Riot Games Southeast Asia Announces Challengers Playoffs for VALORANT Champions Tour 2021: Stage 3

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach
– 12 August 2021 – Due to emergent COVID-19 developments in our key tournament
markets, the group stage of the VCT Stage 3 – Challengers SEA – Playoffs will
be pushed back by one day and will now take place between 13 – 16 August. This
change does not affect the Playoffs finals dates which remain from 19 – 22
August, and the overall tournament format and our roster of casters will remain
the same.

 

The health and safety of our teams and crew are our top priority. Given
these recent developments with the pandemic, we are opting to hold a more
streamlined event that will ensure the safety of all participants while
delivering an exciting viewing experience to fans across the region.

 

VCT STAGE 3 – CHALLENGERS SEA
– PLAYOFFS OVERVIEW

16 teams in the VALORANT Champions Tour Stage 3 – Challengers SEA will
meet for two intense weekends of competition on 13-16 and 19-22 August as the
region’s best teams compete for one of two slots to represent Southeast Asia at
the upcoming Masters 3: Berlin in September 2021, where they will play shoulder-to-shoulder
with the best teams from North America, EMEA, Brazil, LATAM, Japan and Korea.
These teams are also competing for championship points that will count towards
qualification at VALORANT Champions, the final event of the 2021 VCT.

 

WHICH TEAMS ARE QUALIFIED?

16 teams have proven their mettle against hundreds of participants
during the VCT Stage 3 Challengers Qualifiers period that took place throughout
the month of July. The following teams have demonstrated strong regional
performances and have earned their country slot in the VCT Stage 3 Challengers
Playoffs through the qualifier tournaments. Here are the qualified teams –

 

 

Teams have been segmented into groups based on regional performance at
previous events throughout 2021. Given Vietnamese teams were unfortunately
unable to participate in the VCT Stage 1 competitions back in March 2021, Riot
has allotted 3 seeds to Vietnam for the Stage 3 Playoffs in Pool 3 providing
Vietnamese teams with an opportunity to gain circuit points in this playoff
round.

HOW DO THE VCT STAGE 3 -
CHALLENGERS SEA – PLAYOFFS WORK?

Playoffs will take place over two weekends. In the 1st weekend (13-16
August), teams will be drawn into 4 groups that will play single round robin,
best-of-2 matches where they will be awarded points based on the best-of-2
results. Groups in this first weekend cannot have two teams from the same
region. Points in this group stage will be awarded along the following
outcomes:

 

• A 2-0 result would provide the winner with 3 points
• A 1-1 draw will award 1 point to both teams
• Tiebreakers will be decided by head-to-head scores based on maps and
  then rounds

The 2 best teams from each group will then move on to the Playoff
finals in the 2nd weekend (19-22 August). These teams will be drawn into an 8
team, double elimination bracket with the added rule that teams from the same
group cannot meet each other in the first round. 2 teams will emerge victorious
and will move on to represent Southeast Asia in Masters 3: Berlin in September
2021.

 

All 16 teams will be competing for a combined prize pool of USD 100,000
and a total of 260 championship points.

 

HOW TO WATCH & STAY
UPDATED

The action starts on Friday, August 13th, with matches commencing from
11:00am GMT+8 during the two tournament weekends. Twitch will continue to be
the English broadcast partner for VCT Challengers Stage 3. Full details of the
schedule can be found on VALORANTesports.com or on our local partner
pages, with broadcasts for the following languages –

 

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