gaming China Rank #13 nizhaoTZH Tang Zehao (唐哲昊) vo0kashu Ilya Ushakov Shion7 Zhang Haozhe (张昊泽) Cangshu Zheng Yujun (手郑宇峻) Nicc Shao Yi-qun (邵逸群) TvirusLuke Chen Cheng-ching SpiritZ1 Lin Dingyu (林定宇)
- Shenzhen NTER Shenzhen NTER Inactive AC Wei Jiacong (韦家聪) Scales Zhang Zhen (张震) Fuller Lin Yifan (林逸凡)
The winner of each knockout match will meet these top seeded teams, who earned a first-round bye based on their previous results in Act 1 and Act 2 of the FGC Valorant Invitational:
- EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 S1Mon Hsien Meng-Hsun (谢孟勋) ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) (Act 1)
- Attacking Soul Esports Attacking Soul Esports Inactive monk Wang Haoyu (王浩宇) Yuicaw Huang Yung-chieh (黃湧傑) YHchen Chen Yuhan (陳昱瀚) Zero1 Meng Zhen Ren (任梦真) (Act 1)
- Bilibili Gaming Bilibili Gaming China Rank #4 B3ar Yang Zhanxiong (杨瞻雄) whzy Wang Haozhe (王昊哲) Levius Lu Yinzhong (卢胤中) rushia Wang Xiaojie (王晓杰) nephh Marcus Tan Knight Liu Yuxiang (刘宇翔) (Act 2)
- FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix China Rank #5 Autumn Kale Dunne Life Qu Donghao (瞿东豪) AAAAY Zhang Yang (张杨) BerLIN Zhang Bolin (張柏霖) yosemite Wang Lei (王磊) (Act 2)
Official Streams
Coverage
For the full schedule and bracket, visit the Champions China qualifier event page.
The event will also have pick'ems, which will be enabled at a later date.