Teams compete in many sub-region's Challengers events to qualify for "Ascension" events. Format International Leagues Īs of 2023, 30 teams are selected to be partner teams in International Leagues for five years with 10 teams per region. On September 21, 2022, Riot Games announced the thirty teams that had been selected as part of their new partnership format. Each international region will have own International League that replaces the Challengers to be come the domestic competitions to qualify for Masters and Champions. The season will be split into three international regions – Americas, EMEA and Pacific instead of the 7 regions format (NA, EMEA, Asia-Pacific, Korea, Japan, Brazil, and LATAM) used in previous years. Riot Games announced a new format starting in 2023. The 2022 Champions tournament took place from September 1 to 18 in Istanbul, Turkey. VCT Challengers began on February 11, 2022. While the overall structure of Challengers, Masters, and Champions remained unchanged, it reduced the number of stages of Challengers and Masters events from three to two. Riot made several changes to the format of VCT for its second iteration. The Champions grand finals match in December reached a peak viewership of 1,089,068, making it the VCT's highest peak viewership. Outside of Champions, VCT saw its highest viewership at the Reykjavik Masters tournament in May, with a peak viewership of 1,085,850. Over 10,000 teams competed in the VCT in 2021. The 2021 Champions tournament took place on December 1–12 at the Verti Music Hall in Berlin, Germany, concluding with team Acend defeating Gambit Esports in the grand finals by a score of 3–2. They also hired several third-party companies to broadcast their events, such as Liga de Videojuegos Profesional (LVP) for their Spanish-language broadcasts and LetsPlay.Live for their Oceania broadcasts. Riot hired esports infrastructure company Nerd Street Gamers to be the operators and producers for all North American Challengers and Masters events. In February 2021, they announced the VCT Game Changers, a supplementary tournament initiative for women and marginalized genders. Teams that advance past Challengers would move on to Masters, where teams would not be divided by regions anymore, and the top 16 teams from Masters would move on to Champions, the final tournament of VCT. Challengers would act as the lowest tier, split into six regions.
In November 2020, Riot Games announced the first Valorant Champions Tour, a tournament series divided into three tiers: Challengers, Masters, and Champions.
The VCT was announced in 2020, with its inaugural season taking place in 2021. The series runs multiple events throughout each season, culminating in Valorant Champions, the top-level event of the tour. The Valorant Champions Tour ( VCT) is a global competitive esports tournament series for the video game Valorant organised by Riot Games, the game's developers.
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