Valorant Champions 2022: Valorant World Cup promises excitement

Riot's tactical FPS hosts this week, August 31, the second World Cup of its game that has become a fever worldwide. Evaluating Champions 2022, known to some as the Valorant World Cup, promises to be one of the best international events the game has ever done; Let's see what is most important in this electrifying international spectacle.

The first Valorant Champions – Berlin

A first edition of Valorant Champions happened in 2021 in the capital of Germany, Berlin, and the Turn on, a team from EMEA, a region that has some European countries, was crowned champion in an electrifying final with a 3×2 score against the team from Gambit, a Russian team, which had recently won a VCT Masters title, also a smaller international championship that takes place twice a year before the Champions League.

Valorant Champions 2022 – Istanbul

The second edition of Valorant Champions this year travels to Istanbul, a city located in Turkey, and this time without Acend and Gambit, finalists of the last edition. Even so, the tournament promises to be exciting, as it will feature unprecedented clashes between teams from all over the world, and Brazil is not out of it. Here are some promotional videos from the championship:

Brazilian representatives in Valorant Champions

Brazil this year will bring Loud e Fury as representatives in the fight to conquer the top of the world and to become the best team of the year. the team of Loud has already proven itself internationally, reaching the final of Valorant VCT Masters 1 - Reykjavik that took place in March of this year, however, they ended up falling against Optic 3×0 in the final. Loud arrives at the tournament as seed 1 from Brazil due to the sum of points he won during the year winning several regional championships and the good international results.

Already Fury has not set foot on international soil for some time, his last game was against the Argentine team KRÜ, in December 2022, in which they were eliminated by 2×1 still in the group stage. Fúria arrives as the second Brazilian representative through the championship called Last Chance Qualifier – Latin America, which took place in São Paulo during the month of August. The championship of Brazil x LATAM gave two direct spots for the Champions, filled by the teams of Fúria and KRÜ.

Ranked teams

In addition to the Brazilian teams, the championship will feature other 14 teams from different regions of the world. Among them we have LATAM, NA, JAPAN, EMEA, KOREA, APAC. Big names from the competition and highlights to keep an eye out for go to the rep seeds 1 of EMEA, the FPX, current VCT Masters champion, and paper rex, runner-up of the last VCT Masters, who conquered the world with her different style of playing Valorant.

Loud's Brazilian team will make its debut for B Group and will play against the Japanese super team, the Zeta Division, Besides the BOOM Sports, APAC team, which comes to try to conquer its space in the international scene. We will also have our biggest international rival, the North Americans of OpTic Gaming, which close the group of the first phase.

The Fury plays for group D and will face the giant Fnatic, who arrives with everything wanting to win his first international title, against XRD, a Korean team that has big names, and the revamped 100 Thieves, North American team that promises to give work.

Format

The tournament will have the same format as its predecessor, the classic of two steps: group and knockout, in which the two best in the group advance to the next knockout stage. Unlike normal championships, such as football, Valorant championships have a double elimination, that is, the team, to be eliminated, needs to lose two best-of-three series. The losing team of the call upper bracket (upper key) drops to the lower bracket (lower bracket) getting a second chance at the championship. Teams will compete in the group and knockout stages against each other in this format until only two teams remain in the final.

Final and prize

The final is set for the day September 18 and the winning team, in addition to becoming champion of Valorant Champions 2022, will take home a cash prize not yet officially announced by Riot Games, the company responsible for the event. What we do know is that the prize pool for the last championship was $1,000,000 USD divided among all teams in the tournament according to their finishing position.

where and when to watch

A Valorant Champions first match will take place on August 31st between EDG and Paper Rex at 11am. Brazil's debut in the championship will be on Wednesday, September 1, at 9:00 am in the clash between Loud and Zeta Division, the Japanese team. The Fury will debut on Friday, September 2, also at 9 am. The games can be watched directly on the official channels of Valorant E-sport Brasil on YouTube ou na Twitch.

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