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Masters Reykjavik format revealed

eutalyx

March 29, 2022

Riot has revealed new details about Masters Reykjavik, which will feature a radical change from last year's format.

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The very first #VALORANTMasters of 2022 is BACK!

Still have questions about the tournament? Here’s everything you need to know about Masters Reykjavík!

Unlike the 2021 Masters Reykjavik, this year's edition will include a group stage and a playoffs stage to crown its champion.

The group stage will place eight of the 12 participating teams in two four-team GSL groups. The remaining four teams will be automatically placed in the playoffs, as previously announced.

The two top teams of each group will advance to the playoffs. There, G2 Esports G2 Esports Inactive , The Guard The Guard Inactive JonahP Jonah Pulice trent Trent Cairns neT Michael Bernet valyn Jacob Batio tex Ian Botsch , Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #6 mindfreak Aaron Leonhart Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov , and the highest seed of the LATAM/BR region will be waiting for them. In the playoffs, a group stage team will be pitted against one of the four seeded teams. Teams from the same group being placed on opposite sides of the bracket to avoid early rematches.

Every match played in Iceland will be a best-of-three, with the exception of the playoffs' lower bracket final and the grand final, which will be best-of-five matches.

Masters Reykjavik runs from April 10 to 24. The first eight days of the tournament, until April 18, will host the entire group stage as well as the early rounds of bracket play, while the final rounds of the playoffs will run from April 22 to 24.

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Thoughts on this format everyone? Also do you think its better than previous ones.
Personally I think it's good and looking forward to seeing how it affects the tournament and pro players opinions on it.

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Probably the best format so far since it has both a group stage and a double elim bracket. Also seeding games matter now because they are in playoffs automatically

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Big W, finally Riot games

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really love double elimination bracket gives us a variety of possibilities, but idk how i feel about the teams that skipped groups not being warmed up and just going straight in. lower bracket gives them chance to get back in it though so all good

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Agreed, but on the bright side, the teams will be able to scrim against each other in Iceland prior to competition.

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I think the new format is nice so people wont sand bag grand finals in each region

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Nice format

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I'd much rather prefer two round robin groups of 6 teams each and the top 3 of each group going into 6 team single elimination playoffs. A1, B1 get a bye, A2 play B3, A3 play B2, winners play A1/B1, the winners battle it out in grand finals. The whole tournament can still be wrapped up in 14 days, 10 days for groups (5 game days for each of group A and B, assuming 3 games per day), 1 rest day, and then 3 days for playoffs (#2 vs #3 games, semis, finals). With the added benefit of significantly more action and interregional play, with every team being guaranteed at least 5 games.

#67

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This doesn't reward top seeds of competitive regions + it's a single elimination playoff bracket which sucks in Valorant to build epic storylines from.

This current format is the best so far.

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Common Eutalyx W

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Good format!

#4

jblancard

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L format as usual
expected from rito, they should learn a thing or two from cs:go so their LAN events can finally be decent..
til then these masters events will always be a joke

#7

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Shut yo skin tone chicken bone google chrome no home flip phone disowned ice cream cone garden gnome extra chromosome metronome dimmadome genome full blown monochrome student loan Indiana Jones overgrown flintstone x and y hormone friend zone sylvester stallone sierra leone autozone professionally seen silver patrone head ass again please.

#11

jblancard

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ratio loser
stop defending this clown of a company
VALORANT WILL NEVER BE CS:GO NO MATTER HOW HARD THEY TRY

#24

yourmother

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Then why are u stuck to this site like I was stuck in your mother last night lmao

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Vortexy

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name: yourmother
account created: March, 29, 2022
posts: 1
any striking resemblance to any other accounts: yes

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yourmother

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I'm just yourfather's favorite waifu

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jblancard

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i like to laugh at delusional valulrant fans like u

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addiction moment

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VALORANT doesn't have to be CS:GO because CS is boring

#56

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As someone who literally bought tickets to the grand final of the PGL Antwerp Major, I agree that Valorant is more fun to watch

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yungbasel

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Stoppp stoppp, he's already dead T_T

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TmhariMummy

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Extremely Common jblancard L

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Vortexy

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Rare Rito W
actually decent format which was better than any from last year

#6

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Does it mean if Lev wins, KRU gets the playoff spot and if NIP win, LOUD gets it?

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Vortexy

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yep, winner of NIP/Lev would mean the 1st seed from their region skips group stage

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nop imposible. this teams are the loosers of the finals.

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Now you're making me cheer for Lev. I really don't want to loud to start in the playoffs, I think it would be better for confidence and for our region if we started in the group stages and qualify to the playoffs.

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Good format overall, but it does give a higher chance that DRX/Zeta get fucked over by groups

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Vortexy

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if 4 of the 'best' teams are skipping past groups then doesn't that give them a better chance? (theoretically it gives everyone a better chance of passing groups)

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They aren't guaranteed to be the 'best' teams tho just because they come from larger regions, specifically Loud/KRU and PRX. Imo, all three of those teams look a lot more beatable than say FNC/OpTic who are already guaranteed to play in the group stage.

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ik that's why I put 'best' tentatively in quotes. That still doesn't help me understand why it makes it harder for DRX/Zeta specifically than other teams.

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Nah, I just put Zeta/DRX specifically cause they're from regions that weren't given a chance to get a free playoff slot. It applies to all teams in groups, but at least teams like say XIA had a chance to play for a playoff slot domestically

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ehhh I don't fully agree on your original statement but I see what you mean

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If using old format they would straight up face the 1st seed isn't it?

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Good format, especially since now regional seeding matches have some actual weight

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wait... so its more preferable to lose in the final if you are in BR/LATAM vct, place 2nd, play the BR vs LATAM playoff and win, so that you are directly placed in the double elims... gg riot

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You... Didn't get it, did you?

If LEV wins, KRU gets to playoffs, if NIP wins, LOUD goes to playoffs.

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Strafe7

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How many more people are gonna fail to figure this out

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yungbasel

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Hundreds, maybe thousands.

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Definitely thousands

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Shaz101

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OH... LOL... My bad!

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EnfermoMentall

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OOOH okok i undertand xd

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Fnatic in group stage, some random indonesian silver stack in playoffs
KEKW rito formats

#21

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Cry

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asian bots will cry when they will have 0 wins for whole region kekw

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what happened to FPX?

#25

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Terrible, terrible luck.

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F, if FPX got a chance they would've been a serious contender for the masters title

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agreed

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couldn't make it because of 'international issues' (aka 2 of their players are Russian and ardiis is sick/injured)

edit: Eutalyx beat me to it

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To be specific: travel restriction for Shao/Suygetsu (Russia) and Ange1 (Ukraine) + Ardiis has covid.
That's 4/6 players that can't go.
Super unfortunate

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thanks riot, prx ez 200 pointss

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W format

#38

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common L diarrhiot

why are you trying so hard to be different and special? and of course you turn out to be corny and flat out terrible?

how hard can it be to make the tournament 16 teams with 4 groups of 4 ......or a swiss system???????

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Why are u trying so hard to hate Riot?
Why can u not accept a different format which u haven't seen before?
U can't even state one reason why this format is bad lol
Take the L and move on

#41

raka

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decades of professional sports as well as esports have showed us that the best formats have 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc. number of teams/players

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soo basically if someone tries to do differently, Its L ?

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it makes no sense mathematically, 2 groups of 6 with top 4 advancing could have worked

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The 1st LAN event was also small last year. only 10 teams were there with double elimination, its a far better format than before with 12 teams and now seedings mean something. Probably Masters 2 and champions will be of 16 teams in 4 groups soo chill out. And I get why you are crying about the format after seeing your flair LMAO.

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no, 100T don't deserve to make it even if it was 16

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group A - FNC DRX XER NIP/LEV
group B - TL OPTIC KRU/LOUD ZETA

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Good format, and whichever way you cut it, the groups are gonna be nasty

#55

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Finally , double bracket for playoffs

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Great format through this it ensures that seeding maters

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Yup, no more throwing seeding matches lol

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Overall good format but i am not sure how i feel about the top 4 waiting for 4 other teams to qualify...I might prefer have them all in the mix no? Like the ideal would be 16 teams 4 groups i guess but....Either way seems like the games are gonna be bangers on this one

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I really like it because it means that the regional qualifiers finals are no longer meaningless.

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I love how they showed Team Sentinels (especially Shazam) in the video. Too bad they couldn't make it to Masters, but they always have darn good public entertainment in their streams. 😁

I heckin' love TenZ 😍

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Are fans allowed to attend or not?

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Actual Riot W

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