Starting in 2024, the VALORANT<\/em> Champions Tour season will implement a new qualification system for the year-end Champions tournament, one that will make the international Masters events more exciting and important as part of some major format changes.<\/p>
Beginning next year, in what will be the second year of the international partnered VCT league system, teams will earn Champions points throughout the year, which will serve as “the unifying mechanism across International Leagues and Global Tournaments, serving as a measure of each teams’ performance and the qualification mechanism for global events,” according to a Riot Games press release today.<\/p>
The Masters qualification system will be different next year as well, though. Riot has announced that the first Masters event of the year, which should start in late February, will take place in Madrid, Spain. A two-week tournament at the start of each international league will determine the two teams from each league that will attend the first Masters event. Masters Madrid will feature two teams each from the Americas, EMEA, Pacific, and the newly announced China league. <\/p>
Masters Shanghai, which has already been announced<\/a>, will take place around May 2024, between the first and second stages of each international league season. Pro players, especially on the top teams, should expect a packed schedule<\/a> next year from the end of January until September.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
