EMEA Stage 1 groups drawn

The VCT EMEA Stage 1 groups have finally been revealed 12 days after the conclusion of EMEA Kickoff, dividing the 12 EMEA teams into two groups of six. A video of the draw show was posted to the league's YouTube channel.

Group Alpha:

• Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Unranked Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner CyvOph Clement Millard Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso
• Apeks Apeks Europe Unranked Governor Peter No florescent Ava Eugene MOLSI Michał Łącki AvovA Auni Chahade batujnax Mehmet Batu Özaslan
• Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Unranked ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky Ruxic Uğur Güç hiro Emirhan Kat koalanoob Gianfranco Potestio
• GIANTX GIANTX Europe Unranked purp0 Semyon Borchev Cloud Kirill Nehozhin runneR Emil Trajkovski westside Miłosz Duda tomaszy Tomás Machado
• FNATIC FNATIC Europe Unranked crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder
• Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Unranked MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius

Group Omega:

• Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Unranked paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin Keiko Georgio Sanassy kamo Kamil Frąckowiak Serial Maikls Zdanovs
• KOI KOI Europe Unranked grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko sheydos Bogdan Naumov Filu Dawid Czarnecki flyuh Xavier Carlson soulcas Dom Sulcas
• Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Unranked saadhak Matias Delipetro Avez Hazem Khaled Elite Efe Teber SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin marteen Martin Pátek
• Gentle Mates Gentle Mates Europe Unranked K4DAVRA Thomas Johner Minny Patrik Hušek Zyppan Pontus Eek Click Haydem Ali kamyk Maks Rychlewski
• BBL Esports BBL Esports Europe Unranked Jamppi Elias Olkkonen sociablEE Volkan Yonal PROFEK Dawid Święć LewN Burak Alkan MAGNUM Martin Penkov
• FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Unranked xeus Doğan Gözgen MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak AtaKaptan Ata Tan qRaxs Doğukan Balaban

Vitality and Liquid were first assigned to separate groups as the region's Masters Bangkok representatives and top two performers at Kickoff. The rest of the teams were sorted into four pools based on Kickoff performances, with the bottom four teams being placed in Pool 1, the 7th-8th teams being placed in Pool 2, and so forth. All four Pool 1 teams were drawn before moving on to Pool 2, with drawn teams being sorted into groups in alternating fashion.

Stage 1 matches will be played within groups in a round-robin and the top four teams from each group will qualify to the stage playoffs. The top three finishers in playoffs will qualify to Masters Toronto. Groups will be re-drawn ahead of Stage 2.