After a lengthy and troubled Split, seven of the eight Regional League teams have locked in their slot for the VCT Promotion tournament.

CIS' league was officially canceled on March 25, a month and a day after being paused, reducing the number of teams in the Promotion tournament to just nine.

Regional League East: Surge

In the East, NOM Esports NOM Esports Europe Rank #75 nero Eran Yosef bravo Pap Gergely Razziss Timur Taisaev Amcar topped the regular season, with AWARIA AWARIA Inactive YouBreak Piotr Chodoła Katu Kacper Twórz Stix Wojciech Chamielec grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko saiko Kacper Kucharski , Anorthosis Famagusta Esports Anorthosis Famagusta Esports Inactive and Anonymo Esports Anonymo Esports Inactive belmonte Kacper Mordak xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon Stix Wojciech Chamielec grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko Katu Kacper Twórz all finishing the season with a 4-3-0 record. In spite of this, NOM were the first team to be eliminated, suffering two 2-1 losses at the hands of Anonymo Mentos and Anorthosis Famagusta.

AWARIA and Anonymo Mentos moved to the upper bracket final, where the former took a comfortable 2-0 win. Anonymo bounced back in the lower bracket final after a 2-0 sweep over Anorthosis Famagusta. In the grand final rematch against AWARIA, Anonymo got revenge and secured a 3-2 win that granted them a slot in the VCT Promotion.

Regional League DACH: Evolution

In the DACH region, MOUZ MOUZ Europe Rank #5 bipo Taranvir Singh Lime Jacob Foster Fizzy David Figueiredo Obnoks Nico Garczarczyk iluri Ilari Puranen dominated the regular season, with a 5-1-1 record. FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #16 hoody Aaro Peltokangas YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes Mistic James Orfila al0rante Felix Brandl xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon and Angry Titans Angry Titans Inactive ngiN Engin Kor HyDrO Lukas Brill held the same 3-1-3 record, qualifying in second and third respectively, while Wave Esports Wave Esports Inactive SimonD4rk Alexandr Skovbel Click Haydem Ali Saiz Daniel Ruiz qualified with a 2-1-4 record.

Wave's match against MOUZ was handed to the latter, due to the former being late. Still, Wave bounced back and took 2-0 wins over Angry Titans and MOUZ in the lower bracket. FOKUS bested the same teams in the upper bracket with 2-1 results. In the grand final, FOKUS took a comfortable 2-0 win to become Regional League DACH champions, qualifying for the VCT Promotion.

Regional League France: Revolution

France's regular season was dominated by Team BDS Team BDS Inactive bramz Bayram Ben Redjeb and Sector One Sector One Inactive Alyx Alex Morrow poegii Yenthe Segers q Liam Hoek dash MaximN Maxim Nonglaire , who both held 3-1-3 records coming into the playoffs. beGenius beGenius Inactive and OG OG Inactive KONEQT Cista Adel uNKOE Benjamin Chevasson OniBy Theo Tarlier fxy0 Joey Schlosser LaAw Mathieu Plantin followed with 3-2-2 and 2-1-4 records, respectively, leaving Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #1 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso out of the playoffs.

Sector One took down beGenius 3-1 in the semifinals, while BDS moved past OG with the same result. In the grand final, Sector One scored a monumental reverse sweep, recovering from 2-0 down to a 3-2 win that gave them the VCT Promotion slot and the Regional League France: Revolution trophy.

Regional League Northern Europe: Polaris

In Northern Europe, Alliance Alliance Inactive showed incredible form, suffering just one loss against Tundra Esports Tundra Esports Inactive bonkar Malkolm Rench Nille Nichlas Busk krea6on Vilius Malinauskas in their seven regular season games. Tundra, EXCEL EXCEL Inactive Moe40 Muhammad Hariff chiwa Egor Stepanyuk paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski Foxie Tyler Lowton ALIVE Gilad Hakim , and TENSTAR TENSTAR Inactive Br0die Jack Emmott KRAY Calum Knight Polvi Niko Polvinen xms Alexandre Forté doma Domagoj Fancev all finished the regular season with the same 5-2 record, separated only by tiebreaker rules.

Despite a promising regular season, Alliance crumbled in the playoffs and were eliminated 2-1 by EXCEL, after losing to Tundra in the opening match by the same result. EXCEL advanced to the lower bracket final, where they reverse swept Tundra. In the grand finals, TENSTAR — who had previously beat EXCEL 2-1 — started with a map advantage and took advantage of it by going 2-0. EXCEL bounced back in the series, conquering the NE title with a 3-2 reverse sweep that placed them in the VCT Promotion tournament.

Regional League Spain: Rising

Over in Spain, Giants Gaming Giants Gaming Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Fit1nho Adolfo Gallego nukkye Žygimantas Chmieliauskas hoody Aaro Peltokangas Cloud Kirill Nehozhin dominated the regular season, dropping just two matches across nine played. KOI KOI Europe Rank #30 grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko sheydos Bogdan Naumov Filu Dawid Czarnecki flyuh Xavier Carlson soulcas Dom Sulcas , Case Esports Case Esports Inactive , Rebels Gaming Rebels Gaming Inactive and Team Queso Team Queso Inactive mezoky Boom Daniel Jiménez occupied the next four slots with a 6-3 record. UCAM Esports Club UCAM Esports Club Europe Rank #14 Flickless Karel Maeckelbergh Polvi Niko Polvinen bucher Maximilian Bucher Quick Fabián Pereira YuNo Eloy García qualified in fifth, winning five matches and losing four.

UCAM and Queso were the first to be eliminated, at the hands of Case and Rebels. These teams would go on to advance to the grand finals, the former finding a blowout 3-0 against Giants and the latter coming out on top 3-2 in a long series against KOI. In the final match of the Spanish Regional League, Rebels just edged out Case 3-2, becoming the league's champions after three hard-fought matches and representing the country in the VCT Promotion tournament.

Regional League Turkey: Birlik

Surreal Esports Surreal Esports Inactive Rosé Eren Erzan VenTT Emre Bozkurt vittoria macRue Arda Yıldız Crewen Ali Eren Sargin topped the Turkish league, losing only to Thunderbolts Gaming Thunderbolts Gaming Inactive Antsy Yağız Güngör Yato Cem Saat re1sxd İlyas Çalışkan corr0 Mehmet Alp Vural DubzWoW Mustafa Doğan ARGENT Berk Deniz Özdamar . Fire Flux Esports Fire Flux Esports Europe Rank #143 JN3v1cE Emre Bekçe musz3kk Cihan Göçer Docent Kadri Vatandaş kabzi Mert Oal influx Kaan Taşkın placed the regular season in second with the same 6-1 record, losing to Surreal. FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #8 xeus Doğan Gözgen MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak AtaKaptan Ata Tan qRaxs Doğukan Balaban qualified in third with a 5-2 record, while Galatasaray Esports Galatasaray Esports Europe Rank #32 WerlasS Metin Ünal Baransel Baransel Nasırcan Padisah Onur Dönmez PhuRME Yagiz Efe Baygut Touven Can Eryıldız JrayN Ferhat Yılmaz and Thunderbolts both won three matches and lost four. Team Lixa Team Lixa Inactive SkyL1ne advanced to the playoffs over Fenerbahçe Esports Fenerbahçe Esports Europe Rank #101 ibonata İbrahim Taha Güler Best Bartu Keskin KROSTALY Okan Alaçam Slaughter İrfancan Çakıl exe Yigox Yiğit Arslan , despite both holding a 2-5 record.

Thunderbolts and Team Lixa won their opener matches, but Surreal and Fire Flux reasserted their superiority in the semifinals with 3-1 and 3-0 results, respectively, against the two squads. In the grand final, Fire Flux managed to win Haven 13-8, but lost the next three maps. Surreal reached the VCT Promotion with a 3-1 result that made them Regional League Turkey champions.

Regional League MENA: Resilience

In GCC and Iraq, one of the two subregions of Regional League MENA, Team Falcons Team Falcons Inactive were the undisputed best team. Finishing the regular season with a 15-1 record, the team dropped just one map in the playoffs to reach the MENA Grand Final. In Levant and North Africa, Team Team RA'AD Team RA'AD MENA Rank #3 Shalaby Mohamed Shalaby Shniider Yousef Osama chrollo Omar Hussein Depyro Nour Sherif SkaNoodles Yousef Mohamed Yassien Yassien Ahmed ended their regular season with the same record, but won the subregion's playoffs without losing a single map.

In the MENA Grand Final, played offline in Dubai, Falcons and RA'AD initially kept it tight, tying the series at 1-1 with 13-7 and 13-10 wins on Fracture and Breeze, respectively. Falcons ran away with the game on Split and Ascent, which they took 13-6 and 14-12 to crown themselves the MENA Champions, earning the final available VCT Promotion slot.

VCT Promotion

To adjust to the absence of the CIS Regional League, Riot has changed the format of the VCT Promotion tournament. Running from April 1 to 10, Group A will retain the previously-announced GSL format, while Group B will turn to a round-robin format. The two best teams from each group will face BIG BIG Inactive and Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #22 skylen Asil Yalçın ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz VenTT Emre Bozkurt OXMANN Aytekin Çakır umu7 Umut Pekdoğan in a six-team seeded double-elimination bracket with no grand final.

The VCT EMEA Promotion Group A is:

The VCT EMEA Promotion Group B is: