Riot has released details regarding the regular season of VCT EMEA 2024. Two stages will run from April to July and determine the regional representatives at Masters Shanghai and Champions 2024.

Championship Points

Championship Points are awarded throughout the year for top performing teams. They will determine the fourth team that will represent each region at Champions 2024. In EMEA, Karmine Corp was the first team to receive Championship Points, earning three by winning Kickoff.

Teams can continue earning points by winning Stage 1 and Stage 2 matches. The top team from each group will also receive an additional point each stage, since they play one less series than the rest of the playoffs teams. Finally, teams that win either of the League's stages or one of the two Masters events will receive three Championship points.

Groups

The 11 EMEA partnership teams will be split into two groups for the remainder of the year. Seeded based on their Kickoff performance, the groups will determine which matchups will take place in Stage 1 and Stage 2.

Group Alpha:

• Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #31 saadhak Matias Delipetro Avez Hazem Khaled Elite Efe Teber SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin marteen Martin Pátek
• FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #3 Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu stand-in Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder
• Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #8 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso
• Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #23 nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin Keiko Georgio Sanassy kamo Kamil Frąckowiak
• BBL Esports BBL Esports Europe Rank #42 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen sociablEE Volkan Yonal chiwa Egor Stepanyuk PROFEK Dawid Święć LewN Burak Alkan

Group Omega:

• Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius
• Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #20 ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky
• KOI KOI Europe Rank #43 grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko sheydos Bogdan Naumov Filu Dawid Czarnecki flyuh Xavier Carlson soulcas Dom Sulcas
• FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #7 xeus Doğan Gözgen MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak AtaKaptan Ata Tan cNed Mehmet Yağız İpek qRaxs Doğukan Balaban
• Gentle Mates Gentle Mates Europe Rank #22 K4DAVRA Thomas Johner
• GIANTX GIANTX Europe Rank #18 purp0 Semyon Borchev Cloud Kirill Nehozhin

Stage 1: April 3 to May 12

The first part of the League will feature cross-group matchups, meaning teams from Group Alpha will exclusively play against all teams in Group Omega, and vice versa. All matches will be best-of-threes.

Running from May 8 through May 12, playoffs will feature a modified double-elimination bracket, similar to last year's Last Chance Qualifier. The top three teams will qualify to Masters Shanghai.

The best team of each group will receive a bye to the second round of the bracket. The next two teams from each group will play the opening series, with the winner advancing to the second round and the loser being eliminated from playoffs. From that point, a standard four team double-elimination bracket will be played.

Stage 2: June 18 to July 19

The second stage will be played with a similar format to Stage 1, but with teams playing intra-group matchups instead. Playoffs will maintain the same modified double-elimination as Stage 1.

On this occasion, teams will advance to playoffs based on overall performance, taking into consideration both Stage 1 and Stage 2 results. The top six teams of the season will advance, with byes granted to the best team of each group. The knockout stage will take place from July 15 to July 19.

The top three teams of the event will qualify directly to Champions, seeded based on their placement. The fourth seed will be determined based on the remaining team with the most Championship points.

Tickets

Tickets for Stage 1 will be available on March 13 at 18:00 CET.