Champions 2024 opening matches drawn

Following the conclusion of the VCT Americas grand final, a draw show at the Riot Games Arena determined the group stage seeding for Valorant Champions 2024.

The live draw's results are as follows:

Group A

• FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #1 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Veqaj Sylvain Pattyn Alfajer Emir Ali Beder vs. Bilibili Gaming Bilibili Gaming China Rank #3 whzy Wang Haozhe (王昊哲) rushia Wang Xiaojie (王晓杰) nephh Marcus Tan Knight Liu Yuxiang (刘宇翔) bud Yang Renyu (杨韧余) (EMEA #1 vs. China #4)
• DRX DRX Korea Rank #5 Hermes Ahn Byeong-wook (안병욱) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) free1ng No Ha-jun (노하준) HYUNMIN Song Hyun-min (송현민) BeYN Kang Ha-bin (강하빈) vs. KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #2 saadhak Matias Delipetro mwzera Leonardo Serrati silentzz Caio Morita Less Felipe de Loyola Basso Dantedeu5 Jesús Federico Larrosa (Pacific #2 vs. Americas #3)

Group B

• Gen.G Gen.G Korea Rank #2 Lakia Kim Jong-min (김종민) ZynX Kim Dong-ha (김동하) Ash Ha Hyun-cheol (하현철) Karon Kim Won-tae (김원태) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) vs. Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #3 N4RRATE Marshall Massey Reduxx Yassin Aboulalazm johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid Kyu Mirel Braco Hrustemovic cortezia Gabriel Cortez (Pacific #1 vs. Americas #4)
• FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix China Rank #5 BerLIN Zhang Bolin (張柏霖) Life Qu Donghao (瞿东豪) AAAAY Zhang Yang (张杨) sScary Nutchapon Matarat Setrod Ou Taigeng (欧泰赓) vs. Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #5 Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish ComeBack Berkcan Şentürk Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius (China #2 vs. EMEA #3)

Group C

• LEVIATÁN LEVIATÁN North America Rank #9 spike Rodrigo Lombardi blowz Guilherme Oliviera Neon Bruno Rodríguez Sato Eduardo Kenzo Nagahama Sato kiNgg Francisco Aravena PxS Josh Brunelli vs. TALON TALON Inactive Killua Tanate Teerasawad thyy Anupong Preamsak Crws Thanamethk Mahatthananuyut JitBoyS Jittana Nokngam primmie Papaphat Sriprapha (Americas #1 vs. Pacific #4)
• Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #13 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen PROFEK Dawid Święć Derke Nikita Sirmitev Chronicle Timofey Khromov Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu vs. Trace Esports Trace Esports China Rank #7 LuoK1ng Zhang Zhanpeng (张展鹏) Kai Lu Zhinan (卢智楠) FengF Song Xuefeng (宋学锋) Viva Lifan Ran (冉立凡) deLb Delbert Tanoto (EMEA #2 vs. China #3)

Group D

• EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) cb Wang Qingchuan (王庆川) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) Jieni7 Zhang Juntai (张君泰) vs. FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #9 xeus Doğan Gözgen MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak KROSTALY Okan Alaçam baha Baha Gözmen AtaKaptan Ata Tan (China #1 vs. EMEA #4)
• G2 Esports G2 Esports North America Rank #2 jawgemo Alexander Mor BABYBAY Andrej Francisty trent Trent Cairns valyn Jacob Batio leaf Nathan Orf vs. Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #1 invy Adrian Jiggs Reyes Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov (Americas #2 vs. Pacific #3)

Champions 2024 features an altered team distribution in comparison to 2023, with the Last Chance Qualifier system giving way for the introduction of Championship Points and VCT China's international league launch.

Four teams from each region qualified for Champions. Seeding was based off each region's top-three placing teams in Split 2 Playoffs, while the fourth and bottom seed were chosen among the non-qualified teams who had amassed the most points from victories throughout the 2024 season.

Champions is set to take place from August 1 to 25 in Seoul's COEX Artium and INSPIRE Arena. The latter will host the event's final three days of play.