Valorant VCT EMEA Kickoff 2025 has come to an end with Vitality crowned as champions after defeating Team Liquid in a best-of-three match series. Vitality will be going in Valorant Masters Bangkok to compete for the title next. The event took place on February 10, 2025 where Vitality did a reverse sweep against Team Liquid and won three maps after losing first two maps. Vitality now has a confirmed spot in VCT Masters Bangkok.
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Valorant Masters Bangkok is very near and we got you covered with everything you need to know about the tournament. Valorant Masters Bangkok will be the first international championship of VCT 2025. Eight pro teams will keep competing for the Master trophy.
Here’s everything you need to know about Valorant Masters Bangkok 2025.
Valorant Masters Bangkok 2025 Date and Location
The Valorant Masters Bangkok will be played from February 20 to March 2 in Bangkok, Thailand. The venue chosen for the matches is the UOB LIVE, located in Bangkok’s Em District. It’s positioned atop of the EMSPHERE shopping mall and has a capacity of up to 6,000 people.
Valorant Masters Bangkok Format
VCT Masters Bangkok will be divided into two phases. There will be a Swiss Stage and Playoffs. Here is how both of these phases work.
Swiss Stage
The Swiss Stage for VCT Masters Bangkok will begin on February 20 and play till February 24, 2025. This will be a best-of-three format.
In the Swiss Stage first seed of teams will players with the second. The four winners will move to the upper bracket, while the losers will fall to the lower bracket. One day later, on February 22, the first round winners will clash against another first round winner and the two victorious sides will qualify for the playoffs as Swiss Stage first seeds. Meanwhile, on February 23, the losers from Round 1 will meet as the beaten teams will be knocked out of the competition.
Two teams will be qualifying for the playoffs from the Swiss Stage.
Playoffs
The Playoffs will be played from February 27 to March 2. All matches will follow a best-of-three format, except for the Lower Bracket Final and the Grand Final, which will be best-of-five matches.
The winner of each series will move to the Upper Bracket Final, which will be played on February 28, while the losers will fall to the Lower Bracket Semifinal, which will also be played on February 28.
The Grand final for VCT Masters Bangkok will be played on March 2.
Teams Competing in Valorant Masters Bangkok
EDward Gaming
- Wang ‘nobody’ Senxu
- Zheng ‘ZmjjKK’ Yongkang
- Zhang ‘Smoggy’ Zhao
- Hsien ‘S1Mon’ Meng-Hsun
- Wan ‘CHICHOO’ Shunzhi
Trace Esports
- Zhong ‘Biank’ Jianfei
- Zhang ‘LuoK1ng’ Zhanpeng
- Ho ‘heybay’ Shun Hei
- Song ‘FengF’ Xuefeng
- Lu ‘Kai’ Zhinan
DRX
- Kim ‘MaKo’ Myeong-kwan
- Cho ‘Flashback’ Min-hyuk
- No ‘freeing’ Ha-jun
- Song ‘HYUNMIN’ Hyun-min
- Kang ‘BeYN’ Ha-bin
T1
- Ham ‘iZu’ Woo-Joo
- Kim ‘stax’ Gu-taek
- Ko ‘Sylvan’ Young-sub
- Kim ‘Meteor’ Tae-o
- Yu ‘BuZz’ Byung-chul
G2
- Jonah ‘JonahP’ Pulice
- Trent ‘trent’ Cairns
- Jacob ‘valyn’ Batio
- Nathan ‘leaf’ Orf
- Alexander ‘jawgemo’ Mor
Sentinels
- Zachary ‘zekken’ Patrone
- Amine ‘johnqt’ Ouarid
- Jordan ‘Zellsis’ Montemurro
- Sean ‘bang’ Bezerra
- Marshall ‘N4RRATE’ Massey
Team Vitality
- Kimmie ‘Kicks’ Laasner
- Saif ‘Sayf’ Jibraeel
- Nikita ‘trexx’ Cherednichenko
- Felipe ‘Less’ Basso
- Nikita ‘Derke’ Sirmitev
Team Liquid
- Ayaz ‘nAts’ Akhmetshin
- Georgio ‘Keiko’ Sanassy
- Kamil ‘kamo’ Frąckowiak
- Maks ‘kamyk’ Rychlewski
- Patryk ‘paTiTek’ Fabrowski
VCT Masters Bangkok Prize Pool
The Valorant Masters Bangkok will include VCT Points which help them add to get closer to the Valorant Champions qualification. Here is the prize pool for Valorant Masters Bangkok.
- 1st: USD$250,000 and 5 VCT Points
- 2nd: USD$100,000 and 3 VCT Points
- 3rd: USD$65,000 and 2 VCT Points
- 4th: USD$35,000 and 1 VCT Point
- 5th – 6th: USD$15,000
- 7th – 8th: USD$10,000
VCT Points will help players getting closer to the VCT Championship later this year in Paris, France.
That’s all you need to know about Valorant Masters Bangkok including prize pool, teams and date and location.