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VALORANT Champions

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Contents
  1. Editions
  2. Grand finals
  3. How teams qualify
  4. All TalkEsport coverage of VALORANT Champions
  5. Sources

VALORANT Champions is the world championship of VALORANT esports and the last event of each VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) season. Sixteen teams, four from each of the four international leagues (Americas, EMEA, Pacific and China), play for the title and a US$1 million first prize. The first edition was held in Berlin in 2021; the 2026 edition is in Shanghai, the first Champions held in China.

Editions

EditionDatesHost cityPrize poolChampion
202624 Sep – 18 Oct 2026Shanghai, ChinaUS$2,250,000To be decided
202512 Sep – 5 Oct 2025Paris, FranceUS$2,250,000NRG
20241 – 25 Aug 2024Seoul, South KoreaUS$2,250,000EDward Gaming
20236 – 26 Aug 2023Los Angeles, United StatesUS$2,250,000Evil Geniuses
20221 – 18 Sep 2022Istanbul, TürkiyeUS$1,000,000LOUD
20211 – 12 Dec 2021Berlin, GermanyUS$1,000,000Acend

Grand finals

YearChampionScoreRunner-up
2025NRG3–2Fnatic
2024EDward Gaming3–2Team Heretics
2023Evil Geniuses3–1Paper Rex
2022LOUD3–1OpTic Gaming
2021Acend3–2Gambit Esports

No team has won VALORANT Champions twice.

How teams qualify

Each of the four VCT international leagues sends four teams: the two finalists of the league’s Stage 2, and the two best remaining teams by Championship Points earned across the season (league stages and the two Masters events).

All TalkEsport coverage of VALORANT Champions

Sources

  1. NRG win VCT Champions Paris 2025 over Fnatic (THESPIKE) thespike.gg
  2. VALORANT Champions 2026: everything you need to know (THESPIKE) thespike.gg
  3. 2026 Valorant Champions (Wikipedia) en.wikipedia.org

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