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The health and safety of our teams and crew are our top priority. Given
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VCT STAGE 3 – CHALLENGERS SEA
16 teams in the VALORANT Champions Tour Stage 3 – Challengers SEA will
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WHICH TEAMS ARE QUALIFIED?<\/b><\/p>\n
16 teams have proven their mettle against hundreds of participants
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Teams have been segmented into groups based on regional performance at
HOW DO THE VCT STAGE 3 -
Playoffs will take place over two weekends. In the 1st weekend (13-16
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The 2 best teams from each group will then move on to the Playoff
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All 16 teams will be competing for a combined prize pool of USD 100,000
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HOW TO WATCH & STAY
The action starts on Friday, August 13th, with matches commencing from
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\n– 12 August 2021 – Due to emergent COVID-19 developments in our key tournament
\nmarkets, the group stage of the VCT Stage 3 – Challengers SEA – Playoffs will
\nbe pushed back by one day and will now take place between 13 – 16 August. This
\nchange does not affect the Playoffs finals dates which remain from 19 – 22
\nAugust, and the overall tournament format and our roster of casters will remain
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\nthese recent developments with the pandemic, we are opting to hold a more
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\n– PLAYOFFS OVERVIEW<\/b><\/p>\n
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\nmeet for two intense weekends of competition on 13-16 and 19-22 August as the
\nregion’s best teams compete for one of two slots to represent Southeast Asia at
\nthe upcoming Masters 3: Berlin in September 2021, where they will play shoulder-to-shoulder
\nwith the best teams from North America, EMEA, Brazil, LATAM, Japan and Korea.
\nThese teams are also competing for championship points that will count towards
\nqualification at VALORANT Champions, the final event of the 2021 VCT. <\/p>\n
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\nduring the VCT Stage 3 Challengers Qualifiers period that took place throughout
\nthe month of July. The following teams have demonstrated strong regional
\nperformances and have earned their country slot in the VCT Stage 3 Challengers
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\nprevious events throughout 2021. Given Vietnamese teams were unfortunately
\nunable to participate in the VCT Stage 1 competitions back in March 2021, Riot
\nhas allotted 3 seeds to Vietnam for the Stage 3 Playoffs in Pool 3 providing
\nVietnamese teams with an opportunity to gain circuit points in this playoff
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\nCHALLENGERS SEA – PLAYOFFS WORK?<\/b><\/p>\n
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\nAugust), teams will be drawn into 4 groups that will play single round robin,
\nbest-of-2 matches where they will be awarded points based on the best-of-2
\nresults. Groups in this first weekend cannot have two teams from the same
\nregion. Points in this group stage will be awarded along the following
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\nfinals in the 2nd weekend (19-22 August). These teams will be drawn into an 8
\nteam, double elimination bracket with the added rule that teams from the same
\ngroup cannot meet each other in the first round. 2 teams will emerge victorious
\nand will move on to represent Southeast Asia in Masters 3: Berlin in September
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\nand a total of 260 championship points. <\/p>\n
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\nUPDATED<\/b><\/p>\n
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\n11:00am GMT+8 during the two tournament weekends. Twitch will continue to be
\nthe English broadcast partner for VCT Challengers Stage 3. Full details of the
\nschedule can be found on VALORANTesports.com<\/a> or on our local partner
\npages, with broadcasts for the following languages – <\/p>\n
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