Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) EMEA is ready to return with Stage 2 on Wednesday, July sixteenth.
The highest groups from Europe will battle it out for the highest prize and earn their place on the greatest event of the 12 months, Valorant Champions (Champs) Paris.
With Champs being on dwelling soil this 12 months, groups can be desirous to qualify for the event whereas they’ve the house benefit.
VCT EMEA Stage 2 Format
Stage 2 will comply with the identical format as Stage 1, however now each result’s extra vital than ever.
Groups will not be solely competing to qualify for Champs Paris, but in addition their place in VCT, with relegation a chance for each Light Mates and Apeks.
The twelve groups have been positioned into two teams to compete in a single spherical robin, with every match being a best-of-three sequence.
Solely the highest 4 from every group will advance to the Playoffs and compete in a modified double-elimination bracket, with the best-performing Group Stage groups incomes a slight benefit:
The primary-seeded group from every group will earn a bye instantly into Spherical 2 of the Higher Bracket.
The second and third seeds will face off within the Higher Bracket Opening Spherical.
Whereas the fourth seed will begin within the Decrease Bracket and face elimination, enjoying in opposition to the losers of the Opening Spherical.
The Playoffs will even characteristic best-of-threes till the Decrease Remaining and Grand Remaining, which is able to each characteristic best-of-fives to find out our Stage 2 Champions and the primary two qualifiers for Champs Paris.
VCT EMEA Stage 2, in addition to all different VCT leagues, can be performed on Patch 11.0 for the whole thing of the event.
Riot Video games has stated this is because of infrastructure adjustments being made to the sport itself.
Probably a part of Valorant’s transfer to Unreal Engine 5, as introduced alongside the long-awaited replay system.
VALORANT Champions Paris 2025 Qualification
The highest two groups within the VCT EMEA Stage 2 Playoffs will routinely qualify for Champions Paris.
In the meantime, the third and fourth representatives can be decided by Championship Factors, which measure efficiency throughout your entire season.
At the moment Fnatic leads the way in which, due to successful EMEA Stage 1 and their finals look at VCT Masters Toronto.
Nonetheless, all the things is to play for heading into the ultimate stage of VCT EMEA:
Rank
Group
Championship Factors
1stFnatic14
2ndTeam Heretics9
3rdTeam Liquid8
4thTeam Vitality6
5thBBL Esports5
6thFUT Esports4
7thNatus Vincere3
8thKarmine Corp2
9thGIANTX1
9thGentle Mates1
9thMKOI1
12thApeks0
VCT EMEA Stage 2 Key Dates
VCT EMEA will kick off on Wednesday, July sixteenth and run till the Group Stage concludes on Friday, August fifteenth.
Conserving the momentum going, groups will head straight into the Playoffs, between August twenty first and twenty fourth.
Stage 2 will attain its conclusion the next week, with the ultimate 4 matches of the season
Each the Higher Bracket Remaining and Decrease Bracket Semi-Finals will happen on August twenty ninth, with the Decrease Finals going down on the next day.
The VCT EMEA season will then conclude on Sunday, August thirty first, with the Grand Remaining.
Map Pool
The map pool for VCT EMEA Stage 2 has been locked in.
Model new map, Corrode, will make its aggressive debut alongside the return of Bind.
They’ll take the place of Pearl and Break up within the aggressive map pool.
The up to date Stage 2 map pool is: Corrode, Lotus, Icebox, Haven, Bind, Ascent, and Fracture.
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