VALORANT Announces Details on Upcoming Valorant Champions Tour LOCK//IN
The VALORANT 2023 circuit may have already started but the much-anticipated clash of all franchised teams will happen on this year’s first LAN tournament: Valorant Champions Tour LOCK//IN.
The first matches for LOCK//IN have been set! Find out who will be facing who in the biggest event in #VCT history.
— VALORANT Champions Tour (@ValorantEsports) January 17, 2023
From February 13 to March 4, 2023, the 30 franchised teams from the VALORANT Regional Leagues, plus two invited Chinese teams, will battle it out in VCT LOCK//IN which is set to happen in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Here’s the complete list of participating teams from each region:
Americas
- 100 Thieves
- Cloud9
- Evil Geniuses
- FURIA
- KRÜ Esports
- Leviatán
- LOUD
- MiBR
- NRG
- Sentinels
Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
- BBL Esports
- Fnatic
- FUT Esports
- Giants
- Karmine Corp
- Koi
- Team Heretics
- NAVI
- Team Liquid
- Team Vitality
Pacific
- DetonatioN FocusMe
- DRX
- Gen.G
- Global Esports
- Paper Rex
- Rex Regum Qeon
- T1
- Talon Esports
- Team Secret
- ZETA Division
China
- EDG
- FPX
The VCT LOCK//IN will have a single-elimination format (but future LAN tournaments will revert back to double-elimination brackets). Regions were then paired into 16 first-round match-ups, with each match-up consisting of two team slots. Bellow is the respective distribution:
- EMEA vs PACIFIC – 5 match-ups
- AMERICAS vs PACIFIC – 5 match-ups
- AMERICAS vs EMEA – 4 match-ups
- CHINA vs AMERICAS – 1 match-up
- CHINA vs EMEA – 1 match-up
Then, each team slot was assigned a random number from 1-10 to account for the 32 teams in attendance (Americas 1-10, EMEA 1-10, PACIFIC 1-10, China 1-2). Furthermore, according to Riot, teams from China were paired with team slots from the Americas and EMEA in order to ‘maximize geographically diverse competition’.
Via Riot Games
The 16 match-ups were distributed across two sides (Alpha and Omega) of the single elimination bracket to maximize inter-regional matches for the first two rounds.
- Alpha Matches – 13th to 19th February
- Alpha Matches will play out until two teams remain.
- Each match will be a Best-of-Three.
- Omega Matches – 22nd to 27th February
- Omega Matches will play out until two teams remain.
- Each match will be a Best-of-Three.
- Finals Stage
- The remaining four teams play through the Semifinals and Finals until a champion is crowned.
- Matches in this stage will be Best-of-Five.
VCT LOCK//IN SCHEDULE
With the teams locked in, here’s the schedule for each matchup:
Via Riot Games
Via Riot Games
Here’s a quick summary as well:
- February 13- 15: Alpha Matches
- February 16: Dark Day
- February 17-19: Alpha Matches
- February 20-21: Dark Day
- February 22-27: Omega Matches
- February 28 – March 1: Dark Day
- March 2-3: Semifinals
- March 4: Grand Final
For more information on the VCT LOCK//IN 2023, you can visit the official blog post by VALORANT Esports here.
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