VALORANT Champions 2025

The peak of the season will be crowning our kings for VALORANT Champions 2025. The culmination of the season will see 1 of the 16 qualified teams crowned as the world’s greatest in 2025, and will be the fifth side to lift the golden Champs trophy. This year, taking place in Paris, France, the prize pool will be spread across 16 teams, totalling $2.25 million dollars. The first-place team will be walking away with a hefty million in their back pocket.

VALORANT Champions 2025 Qualification

VALORANT Champions brings together the 16 best teams, split evenly between the four VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) leagues: Americas, EMEA, Pacific, and China. The top two teams from Stage two earned immediate qualification, while the remaining two representatives for each region were determined through Championship Points earned throughout the season based on regional and international performance.

VALORANT Champions 2025 Teams

VCT Americas

1. G2 Esports
2. NRG
3. Sentinels
4. MIBR

VCT China

1. Bibili Gaming (BLG)
2. Dragon Ranger Gaming (DRG)
3. EDward Gaming (EDG)
4. XLG Esports

VCT EMEA

1. Team Liquid
2. GIANTX
3. Fnatic
4. Team Heretics

VCT Pacific

1. Paper Rex
2. Rex Regum Qeon (RRQ)
3. T1
4. DRX

Pacific champions Paper Rex arguably head to Paris as the favourites to win the whole thing. Despite a rocky start to the year, the loveable lineup finally won an international title in what was their 11th attempt when the team won Masters Toronto earlier this year. They followed that up with a confident run in Pacific Stage 2, winning a regional title with relative ease to earn their #1 seeding at Champs.

Their fiercest competition should be G2 Esports, the only team worldwide to win multiple regional events this year. While no other team has won more than one VCT league in 2025, G2 swept the Americas to win Kickoff, Stage 1, and Stage 2, marking a perfect home season. Thus far, they’ve not been able to transition that into a global trophy, though they were only one map away from doing so when they were beaten by T1 in the Masters Bangkok final in March.

VALORANT Champions 2025 Group Draw

Groups were drawn immediately once all Stage 2 finals concluded; live on stage after G2 beat NRG in Americas. Groups were drawn based on seeding, while no two teams from the same region could be drawn together.

Group A

• Paper Rex
• XLG
• GIANTX
• Sentinels

Group B

• BLG
• MIBR
• RRQ
• Fnatic

Group C

• Team Liquid
• DRX
• NRG
• EDG

Group D

• G2 Esports
• Team Heretics
• DRG
• T1

VALORANT Champions 2025 Prize Pool

Champs MVP

As with other finals, the MVP will be getting a unique reward, likely a bracelet or jewellery, however, it has yet to be announced.

VALORANT Champions 2025 Schedule

VALORANT Champions 2025 will be split into two distinct sections, the Group Stage and Playoff Stage.

• Group Stage: September 12th to 22nd
  • Four GSL-style groups, whereby two wins are required to move on to the Playoffs. Two defeats will lead to immediate elimination.
• Playoff Stage: September 25th to October 5th
  • A double-elimination bracket played through best-of-threes. The lower bracket final and grand final will be decided through best-of-fives.

While most matchups are still to be determined based on early results, the initial batch of Group Stage games have already been decided

• Friday, September 12
  • Paper Rex vs XLG – 15:00 CEST / 22:00 KST / 06:00 AM PDT
  • GX vs Sentinels – 18:00 CEST / 01:00 KST (Sept 13) / 09:00 AM PDT
• Saturday, September 13
  • NRG vs EDward Gaming – 15:00 CEST / 22:00 KST / 06:00 AM PDT
  • Team Liquid vs DRX – 18:00 CEST / 01:00 KST (Sept 14) / 09:00 AM PDT
• Sunday, September 14
  • Bilibili Gaming vs MIBR – 15:00 CEST / 22:00 KST / 06:00 AM PDT
  • RRQ vs Fnatic – 18:00 CEST / 01:00 KST (Sept 15) / 09:00 AM PDT
• Monday, September 15
  • G2 Esports vs Team Heretics – 15:00 CEST / 22:00 KST / 06:00 AM PDT
  • Dragon Ranger Gaming vs T1 – 18:00 CEST / 01:00 KST (Sept 16) / 09:00 AM PDT

Where can I watch VALORANT Champions 2025?

For English-speaking audiences, you can watch on Riot Games’ official VALORANT esports Twitch and on YouTube channels, as well as through the personal channels of a range of popular co-streamers.