Have groups for 2025 VALORANT Champions Tour been leaked?
4 February 2025
Excitement and questions in the worldwide VALORANT community in the past few days, as it seems like the groups for the upcoming 2025 VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) have been leaked. And not just by a random X account or an obscure international esports platform, but by the official website of VALORANT Esports itself. As a result, the following information might still be subject to change, as Riot Games have yet to confirm or deny the validity of the leaked information.
Almost time for Kickoff
The VALORANT Champions Tour consists of four international leagues with 12 teams each (Americas, China, EMEA and Pacific). Ten of those teams are official VALORANT partners, while two of those teams come from Ascension. The first stage of the 2025 season will be the Kickoff, which will take place between January 11th 2025 and February 7th 2025. Through a double-elimination bracket, the twelve teams in each region will battle it out. The top four teams in each region earn Championship Points, while the best two teams from each region qualify directly for the VALORANT Masters Bangkok 2025, the first VALORANT Masters of the year.
Leaked group information
As we wrote before, there are four international leagues in the VALORANT Champions Tour with twelve teams per league. These twelve teams are divided into two groups per region, across Stage 1 and Stage 2. This is how the is decided which teams face which during each Stage and what the subsequent Playoff Stage will look like.
The thing is that, at the moment of writing, the official VALORANT Esports website seems to have recently listed the names of all of the participating teams in Groups A and B for each of the four International Leagues. If this information turns out to be correct, then each team can already know which opponents they will be facing in the Group Stage. We will only know if this information is true after VALORANT Masters Bangkok 2025, which is set to take place from February 20th 2025 to March 2nd 2025.
The VALORANT VCT leak, as it currently stands:
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE |
GROUP A |
GROUP B |
VCT Americas |
FURIA |
KRÜ Esports |
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100 Thieves |
NRG |
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LOUD |
Sentinels |
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Evil Geniuses |
G2 Esports |
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MIBR |
Leviatan |
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2GAME Esports |
Cloud9 |
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VCT China |
FunPlus Phoenix |
All Gamers |
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EDward Gaming |
JDG Esports |
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Bilibili Gaming |
Wolves Esports |
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TYLOO Gaming |
Trace Esports |
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Dragon Ranger Gaming |
Titan Esports Club |
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NOVA Esports |
Xi Lai Gaming |
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VCT EMEA |
Team Liquid |
FNATIC |
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GIANTX |
FUT Esports |
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NAVI |
Team Heretics |
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KOI |
Team Vitality |
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BBL Esports |
Gentle Mates |
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Karmine Corp |
APEKS |
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VCT Pacific |
Gen.G |
ZETA DIVISION |
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BOOM Esports |
Paper Rex |
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DetonatioN FocusMe |
T1 |
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Global Esports |
Team Secret |
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DRX |
Rex Regum Qeon |
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Nongshim Redforce |
Talon Esports |
The International League Group Stages are set to kick off in the periods between March and May, and between July and August, respectively. Both the VALORANT Masters Bangkok 2025 and the VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025 will take place before that, at the end of February 2025 and in June, respectively.